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Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1923, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN ANI) N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION. FAITH HEALING. ' LONDON, August. 213. The Rev. R. Griffith preached a. temarkable .sermon at Westminster Abbey on “Faith Healing." It is said to he the first sermon of the kind given in the Abbey since the Deformation. A number of tile congregation were blind am! deaf p;eop!e, who were led in by Iriends. Jhe Dev. Griffith, who has been conducting a. jemarkahle series ol faith-healing services in East \ngua, said be had seen blind men egain their sight, and saw eases of enncer cured in 20 minutes. One thousand people in East Anglia bad waited in tne streets throughout a- day, kneeling on the outsides of little shrines, when) hands were laid on the sick. They saw, and stone deaf people were healed in a few minutes. They returned thanks publicly. The Rev. Griffith said lie had a small bowl of oil, , *>ecially blessed by tile Bishop of the Dioceses, with which to jub the foreheads of the sufferers. “Under this treatment.” lie said “abscesses vanish in a few minutes, leaving no trace. The doctors have failed, hut the Christian Church is going to help the sick.” While the offertory was being taken up in Westminster Abliey, a young seafaring man, looking very frail, approached and knelt at- the steps leading to the altar, fmt the verger intervened and led him hack to the aisle. ITALIAN LABOUR. ROME, Aug. 2d. The Italian General Confederation of Labour has adopted a resolution proclaiming its independence of the Government Parties, hut declaring that the interests of the working classes are not opposed to any particular Government. Semi-Official circles regard this decision as a most important one, as, hitherto, the Confederal ion was looked upon as a revolution organisati ,n. ROME, Aug. 27. The Italian Labour Federation's resolution declared it free of all parties, including the Communists, but declared it was ready to co-operate with the Government on technical matters. Tho resolution was reached after a conference with Signor Mussolini .

GIRL'S BRAVERY. LONDON.. Aug. 27. James Bullock, ot Gray’s, who was blinded while serving with the Australians in France, was drowned through a Isiat capsizing ill a weir on the Thames, hut the latter was held down hv weeds. The brother hail to let go, and Dene Ashton, a young Ipswich girl, dived in from a bridge and reached the blind man. hut failed to release him from the weeds for some time, and when she finally brought him ashore, life was extinct.