Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-02-20

card all medicine and other human
agencies in the combating of disease,
and the other extreme of those who
deny the existence of any curative
agencies outside of drugs and the sur
geon's knife, there is middle ground
which is coming to be occupied by an
ever increasing number of people who
are sane enough to recognize some of
the truths which form the foundation
stones of the faith-curists and appre-
ciative enough to admit the service
which drugs and the surgeon have
been able to render suffering human
kind. So there has come to prevail
happy combination of the two cults, If
they may be so called, with an appli-
cation Of the principles or doctrines of
the two in modified form.
This tendency to occupy this middle
ground has led to the organization of
the newest religious movement, Chris
ton Psychology" of which Bishop
Samuel Fallows of the Episcopal do
cese of Chicago is chief exponent in
the west and of which Rev. DR.. Elwood
Worcester, rector of the Emmanuel
Episcopal church, Boston, with his as
sistant, Rev. d. McComb, are the lead
ing opponents in the east.
'In my opinion, the church, to save
itself, must begin to minister TO the
bodies as we'll as to the souls of the
American people" This is what Bishop
Fallows said in announcing that his
church, st. Paul's Reformed Episcopal,
would inaugurate the work of Chris
tian psychology, with the assistance
of the leading neurologists and other
physicians of Chicago This was the
plan made public the last Sunday of
the old year. Since that time results
have proved to the bishop that he is
on what he deems the right track,
road which will yield best results in
doing most practical good to humanity.
Heal the sick is the injunction put
upon the bishops of the Methodist
church. the sect to which Bishop Fal-
lows was allied before he went with
the Reformed Episcopalians shortly
after he withdrew as president of the
Illinois Wesleyan university, at Bloom
ington, ILL.,, in the early seventies. The
new movement started by the bishop,
therefore, is attracting favorable at
tention among the Methodist minis.
ters generally for they recall that
John Wesley healed according to the
best standards he knew.
Cure Of organic diseases is not at
tempted. All such patients must have
their wants first attended to by repu-
table physicians. II during the
progress of their several diseases and
during the period in which they are
on the road to recovery Christian
psychology can be brought to bear
and it can-the ministrations of the
followers of Bishop Fallows will be
used to aid and sooth the mind while
the physicians and medicines are do
ing their part to cure obvious phys
ical ills.
Functional nervous disorders, hypo-
chondria insomnia, nervous dyspepsia,
melancholia, mental depression, hys-
terra, neurasthenia-it is ills such as
these, known to hinge directly upon
the workings of the mind and of the
chology aims to benefit and possibly
cure, The drug habit, the liquor
habit, want of self-confidence, irrita-
bility, worry, anger, fear and weakness
of will come almost within the cate
CORY. Diverting the patients mind
from real or imaginary sickness or
nervous disorder of more or less reali-
~ c' he mis- eli Of hn
ment.
1t is Christian Science in that it uses
the methods of Mrs, Eddy's followers
in diverting attention from sickness
and ailments. But it goes Christian
Science a long step further when it
recognizes squarely that there are
such diseases as typhoid fever, small
poX, scarlet fever, diphtheria, pneu-
monia and other absolutely patent dis
orders for which more than mind treat
ment is necessary if cure is to be
effected. A dislocated hip or shoulder.
q broken nose or broken arm will be
turned over instantly to the surgeon,
as the organic disease to the physician.
The difference between Christian
psychology and Christian Science has
been clearly set forth by Bishop Fal.
lows. "A true faith" he said, "recog.
nizes that God works in innumerable
ways to carry out his purposes for the
welfare of man, The help that comes
from the skilled physicians and the
use of appropriate medicines is just
as divine as if it came directly from
the source of all life into human or
ganism by prayer and faith and the
entrance of so-called truth"
And what Bishop Fallows has under.
taken in the west DR.. Worcester of
the Emmanuel church, Boston, is do
ing and has been doing for something
over year now.
The scheme" says DR.. Worcester,