STRONG STATEMENTS MR. DOWIE. Auckland, April 18. HEALING BY FAITH.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 257, 21 April 1888, Page 6

STRONG STATE MEN TS MR. DOWIE. Auckland, April 18.

HEALING BY FAITH.

Tiik, Rh\. ,]oiin Down 1 , and Mrs Dowic, ol faith-healing tame, commenced :i mission at the old Baptist Church, Welles'lcy-street, last evening. There Mas a largo attendance, and pioeeedings oponeii with the .singing ot the h\,mn "What a l (l iiend wo iiavo in .Jes'u,-." Ml 1 Dowie slated tliat ho had loeoiwd a giealmany letters asking for pnyer since ho had been in j\'eu Zealand, no less Ihan letters coining in dunng the last tlneo wiok^. Mis |Jon\ 10 then prayed, and altoi wards 1 load the 6id ehaplei ot Arts containing the story ot the healing o! the lame man by the Apostles I'et'-i and .lohn at lln l>cautiiul (iaLo oi the temple. Anolhei hymn was sung, and Mr Dowie ga\o a li ( tine on "The Healing ol the Lainc Man." 110 said tlu-io Mas not. ;. rhadow oi doubt ot the gospel ol dninc healing, extending to spuit, soul and bod\ , and to o\eiy man upon the wide world. Ho pleached llio gospel oi sahalion, .nd novel deliveied a healing message that lie did not uv^a the sinner to loptnt It was .Mated, he said, thai 5,000 men wow svi\ed by the hfalmu ( [ the Lime man and the -übsoqucnt speech of Ihe apo-tlos on thai su)>|eet, .uul i) theic weie 6,000 men he ut/iild guai.intc 1 thaithoio \\ vie t\v ice as m«m\ women. llisc\pei lenec was Ui.it th< i< \\ eie I w ice as maii^ wnmeu as nieu Men ueie goinu (o liell (,\\ iee a^ hist, as women, and uoineti w ei e leading the \ an tohea\eu. The la< t wa- thai; E\e let us all out of jiaiacii-^o, and it was vei y pi oj)ei tli.it hei d.iughtoi -hoidd bum: us liaek again. The ie\. mntleinan -poke strongly about Ihe objections undo to women publicly teaching the(«ospel. Women, he said, <ould j.l.ij at 1 h»j the.itic and the conceit Minn, they could >-ei\e out. damning li(|uoi behind a b.u, could sene out lujuid Inc-disti ibutinu damnation; but let a woman sa> a woid loi Christ, and pious hand- woie held up in hoi roi . Mi Dowie < \lubited a photo oi a bo\ who, lie said, had been lualed ot ]anionc>.> In 'ailh m a wondeiful way in .\u-tial!.i, and then made some l.Uhci iciii.u K.il^lc ob^-ei Nation^, liming which -onic halt do/en people lelt the meeting lie ».iid that, ho had seen .t gieat man> men a\ ho weic bom lame, who had been lamed b\ Ihe do\il, and men tinned instances in winch one woman was kicked and anot hoi outi.iged ''Some ot you, he said, addiessmg the audience, " ha\c pa-sion^ combing tlnough }oui blood as Miong a^ hill, and I i ell such of v" 1 'I.it ■sou) niothci-. and tatheis weio di unk. nd- beioie you weio bom." The audu nee did not ap])i n ciate tin-, as might ha\e bt cut \pcctcd, l>ul theobsei \ atioti uas allow c(\ I o pa— unch.illenued. After Mr Dowie had lim-hcd .i colleiiion \tas taken up, and Mis Duwio i elated some instances of healinu l>\ laith in w Inch MiDow ie was- in.sti umontal. I'lociediu^s (.cinunated w it h pia^ci Mi.-. Dow'io diseoui-ed this moiniuir on the siibjoet ot faith-healing, dtiilinLj wiih its Seiiptuial aspect-. There weie about a do/en pei-ons pie-ent.