The Healing Mission.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 3, 1 September 1923, Page 298

The Healing Mission.

The Rev. J. B. Brocklehuxst asked a friend to write to England to get some information about Mr" Hickson. The' following is the reply received, the names being given by initials only:— • : : . By the way, you ask what I know of Hiekson. : ' The following is my experience. Ten or twelve years ago, Avhen P— — had blood poisoning; boils, fissure and congestion of the lungs and influenza all together she -nearly died. Her temperature was going up to lO4deg. arid 105deg. each 'night, and the doctors told me that if a change did not :cfbme m a day or two it was all up. •'-'. v ■ Two specialists were called m and treated her. * Then she said she would like to see Hickson; Dr. S. J. was' quite willing. So he came down to X- — and treated her. .It was all most simple. I was m the room all the time. He prayed, and laying his hands on her, he asked our Lord to put forth His healing powers'. After a few minutes she had a most peaceful feeling 5 then there seemed to come from his hands a strong heat, as if power were flowing from him to her. He stayed .about an hour (including tea with me). Within & •week one of her nurses was dismissed and P—-— was able to go away for a' change. The improvement began at -once— and she never went back. You 'will understand she -did not give -up her medical' men, nor' did Hickson suggest it. ; '; - Again/ gome yeai'S later » (1916), when weWere at T . she again had a fissiirej and was m \ great, agony. Dr. C. tried eyer-y thing, and at last said that there was - absolutely no cur^but an operation from which she naturally shrank. . .. .. . She wrote to Hickson, and asked for 'special prayers at ; his weekly .intercession- meeting. He wrote. :back, sending a handkerchief, which he asked her to place on the painful spot, at the time when the intercea* sion service vas;b,eing rheld. . H© said he. was 'very rbusy* but if .this .didn't

act, he'd eoine down from, London and personally treat her (without' any charge, .he never will take a foe from her-- though of course he does take lees, he has to- live). How^ ever, no personal treatment was necessary. From the time when the prayers were offered the place began to heal, no operation was necessary, and she had perfect immunity for- six years more. These are the ''facts"; I don't attempt to explain them. . But to me it seems that our Blessed Lord, P— — :'s faith,' and through Hickson *s as- the instrument, healed her. Hickson makes no claim to heal himself; it is the Lord acting through him. I was at a great meeting at the Church House last year, when Hickson spoke, on his return, from his Mission m, India. It was most interesting and most extraordinary. Hickson looks like a prosperous stockbroker, no. fuss -or goody-goody ways of speech, all perfectly simple. That is all I can. tell you. ..;. ;■■■•■■.