Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-10-30
HEAL DISEASES
BY GODS HELP
SEVERAL CLFRGYMEN TREAT
SICK WITH PRAYERS
ARE ASSISTED IN THE WORK BY
PHYSICIANS
Emmanuel Movement Has Been Effec-
lively Practiced in This City
for Years by Prominent
Church Leaders
BY j. FREEMAN COOK

The Emmanuel movement, which has
attracted wide attention in Los An
geles during the past month, has had
it's prototype in Los Angeles for sew
eral years in a quiet manner. Unos-
tentatiously and without public notice,
the main essentials of the new move
ment have been used, both by the
clergy and some physicians.
The general movement now is not
new, but reverts back to the teachings
of the early church of the first three
centuries; back to the teachings of
Luke the physician, working with Paul,
the missionary.
The Methodist Episcopal church has
always believed in prayer for the sick,
and this has been practiced ip Los An
geles many years by the Methodist
clergy and when persons have asked
to be anointed that has been done.
John Wesley who was born in 1928,
himself practiced healing by prayer,
and in volume 8 of his journal, page
IS, also page $50 of volume 4, of the
same series. the founder of Methodism
tells of the cures wrought under his
ministrations through prayer. In vol
ume Z, miscellaneous works of this au-
thor, he further cites cures, and in the
fifth volume. page 1926. he gives an ac-
count of his personal experiences with
cures by prayer.
Prayers for the sick form a part of
the Methodist catechism, and have
been so practiced in Los Angeles.
Rev. Frederick Miller, pastor of the
North Pasadena Methodist church, has
been interested in this phase of church
work for many years. Rev. George E.
Foster former pastor of the Newman
Methodist church, and now superin-
tendent of city missions, has had many
successful cures through the interces-
sion of prayer.
Papers on Divine Healing
Two years ago the Methodist minis
tiers listened to an able paper on "Di-
vine Healing" at their weekly meeting,
and nearly four years ago they had
an address on Metaphysical Healing"
rtending on the same lines.
DR.. F. e. Yoakum. whose work in
this line of healing by faith has at
tracted wide attention, is a prominent
member of the Highland Park Meth
odist church. and Rev. 3. c. Corey,
pastor of. the Vincent Methodist church,
preached a series of sermons on the
movement before the last conference,
and may practice it,
William Horace Day, pastor of the
First Congregational church, has made
study of the Emmanuel movement.
and quietly and unostentatiously has
used It some in his work for the past
year.
The Episcopal churches have, taken
up the new phase of the work in, earn
est and already classes lave been
formed in several of the parishes.
The Emmanuel movement proper has
two distinct parts: First. classes for
study of the work. and, second, clinics,
for hi
physicians, who are able to diagnose
the case.
Glasses have been established at ST.
Paul's pro-cathedral for study under
the direction of Rev. William Mac
Cormack, the dean and rector of ST.
Paul's church a class will be estab-
lished in a week or so along the same
lines. AT Christ Episcopal church the
classes have been taken up more along
the line of spiritual healing in charge
of Rev. Baker p. Lee.
Uses Two Branches
So far Epiphany church has been
the only one to start the two branches,
the study classes and the clinic work.
Rev. f. E. Howe, the rector has es-
tablished classes for study, while DR..
H. E. Stroud, prominent member of
the parish and a we'll known physician,
mas taken charge OF the Clinical Work.
Neither Rev. Mr.. Howe nor DIR.
Stroud wish anything spectacular in
their work-they are rather going in
for the other extreme. They both be-
lieve in suggestive therapeutics and
auto-suggestion or self-suggestion.
Is Nothing "Spookey"
In speaking of the work being taken
up, Or. Stroud said yesterday:
II have practiced suggestive therea-
peutics for the past fifteen years with
success. There is nothing 'spookey'
in our work, and we do not believe
that we can grow parts of the body
through suggestion. If we could do
thatsI would grow me head of brown
hair. But we do believe we are all
with dual minds, and that
to a certain extent our minds have con-
troll over the bodies. We believe we
should utilize every hygienic move
ment and l further believe any person
treating a case of diphtheria, scarlet
fever or pneumonia by suggestion alone.
is nothing less than a murderer.
1--WE believe the limitation OF this