CHURCH APPROVES

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20737, 22 February 1939, Page 6

CHURCH APPROVES

PROPOSAL FOR CLINIC PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING (By Asso^r-tfonl CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday A proposal to establish a practical clinic for psychological healing in Dunedin under the direction of ministers of all denominations and doctors found ready encouragement among delegates attending the annual conference of the Methodist Church of New Zealand when it was discussed to-day. Ministers and laymen alike agreed that such a clinic would be in line with modern practice and that the service was one to be given by the Church. ‘‘Some investigations into the question of psychological healing in connection with the Christian ministry have been carried out in Dunedin,” said the Rev. D. O. Williams of Dunedin, ‘ and it is proposed to establish a practical clinic for this work. The basis of its operation will he that ministers of all de- j nominations will co-operate, that the help of four doctors will be secured, and that it will he conducted on neutral ground as far as the various , churches are concerned.” The conference passed a resolution I congratulating Mr Williams on his part in the scheme and encouraging him in the establishment of a clinic. “Conspiracy of Silence.’’ “it is ,i remarkable thine- (hat when a case involving liquor conies into Court, one gets almost a conspiracy of silence.” said Mr Justice Ostler, in summing up in the course of a trial in the Supreme «lotirt it X ipl« r . - • You have almost to dig the truth out of witnesses w 1 i pickaxe «ine <•: tlm worst tilings about liquor is that it draws about it so much false swear- j ing that it disgusts one. 11 is a disgraceful thing.”