Healing Mission.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIV, Issue 4, 1 October 1923, Page 308

Healing Mission.

GISBORNE

The Mission begins m Gisborne on October 16th. All applications for tickets should be m the hands of Canon Paeke new, and any information required can be obtained from him. NAPIER, The Mission begins m Napier on October 30th. Mr Hickson will address the clergy, ministers, stewards, intercessors and all workers, any patients who wish to be present, and others interested as far a.3 £lpace allows, m the Cathedral at a service to be held on Monday evening, October 29th. Wo tickel&j required. The Mission services begin each day at 10 a.m., but patients must be m their places ready before that hour. . " Before the day of the Mission each patient will receive a ticket. This is to be shown at ; the' door. The stewards 1 will direct the patient to his or her place. Keep the biicket. Serious neurotic "and epileptic cases will be treated m the vestry' at 9.30 a.m. Women patients keep their hats on, removing them when going up for the laying-oh of hands, but carrying them m their hands. Patients do not return to their seats but go out of the Cathedral immediately after the lay-ing-ori of hands." One hundred tickets for intercessors will be issued for each day. Early application should be made for them through the clergy. - Intercessors from the country must provide their owii accommodation m Napier. The Rev. Canon Rice will he m charge of the intercessors. Qualified nurse* wishing to help at the Mission should write to Mrs

Murdock, 246 Hastings street, Napier. Other helpers to receive patients after the service and attend to thenneeds and refreshment— report to the Dean. Stewards and Ushers.— Clergy and Nonconformist ministers and a few laymen will be requh-ed inside the Cathedral and at the doors. They must attend at the Cathedral at the preliminary service on Monday evening, October 29th. There will be room m the Cathedral at this service for other friends and helpers. No ticket required. Mr. Hickson will visit the hospital and private cases between 3.30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Patients who are too ill to be brought to the Cathedral must send m their names to the; clergy at once. Offers of cars for conveyance of patients to and from the Cathedral should be sent to the Rev. W; T. Drake, St. Andrew's Vicarage, Port Ahuriri. , . Patients xwiable to provide their own conveyance should notify Canon Williams at once through the clergy. Pray for the Mission m Auckland (October .lst-sth) and m Hamilton (October. lOth-llth), Gisborne (October 16th-17th), Palmerston North (October 23rd-26th). Car owners who are willing 1 to place their ears at the disposal of the Mission on the 29th, 30th, 31st and on November* Ist, please ' communicate at once with the Rev. W. T. Drake, Port Ahuriri. Canon Rice will be m charge of arrangements m connection with intercessors. ALL applications for tickets (from Maoris or Europeans) must reach Rev. Canon A. F. Williams not later than the second week m October (October 13th). Address: Canon A. F. Williams, Pukehou. Patients who need accommodation m Napier must ask their clergymen to state the fact on the back of their application form, and state also whether able or unable to pay for it. Patients who require iiterature (see August issue) should apply for it at omc©. (From "Church News," Christchurch). Mr James Moore Hickson, who is working for the Revival of the Ministry of Healing m the Church, has devoted the last twenty years of his life to the work and at present is conducting a world mission. He has already visited the United States of America, parts of - Canada, Egypt, Palestine, India, China, Japan^ Manila, Singapore, Ceylon, Paris and South Africa, and is now engaged pii a tour of Australia. In every country visited public healing services have been held m the

Churches and Hospitals. Mr Hickson works under the Bishops and Clergy, who organise his tour and prepare for the Missions. He also ministers to the sick m fullest sympathy and co-operation with the doctors. The object of the mission is to revive, this part of "the Church's Ministry which has been sadly neglected for so long. . The Church 's Healing Ministry is not m any way connected with Christian Science. The Church admits the reality of sin and disease. Christ came to forgive us our sins, to free us from bondage and to heal . our bodies of all manner of sickness and disease.