City of Prayer
LONG-CHERISHED DREAM ADDINGTON HALL OPENED (By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, May 7. A New Zealand engineer, Mr. Charles Simpson, has realised his long-cherished drcam of building a City of Prayer at Addington Park, Maidstone. Prayer will be the only industry, the inhabitants spending their time in praying for the sick and needy throughout the world. Mr. Simpson became a spiritual healer in 1926. He started with a capital of £l5 in a coal cellar in Westminster. He gradually formed an organisation called “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 the thousands of distressed people, who report progress periodically. Lady Elizabeth Mosley opened the Addington Hall, the nucleus of the City, the site of which cost £13,000. Mr. Simpson hopes, to btiild small cottages, renting them at five shillings weekly. Persons devoting themselves to prayer will live rent free.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 107, 9 May 1933, Page 5
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