I received an email asking me where he could find Edgar Webb’s website. It was called “I Saw the Light”. I googled and couldn’t find it. Edgar Webb had gone home to the Lord, and the website was probably discontinued.

However, I noticed a National Library archived report from a now-defunct newspaper called THE NEW NATION. The report titled “Curing the sick with prayer” was written by Florence Tan. It was about Mr Edgar Webb and was published on 25 June 1973. I am certain some readers would want to know about Edgar Webb and his ministry in Singapore. Let me reproduce the newspaper article in full here:

“The doctors thought he would not pull through, and arrangements were made for emergency surgery. But Mr Edgar Webb, an Anglican, began to pray, and miraculously became well – without any operation.

That was on Whit Sunday in 1965. He has since healed many people, among them people suffering from leukaemia, blindness, deafness and paralysis.

Mr Webb, 58, of Britain, is now in Singapore to conduct a series of services at the St. Andrew’s Cathedral. The first will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday.

He claimed that in some of the cases, the healing had been instant. In others, it was a gradual process.

“But it is all the Lord’s doing.” Mr Webb said, “I am only a channel of his blessing. All I do is pray. I believe in prayers.”

He recalled: “I was warded in the Hammersmith Hospital in England with acute abdominal pains. The doctors thought I would not pull through.

“I began to pray earnestly.

“Then I felt as if the whole bed was on fire. I thought I was dying. But I was healed on the spot – without any operation.”

A Cypriot patient, critically ill in the same hospital, heard of his miracle cure and requested that Mr Webb heal him too.

“I placed my hands on him and prayed. He was healed.”

Soon his reputation spread all over Britain. And in 1971, Mr Webb, a bachelor, resigned from his job as personal assistant in the Hammersmith Hospital to devote his time to healing sick people.

Since then, he has been invited to Finland, Holland, Malta, Sweden, the United States and Canada to conduct services. “Freely have I received. Freely will I give,” said Mr Webb.

And he “gave” to non-Christians as well. In fact, to anyone who came, needing his help.

“God’s love is universal. There is no barrier of colour, creed or nationality with Him,” Mr Webb explained.”

“Unfolding His Story” excerpts

Georgie Lee and Galven Lee wrote about Edgar Webb in their informative work “Unfolding His Story”, which traced the charismatic movement in Singapore. In their book, they quoted Bishop Chiu Ban It, and how he invited Edgar Webb to the cathedral.

“Meanwhile, the cathedral decided unexpectedly to run a weekly course on the church’s ministry of healing. I attended one of them and failed to be impressed.

“Canon R. Weller, Vicar of St Andrews Cathedral had told me that a mutual friend, Edgar Webb, now living in England, had been given a ministry of healing. He had prayed for some of his parishioners in Broxbourne, England, and they had been healed. He and I wondered if Edgar could help at the course.

“I was very surprised when three days later an air letter from Edgar came to me without any previous correspondence, asking if he could come and share his deeper experience of the Holy Spirit and pray for the sick in Singapore.

“I invited him to come as soon as he could. When Edgar arrived, he was asked to speak and to minister in the course. Though there was no publicity for the course, the cathedral was filled to overflowing each Wednesday with many men and women, including the halt, the lame, the blind and the sick. What happened after that is part of the history of the cathedral and the Diocese.” (p 59)

The Lees reported that the Anglicans generously offered their resources and connections to nurture the development of the spiritual renewal. “Webb was quickly connected to the Methodists, and he spoke at a charismatic meeting hosted by Methodist pastor Prabhu Das Roberts in early 1974.” (p74)

They also reported the testimony of a Mrs Cheong Hock Hai, a teacher from St Andrew’s School.  “The deaf could hear, the blind could see, the dumb could talk – all came up, and they stood there and testified…” (p76)

There was a man named Edgar Webb. He was sent by God to enhance and enrage. He boosted the spiritual momentum of the charismatic movement among seekers of God, and he enraged and confounded the movement’s naysayers.

If you have been blessed by Edgar Webb’s ministry, please contribute your testimony in the comment box above.

We certainly owed much to other international speakers besides Edgar Webb, who visited Singapore: David Watson, Michael Harper, Trevor Dearing, Colin Urquhart, Des Short, Ralph Mahoney, and Dr Brian Bailey, to name those who fanned the flame in the movement’s infancy. There were many more in the years that followed: Demos Shakarian, David Yonggi-Cho, Reinhard Bonkke, Derek Prince, and many others.

If you remember any other of God’s servants who came to minister on our shores and contributed to the growth of the charismatic movement, please drop a name or a story in the comment box. 

Among them were apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. Together, their ministries provided balanced equipping of the charismatic movement for the work of the ministry, for the unity and upbuilding of the body of Christ.

If you wish to access the digitised article from the New Nation, click HERE.

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