SPIRITUAL HEALING

Shannon News, 28 June 1929, Page 2

SPIRITUAL HEALING

There was a fair attendance at .Veij Bede's Anglican . Church on evening when Mr J. M. Hickson ga\\ an address on spiritual healing. Mr Hickson, who is well-known i his practice of this aspect of Christia living, in introducing his subject sai he was not proclaiming some new phas of the faith, but was endeavouring t revive a neglected part of the pre gramme of the Church activity. Fo the first 400 or 600 years, said th speaker, the early church practice spiritual healing and it was quite regular part of its work. During th decline of the church, this, with man; {mother phase of Christianity wa3 neg lectcd. For,years now, however, th subject had been reviving rapidly, an soon it would again become a promin ent part of the church's work. Durin the course of his remarks Mr Hickso said that faith was absolutely neces sajryr—faith in the power of Chris and' God—'before a cure in His Nam can be .effected. Another importan thought uttered was that this power°t heal was available to every Christian It was a sin, he said, not to use ttii power from <Jod in a time like /thi when we could see suffering and paii all round. The lack of faith abound ing to-day, he attributed to thewronj idea so wide spread, that God was ; God of fear and wrath, instead of th truth, taught by Jesus, that Godi Love. "God does not punish peopl by sickness," said he, "it is due gep erally to their neglect and sin or pe'r haps to that of their fathers. It is th work of the devil—not of God.' •' Th cause however, was not important. Th vital thing was that Christians had tin power to alleviate suffering. The Gos pel was the best book in the world 6') spiritual healing.