HICKSON MISSION

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 24 May 1923, Page 6

HICKSON MISSION

CHURCH CONGRESS VIEWS

PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM CHRISTCHURCH, Wed. The Church Congress returned to the discussion on spiritual healing. The Bishop of Auckland said that they were very grateful to Mr Hickson for what he had done and what he would do, hut they must remember that the work was for the Church to carry on. He himself had anointed the sick with prayer, and the laying- on of hands. He was quite sure Mr Hickson’s mission was God ordained. . The question he wished to ask the Bishop of Goulburn was: “What was your experience in the mission with regard to the attitude of so-called Christian Science?” The mission, he considered, was a thing that was going to knock the bottom out of Christian Science. It was the time for putting the truth before the people. The Bishop of Goulburn said that he was certain that the outstanding feature of the mission would be the thanksgiving of the people rather than the counting of the cures. One thing which he would. promise them was "that they would have the time of their lives. As primitive Christians they were going to tend the sick, and people who had never put themselves out before were going to do so on that occasion.