TESTIMONY TO THE MISSIONS.

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

TESTIMONY TO THE MISSIONS.

The physical 'results of Mr Hickson's missions have been quite beyond human expectations, but even more glorious and wonderful was the spiritual awakening which- made it possible for God to raise the sufferers. The following extract from a letter from Dr. Manning, Bishop of New York, m summing up. the Mission, touches upon this point: — "Dear Mr Hickson,— As I look back over it all, my wonder and thankfulness for the results of your Mission here grow deeper and deeper. Such a response- as you have found and such results as have, followed, would not have seemed possible to any of us. It is plain that, although we did not. know it, the time was ripe for this message ..... '. The help which your Mission has brought to the sick -and suffering has indeed been great, but it is the. testimony of all that the spiritual results have been greater ... The outstanding fact m this work is the way m which it has brought men and women of every, sort— many of them . those whom we should have,, thought least open to such influence— to their knees m simple, unquestioning faith m Christ ... Your . . visit has made many of us see what the Revival of the Ministry of Healing, if rightly guided, .will mean to the life of the Church, and to. the work of our Lord among men." The ''Metropolitan of India" writes as follows :— ....._. ■' ' Dear Mr Hickson,— lfou are leaving us . . . after conducting m our. midst, a mission, which I praty :may have an abiding influence. We have shared m that. experien<ee, Wihicl*

fi&om* ttte^bt^es $rou showed me from the American -Bishop's, and frdm what I <bave : heard myself,- characterises your ' everywhere— namely, Hhat' the Spiritual results of your .■tfiission are inotfe striking than the physical benefits which have been received, striking as these latter m many cases have been. It amply justifies your ; elaim : that your work is on the spiritual plane and is spiritual healing. The living Christ has, I am- sure, been made very much more real to ittany, and the Easter message will come with fresh meaning to them. We shall try and carry on the work which you have begun here, and as you know, I have called the clergy together for prayer and counsel, that we *may conserve the results of your work. . . . You will carry oiir grateful remembrances with you and our prayers will accompany your work m other lands. Thanking you for all the help, spiritual and physical, which you have been the means of bringing to my people. . "Yours very gratefully and sinFOSS CALCUTTA/ Calcutta, Good Friday, 1920.