Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-25


cago and Detroit. From all these
cities come similar reports: Crowd
ed Church; multitudes of blind, deaf
land, paralytics, and from all come
LIE reports of many cures
During the general convention OF
the Episcopal church held last
month in Detroit, HiclSson address
er the convention. AS a result, n COM
mission of bishops, priests and lay
men was appointed by the conven-
tion to consider the fuller recogni-
tion of the ministry of healing in the
church and the need of its revival un-
kAder proper sanctions and safeguards.
His Work in BostoIa
From Boston comes the following
report of Mr., Hickson's work in the
Cathedral of st. Paul:
First the children; such suffering
little ones One. knew as meyer be-
fore the deadly work of the iufantile
. paralysis epidemic two years ago,
when now child after child was
brought to receive the healing touch;
some big-eyed and trustful, others
shrinking in fear until the gentle
hand was laid upon them; some with
eyes vacant or oVershadowed in their
empty world; many with helpless
hanging, pitiful little legs and arms;
others in iron braces; rich and poor
alike
'sAfter the children came those
suffering great pain, who could not
long bear the strain of waiting;
som metimes brought from their beds
by supreme effort Often and Of
ten the strained look of torture re-
laXed as the healing hand was laid
upon them, and Christ touched them
as He did of old.
Finally, guided by the assisting
priests in the aisles and the helping
hands of women, came the great,
never-ending stream of those who
were waiting patiently their turn,
each with a different story of suffer-
ing, borne perhaps through many
years; a body stiffened in its prison
home of arthritis, eyes without Wis
ion. ears without hearing. lips that
were dumb, nerves shattered and
destroyed, wounds unhealed. Il ma
lignant growth eating into the very
life; the bereaved, whose vital force
had gone in the burying of their
dead; the father fearful in his ILL
ness that he might not be able to
provide for his family; the mother
distorted by a nervous shock pray
ing that she might be made well to
care for her baby; the young wife
praying that she might become
mother; the grandmother broken by
a life of toll praying for renewed
strength to carry the burden of the
grandchildren whom she had
brought with her; the man of busi-
ness; the humblest artisan; the Off
Ger of Army or Navy; the girl of
fashion; the city missionary; the
trained nurse; high and low, rich
and poor, made for this first time in
their lives perhaps one great family
united in the double bond of suffer
ing and of faith.
MANY races were there also: A
Jewish mother, not able to pray
herself in this Christian place, yet
brought her baby to the man so
near to Cod" she said, TO be healed;
! a Jewish daughter brought her aged
! father. There were countless Ital-
ians, religious and devotional, and
every now and then a Russian or 4
Greek, with the faith carried so
italy into every action of daily
.. Each one of these prostrated
If and murm ured his kyrie
W while he prayed and waited
altar. French. Irish, none
away. No line OF color
no separation of race"
Cured Give Thanks
Swo days spent in Boston
/ as having been days of
THANKSGIVING for those cured Hick
son spent those days in the Church Of
the Advent, and the scene is described
by Emile w. Hurd. an eyewitness: /:
This great church, dim with the
light of its many windows of pictured
saints, beautiful with its carvings,
filled already with the spirit of wor-
ship. became more than ever blessed
and adored when the suffering found
there their resting place. Two tall
tapers burned before the high mar
Bile altar and the Sisters of St Marga-
let prayed with those who came. The
emo was near. and with it came not
only those who had not before been
able to receive the healing touch, but
the radiant many who gave thanks
from overlooking hearts for this min
iEtrY of healing restored "a last to it's
rightful place within the church.
Here was the mother with tears OF
thankfulness, telling perhaps in broll-
English that now her paralytic
child could move it's foot. could walk
could raise it's arm. Here was the
lovely young girl whose beautiful ap-
pealing eyes had been growing dark,
pronounced incurable, and now were
oh, so much clearer and better Here
was the asthmatic who could breathe
again, who had come for Just one
more treatment and to give thanks
for restoration; here the deaf one
dIIeT dnOlHeF, whose ears nau Deel
opened to hear, and the stammerer
who had been given speech; here the
woman whose cancer growth had
ceased to give her agony. who slept,
and felt the healing life flowing
through her and overcoming the dead
ly cell; and, above all, here was many
man and many woman WHO with
the bodily healing ana amounting had
received the far greater and richer
healing and amounting of the soul"
Cures Blind and Deaf
Early in November Hickson con-
drcted a mission of healing in Evans
ten. ILL.,. following a mission held in
Chicago. The Evanston News Index
of November 6, gives the following
account:
AS the church was entered. one saw
1t to be a third filled with persons
who had come, some in simple and
believing faith and some only in curl
ositS, to watch while Mr.. Hickson
prayed with those who had como to
seek his aid
Tense quiet and a spirit Of prayer
fu' expectation filled the atmosphere
In the chancel before the altar sat a
hundred persons, the sick and afflict-
cd, In the pews Immediately below
sat more for whom there was no
room in the chancel above,
"They were OF every age, Mothers
sat among them, carrying In their