THE HICKSON MISSION.

Otaki Mail, 8 October 1923, Page 2

THE HICKSON MISSION.

AN AUTHORITATIVE STATEMENT, On account of the controversy that has raged in nearly every city visited bv Mr, James Moore Hickson, the spiritual healer, the editor of Life secure'! from him an authoritative statement just at the close of his Australian mission. and on the eve of hi.- departure to New Zealand. Mr. Hickson, at the outset, disclaimed anv ability to cure persons of disease, but claimed that h* : possesses in a marked degree the gift of spiritual healing. Explaining mis he said that this gift was bestowed by God upon the Church, and that it was the duty of every clergy man to find out if he possessed it in any special degree. Just as some men might be “born” musicians or “bom” speaker*, so others might, be “born” healers. In other words. God might have selected them as specially adapted to be'the channels of His healing power. Aft. Hickson denies that the ouroa wot? effected by suggestion or psych othersr-v. and claimed that spiritual healing west farther than those human agencies. They were limited in their curative range to. functional derangements, but spiritual healing surpassed them anti healed organic diseases as well a- functional ailments. He states that in a gathering of natives, of which a photograpth is reproduced with the article in Life, more than thirty people Were cured of blindness, some of whore were stated to have been blind from birth. During his Australian tour Mr. Hickson says that he travelled 10.000 miles, aou witnessed the curing of hundreds of people and that many Were cured on organic diseases; but Mr. Hickson adds that, after all, the finest results achieved and aimed at are not physical, but spiritual. This full and authoritative statement by Mr. Hickson is really £• review of his five years ' mission &Q over the world, and'will be read with deep interest by both scoffers usd believers.