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No that is not tru it starts with Hitlers book " Mein kampf"

Does Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe believe that water is a human right?

Yes. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe thinks that water is a human right and that everyone, everywhere in the world, has the right to clean, safe water for drinking and sanitation.
But what does he mean when he says that water isn't 'free'?

Mr Brabeck supports the United Nations' view that ‘there is enough freshwater on the planet for seven billion people, but it is distributed unevenly and too much of it is wasted, polluted and unsustainably managed’.

According to UN Water, water scarcity already affects every continent. Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world's population, live in areas of physical water scarcity, and 500 million people are approaching this situation.

Mr Brabeck has always argued that everyone should have free access to the water they need for drinking and sanitation, wherever they are in the world.

However, he does not believe it is fair that more than two billion people worldwide lack even a simple toilet, and more than one billion have no access to any kind of improved drinking source of water, while in other parts of the world people can use excess amounts of this precious and increasingly scarce resource for non-essential purposes, without bearing a cost for its infrastructure.

http://www.nestle.com/aboutus/ask-nestle/answers/nestle-chairman-peter-brabeck-letmathe-believes-water-is-a-human-right

phreakabit: You seem well informed and knowledgeable about these things do you think Nigeria should explore the use of favipiravir in the treatment of Ebola? Why hasn't blood transfusion of survivors been used either?

I know this because my daughter is a scientist and working at the moment with MSF Doctors without border in Siera leone, to help there.

You have to look if the virus is a silly virus like the flu or a virus you take to next all with him what he has.


Ebola make not many changes so this you can find out only when you look for years!

wisestman: Ok...thank God u said Europa, I'm still waiting for more nigerian lawyers cos I know dis was a cooked up story and d people that cooked it up didn't use their brains..why we she go and be filing for a divorce in d UK when she was married under the law of the Fedearl republic of nigeria..that's if they did a court wedding in the first place..pls lawyers from nigeria where are u people, pls I need to be enlightened if I'm wrong

Hello when it was a court wedding she must not come to nigeria to get divorce, she can make it from Uk that is possible with a lawyer!

What I know that Hitler write "Mein Kampf" 1925 and in this book he write about jewish and that he want to kill them.

BOYCOTT, ANTI-NAZI

In protest against anti-Jewish excesses in Germany after the Nazi Party's victory at the polls on March 5, 1933, Jews throughout the world held mass rallies, marches, and a spontaneous anti-German boycott. This boycott developed into an organized movement after the demonstrative all-day boycott of the Nazis against German Jewry on April 1. The boycott proclamation of March 20 by the Jews of Vilna marked the launching of the boycott movement in Europe; Warsaw followed six days later. Soon the movement embraced virtually all Poland and was subsequently consolidated by the United Boycott Committee of Poland. This boycott movement was short-lived, however, for in January 1934, Poland signed a ten-year nonaggression pact with Hitler, in which cessation of boycott activities was stipulated as a precondition. Under Poland's premier, Józef Pilsudski, the provision was ignored. But in June 1935, about a month after his death, the United Boycott Committee was liquidated.

A mass boycott movement in England first began in the Jewish quarter of London's East End on March 24, 1935. The English-German fur business practically ceased as a result. The boycott groups included the Capt. Weber Boycott Organization, the World Alliance for Combatting Anti-Semitism, the British Anti-War Council, and the Anglo-Jewish Council of Trades and Industries. However, the *Board of Deputies of British Jews opposed the boycott throughout the 1930s.

In France, boycott sentiment was not as intense as in Poland or England; nevertheless, on the eve of the April 1 boycott, French Jewry warned that it would counterboycott the Reich if the Nazis carried out their plans, and they executed their threat by action similar to that of London's East End Jews. Two of France's most active boycott groups were the International League against Anti-Semitism, and the Comité de Défense des Juifs Persécutés en Allemagne. However, the *Alliance Israélite Universelle remained opposed to the boycott. At the end of March 1933, the anti-Nazi boycott movement spread to Romania and Yugoslavia, eventually encompassing the Jewish communities of Egypt, Greece, Latvia, Morocco, Palestine, several Latin American countries, and the United States.

In the United States the anti-Nazi boycott reached its peak. America's first established boycott group was the *Jewish War Veterans (March 19, 1933), followed by the American League for the Defense of Jewish Rights (ALDJR), a new organization founded by the Yiddish journalist, Abraham Coralnik, in May 1933. Three months later the *American Jewish Congress (AJC) made a boycott declaration and subsequently created a Boycott Committee. In October, the American Federation of Labor, a non-Jewish worker's organization, also announced that it was in favor of the boycott. The ALDJR was first led by Coralnik, and after six months by attorney-at-law Samuel Untermyer. In a move intended to alter the League's Jewish character, Untermyer changed its name to the "Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights." In 1934 the *Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) was created claiming to represent about 500,000 Jewish workers, and it immediately initiated a boycott program. Two years later, the organization's central body for boycott activities combined with the Congress' Boycott Committee to form the Joint Boycott Council (JBC). The Council and the League proved to be America's principal boycott organizations; the Jewish Veterans and other boycott groups that arose in the late 1930s cooperated with or joined these two organizations. However, attempts to unite the Council and the League were unsuccessful, the two organizations acting separately in consolidating the boycott on an international level.

The Joint Boycott Council's chairman, Joseph Tenenbaum, obtained passage of a boycott resolution at the *World Jewish Congress (WJC) in 1936. This was a reaffirmation of a worldwide boycott resolution adopted by the Second Preliminary Conference (1933), preceding the establishment of the WJC. Also in 1936, Coralnik and Untermyer convened a World Jewish Economic Conference in Amsterdam to coordinate the growing international boycott movement and help find for the boycotting businessmen substitutes for former German sources of supply. To this end, the Conference created a World Jewish Economic Federation, presided over by Untermyer. In keeping with his view that the boycott was a nonsectarian movement, Untermyer changed the Federation's name to the "World Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi Council to Champion Human Rights." American Jewry's failure to form a united boycott front did not prevent the movement from achieving success. Thus eventually the department store colossi of Macy's, Gimbel's, Sears and Roebuck, Woolworth, and others gave in to continued boycott pressure.

There is evidence that the Nazis, at least during the first two years of their regime, feared that a tight boycott would cripple their economy. Regarding the United States, for example, a memorandum prepared for Hitler by the Economic Policy Department of the Reich as late as November 18, 1938, cited the following comparative figures, which it attributed partly to the boycott:

Boycott, Anti-Nazi
Year 1929 1932 1937
* In millions of Reichsmarks
Import from the U.S. 1,790* 592 282
Export to the U.S. 991 281 209

In January 1939 dissolution of the *B'nai B'rith in Germany moved its American counterpart to join the boycott movement. However, the American Jewish Committee remained unalterably opposed to the movement throughout the Nazi era. In the United States, a non-belligerent until Pearl Harbor, the boycott was continued until 1941.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

M. Gottlieb, "Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement in the American Jewish Community, 1933–1941" (Ph.D. dissert., Brandeis Univ., 1967); B. Katz, "Crisis and Response" (M.A. thesis, Columbia Univ., 1951); J. Tenenbaum, in: Yad Vashem Studies, 3 (1959), 129–46; S. Wise, Challenging Years (1949), ch. 15; AJHSQ, 57 (June, 1968).

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0004_0_03409.html

wisestman: Lawyers in the house, pls can u help me understand how a couple that got married in nigeria be splitted in a court in UK..when they were not joined together under their law..pls help explain

I know it is possible in my country in Europa, but I am not a lawyer, but it works!

Onilaiscool: If you suspect you have come in contact with someone who has Ebola, PLEASE NOTE: Running to your village will not save you! It will rather ensure that you die and that you kill your relatives too. If you develop Ebola disease while hiding from quarantine, your story will come out eventually. Without good care, Ebola will kill you painfully. The good news is, the handling of reported Ebola cases in Nigeria is excellent. Ebola fatality rates in Nigeria are the lowest in the world right now. You have a good chance of staying alive if you seek help from the right authorities. Call 0800-EBOLA-HELP (0800-326524357) now. Please share this with all your contacts on Facebook, Whatsapp and BBM

It would also be great when you can write this on your facebook page that other people see it, because it will help!

uzoexcel: yeah, this is always hidden...incidentally i was discussin with an austrian phd research student who was doing his thesis on world war 2;after reciting offhand on things i knew, je just shook his head and told me i had no idea...then he directed me to links and several books though made unpopular

I will look if i can get more on this because I need to know more!

That are realy news for me, i never see this in my books about history and I live in Autria and my father was teacher for history.

Image123: One can be called Dr. without a degree. It's another thing to practice illegally or without license. If that is what offends you, i'll stop for you, don't worry, lol. People are nicknamed prof, chief, chairman, doc. Like some say Dr. Jesus. Lake did more for the sick around him than many medical doctors and academic doctors of his time.

You are so good in twisting a wrong in a right.

Sorry I never see Dr. Jesus that comes from you.

Dr. is not a nickname it is that you a have a degree you could be a medicine doctor or you get this degree after your master degree and that is Dr. or the new is now PHD.

I know you can buy a PHD degree without that you study at an University.

Lake heal never and I say to you never any person, why you dont read this what we write about this fake man who belong to the WOF.

Image123: Doing myself a great disservice how exactly? i'm saved and God loves me and takes care of me (to be simple and brief). Explain what exactly i gain by thinking different of Dr Lake? i don't get how you remain comfortable saying that the thread is not about personalities while ironically i've notseen another thread that so deeply digs up dirt on personalities with glee. For instance, it's yet to be shown how G Lake started healing school as supposed only for the article posted to suggest that John Dowie had one already. Not sweeping under the carpet the fact that the bible records events and principles similar to what is obtainable in a healing school.

Don't say Dr. Lake he was never and I say never a doctor ha has no degree, he was never at an University he was a big liar and that PDF is from an University of south africa and and you will see that I have right!

He fly from Lagos to PH and all the people should be carfull when they feel sick.

He cancel his facebook only twitter and Linkedin you will see him.

The photo is the tru man

Joel3: a lot of you still don't know that the word nigeria attract alot of traffic to this media houses. And any bad news in africa that a nigeria is not involved will not sell.

The ebola has been on since january and no one hears of ebola like this all over the world. But not until sawyer brought it to nigeria. Since nigeria involved in the ebola the news and report was like wild fire with a lot of traffic. To The western world nigeria is a fever. And They have already program themselves for bad news anytime they hear the word nigeria. And if it happens to be a good news they will be disappointed and will not be interested.

most of whom still believe that nigeria should be use instead of the word africa. and when africa is mentioned people want to see nigerians.

Hatred sometimes indirectly means love...

Sorry that is not tru we hear about Ebola that was at the end of March, and in my country you can read about ebola every day, and more about the other countries than nigeria.

KunAviero: Women can stupid and senseless at times. Even if the man is at fault, could she not have turned a blind eye just for the sake of her children, the name "Oyakhilome", the christ embassy church and what the bible says about divorce? I thought she took a vow in front of the alter of God to love her husband for better and for worst? Even if others divorce easily, I don't expect such from a high profile pastor like Anita. Pastor Indeed.

We didnot know since how many years she keep in silent and says nothing.
What has the name to do with her life, when her husband make this she has the right to live her own life.
Did her husband not make the same.

Image123: It pays to serve Jesus. What would it PROFIT a man if he loses his own soul?

Money should go to the poor not enrich pastors that they can have a private jet.

You will not understand because it was never money and what this new churches preach is a fake gospel.

that is why nigeria has so many selfish people who say I am a christian but forgot that they have a neighbor.

OLAADEGBU: Let's not derail this thread. Go to the suggested thread below for answers to your objections.

https://www.nairaland.com/1878872/what-origin-catholic-church

who make the fake information, I only write what is tru.

He has forgotten germany because they have also in their hospital in Hamburg a doctor from siera leone with Eboal

Vikthor: interesting news
Waiting for part 2...
This matter Neva end..
How about that Oyedepo guy way dem ban from entering UK....
I dey observe

Oyedepo has also a problem with his church in UK!

It could be possible that he cannot open his church!

He has also a little problem with the goverment about money like pastor chis has also at the moment in UK!

OLAADEGBU: Roman catholism is a product of the roman empire, when the empire falled the Roman Catholic took over. Constantine could be said to be the first pope that gave the early Christians some reprieve after they've been persecuted by the Roman emperors. The RCC soon reverted to type, persecuting true Christians who would not be subject to their traditions and dogmas.

Check out the history of the RCC on this thread: ==> https://www.nairaland.com/1878872/what-origin-catholic-church

stop this that is not tru

there is the list of all popes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popes

and constantine was never a pope

I know nigerians and history they have there own history

It is good that they make it in Uk than you will see how rich he is.

I feel he has fear that he will lose his money to his wife.

He is a fake pastor and he is not allowed to tell people in south africa that he can heal HIV/AIDS

MizMyColi: Summarize Please? Anyone?

that the teaching of the most new churches is a fake teaching, that they tell their followers a fake gospel
That is for all this rich Pastors in Nigeria

LAKE’S BUSINESS CAREER EXAMINED
A major part of Lake’s religious aura was his alleged decision to abandon a lucrative
business career in late 1907 in order to become a Pentecostal evangelist. This was a
myth he used primarily to create legitimacy for his leadership role in various Pentecostal
communities. It would also appear that these tales stirred up a sense of awe and wonder
amongst credulous audiences.
Lake’s claims about his early (pre-1904) business career were not nearly as exaggerated
as those he made about his 1904-7 activities. He maintained that as a young man he moved
to the Chicago suburb of Harvey to found and publish the Harvey Citizen newspaper in
1891. After a few years he then returned to his hometown of Sault Ste Marie, MI in
1896, where he founded the Soo Times and developed a ‘lucrative real estate business.’
Following these successful ventures, he moved in 1901 to Dowie’s new utopia, Zion City,
Illinois, where he claimed to have been in charge of the latter’s construction department.
All these claims about his early business career are false. Instead, there is clear evidence
that he spent this time as a contractor and roofer. His contracting activities were always
small-scale, and receive only occasional mention in local newspapers. Lake did not
bid on public contracts, and also did not advertise his services in the newspapers.
Rather, he refurbished existing properties, and his real-estate activities were confined
to what we would today refer to as ‘house-flipping’. As a result of buying dilapidated
properties, fixing them up, and selling them, Lake made a modest income and moved
regularly.21 Turning to Lake’s claims about his journalistic career, it is clear that he had
no involvement in either newspaper that he claimed to have founded.22 Nor was Lake in
charge of construction in Zion City, as he maintained, but was instead a mere repairman
in the department. 23
Once this period working for Dowie’s construction department came to an end, Lake
maintained that he moved to downtown Chicago in 1904 and quickly turned himself into
a wealthy businessman. Working as a real estate investor and salesman, Lake claimed to
have made $2,500 in his first day of work, and had put $100,000 in the bank by the end
of 1905. This money was made on his own, as well as for the business financier Jim Hill.
After this initial success, Lake was asked by a consortium of wealthy capitalists to form
a trust of three large life-insurance companies and was given a salary of $50,000 a year.
With this fortune and with these connections he became a millionaire, and was also able
to purchase a seat on the Chicago Board of Trade.24
Of course, none of the story checks out in any way. Even Lake’s apologist biographer
has noted, ‘no evidence outside of Lake’s own assertions has been found to verify Lake
had any involvement with these financiers and industrialists.’25 What the record shows
is that Lake never left his residence in Zion City at the time he was allegedly making
his name in Chicago, and he remained in Zion City until moving to Indianapolis. Lake,
though, did quit his job in Zion City, and after 1905 worked in Waukegan (a neighboring
town) as a salesman for a prominent local real estate speculator, E.V. Orvis.26 In addition
to hawking Orvis’s properties, Lake also sold fire and life insurance for the People’s Life
Assurance Society. As an evangelist, Lake maintained that he had founded People’s Life
Assurance himself with the backing of an array of Chicago’s leading industrialists. In fact
it was a small company founded by other people.27 So whereas Lake portrayed himself
later as having worked out of fancy office buildings in Chicago, he actually operated
out of modest office space in downtown Waukegan. He clearly was not wealthy. He
rarely featured in the local press, although individuals such as his boss E.V. Orvis were
covered constantly in the social and business sections of the local newspapers. It was also
commonly known among the Zionists who their wealthiest members were, and Lake was
never named among them.28 He was simply an ordinary, small-town insurance salesman

All this writing on Lake and the early Zionists has not, however, taken up the way in which
the movement was actually first organised and disseminated. John G. Lake was, simply
put, a fraud (or ‘con man’ or ‘false prophet’, depending on one’s outlook) throughout
his entire career, a preacher who consciously used deception both to gain tithe-paying
adherents, and to defraud and control them once they were in his organization. In his later,
post-South Africa career, for instance, Lake was arrested both for peddling worthless
securities to members of his Oregon congregations, and also for impersonating both
police officers and a ‘Mohammedan’ mind-cure healer named ‘Abdul Ben Shinandar’.
Although Lake claimed to be able to use ‘Divine Healing’ to cure all manner of disease
and disability, at times his ‘cures’ were also exposed as frauds in the American press.10
In the literature on South African Pentecostalism and Zionism these unsettling sides of
Lake’s personality, often reported in the press in his day, have simply been ignored.11
Nor has anyone examined whom he trained and influenced in these arts, even though he
was closely associated with some of the most influential Zionist leadersin South Africa.
What this paper will argue is that Lake learned the religious con in John Alexander
Dowie’s original Zionist church in the decade prior to his South African mission.12 When
these activities are placed alongside the fictitious religious persona that he crafted for
himself, it becomes clear that he was involved in an array of deceptions before, during,
and after his South African mission. Whether Lake actually believed in the religious
messages that he propagated is impossible to tell. This was a question that also baffled
John Dowie’s detractors during the latter’s lifetime.13 Even in the event that Lake was
a fervent Pentecostal at heart, nevertheless conscious deception lay at the center of the
religious activities of which he took charge.

Lake’s activities at the time he led the Zionist/Pentecostal movement seriously call into
question the characterization of the movement as ‘resistance’ to colonialism, while also
making a mockery of its allegedly divine inspiration. But before any revision of the
nature of the Zionists can be attempted, it is necessary to lay out in considerable detail
the nature of Lake’s schemes – schemes that influential Zionists such as Edward Lion and
Isaiah Shembe would utilize to build up their own followings.

THE ‘MIRACULOUS’ JOURNEY OF THE LAKE PARTY TO
SOUTH AFRICA EXAMINED

There is no better way to get a taste for Lake’s effrontery than to examine the narratives
of his party’s journey from Indianapolis to South Africa in 1908. Although the events
attending Lake’s journey have frequently been cited as evidence of divine support for
the arrival of the Pentecost in Africa, we can in fact draw a more sinister conclusion
– that fraud and misrepresentation were central to the early spread of Zionism and
Pentecostalism in South Africa.

In late 1907, Lake, Tom Hezmalhalch, and J.O. Lehman, all supposedly endowed
with the gift of tongues, emerged as the unofficial leaders of the fledgling Indianapolis
Pentecostal community. All were new arrivals in the city, each using the peripatetic and
fluid nature of the early Pentecostal church to provide cover for histories they preferred
to obscure. But following the imprisonment of the local leader Glenn Cook, after he
nearly beat a member of his brass band to death, the three new arrivals took control of a
hall in the city center where local Pentecostals gathered. Rather than remain long in the
Midwest, the three soon received the imprimatur of global Pentecostalism’s unofficial
leader, William Seymour, to raise funds for a missionary party to South Africa. To this
end, they organized and advertised a conference in late January 1908. Lehman, who
claimed to have spent five years in South Africa as a missionary, made an impression
by translating a woman’s glossolalic utterings as being direct communication to the
assembled ‘Saints’ from God in isiZulu!14 Following the end of the conference, the group
received the necessary funding for the mission. As Lake later recollected:
One day during the following February my preaching partner said to me, ‘John, how much
will it cost to take our party to Johannesburg, South Africa?’ I replied, ‘Two thousand dollars’.
He said, ‘If we are going to Africa in the Spring, it is time you and I were praying for the
money’. I said, ‘I have been praying for the money ever since New Year. I have not heard from
the Lord or anyone else concerning it’. He added, ‘Never mind, let’s pray again’. A few days
later he returned from the post office and threw out on the table four $500 drafts saying, ‘John,
there is the answer. Jesus has sent it. We are going to Africa
The Lake party had seventeen members, including three other missionaries, wives, and
children. The group paid $25 each for their third-class steamship tickets to Cape Town,
a price that included free meals.16 This would have left $1575 over for the party to get
established in South Africa. According to Lake, though, this was not the case, since the
entire group had no more than $3.50 left over when it departed from Indianapolis!17 As aresult of this alleged penury, Lake was able to convince other passengers to buy his sister
a train ticket to her home town and to pay for the party’s laundry bills. Lake was also
successful in getting another large bill paid off by an unwary mark:
I knew that just as soon as we arrived at Capetown there would be dock fees and transfer
accounts and hotel bills, etc, right away. Mrs. Lake and I held the matter steadfast before the
Lord, and before we left the ship, while it was yet at the docks at Capetown, before the gang
planks were put down, a passenger touched me on the shoulder and called me to one side. He
handed me an American Express order for $200, saying, ‘Boy, the Lord told me to give you
that, and He has been telling that for the last two and a half weeks.’ It paid all my expenses and
landed us in Johannesburg.
So although his party would appear to have been fairly well-financed, Lake from the start
presented it as being without funds and hence in desperate need of immediate donations
to continue. This was the message put through not only to fellow ship passengers, but
also to the wider Pentecostal community that was contributing to the venture. It was to be
a consistent theme of Lake’s South African ministry. Nor should we be surprised about
Lake’s chicanery on steamship voyages. John Alexander Dowie, the original Zionist faith
healer whose church had trained Lake as a religious leader, admitted under oath in court
to defrauding steamship companies in order to reduce his travel expenses. Nor did he
deny boasting about it to his associates either.

The Devil Who Heals’: Fraud and Falsification in the
Evangelical Career of John G Lake, Missionary to
South Africa 1908–1913
Barry Morton
Ivy Tech Community College, USA; University of South Africa

ABSTRACT
An analysis of the missionary career of John G Lake shows that the initial spread of
Pentecostalism and Zionism in southern Africa was facilitated by the systematic use of
fraud and deception. After having fled from Zion City in America in 1907 to escape
popular justice, Lake and his missionary party introduced to South Africa an array of
faith healing techniques used by the original Zionist John Alexander Dowie. They used
these and other forms of deception to build a unified Zionist/Pentecostal movement.
Additionally, they trained a number of influential African Zionists to use these methods – a
factor that further contributed to the rapid spread of this new religious movement.

Keywords: John G Lake, South Africa, Pentecostalism, Zionism, faith healing, missions

The American evangelist John G Lake (1870-1935) was a major player in the early
development of both Zionism and Pentecostalism in South Africa. His 1908–13 mission
introduced both the speaking of tongues (glossolalia) in South Africa as well as the use of
‘Faith Healing’ practices in worship services. He was also the organizer and leader of the
Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM), which successfully incorporated most of South Africa’s
Zionists and Pentecostals under a single umbrella. Simply put, Lake was instrumental in
spreading this fusion of Zionism/Pentecostalism that is unique to southern Africa. If we
are to accept rough estimates of the current size of the offspring of this movement, then
around half of southern African Christians today are adherents of it.1 Beyond any doubt,
Lake played a decisive role in the spreading of this ‘second evangelization’.2

Historical scholarship on Lake and also the Zionist/Pentecostal movement has been
relatively scarce, despite the fact that it was by far the most successful southern African
religious movement of the twentieth century. Much of the writing on the Zionists (such as
the classic works by Sundkler3) has been sociological/anthropological in nature. In recent
years a biography and other scholarship produced by scholars writing from a Pentecostal
or Evangelical perspective have been fairly thorough in explicating the development
of Zionist ritual and theology,4 as well as the diffusion of the movement from its early
centers on the Rand and the Highveld.5 This paper will not replicate this material, but
instead will focus on a far more sinister side of the ‘second evangelization’. To date,
the Zionist enterprise has largely been treated with kid gloves by academics. Secular
observers such as Jean Comaroff have been influential in labeling the Zionists as a
‘resistance’ movement, ‘a dissenting discourse’ that enabled southern Africans to mitigate
the sufferings imposed by capitalism, colonialism, and apartheid.6 Religious writers have
tended to view the spread of Zionism as divinely inspired, and have sometimes gone so
far as to assert that various Zionist leaders were directly sent by God to southern Africa.7
Once there, they are credited with having orchestrated massive healing campaigns using
nothing but the laying of hands to cure disease and infirmity of all kinds, to raise the
dead, and to perform miracles of all kinds.8 Thus, as Landau has noted about Zionist and
other ‘African-Initiated Churches’ (AICs): ‘Both secular and academic scholarship tend
to judge AICs as innately positive developments. AICs are seen in elevated terms, as
symbolical theaters or places to perform wellness, and as centers for social networks.’9

it is not the only problem pastor chris has at the moment in UK

What is with his church in Uk, the Goverment is looking and had the hand on his churchmoney!

The Healthiest City in the WORLD

There are supposedly 622 locations of healing rooms throughout the world. They want to be in every major city of the US. One is coming near you! As of Dec. 2006 over 20,000 DHT's (DIVINE HEALING TECHNICIANS) have been trained.

Lake had his theology taught to others, he considered anyone who went to doctor a heathen. Lake was preaching Divine health not just divine healing.

On everyone of their websites we find the same quotes that insinuate something phenomenal happened because of all these healings of Lake in the city of Spokane. Some say it was the healthiest city in the United states, others say “in the world.” This is quite a claim all pointing to one man. I have gathered just a few of the many examples.

“Between 1915 and 1920, in the Healing Rooms in the Rookery Building in Spokane, Washington, there were over 100,000 documented healings which led to the city being named the 'healthiest city in the U.S.' He then established a similar work in Portland, Oregon with similar results which also attracted widespread attention.” (http://www.ihiministries.com/jglm.html

John G. Lake ministered in Spokane from 1914 until 1935. Under his ministry there were documented, 100,000 healings. United States government declared Spokane, the healthiest city in the world. (http://homepage.mac.com/richardsonlau/Piggrunts/C1196424281/E20050905173452/index.html)

Documentation means that 100,000 people were diagnosed by a doctor as being ill before they went to the Healing rooms. This doctor has records of their visit[s], they are then diagnosed and their condition is recorded by a doctor after the healing happens. Unfortunately, you cannot find where these 100,000 documents are. That would be a lot of paperwork to keep all these years. Did Lake bring these with him when he went away from Spokane? People love to repeat a good report without ever making sure they are telling the truth. So these stories have traveled around the world in the last 85 years and no one even knows where they were hatched from.

“Some declared that Dr. Lake, through his ministry of divine healing, had made Spokane the healthiest city in the world. This, of course, was similar to a documented report that came out of Washington, D.C., some years earlier regarding Zion, Illinois, during the peak days of John Alexander Dowie's ministry (The Healer: Dr. John Graham Lake

Peter Wade states: "According to government statistics, between the years of 1915-1920, Spokane, Washington, was the 'healthiest city in the world', because of the ministry of John G. Lake. The mayor of Spokane held a public commemoration to honor his effort" ("God's Generals" by Roberts Liardon, p.189).

Sedona Arizona “The U.S. Government declared Spokane the healthiest city in the world.” (http://www.solidrockchurchofsedona.com/SRC-testhealingrooms1.htm

Ely cathedral centre Under his ministry 100,000 healings were documented. Washington D.C. proclaimed Spokane the healthiest city in the world.” (http://www.elyhealingrooms.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

The healing rooms operated in Spokane Washington from 1915 to 1920 and during that 5 year period over 100,000 documented healings were recorded. The healing rooms were so successful that Spokane was referred to as “the healthiest city in America” (http://www.healingroomsbham.org/history-of-the-healing-rooms.html

So many healings and miracles were taking place under Lakes ministry that he was even arrested at one point for "practicing medicine without a license"! But a time came when the federal government voted Spokane the healthiest city in America because of Lakes Healing Rooms ministry! (http://www.healingrooms.co.uk/healing_rooms/lake.htm)

The claims are widely propagated- no wonder people have such a high view of Lake. However if we look closer and examine what is being said it does not fit, there is revision going on. Spokane like any other city in the US had a problem with tuberculosis.

CONCORD – “An international healing ministry is coming to Concord as Faith Covenant Church opens its Healing Room Ministry next week.
Rev. Donna Wise, senior pastor of Faith Covenant said “Back in the early 1900s, John G. Lake established healing rooms in Spokane, Washington”. The ministry to the sick brought about thousands of healings, she said.“There were so many miraculous healings that hospitals closed down.”

This is an interesting scenario considering that Lake was healing people of all kinds of sicknesses including tuberculosis- was any hospital shut down because of Lake? Remember they claim he healed 100,000 people. If these were people who lived there, it would be the majority of the population. In 1920 the total population of Spokane was 141, 289. 1920 the population of Washington state was 1,356,621. Source: U.S. Bureau of Census. The Washington Post May 8, 1920 Spokane, Wash., ranking as forty-eighth city of the country in 1910, had a decrease of 198 in population in the past ten years, and now has 104,204 people, the census bureau announced yesterday. (newssearch archive) So lets say Spokanes population was between these two census'

This hospital that was built the year lake moved to Spokane was for the common problem that was in America. “In 1915 Edgecliff Tuberculosis Hospital opens in the Spokane Valley. Adults at the 200-patient hospital are housed in small cottages. A children's unit is added two years later. (100 years of Valley life A Spokane Valley timeline) http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news/live/body.asp?ID=library%5Cincorporation%5Cvalleytimeline

“The most prominent and regionally oriented of these hospitals were Fairland (1911) in Seattle; Mountain View (1914 – the first county sanatorium in the state) in Lakeview, Pierce County; Edgecliff (1915) in Spokane; and Aldercrest (1918) in Snohomish, the latter three resulting from the 1913 legislation. http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/findaids/docs/papersrecords/AmerLungAssocOfWA5271.xml

Stats on Tuberculosis “the highest rates in 1919 are for BuEalo (59.2), Jersey City (33.7), St. Paul and St. Louis (each. 33.4), Providence (32.5), and Detroit (32). Of these six cities the rates for Buffalo, Jersey City, and St. Paul are higher in 1919 than in any earlier year of the series 1911 to 1919. The cities with strikingly low rates are Spokane (1.9), Columbus (3), New Orleans (4.4), and Cambridge (4.6); with the exception of Spokane these cities also show lower rates in 1919 than in any earlier year shown in the table”

(MORTALITY Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/data/intro%201919.pdf.)

In other words Spokane’s rate of Tuberculosis from 1911-1919 did not change. Tuberculosis was the third leading cause of death in America at this time.

I didn’t bother looking up other diseases since this was the one of the three the country was most concerned about then. After 1921 it stayed consistently from 86,000- 88,000 until; the 1930’s. Apparently the introduction of pasturized milk helped to bring down the stats of TB in Washington as well as other states (Along with the x-ray machine). In 1929 The research committee of the national Lung Association researched new techniques with x-ray machines to diagnose lung disease. The rate steadily declined after 1930’s as it did everywhere else. In 1900 the rate had been 191 per 100k. The reason it declined- better sanitation and treatment at TB hospitals.( http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/lead1900_98.pdf)

Spokane had the same statistics as the rest of the nation with TB.

"According to government statistics, between the years of 1915-1920, Spokane, Washington, was the 'healthiest city in the world', because of the ministry of John G. Lake. The mayor of Spokane held a public commemoration to honor his effort" ("God's Generals" by Roberts Liardon, p.189). (http://peterwade.com/archive/pw114.shtml)

Could it be that it was the mayor that made this statement?. A mayor is not the United States Government but a city/ state official. So this is a stretch even if it is true. But is it true?

Can the mayor of Spokane claim it is the healthiest city in the US and the World at the same time? This could only his opinion not an official statement from the government. This gets a bit distasteful to hear a ministry use this unproven insinuation as an advertisement. Anyone can say anything- the problem is whether they have documentation. If it was the Mayor how did he get his statistics. I cannot find any comparisons or statistics of each state ort city in America, much less the world. How would he know this in 1920? Maybe someone can find these, after researching I cannot.

Here is one of the quotes from his biography:

“Lake, who had trained to be a Methodist minister, went on to become a healing evangelist. He had borrowed the concept of healing rooms from his friend and mentor John Alexander Dowie. Lake arrived in Spokane in 1914 and in a short time established healing rooms in the Rookery Office building. Over 100 thousand people were reportedly healed. Government statistics proclaimed Spokane the “healthiest city in the world.”

@op than you for this writing and people should read it because I know about this problems.

Most of Nigerian pastors study medicine as the same time they wstudy the bible and they have only 6 month time for this.

I always say the pastor is for the soul and the doctor is for the body but in Nigeria the pastor is for the sould and the body.

I will never un derstand when a well known pastors, who was a professor at an University told his pastors that all of their followers who fasted for 100 days will get no Ebola.

I know also that this fasting for 100 days is not good for the body!

A very good Article about Ebola you will finde in the science magazine

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6200/989.full.pdf

the news we got in my country is that the WHO speak that it will take between 6 and 9 month until west africa is Ebola free and it could be posible that about 20 000 people can get Ebola in the next month.


This post shows how a non profit organisation still is working in Liberia, SOS child village has the only health center in monrovia which is open 24/7 at the moment.

http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/news-and-stories/news/protective-gear-helping-sos-fight-ebola-in-liberia

Image123: I don't understand you.

You didnot want to understand me, you write that you heared Dr. Lake how can you hear a person that is death since 1935.

He was never a Dr. that make his church.

There you write that you have heard this bastard!

Image123:

i'll oblige you and read your book or document when i have the time. i can assure you, i've heard Dr. lake himself and i believe him above the contrary reports, thanks.
The answer was that Jesus and the apostles gathered people to heal them. That is what a healing school supposedly does.

all4naija: Nigerians should follow WHO preventive measures. I hate many of the people for their silliness. I read some of them still believe HIV/AIDS is not real. Can you image that?!

and waht is with the people who believe all what their pastor told them also the lie that all nigerians who fast for 100 days at the beginning of this year will not get Ebola!

I would say it is better to follow MSF (Doctors without Border) because they know it best. They know what a country has to do.

jogojogo: What beats my imagination is that this guy died since Friday (22nd) of August (last week) and the news filtered into air just yesterday.

What are they hiding? For how long would such sensitive issues be hidden? I still don't understand.

And for the dead Doctor, was that an act of love or shear craving for money?

Well, RIP

When it was on Friday how long takes it that they send it to a laboratory, also outside of nigeria it will never take so long.

It takes between 4 and 5 hours to test it!

the last Information about Ebola is 1552 death and more than 3000 infected in all the countries with Ebola.

Congo is better than Nigeria and they have no money this is a poor country!

Image123: i'll oblige you and read your book or document when i have the time. i can assure you, i've heard Dr. lake himself and i believe him above the contrary reports, thanks.
The answer was that Jesus and the apostles gathered people to heal them. That is what a healing school supposedly does.

You know that this Dr lake died 1935 and at time he was in america, please stop to tell such lies.

He has never and I say never a University degree!