The Washington bee., 1908-11-14
+. HOW FAuONS HEALS
The Bishops Christian
Psychology, What it Is.
NO EDDY SCENTS 7
He Differs from the Followers OF S.:s
Eddy in that He Does Not S..
the Aid of Regular Physician
In Fact Insists Upon a DOC,Jr's
Diagnosis.

Staid orthodox circles in the Unit
cd States were not a little astounded
by the announcement that Bishop
SamueI Fallows of the Reformed
Episcopal Church had become a rival
of Mrs Mary Baker Glover Eddy.
and set himself up as a mental
healer" of diseases
Bishop FallOws, however, differs
from all other advocates Of mental
healing " faith cures" and the like.
/ He does not scorn the aid of the feg-
/ ulaT physician. In fact. he insists
that all mis- patients bring a physi-
clans diagnosis with them and in
all his treatments he proposes 20
have a physician of the recognized
school present.
Neither does he call his new cult
Christian Science. He designates it
at Christian psychology" He
! does claim, however, that Christian
/ psychology will cure anything that
is durable by Christian Science meth
DDS, which are, he believes, simply
3 cures by faith on the part of the pa
= tient that they will be healed. He
! declares that this faith cure is prac-
ticed by ali physicians, and he be-
iieves it should be practiced in rs
highest form by ali earnest Chris
: tians
This is not a new or a sudden
fancy of mine, said the Bishop with
whimsical mile For twelve
years have been lecturing on physic-
/ logical psychology at the Bennett Epi-
| leptiC College For the last three
| years I have been making a special
study of the relations between men,
tality and disease.
Il have arrived at the conclusion
that mentality when based up
on a trust in religion. is a powerful
aid toward the cure of all functional
nervous disorders.
Il do not 60 so far as 10 say mat
all diseases may Oe cured by mental
suggestion. Organic diseases ike
canCer and typhoid fever demand lie
services of a skilled physician But
in every disease the mental attitude
of the patient has much to do with
| his condition. and in all those af-
fections of the mind which might De
classified as functional nervous disor-
ders the mental attitude of the pat
mt is the greatest single influence
rh7 bishop then outlined few of
the diseases which he believed he
could cure by Christian Psychology.
T. included in mis- list the follow
ing.
HyphochrOndria.
Sleeplessness.
Nervous dyspepsia
Melancho!ia.
Hysteria
Drug habits.
Want of self-confidence, irritability,
worry, anger, fear, and weakness Of
will
The cure of the grip, | believe %
said the Bishop, can be aided great
ly, and perhaps entirely effected by
the direct influence of what | may
>all strengthened mentality One Of
the chief factors in the potency of
grip is the mental depression into
which it forces its victims
It was last Sunday evening that
Bishop FallOws in his sermon al
nounced his purpose to put his be-
lief into practice
But so great was the confidence Of
the Bishop that the sick and suf-
feTing did not wait for the first
Thursdays meeting to receive treat
ment
On Tuesday afternoon the Bish 0p
treated his first patient A jani-
to- named c. P. j. Esnorff could not
wait until Thursday afternoon md
sought the Bishop in the vestry
rooms of the church. He was suffer
ing from a disease of the eye and
was anxious for relief He told the
Bishop that medicine had failed to
AFFORD him any help.
EsnoFff sat down and listened
while the Bishop told MIN that he aad
two minds-the eonsciuos and the
sub-cOnsciOus-and how they con-
tanned the force that was to drive the |
sickness out of his eyes.
He then instructed Esnorff and let |
him go. The patient went away de- |
clsring he felt 100 per cent PETER
that the Bishops talk ha effcted a |
wonderful improvement
The Bishop hopes to enlist all the /
churches in the country in this /
movement. He explained this pur-
pose ia the sermon in which he first /
made his announcement He said.
Christian psychology uses every
curative agency in the world of ma
ture as an aid to the powerful infiu-
ences of suggestion and auto-sugges-
ton for mental and physical health.
It unites the physician with the cIer-
gyman in the great work of healing.
1t aims to give the physician trained
men and women to ahssist him IN
his ministry 20 the sick and suffering.
1t is along these lines that the
Boston Emmanuel Church movement
has been carried On for more than a
year by the Rev. DR.. Worcester and
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