1955-04-02 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1955.

HUNDREDS SEEK FAITH CURES AT COLONY CHURCH

I

HAVE Just spent a really unforgettable

For six nights " week.

By Tony Motta

most of the orderly rows, *sound but their ranks were broken him. by cripples who were hardy... enough to

manoeuvre

1

was

alien

to

mumbling: "I can hear. can hear."

ex-

"Come believing and I was witness to most

pect the Lord to do great moving demonstrations of

things," Mr Horst had said, faith. I saw hundreds of or-

be- dinary men and

the Here was a man who women,

Further proof that physically afflicted in differ-

"man was stone deaf came lieved. A man whose faith ent ways, seek relief and winding staircase, and

with the singing of hymns, was so strong that it did handful of people who cure through prayer. And,

Seated just behind him I not need the kindling of ser. through prayer, many of stared with sightiess eyes... listened intently, and over mons. them were healed. I saw

harmonised I am convinced that no the din of the beauty of man made health clinic in Hongkong voices heard his tuneless whole again.

has had within, its doore chant....

en~

How did these wonders such а cross-section of I soon forgot the man, escape the eye of the public? blighted humanity at one however, as I became They didn't.

time.. Posters were distributed by members of a small, little The

Was

weg

They came, in their hundreds, to the little known church called the Assembly of God. The halt and the lame, the dumb and the blind. Old and young, with afflic tions of different kinds. They came to be healed through prayer. And there were many who went away cured and rid of pain. Tony, Motta describes during the scene these "healing meet- ings," and tells of some of the remark- able things he saw.

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Page

Soviet Pattern Being Repeated

Signs

Of Crisis

In Red

By

China

WILFRED RYDEN

LEMENTS of a crisis Liu is popularly known as a collectivization can be pushed. on the lines of that member of the war paŝty" in without the need to restrict con

Feking, which is willing to run sumer industries; if these are not which brought Malen risk in order to fulfil cherished forthcoming in sufficient quanti kov down are appearing in ambitions. It has been res- ties, then the development of Peking. There is the same" ponsible for the revival since consumer Industries must be re- co- last summer of the campaign to stricted and the people must put personal rivalry;

up with short supplies, And It existence, is dropped; an all- Uberate Formosa

He is

known, Also

like the Soviet Unboxi camot, or wIE* out campaign to liberate Khrushchev, to be an advocate not supply China with loans, Formosa launched; heavy of pushing the industrialisation provide the capital needed for industry is pushed against But, as in the Soviet Union, this be provided by a high level of whatever of China,

the cost. industrialisation then they must

sopant voice. "Drive the deva the opposition of those who salicy, is opposed by those who taxation.

out

O

at this poor woman, the Lord," he shouted. The woman

started to cry violently.

"Make her body whole again, I beseech thee, Jesus."

the Woman voice rage and screamed....

His

Was

want more consumer goods; want more consumer goods. They and there is a farm crisis have found an too..

met that the Fent la the that China

is considerable evidence There Then there

not getting from Plan has the Soviet Union all the machines well. woman healed of a terrible

she needs. And the only kans These are the things which not been going skin disease one night.

brought Khrishchev to powr The People's Daily revealed at she has had have been one of £100 million in 1950 ward an- with the help of the Red Army. the beginning of January that it

£50 She

badly scarred

was fulfilled by only 89.6 percent other of approximately In China the key Agure is in 1953 and by only 92.4 percent, million given last October. There grossed in the sermon and and her whole body

Shao-chi, First Secretary of the

Communist Party, last year. One of the most im- have been complaints that these later the unusual but strik- covered with A skin- She stumbled down to her Chinese

1: had been "the Rev. Glenn Horst, ing musical accompaniment devouring rash. She walk. scat and sobbed with bowed head Khrushchev's opposite number, portant causes of these failures are not nearly enough.

conservative known church called the who calls himself the Minis- of piano and

attitude of many Communists" for the role of Malenkov. xylo-ed up to the dais following through the rest of the healing Chou En-las appears to be east had

who blamed the plan as ad- forerunner, Assembly of God, in Kow- try's

was phone.

Mr Horat's joon, which advertised preaching inspiredly on the The service drew to a asked him Healing Meetings.

power of faith. "All things close and, singing "Only her.

Believe," the

a

congrega- --

tion

service.

.

and sermor. to

Tension mounted and others pray for

on the dais were crying. Some in the "Healing Line" were trembling in anticipation as a mother brought her child to the

hobbled,MADE CLEAN fumbled and

fore.

Liu was given

exceptional prominence during the celebra- venturous. They even proposed. tions in Peking on the fifth an- to cut down this year's plan by niversary of the signing of the learning from the lessons of the Sino-Soviet Treaty (February two previous years."" 14, 1950). He was listed after The Troubles

Mao Tse-tung and before Chou

+)

The Capital

Wang Ching-chih, Instructor in Public Finance at the Feople's University, stated in the fort- nightly Feople's China that Chiria - "cannot and will not resort to raising funds abroad" for, her

En-lai as sending greetings to · Finally, China is suffering industrialisation; they must be She pointed to the little girl Marshals Voroshilov and from a severe farm crisis, as raised mainly from domestic walked to- Mr Horst, as he explain- tn her arms, indicating that she Bulganin and to Molotov. MED woll as the Soviet Union, and resources." wards the ed later,

was- déaf and dumb. Mr Byrd

is thus equated with the Soviet may need a scapegoat.

Official

And the People's Daily in an Was not actual- Prayer Room ly engaged in praying for devil to free the little body

President, who is a mere figure reports speak of prayed and called for the

floods and article on the new, conscription. herd. And Liu 15 In the wing of the sick,

gyon famine, opposition to gral law, said: "A large amount of but he

precedence the church.

over Chou, who is badly made State capital and labour is required for touched by her faith with her

There they complied prostrate'd quest.

themselves on

was All the while thgirl stared and at him blankly..

re.

He then snapped his fingers at her ears and fos a split second 1 was almost certain that hearing had returned, for there was a "glimmer, feeling shade of

→

EMIRACLES ·

the floor and He placed his hands on prayed indivi- her and said: "I pray you startled expression in her eyes.

and will be healed in the name dually

The woman volubly for the of Jesus." Lord to heal bowed her head and, after - them of their thanking him, walked into Various affilic- the Prayer Room.". tions.

bath Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.

The Listing

that

tools, lack of co-ordina- socialist construction. We can tion between State and collective not depend on any outside source trading organisations, disastrous to obtain such capital and labour. unfairness, incompetence, and We must depend on ourselves. "commandism" (autocratic_ten- Statements that China will

on the The three men were reported dencies)

of Com- not depend on outside Sources pert.. in the same order as guests at the munists in collectives.

hardly to be laken, as" an are reception given at the Soviet There has been such haste in indicatiay that Communist China Embassy during the anniversary forming collectives that many are wants Independence of., Soviet by J. M. Lomakir, temporary in danger of becoming enormous nancial aid. Statements that Charge d'Affaires. Mco T92- private farms. The People's she "cannot" depend on outside tang was not present at the Dally complains

rich sources are probably nearer the Next in line was a man with public meeting given in honour peasants and persons with a truth, and indicate that the one blind eye. He approached of the celebration; the chief deep-rooted capitalist ideology. Soviet Union either cannot or When she emerged

and Mr Byrd placed his hand guests were listed as Liu Chao- might gain control of the co- will not give sufficient.

chi and Chou En-lal, in that operatives and lure some of the Liu Shao-chi is at the moment over the useless organ, Minutes The Babel of short while later she shout. Later the man faced the congre-

peasants. towards capitalista" undoubtedly as secure in Peking voices rose ed joyfully: "the itch is gation and stared dumbly. He This listing is similar to the The dispute over the pace of as Khrushchev is in Moscow. But

the blinked, fecusted both his eyes

economie Soviet industrialisation and collectivisa- if an and fell

crisis should process whereby Mr Horst told her to as gone."

and screamed: "It's all right." people were gradually accustom- tion is connected with China's result from pushing the pace of many suppli go home and sleep.

His svoice carried over the micro-ed by their press and radio a relations with the Soviet Union, industrialisation and collectivise-

Soviet phone and he told his way

Union cants,

Khrushchev's being given in the

gives tion too hard, both he and the who On the following day she chattering audience that The

public the prominence he had machines on a large enough Sino-Soviet allance are likely disdained to came to service and, delirious could now see with both ey25......... scquired behind the scenes. scale, both industrialisation and to suffer. use the mats with joy, bared her arms, 1 and chairs shousing:”“I sm clean,”. provided, sob-

10 Lori, straighten this boy's Mr Byrd Asked in a Dodg fervent voice, back of a hunched boy of five. as he held the He told Usteners that in the

And clean she was there was bed and cried no sign of the unsightly in -hysteric - fection that had been cating Philippines where he had just

ally and be into her for yearsi- seeched their

She spent the rest of the

evening walking about the church and showing all who

would look her spotless and logs.

Mrs Ng, 72 years old, who was paralysed in her legs, arriving at on Maker to help Assembly of God healing meeting. The Rev. Ralph Byrd is seen with where science

her in picture.

had failed.... "Bring the Sick and are possible, only believe," Three days later I at Come Believing" way all he repeated again and again tended an evening service the paper said. It also during his sermon.

and there was my deaf PRAYER. gave the times of the morn-

friend sitting in the fifth ing and evening services I noticed, sitting in the and the

name of the second row, an old man who preacher, the Rev. Ralph was straining forward and Byrd of Atlanta, Georgia. tapping at his ear.

To the fortunafe few As he turried I saw that who received these little he had a hearing aid and bits of paper, nothing was was vainly trying to in- came, crease the volume of sound promised, but they multiplied "in number and by adding to the vibra- filled the Assembly of tions. God both morning and -night.

If it were not for the pul- pit and the long pews I would have imagined myself in a clinic.

Palsied old men wizened old ladies

row.

BINE

wizme from he prayed for an identical case. Within a month of the service the boy's back was straight

his

ol

Mr Horst

also had reminiscences. He told auracles in Baguio, the resort, where hundreds were healed. Cripples came and left with- cut their crutches;

old woman of close to 100 saw for the first time in 20 years and |- The "Healing Line" started both nervous and organic with the arrival of the Mr disorders were healed "en Had he given up try. Byrd on Saturday last. There masse," ing? I hurried to a seat was a stampede for the pupa,

Be was confusion in the beside him and

no, it and all *couldn't be...but it was! crammed aisles as nearly 100 resurgence in belief im Divine afflicted people tried to get on. Healing muring the Bast year HE COULD HEAR!

the dais.

and that he had never a more responsive people than Organisation was called for the natives of the Philippines. eyes was gone and his ear's and on Monday night, although

the numbers had not diminished, " Messrs Byrd and Horst ineffective adornment had there was order and less excite- two of nearly 800 missionaries disappeared as well,

At mert as people lined up with of the Assembly of God. Many

The vacant look in his

His face was contorted the end of the service he Healbig Cards." and strained and he jabbed sang "Only "Believe" with viciously at the aid as Mr the others. Horst's voice throbbed

richly over the microphone. Tears streamed down his The Chinese translation was cheeks but his face was and equally loud, but to the old lighted up with the look of

The first up on the cats was a European lady. She spoke to Mr Bryd and removed her glasses.

said that

13

there was a

Order

You get guarded precision

in the new Tissot

Waterproof

It's weatherproof, too

made to withstand attack

are

from all the elements.

Here's how its famous

of them have spent as much as 30 years in the Cantonese speaking districts of China, Through faith they have brought reller to thousands of [11]- fortunates, amicted and in pain. In their new church building in Kowloon, the Assembly of God- to expand their work

Mr Byrd put his hand over intends

filled man it was a losing battle a happy man, and he kept her eyes and prayed in a re- here.

PARIS NEWSLETTER FROM SAM WHITE

Windsors' Friend

A

Germany shortly after the She still maintains the famous.

Duke's abdication.

Triumphs Over Tragedy

Daninor

PARIS. thousand of her employets-the year, and she reverted to the tant of them is 83-year-old They are now doing excent WOMAN who has business is to be placed on a Bedaux nastic.

Charles. Antoine Rochat, who "ingly well in the more exalted profit-sharing basis..

was secretary-general of the walks of We. triumphed over

Today, Mrs Bedaux leader a Foreign Office under Petain,

QUOTES notoriety and tragedy is Now in her middle fifties, Mrs quiet life and entertains only a American-born Fern Bedaux, Beaux is as attractive and few old friends, mostly business. Some of the highest person-

UTHOR Plerre at vaccalmal week- ages in the land have now come A It has clen occurred to me widow of Charles Bedaux, days when she was the Duchess ends at Cande. Childless her- forward to give completely con- that a zoologist is probably in

elegant as she ever was in the associates, the man who took the Duke of Windsor's closest rival for the self, her heir is her sister's" vincing evidence on his behalf. a better poltion to understand and Duchess of Windsor on title of the world's best-dressed daughter who works as an in- Had M. Rochat been tried 10 the Engleh than

terior decorator in London. years ago, he would certainly Diplomatic Correspondent psychologist. their ill-advised trip to Nazi woman.

have either been shot or sen- Pertinax: The time bus now. tenced to a long term of penas come to carry out an autopsy on STAND TRIAL Chateau de Conde, npar Paris,

servitude.

the Entente Cordiale whose 50th where the Windsors were fre-

A disturbing question arises: anniversary was celebrated with She has been living, quiet- quent visitors, but the stables-

would the same people have such pomp only last year. Prior ly in a Paris hotel reor which once housed 20 thorough- NYONE likely to be accused come forward then to testify for consultations between France The 4 of, treasonable activities `in him? Some undoubtedly would and Britain on diplomatic moves ganising her husband's con- breds are now deserted.

goli course" which English my future war is being given have done, such as senior officers have, now virtually disappeared. tinental offices of industrial groundsmen maintained is now some excellent advice by the of the British-organised Special and consultations of any land Efficiency consultants.

overgrown with weeds, and even French High Court

Operations Executives of the Bedoux's English

butter, he advice Get out of the I am more than doubtful, ge between the two countries are „James, has gone,

now the exception rather than: The tragedy is that on a great the ruže, offer 10 years, then return, stand trial issue like reason a fair trial Notice in an office in the

they of Finance, be a fortune me the late Charles sympathies, committed suicide. A acquitted.

the last working day Bedru, is now flourishing again. year later, after the liberation Six senior civil servants under. Almost as sad is that many the 20th of each month, the So much so that in two or three of Paris, Mrs Bedaur married a the Vichy Government have enthusiastic collaborators with 11 first mouths of the years and monika time, Mrs Bedant will US. army colonel. The marriage recently returned from exte to the Germans escaped trial alto- on the Inst, working bave good news for more than a lasted only little more then a stand trial, “ The most impor- gether by devious means

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