Spiritual Healing.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 6, 1 December 1922, Page 425

Spiritual Healing.

The South African "Church Chronicle" of September 21st reports a wonderful instance of Mr Hickson's work at Johannesburg: — An old Sty George's Cathedral Choir boy who served m German West, and overseas with the Artillery for the rest of the war,. writes from Johannesburg to a friend: — Mr Hickson's Mission started here on Monday, 1 and he has caused much deep thinking and a turning away from the material life. ,At lunch time to-day I was much moved by seeing a boy. of 12 years of age, who was born blind, fully restored to sight. I attended the service on Sunday evening m St. Mary's, and even then there seemed to be a new life and spirit waiting for those who profess the Faith. The same journal quote's a letter from a medical man to the "Cape Times," m which the following paragraph occurs: — It is a well-established medical fact that growths (cancerous arid others) are largely dependent on the patient's state of mind, so that even m cases "given up by the doctor" we may expect much relief when the mind is set at rest and ceases to brood over the trouble. And similarly m the case of all the many diseases to which the flesh is heir. Even a broken- leg.

will heal more '-> quickly, when the owner ceases to grumble, and still more so when his whole being is impressed with the conviction that all is going well, a state of mind often only to be induced by one of the . methods mentioned above. The distinction between Cove's method of auto-suggestion and the various forms of faith-healing is that the assistance of religious emotion is added m the latter instance, an addition which experience teaches us is by no means to be 'despised. Thus, although the use of »the word miracle is scarcely correct, m many instances the effects are so striking as t« fall not far short of the ' ' miraculous. "