New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-30
ASSAILS DR.. WORCESTER
BACK TO MEDICINE NAN. "
DR.. H7ise Sees Harm to Church IN
Emmanuel Increment.

The Emmanuel movement, the new thought OF
the Rev Elwood Worcester. came in for severe
structures yesterday at the hands Of Rabbi Stephen
S Wise in an address the Free Synagogue
pr. Wise said that. admitting that the EN-
manuel movement had certain benefits to confer,
ii had brought to widest attention, the possioih-
ties Of psycho-therapy, TO which. however, as
science the movement had nothing to contribute
The Church. the rabbi said. could not offer a
panacea for human ills and make disease i'm
possible. Nor is it the Office OF the Church said
Or Wise. TO prescribe youth proionstng cosmetics
its business being to lay down duties to restate
the eternal commands. He declared thar In the
Emmanuel movement he found recrudescence 81
the old Helenism. which aimed to make whole
men. Continuing ne said:
Medication is not the whole. nor even large
part Of the physicians art Again; medicine mus us,
too long been enshrouded in mystery If physicians
" fail to aEe ACCOUNT OF f6e gpsor into
their confidence the peoples eonhdenSe Wi. 3e Srg
obtain between physician ard patient before service
car he rendered II IS well for the Emma nue. m9ye
s b2 b mot to be Se s @ them nor not ap
into the bundeT OF implying that the whole OF Ire
Dr. Worcester's own special fitness for the task
he has undertaken offers no security against re
Work The indorsennent Of me movement by certain
physicians is of especial value until it be known
assent to il What if the movement to-day invites
the cooperation Of physicians! If such co-opere-
go on, and when, some day, physician and priest
% the i@ f pTesf W not U5 ' be ea % give up his
newly claimed function of healing. -,. -
the danger of the abuse of hypnosis as PSYCHE ,o
Dominance Of one personality BY another is not, a
M r to be ] sn bs 1 9n }ae
medical science not because of timiditv nor inabI
ity nor conserve tism but because Of the conscious
ness Of the need Of caution in the handling Of forces
The rise of this new cult means that the Church
scientists The Church must cease TO play az
things. and the Church is playing with serious
m church G pPGsRby or ana
attraction, If the Church be unscientc It will not
syia6ied terms Of science and tribes in anateursh
be dealt with most earnestly and wisely
Without holding brief for physicians. resent the
and similar cults because these likely to ieoPeTo
aspersion upon the followers Of noble calling:
who. if anything have been too tolerant toward
The Emmanuel movement is an unconscious re-
turn to the medicine-man stage of existence:
the pill-maker, the sorcerer and exorcist. were
one. We have passed far beyond that stage; ex -
of the seat of the Emmanuel movement. This,
n6 the 6T nssr ake fn the one could sRy be
other needed TO be given a content through being
vltalized in the ONCE OF psycho-therapc treat
ment.
Back Of the Emmanuel and parallel movements,
though dinnIy felt lies the conviction that since
Jesus healed. may His disciples. But II HIS
disciples to do all that He is reported 70
have done, let them frankly make this claim. and
begin by multiplying the loaves and fishes for the
starving. before setting out to heal nervous over.
strain in Boston brahnnin. IF the disciples are
go back Jesus, let them not down 70
the tomb bat up to the Mount Of the BeatitGdes:
back to the miraculous deed attributed 70
Him. but His almost forgotten social gospei,
with its potentalites Of miracle working.
The fundamental blunder of the movement IL
symbozed and suggested by its use of hypnosis
The Office of the Church is not TO put men 70
sleep. but ''to stab them awake It IS the DUST
% he D world from
slumber: and II men and women must nrst
be hypnotlzed into wakefulness that Is a MINOR
matter by the side Of the most serious concern OF
the Church, which is 70 arouse men to sense OF
personal duty and social obligation
The Church is not TO become excited over
pseudo-rnedical treatment. but to busy itself IN
the rendering OF real religious service. Self-cer-
1redness is not to be erected into n religion me
Church must answer mans question, what ought
7 doo' not. What he done for me-" II IS
not the Office OF the Church 10 offer men an elXr
vitsn TO prescribe youth prolonging cosmetics; It's
business IS TO lay down duties 10 restate the
eternal commands