FAITH-HEALING.
THE HICKSON MISSION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNEY. April 10. The town of Goulburn is at present overcrowded with sick and impotent folk, awaiting Air J. M. Hickson, the English faith-healer. At the opening mission, twelve hundred patients in all degrees of impotency, with their relatives and attendants, invaded the place. Hotels and boarding-houses are packed to their utmost capacity, and many private homes have been opened, but the visitors overflow, and are dwelling i;i tents. The various churches are combining in preparing the patients for Mr Hickson’s ministrations. Following upon his missions in Tasmania and Victoria, which it is claimed resulted in a number of cures, a publican d Press contention continues to rage round Mr Hickson’s healing powers. He declares that it is as easy for him to heal organic diseases, like cancer, as anything else. NO SUDDEN CURES. SYDNEY, April 10. The Hickson mission wag opened in the Goulburn Cathedral, which was crowded with sufferers, but the Press and public were not admitted. No sudden cures were reported.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17013, 11 April 1923, Page 8
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