The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-15


 Rt. Rev Samuel Fallows, D. D., bL. D.
 GA. C. MeClurg & Co)
 Bishop Fallows is well known in con- nection with the establishment of movement now being carried on at St. PauPs church. Chicago, where wonderful results have already been accomplished through prayer and faith on basis or practice largely original with himself and yet in harmony with the new movement to unite religion and medicine. Bishop Fallows realizes that in dealing with va rlous forms of disease, we should still avail ourselves of the knowledge and skill of the trained physician.
 When one-half the public is declaring it's belief in apparently miraculous heal ing by one form or another of treatment and the other hand refuses to accept the testimony even of the patients themselves seekers after the truth will be interested in Bishop Fallows book, which discusses the whole subject from somewhat new and saner standpoint than many vol umes heretofore offered us-for the Bish- ops book is addressed to the demands of every man and woman of common sense.
 This Is the second edition of Bishop Fallows book, so it must be mighty pop ular.
 The book, like the movement out of which it has arisen, says Bishop tal- lows, is a response to a call of duty. When the echoes of the Emanuel moVe- ment of Boston (book on 1t. recently re- viewed in this paper) reached Chlcago and sufferers began to appeal to St. Paul's church, Chicago, for such aid as had been given so successfully in Boston, Bishop Fallows responded to the call as one which could not refuse"
 The book has grown out of the work thus performed. It was written to ans wer the needs made insistently apparent in the sufferngs of hundreds who went seeking help at St. Pauls church, Ch1ca- go It Is a book for the present, designed to meet the needs of those, whether i'll or well, who desire to follow the way to greater health or efficiency. It omits all detailed descriptions of disease and all technical treatment of methods of relief.
 Bishop Fallows tells us with what vital interest he followed the efforts of the Rev. Dr. EIwood Worcester and the Rev. Dr. Samuel McComb, rectors of Emanuel church, Boston, to unite the physician and his knowledge of scientific medicine and the clergyman with his knowledge of the mental and spiritual states of his charges, in checking the rising tide of nervous disorders. During an extended period of@active teaching and thinking upon mental healing and psychological subjects, the conviction was borne in upon Bishop Fallows that physicians and clergyInen mlgnL cO-operale III BNulB IS- lief to nervous sufferers.
 Bishop Fallows says that the funda- mental principles of healing which are to be found in purely mental treatment and in the so-called New Thought-which is but a re-statement of the Old Thought and in Christian Science, are all con- tained within the Christian religion. It Is the aim of pr. Fallows' movement to apply actively once more these princi- ob 1,o fu1 fnfr disuse and to eliminate the errors that have been gathered about them
 Religious therapeutics as recognized and practiced by Bishop Fallows at St. PauPs church, Chicago, and the Rev. Drs Mc- Comb and Worcester and others at Emanuel church, Boston, are based on sound psychological principles and pro- ceeds upon well-defined premises.
 1. Those good men recognize according to common experience and the inspired teachings of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, that man possesses rAind and body.
 2. They affirm most emphatically the value of anatomy, physiology, biology, bacteriology, histology and the like in promoting the health Of the race.
 3. They recognize that there is a dis tinction between functional and organic diseases and one may yield directly to psychic or spiritual Influence and the other indirectly through surgical and medical means.
 f. They assert the absolute necessity for the work of the physician and give value to the splendid efforts of the med ical profession in furthering the health and welfare of the race.
 Insofar as the service of Bishop Fall lows and others are engaged in is a church movement, it offers to the poor and needy it's help in this direction as in others, without the taint of commer- cialism. It simply aims to advance the cause of health and happiness everywhere both in the churches and out. It does not aim to form or found a new religious cult. It most strenuousy teaches that there is not the slightest need to deplete or disrupt existing church organizations or the family in order to get everything that can be obtained in psychical and divine healing. 1t holds that the pastor of church, a man so frequently of col lege and university training, one who is conversant with the deepest things of the soul is the man best qualified to work hand in hand with the physician in ap- plying the great principles of healing to the members of his flock.
 Bishop Fallows believes in the power of faith in the historic Christ and in per- sonal and microscopy prayer to an ever living and ever-loving personal God. He and hiS associates In this movement De- lieve in using the best scientific medical knowledge and skill of the day, which they feel is as much God-giveu as any psychical or spiritual method of relieving disease. Therefore, before taking hold of any case, they insist that their patients, parishioners, etc., must first come to them with a diagnosis as accurate as the skill of the neurologst can make 1t.
 Medicine, too, realizes today, largely as the result of the work of it's own leaders that 1t has everything to gain by welcom- ing the assistance of ministers of religion in this neglected field. The very fact that tens of thousands have been attract ed to systems of unscientific quackery is sufficient evidence of the need of such work as that which has been undertaken by the churches in Boston and Chicago.
 Bishop Fallows says that he realizes that the work undertaken is in it's tnfan- cy, that the scientific knowledge which he possesses at present is consequently limited. He is aware that he cannot af- ford to make mistakes and that they can be avoided by patient study and contin- uous prayer. On the other hand, the bishop has proofs Mnumerabe that this movement has aroused the attention of leaders of thought and sense of respon- sibiiity and has checked the drift towards theological quackery; that it has benefit ted me and women spiritually as well as physically.
 It is in his book. here discussed, 'eHealth and Happiness" that Bishop Fallows tells all about 1t. 1t is very interesting volume.