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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2013, 9 August 1919, Page 1

Mission of England, Mr Hickson is holding daily meetings, under the patronage of the Rev. W. T. Manning, the well-known rector of Trinity Church. The newspapers have just discovered the serious nature of Mr Hickson’s campaign, and are showing the greatest interest in his work. The “healer,”'however, is reluctant to give any details of the cures he has effected. He declares that his work is not the same as that of Christian Science, because the latter denies the existence of evil and illness. He says, however, that a condition of faith must exist in the patients. Speaking to reporters, Mr Hickson said: “Some persons are more I receptive than others. The quickest results are obtained with children and babies, because they have nothing to unlearn. I do not like to speak of my cures. I like to watch my patient a long time before I am willing to say he is cured.” He urged that his accomplishments in curing for organic diseases, such as cancer, should not bo emphasised. Asked when he first discovered his gift, Mr Hickson said: — I “When I was a lad of fourteen in Australia there was a child suffer- ( ing from neuralgia. I laid my hands on his face, and he was well. Then one of my mother’s sisters had a nervous twitching in the face. I laid my hands on her, and she was well. “My mother then said: ‘This must be a gift from God,’ and that I should pray about it. I know now that I am being guided by a higher power, but in the beginning I did not have any other than a natural desire to help some one in distress.”