MR HICKSON’S MISSION

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2687, 26 January 1924, Page 3

MR HICKSON’S MISSION

DOMINION TOUR CLOSED,

St. John’s Anglican Church, at Invercargill, was crowded to the doors on Wednesday morning when Mr J. Af. Hickson concluded his faith healing mission. There Avere over 600 patients, many of whom claim to have received great spiritual comfort and physical relief. The Invercargill series complete a five years’ tour of the Avorld by Mr Hickson.

“I cannot speak too highlv of the press of New Zealand, and, in fact, of almost every other country I have visited,” remarked Air Hickson in a valedictory interview. “Your Dominion press particularly has helped tremendously. The papers have preached the Gospel. There has been no attempt at sensationalism, and no desire to merely make press copy out of the mission. Everywhere the mission has been written up reA'erently and respectfully and it really has made a difference. Papers, you know, reach the man in the street, avlio might otherwise never be induced to interest himself in our Avork.”

On leaA r ing New Zealand, Mr Hickson’s intention is to return to his base in London, and later to conduct missions in England and Scotland. A visit to Russia would follow in due course. He Avill also visit South America, Sweden, and Norway, and a few smaller countries.