The San Francisco call., 1907-01-20

- ELIGION ana science have Joined
II hands in Boston to heal disease.
Tvs experiment, which Is arous-
ing eaormous interest ln the city
q culture. is Designed to correct Chris
t.an Science by methods which are or
fhosoEiy Christian and exactly scien-
tinc. The movement. Launched dur
ing last November In a series Of Sun
Cay night talks in Emmanuel Church
end organized into classes during De-
cemher has row got thoroughly under
way with a list OF cures, crow ded testi-
moniai meetinga and an epidemic OF
excited curiosity which brings letters
from all parts OF the country
when the Harvard football
game was over. the dog show = thing
of the past and the food show at Me-
chanics' Hall. with its daily sousa
concert. faded from memory. the Back
Bay and fashionable suburban Boston
fan settled down to the Lowell In
stltute lecture course with the deter
mination to get what excitement OF
mild nature was left in his regular
diet First Professor Percival Lowell
stirred up the inteliectuals IN a series
OF exquisitely witty talks. telling how
ct last It was certain that Mars was
inhabited. And about the same time
Dr. Muck arrived to take charge OF
We Boston Symphony. 1t was there
fore not surprising that the lectures
OF Professor Janet, delivered in French.
al
Through Suggestion" did not at first
create the proper Boston excitement on
things purely intellectual.
But Professor Janet OF Paris was fol-
lowed by BOston's own beloved William
James. the psychologist, OF whom all
the world said q quarter OF a century
ago: lie writes like a novelist" Then
the Sunday night meetings were in
ftiated at Emmanuel Church. By
Thanksgiving the alert began 10 talk,
and IN the midst OF Advent. with all the
Christmas shopping TO be done, IL burst
upon the Back Bay and Brookline that
something extraordinary was forward.
snd that Il was emanating from one
o. the most fashionable Episcopal
churches OF the city.
Emmanuel Church is in Newbury
street near the public garden II is
not high" as the Church Of the Ad-
vent, or Tow" as famous Trinity. but
broad" belonging 70 that middle
ground in the Episcopal world from
which so many sociological experiments
have sprung II has perhaps the larg-
est Episcopal parish in Boston. DR.
J-lwood Worcester is the rector and Or.
Samuel McComb the first assistant rec
tor. DR. Leighton Parks. now rector OF
Fashionable St Bartholomew. went 10
New York from this church in 1904
end Immediately electrified his parish
by launching a crusade against divorce.
Work of Social Renovation
Il is in the spirit OF Emmanuel
Church 10 Go things. II has only just
SLOWED Boston 20 simmer down from
the excitement caused by its tubercu-
osis cures In the tenement districts.
But the movement IN psycho-therapeU-
tics seems destined 20 make old En-
manuel the most talked OF church in
America. The rector and his colleague
are preparing a book on their expert
ment and what the church clinics"
fail 10 DO in propaganda IL is safe TO
say the book viii complete Morton
Princes ''Dissociated Personality" and
Boris Sidis Multiple Personality" must
fade IN dramatic importance before the
fort booming volume on religious neu-
rosis from the pens OF Or. Worcester
and DR.. McConb
Boston, Win lts alsOVUsVUo OnIlttl8n
Science Temple. it's various New
Thougnt clubs and College FOR Meta
physical Healing, it's Baptists and its
Theosophists, supplies a splendid cul-
ture for the germ OF q new idea. Church
and science joining hands is a distinct
~ new idea; this is perhaps the first
fime IN the history Of civilization that
such an experiment has been actually
made. II must not be confoundeo with
the health guilds OF London, although
that experiment IN sanitation was q
pointer which the imitators Of this
project acknowledge.
The black beast which the Boston
clergymen have called in the scientists
40 aid IN expel.ang from the garden OF
|tociai life ie that terrifying monster OF
embrace and devouring
Jaws which fs claiming victims among
the richest and most educated-the
horror OF overripe living. neurasthenia-
The beast IL known variously as mel
nnchoIia, moral fatigue, hysteria. sui
cidsf mania, psychopathic sexualis.
lrleptomania--in a word, psychoneuro-
sis The rector's study was haunted
by despzirins Christians OF his parish
who displayed SO certainly the rtiEmsta