CITY OF PRAYER
NEW ZEALANDER’S DREAM COMES TRUE. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—copyright LONDON, May 7. A New Zealand engineer, Mr Charles Simpson, has realised his long-cherish-ed dream of building a City of Prayer at Addington Park. Maidstone. Prayer will be the only industry of the inhabitants, spending their time in praying for the sick and needy throughout the world. Mr Simpson became a spiritual healer in 1926, and started with a capital of £ls in a coal cellar at Westminster. He gradually formed an organisation, called the “seekers,” with headquarters at Kensington, where twelve healers daily minister through the laying on of hands. Hundreds of all classes meet in small circles and pray for thousands of distressed people, who report progress periodically. Lady Mosley opened the Addington Hall, on the nucleus of the city site, of which the cost was £13,000. Mr Simpson hopes to build small cottages, renting them at 5/- weekly. Fersons devoting themselves to prayer will live rent free.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19485, 9 May 1933, Page 7
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163CITY OF PRAYER Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19485, 9 May 1933, Page 7
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