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ADDRESS BY ME. HICKSON AT THE CATHEDRAL

There was an unusually large congrega. tion at St. John's Cathedral, on Sunday morning, when Mr. J. M. Hickson, who is conducting a mission of healing in Hongkong in the coming week, gave an address

The Rev. J. T. Holman, the acting Cathedral Chaplain, announced that the mission was intended for all sufferers irrespective of their religious communion. and the co-operation of ministers of all denominations, and of doctors was curdi

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CORRESPONDENCE.

FAITH HEALING.

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818.-la the opinion of the Bishop and the Cathedral authorities who have autho ried the mission, the most important and lasting results are doubtless expected to be the spiritual and moral uplift, which it is hoped, will be experienced by those who participate in the meetings. But themon in the street" may be excused if he is at first impressed rather by the peculiar method selected in the approach. ing mission to achieve the hoped for

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Mr. Hickson said this would be the first mission of healing in China, and he naked the prayers and help of Christian people so that great good might ensue." it is, of course, no novelty, Faith FRI.

We get out of these things," he con-healing is the oldest form of healing in tinued, very much what we put into the world. It grew up side by side with SÁT. them; the Mission is yours: not mias, medical practice in its carlicat and If you put into it your prayers, your crudest form, which is the same as saying. faith and hope, and your trust in God; that it is not a monopoly of the Christian God will surely bless the work. All Church; though it has been perhaps more things are possible to those who bellere,

successfully developed in a Christian is the promise of God, but there is no atmosphere of thought than in any other. promise whatever for the man who does The inscriptions in the temple of tha not believe. To him these things are Goddess of Medicine at Epidaurus in foolishness, and, of course, they must be erecco (4th Century B. C.) record the cure so, because there is nothing in him by faith of such sicknesses as spots on awakened or quickened to receive the face, blindness, lameness, hernia, spiritual thought, and therefore it it just like water off a duck's back. The man who does believe in God, in his church and in the law of Christ has some very definite promisel

This work of spiritual healing is as old as Christianity. I have nothing now to give you: I have no fresh message. All I have to tell you is this: that from my own experience can say that it is truc

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makebite, baldness, phthisis, paralysis, Bout, etc. It would appear that hypnotic suggestion, and even operations por- formed upon patients who were in the hypnotic sleep, were among the methods utilized concurrently with faith. For faith healing, except in some extreme forms, welcomes the use of what we all the natural means of restoration.

that "Jesus Christ is the same yesterdi for in early times, all sicknesses were

The widely spread practice of exorcism is only another form of the faith healing;

ascribed to the action of some god or spirit. Josephus Dio Cassius, Suetonius, and Tacitus record instances of, cares affected by exorcists in the presence of Vespasian, who was Emperor of Rome fire 70 A.D.). Vespasian himself is reported by these historians to have cured several person by his touch in the Templo of Serapis in Egypt.

healing, that is in processes in which a god and the faith of the sufferer were joint actors. And it is well known that, in the earliest documents of the Christian Church, faith healing is frequently re ferred to as an important method of of divine love and mercy). It is recorded. propaganda (ne being a convincing proof

to-day and forever," and that" touch hath still its ancient power. We sing that and we say these things, but the time has come when we have to look things straight in the face sad ask our selves. Do we believe it? If we do, why havo we not been bringing sick and suffering souls to Christ? Do we realise that Our Lord Jena, who went about doing good, healing all manner of sickness and dis case, is here with us this morning? Do is clear, then, that Christianity we believe it1. If it is not true, our hope cane into a world which believed in the is in vain; but it is true power of gods as shown in exorcism and

Now with regard to spiritual healing, we must come back to Jesus Christ, because there is only one healer and oue source of life; He alone can heal. I have no power to do it: I have never claimed any power; no man, has the power himself to give life and health to others: God alone can do that, though He unes men se His instruments.

Mr. Hickson pointed out that Christ & dominant factor in the acts of trained His disciples to carry on His healing wrought by Jesus Christ. St. work and on one occasion sent them out Paul, writing to Corinth, refers to " gifts on a mission of healing. Christ, intended of healing as commonly possessed (and. when He forhed His church, that through incidentally, ranks them as inferior to it His work might be continued. He said the gifts of apostleship, prophecy and Do my word as I have shown you: if teaching). Justin Martyr (cire 160 A.D.); you believe, greater things also shall frenaeus (cire 180) and other Christian writers rufer, in argument, to these Are thous things true or are they false phenomena, as matters which could not be contested by their opponents. Irenaeus asked. Mr. Hickson. In our religion a

Some do certainly and truly drive sentiment or is it a fact The early out devils, so that those who have thas Church accepted that commission and was beco cleansed from evil spirits frequently, faithful to it. The Church was a healing both believe and join themselves to the church for several centuries; sometimes Church. Others again heal the sick by we forget that. Then, we read, healing laying their hands upon them, and they was becoming exceptional; faith failed,

are made whole." This is done, he says, and consequently the power of God could not be made manifest. Looking around by calling upon the name of Jesus Christ to-day, there is nothing but sickness, Augustine (died 430 A.D.), in his great in spurc, sincere, and upright spirit. suffering, pain, misery distress and unwork." The City of God, tells of a man rest, and one asks oneself. Does the world at Carthage, who had been operated" on believe in Christ as a healing Saviour for fistula with partial success only, but to-day! Look at the millions of people was cured by prayer, and so saved from voted incurable by medical science. Can

the necessity of another threatened opera Christ do nothing for them? Is that the tion. Others he mentions who were cured last word Are all these people without of gout, cancer, hernia and paralysis. A hope! Some of our nearest and dearest brother and sister were cured of St. are locked behind asylum doors; medical Vitus dance at the church where science has no medicine for the mind. Augustine was preaching, in fact the Thank God for the doctors do not think sister was healed daring the sermon. Ha I want to belittlo, God's work through tells us that he knew of seventy cason of them. We have seen it in this war; many faith-cures effected in the two years pre- a man has received great blessings from the surgeons and doctors, but I think that ceding the writing of his book. every good doctor would be the first to admit his limitations and he knows-wall enough that he cannot do more than his remedies can do.

We have been looking here and looking there, going to this watering place and that cure, and all the time the healing. Christ has been standing there, saying,

sayt,

These phenomens of the early Christiani daye have recurred frequently through the centuries to our own day. The cures effected, for instance, by St. Francis of in the Bail of his Canonization. After Assisi were numerous," and were recited the Reformation, with the spread of the rationalistic spirit, faith healing fell into Come unto Me." The Church has of mere superstition; but it continued to general disrepute na savouring too much wonderful opportunity of being once have many defenders such as Martin more a link between Christ and suffering Luther, Valentine Greatrakes (The soufs, but this involves grave respons Stroker") and Prince Hohenlohe- ibility: Do not let it be said, He came Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst. Its use has His own and His own received Him ever been rejected, though often depre Mr. Hickson referred to the ailments cated, by the Christian Churches And which are the result of heredity and anidr DWA day we have seen that, "as that only the sword of the spirit of Christ rank materialism hot gradually lost its could cut the entail of disease und sick position of supremacy over the intel nosa. Why had religious people been so the extensions of our knowledge, the lestial processes of men in proportion to bind? It was their apathy, lukewarm phenomena of faith-healing are again ness, want of faith and prejudice, Leceiving the attention they demand. them approach the subject in 'spirit of That cures are by this means effected cau penitence for püst neglect. Christ had given them the command to do this work not be denied, whatever be the explana- tion offered, whether they be magnetic or and the power to do it the sword had mental or spiritualistic or spiritual been rusting in its shield, to their shame.

Yours faithfully, Churches were becoming husl empty. People were drifting away into Christinn Science, Theosophy Spiritualiam and all these bypaths and fools' paradises...

W. H. HEWITT,

| Why? Those sheep were seeking pasture; for more Psycho-therapy is mental they were looking for food, and if the science; this, is spiritual healing For Church had been faithful to her commis spiritus) healing, the first essentialis sion these things would not have existed | faith in God.. Unlike mental suggestion/. to-day, People had been fod with an it is not a question of the power of mind empty spoon, and they would suffer it go over matter, but of the power

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the longer. The Church must be a living spirit, when in union with Christ, over Church and it would never be that until both mind and matter. It is the spirit it was a healing Church as Christ intend- that hewieth and the spirit that giveth ed it to be

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Mr. Hickson went on to say that Christ did not only heal, physical, troubles, but spiritual ones. People acted as though this life was the beginning and end of all, but they were spiritual-beings now, in the flesh, "ds much as they would eger Let them, therefore, gel above the things that kept them misterin

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The service concluded with prayer for the success of the mission, an

Those responsible for the Mission of Bpițitual-Healing at St. John's Cathedral at 10. am, daily, desire if to be under- stood that it is & Christian Healing Mis- sinn in the widest sense Though-hold In conclusion Mr Hicksón sazd:-kam under the auspices of the Church-of- not going to tell you of this and that England, all sick and, suffering (people, person who has-boon healed. Christ is of whatever communion nis heartily wel-

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