FAITH HEALING

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 15048, 28 November 1923, Page 5

FAITH HEALING

HICKSON MISSION.

CHRISTCHURCH CURES,

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday.

The spiritual healing mission was opened in the Cathedral this morning by Mr J. M. Hickson. Soon after , 8 o’clock a large crowd began to gather about the Cathedral grounds. Motor cars filled with invalids came into the Square from different parts of the city and without any delay tho patients were taken into the building by the stewards.

It was just 11.30 when Mr Hickson laid hands on his first patient, an old man who was blind, and he then passed from one to another. Most of the patients w r ere happy in their faith, and many of them looked much more cheerful and hopeful than when they went into the building early in the morning. “I feel so much happier,” said an elderly woman in an invalid chair, who had her arms and legs in bands and plaster. “I have faith, and I know that all will be well with me, so I have just to keep on praying.” “I feel a decided improvement,” said a young married woman with limb trouble, who went into the building on a stretcher and came out on one, but as soon as she went into the rest tent she became better, and was able to sit on a chair and walk a little.

Sitting on a stretcher in the tent, a young mother, crying w T ith joy, had her arms round a mite of a boy aged two and a half. “He has walked to-day f<Jr the first time,” she said, “and I am sure that faith has done it, for his father and I have prayed so.” She said that her child’s brain had not developed much, and he did not seem to have confidence enough to walk. lie could go one step and then lie would collapse on the ground. After the ceremony in the Cathedral she had him supported by lier side as she placed a contribution in the box at the door.

As she did so the child broke away from her side and walked down the steps.