MODERN “MIRACLES.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2375, 5 January 1922, Page 4

MODERN “MIRACLES.”

EXTRAORDINARY SCENES. CURED AFTER 32 YEARS. London, Nov. 10. Extraordinary stories of faith cured invalids, including the instantaneous recovery of people crippled for years, are told concerning services being conducted by Pastor Stephen Jeffreys, at Horbury Church, Notting Hill Gate. The outburst of religious fervour at the services recall the Evan Roberts revival in Wales, and the faith cures, bordering on the weird and sensational, have caused amazement in the district.

As the details of these cures have leaked out there has been a perceptible increase in the church congregation, and during the last fortnight there have been over a hundred professed conversions. Among the remarkable cases of faith healing is that of a Glasgow girl, who, having Spent a great deal of time in London hospitals, received a letter from home urging hello go to Horbury Church. She went, still suffering from an ailment which made her eyes swollen and produced an opaque film over the pupil. LONDONERS FLOCK TO SERVICES.

Having gone through the prayer exercises, she left the meeting with her eyes perfectly normal, and the glasses she had been wearing in her pocket. In another ease a crippled man who had used crutches for twenty years left them in the hall and walked home. In an interview, Mr Pitt, the pastor of the church, said it ivas quite true that these marvellous cures bad occurred, and quoted several instances. Outside the church, he said, peo* pie laughed at a woman who told how she had got rid of an ailment, but she replied: “You may laugh, but here I am cured and well.” “Another .case,” continued Mr Pitt, “was that of a Avoman Avho had been on crutches for thirty-two years. One night she came to the meeting and Avas cured, and next night she came to the services Avitliout her crutches. “We have noAV a lot of people coming from all over London, and our correspondence is assuming very large proportions.” Mr Pitt likened the preaching of Mr Jeffreys to Moody and Spurgeon, and said he had found nothing extravagant in his sermons. STORIES OF CURES. “I think it ought to be stated,” he added, “that Mr Jeffreys made it quite plain that lie does not possess occult powers of healing, and that he had most remarkable results from faith in prayer. “People come, and we pray over them, and lay hands on them, alAvays emphasising that if it was not God’s will a thing could not be done. People have come to us with every kind of disease; and have been healed.

“Of course, we do not say that peonle should not take pills or medicine AA-hen they get out of sorts, as most people do. We simply have faith in the Divine poAver to heal.” Mr Pitt also pointed out that, quite apart from the cures at the present mission, he and his helpers had had similar results from prayer. He mentioned one girl Avhose life Avas despaired of after an accident, for whom prayers Avere offered up in his church.

“That girl is now walking in the park, literally brought back from the grave,” he remarked.