The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-07-09

1t is no longer considered fashion
able to be under the Doctors care,
for health Is fast becoming a science
and IL this great healing movement
which Is sweeping the country
spreads with the same rapidly In the
future that 1t has In the past the Ole
FASHIONED notion of enjoying poor
healthY will have disappeared entire
ly.
For sanitariums, clinics and circles
for the treatment Of bodily diseases
through prayer. auto suggestion. by
~hypnotism or by what Is commonly
known as mental healing are spring
Ing up like mushrooms in the night
and a long train OF ills, such as alco
holism, m~orphinism, cocainism and
other drug addictions which end in in
tellectual and moral degeneration, in
somnia. religious melancholy, fits OF
anger, hate, OF ~groundless suspicion
and suicidal impulses are in the list
OF psychic ailments being cured by
one of these several methods.
1t was Doctors McComb and Wor.
cester of the Emmanuel Protestant
Episcopal Church of Boston wiIo first
departed from the conservatism Of the
church TO undertake the curing OF
their parishioners and others by the
power OF spirit, but they have had
many followers.
Since the establishment Of their
clinic in Boston. where persons have
come from all parts OF the country to
be treated. the Rev. DR.. Robert Mac
Donald, pastor OF the wealthy Wash.
fngton Avenue Baptist Church Of
Brooklyn has started a similar move
ment In that city. When 1t was first
announced that this clinic would be
held 1t was expected that perhaps
thirty OF forty would respond. But
what was the surprise of the pastor to
find that some $50 attended the first
conference. The patients and the
pastor and his assistants were soon
crowded out of the vestry into the au-
of the church, and now from
300 to 1000 persons from all over the
i've boroughs gather to hear the sim.
pie story of the gospel that a make
v e the entire man.
DR.. Macdonald has been inundated
With thousands OF letters from the Ill
md sorrowing who have %besought him
70 either cure them or some friend
9 to them. His congregation,
which Is among the wealthiest In
Brooklyn, has stood by him in his eff
and many have Individually
promised to give him all the financial
necessary to carry on the
work. Some half dozen clerical as
are needed to assist at the
so great Is the demand for
help.
Other Protestant Episcopal rectors
who have entered upon this work are
he Rev. Or. Herbert NJ. Hopkins. rec
.or OF the Church Of the Nativity. who
a series OF faith cure meetings
his church, and the Rev. j. w. Eli.
Dit. rector Of All Saints Church OF
Orange. N. j., who has just resigned
he ministry and joined the Circle OF
Divine Ministry, in which might be in.
outside OF what Is known spe,
as Christian Science.
Bishop Fallows of Chicago Is daily
demonstrating what this healing pow
sr can do for the wretched outcasts OF
humanity as we'll as those who need
,nly a helping hand and a sympathet-
c wcrd.
what is 1t that heals?" cry the
Iceptlcsl.
What Is the force that enables the
lrug fiend to cast aside the practice
nd emerge In all the splendid vitality
a new born will? What is 1t that
ones up the neurasthenic woman or
lures the hypochondric, quells vicious
In children and enables
women and children to become
rec from vicious habits aud imbues
hem with a real and earnest desire
o become betterY
Nicola Tesla says 1t Is electricity
hat heals. IL Is that electrical force
n the body which is prevalent in the
fir and which enables the genius to
make use of 1t TO send wireless e
ages at great distances.
Dir. John Quackenbos, who does so
wonderful things through mes
nerizing his patients and reforms
hem through t~elepathic suggestion
e to developing the latent talents
which a person may possess, says 1t
4 force" Whether this force be
,orn OF electrical or spiritual origin
le SAYS 1t is impossible to say.
Mrs. Vance Cheney also agrees that
1 is a force, but she Is perfectly con-
hdent that 1t flows in from without,
once the body Is put in a state OF re-
Iaxation. Any person. she asserts,
store up this force in the body as
Dne, would charge an electric motor.
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