“Miracles” Worked in Auckland Hall

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1035, 28 July 1930, Page 10

“Miracles” Worked in Auckland Hall

LAYING ON OF HANDS MISSIONER AND CURES Invoking Divine power in the curing of disease, Mr. A. H. Dallimore, of the Covenant Hall Mission, Wellesley Street, “laid hands” upon more than 30 people at last evening’s meeting. The floor in front of the missioner’s platform was covered with persons lying in ecstatic trance and many more people gave testimony as to healing received. During the evening revival, hymns were sung with fervour by the meeting. In a short address the missioner pleaded with his listeners to turn to the Christ, who was as alive today as He was 2,000 years ago. The days of miracles were not past. Diseases could be cured just as quickly and miraculously as ever. CURING THE SICK Then those who were suffering from sickness of any description were asked to come forward. Placing his hand on the crown of the head of a girl suffering from deafness, the missioner called upon the spirit of deafness to come out of her. As though she had been struck a heavy blow on the head, the girl collapsed and was laid on the floor. Throughout the meeting she lay stretched though, as Mi-. Dallimore explained, quite conscious. Strong men who walked up for healing were anointed, the missioner laying his hands upon them while he called upon the disease to be gone. With few exceptions they collapsed and were also laid upon the floor, which was soon covered with prostrate persons.

Several youths who formed a rowdy and inquisitive element at the back of the hall, crowded up to the front to look. THREAT OF POLICE The missioner remonstrated. "I ask you as gentlemen to return to your seats,” he said. “This is a service. Do not desecrate it. You are welcome to come, but please sit down.” The youths argued. They were doing no harm, they said. “I don’t want to ask the police to interfere, but if you won’t go back to your seats I’ll have to do so,” said Mr. Dallimore. The youths decided to retire, muttering the while. “I can’t understand why anyone who has common human feelings can oppose the doing of good,” said the missioner. “Their mentality is difficult to analyse.” “I object to you reflecting on my intelligence,” called one of the youths, who had been ordered to the back of the hall. The meeting laughed long and loudly. At the conclusion of the service about eighty persons remained behind to crowd around the prostrate forms on the floor, many of whom were returning to life. A girl, whose arm was said to have been paralysed, was lying with her eyes shut, waving the affected arm backward and forward and crying words of praise. Her eyes were closed.

SPEAKING WITH TONGUES Several of the women were seized in trance and began to “speak in tongues.” With fixed eyes they spoke for minutes in incomprehensible languages, the missioner translating for the benefit of those standing around. "A witness of the power of the Spirit,” he said. “This is as was foretold.” One of the men who had lain entranced on the floor rose to his feet and a Sun man asked him what he had felt wljen the missioner had laid hands upon him. He said it was as if he had been attached to a battery. Yes, he had been cured. Testimony of cures was given by dozens of those standing alongside. “Nine months ago, I came to mock,’’ said one man. “Here I am today giving testimony. I am cured by the power of the Spirit.” Speaking to a Sun man, the missioner said he had been doing healing work in Auckland for about three years. Before that he was in Canada, where he had performed hundreds of cures. . "This power was promised by Christ as being one of the signs of those who followed Him,” he said. “I am simply the channel for the influx of the power.”