The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-04-25
in THE NAME OF THE NAzARENE.

held by James Moore Rickson, in va
rious parts of the country, and the
cures that have been made, through the
laying on the hands, give pause when
one would condemn the work of
Brother Isaiah. the New Orleans healer.
who has SO stirred the people of
Louisiana
Dispatches from New Orleans make
lit clear that there is a wide vari-
ance of opinion as to the "cures" that
Brother Isaiah has made But the
press is almost unanimous in its ac-
acknowledgement that, whatever may be
the power and to whomever may belong
the glory, Mr.. Hickson has made some
of the most remarkable cures ever re-
corded.
Coming to this country from Eng
land, protesting no power Of himself,
but relying solely upon the promises
of the Word of God, Though the lay
ing on of hands in Episcopal churches
Throughout the country, he has not
only performed miracles of healing.
but wherever he has gone there has
followed a wonderful spiritual awak-
Iening.
In Hartford, Conn, where he was
somewhat coldly received-and the
only place mentioned as so receiving
him-John Stockton Littell, writing to
the Churchman, says: THE most con-
sentative people attended. When
the first day came the cathedral was
crowded long before the hour, and so
lit continued, regardless of unfaVor-
able weather. There has been a good
deal of talk of cases of known i'm
provement in health, and these are so
well authenticated that they admit of
no contradiction"
Dispatches from all parts OF the
country have told the same story. and
in many instances remarkable indi-
viduaI cases have been cited, as per-
manently cured-for Mr.. Hickson has
been carrying on his mission now for
more than year.
To one who believes in the Gospel
of Christ, it is not difficult to accept
the fact that Mr.. Hickson cures by the
laying on of hands-he says himself
that the cure is of Christ.
But apart from the cures that have
been effected, through the mission that
has been held by Mr.. Hickson, and
this is no less true of the cures of
Brother Isaiah, the fact has been
brought out that there are in this
country today hundreds of thousands
of pitiful creatures, suffering the
agonies of bodily pain, with no means
as their command for medical aid, or
for securing the most ordinary COM
forts of life.
Can it be that during the past few
years we have become so concerned
with the sufferings of the peoples at
the other end of the earth, that we have
neglected those of our own, who are
here at our very doors? Can it be
that the agonies of the little children,
he al nd No v1itifII nf RalUiI1rn
and of Armenia can touch us more
deeply that the sufferings of the
manned, and the halt, in body and
soul, in our own country?
Since the world war there have
been those who have declared that
the services of the American Red
Cross are no longer needed in this
country-that its mission of mercy has
ended. But so long as there are with
/ US such pitiful specimens of broken
bruised humanity as have flocked by
hundreds to Brother Isaiah and by the
hundreds of thousands to the missions
of Mr.. Hickson, we have not done our
full duty.
| 1t is true that many of these cases
have been pronounced as incurable by
men of the medical profession, and that
the applicants for relief are not con-
4
clude the children of wealth as well as
the children of poverty, but the great
fact that stands out in most of the
notices is the pitiable perjury, the pow
erty- stricken condition of the great
ma jority of the people who apply for
relief.
1t may be argued that most of these
people live in such unsanitary condi-
tions, and their people have so lived
for so many generations. that it is
| impossible to help them, but such an
argument is baseless.
If it is not the duty of Christian
nation to teach these people how to
live, to instruct them in the ways of
cleanliness and sanitation and moral
| ity and to aid them to overcome the
Ihandicaps of birth and environment,
what then in the name of all that is
sacred, is the duty of a people?
| The American Red Cross has mapped
out just such a program of work as
would meet the needs of these people,
including training in hygiene. santa
| ton and home nursing, as well as the
alienation of suffering through the
aid furnished through funds of the
chapters. If ever there was a time in
the history of the world, when the
work of the Red Cross was needed il is
today When hundreds of thousands
| of people in our own lands are suf-
fering the pangs of poverty, added to
| the ailments which afflict the body, it
J is time for applied Christianity to come
forward to join with Mr.. HicSson. and
any other healer who can so much as
cure zone OF these little ones in the
name of The Nazarene.