“A TINGLING CURRENT.”

Shannon News, 9 October 1923, Page 3

“A TINGLING CURRENT.”

RELIEF FROM PARALYSIS. ACCOUNT OF EXPERIENCES. A remarkable account of the impressions left on bis mind and of tihe benefits be has derived as the result of attending the spiritual healing mission conducted by Mr J. M. Hickson;, at St. Matthew’s Church, Auckland, has been written by Mr Alexander, Menzies, the 20-year-old son of Mr A. L. Menzies, an officer of the Department of Health. Mr Menzies, junr., Avho has suffered from the. -effects of infantile paralysis from at very early age, attended Mr Hickson’s service on Monday morning', and the improvement in his condition from that time has been so marked that he was able on Tuesday to Avalk unaided up three steps, a feat ihe had not previously been able to attempt. He is anxious that bis. experience should be known to his many fellow-sufferers, and. to that end he -has written the following description of his experiences “For the sake of those who are yet to attend the healing mission, I Avould like to give an account of my experiences as one Avho has gained much help and strength, both spiritually and physically, through the laying on of hands. My trouble Ava. s infantile paralysis, which I Contracted when very .young, and which affected the AA’hol'e of the left side, the left eye being pradllically sightless. HjoAviever 1 . my people and I decided to send in my name as a patient, and I thank God that He has seen fit to give me the assurance that all will be well. “On entering the sacred precincts of God’s House, I Avas deeply impressed with the intensely sacred nature of the service, but as time passed, strange' to say, ail my faith wavered, until I began to- think that it Ava s useless for me to expect any spiritual -blessing. By this time the preliminary address given by Mr Hickson being ended, the sick, in stretchers and chairs, Avere being ministered to, ahd- the thoughts of -each were directed to his or her brethren in trouble. It was not long after this, that the other patients, of AA'hich. I "was one, made their way, sloAvly and reverently up to the altar rail, to- which they were -assisted by nurses, who werd stationed .at equal distances one from the other.

“Assisted by kindly hands, I knelt at the rail, while Mr Hickson v praying that God might see fit to heal me, placing his healing hands on my (head and over any left eye. And 10l though my entire body there coursed a. tingling such as I had never felt before, and Avhich has since returned, not in the body, as at first, but in the right leg and the left,- which is still affected, though not so much since the mission.

“HoAvever, -on returning home after attending the healing service, I again lost .my faith; but I thank God it Ava,s "not for long, for at about 6 o’clock it once more returned, and at twenty minutes to seven, by covering my right eye and using the. left; I could distinguish colour at a distance -of 12 feet—a/thing I had never done before! The eye Avas also turned, and, in fact/ still is; but at the same time* I can, by God’s help, move it backAvards ahd forwards, in harmony with the right. Nor is that all. My left leg, the knee of Avhich was turned imvards, is noAv normal, save fox' the fact that its shortness still causes me to limp. But this, I feel sure, will eventually disappear. “I am still hoping and ’praying for a thorough recovery, and I send' forth this humble contribution with the A r ieAA r that the relief may strengthen the faith of others.”