New-York tribune., 1909-05-14
CALLS MOVEMENT. OLD
MP .D4RLINGTON'S views.
ue,Ifb Com missioner CriticiseS EN-
manuel Method.

- of the National Episcopal Church Congress
.s,ist'. when the general topic was PSYCHIC
100 as an Aid TO Pastoral Work The subject
= :, ssrecial interest in this city, where the So
lid Emmanuel movement originated. The Prin-
-, sneaker was DR.. Thomas Darlington. Health
,,-,n,ssioner OF New York
" darlington severely criticised the Emmanuel
.-.r,snt Mental influence, he declared. should
= .s--icted in its use 10 trained medical men
There is nothing new presented TO US in the Em-
.,rsI movement. or in the method of conducting
=. clinic for tuberculosis. from which ii sprung
- .sid suggestion is seldom of use in itself II
-, he aided by other things In the majority Of
.s how much Of a part suggestion plays in the
cpre it IS dihacut to know. Only those who are
y,-y familiar with the symptomology and treat
-,snt of diseases can judge 10 any great degree
lfter warning against the practice OF hypnousn by
The uRsecientihc- he said
z,.liefon ana medicine are not antagonistic. Min
isters and physicians should not he rivals but CO
workers There Is much f2r nlisseTS 10 90; iI Iuf b
sftaine6 when physicians and pastors work 10
s.fher. but they must forever remain as separate
To assist encourage promote cheerfulness. etc.
-en5e- 10 mankind The spiritual aid which de
v6ui and prayerful person can hTins 10 me fesI enc
Tor who has not studied medicine would do wrong
Ia attempt general OF extended practice as healer
Tie speaker condemned as i'll founded the dis
tinc1ion between organic and functional diseases
made bv Emmanuel leaders. and their claim that GER
tain diseases. termed affections of personality
said by them spring from moral causes. were pc
cqjerly within their province. Tine use of psychic
treatment or OF hypnotism, or Of suggestion TO
rsrents is part Of physicians business. and con-
,+.+y-es branch Of therapeutics in the practice Of
medicine he maintained. The Emmanuel move
men, Is simply the practice Of medicine in par
1cular branch" Regarding the physicians attitude
toward the cult he said:
The great mass Of physicians do not fear this
movement The medical profession is able 10 stand
as body against any encroac chnlent- The danger
pr, ~ 70 the church The church has at many times
a. re nssf slf4ered from ouackery If psyche
thsrapy becomes function OF the Church, the op-
portunities Of such people are multiplied -,
no man should practise speciality. nor treat any
part OF the body, nor any one disease or the BODY;
diseases, and has knowledge of the whole body and
Thus take the stand that no man snoud atteInpt
practise psychotherapy, or hypnotic suggestion
dee of Medicine and that no physician may dele
gate part Of the practice Of medicine TO any one
who is not also practitioner
CERTAIN DISEASES SHOW IMPROVEMENT.
Dr. Darlington granted that certain diseases,
termed functional neurosis. aided and more
or less cured by rsychic treatment. by persuasion.
by suggestion. by explanation or in the extreme by
hypnosis This he said did not alter the fact that
such treatment should be administered by ply
scan He went on:
Do not forget that II this method OF treatment OBJ
tsns seerF: - sl9 & DeS & one one I ~ Sig mon
Srpnotisr DO YOU wish 10 take this step? To me
the atreTnpt practise medicine, particularly in
this particular line. is for the Church TO take
long step backvard-bs4ck toward superstition and
The occult.
II is nothing mat people may be cured Of
certain conditions by means OF such treatment.
ordinary physician and are Of frequent occurrence
True. they advertised in the daily papers.
snd aided among the alcoholics not brought
forward BY The physician and paraded before The
world told OF in magazines and reviews TO the
sy praeo54 @ qeq Of % medicine @ ' in thar line than BIZ
al the provided the physician VIII take
time 10 devote himself TO the study and treatment
Among those who make speciality Of nervous /
diseases there is apparently much difference OF |
opinion but 10 the question, Can man unframed /
n medical science use persuasion suggestion or
snswer must be an unqualified No
The assumption tllat the diseases mentioned nd |
basis cannot be upheld. ! deny the statement that
hyser1a ara many other sO-Called functional dis
eases are merely affections of personality. They |
are mere often than otherwise due peripheral |
Irritation. or to an autointoxication or TO some |
strain. and when the cause found it is sim |
ply because the physician has not been astute /
IS At bottom disease the sub-conscious mind
sno that thai 'theors- is now generally accepted |
cannot help hut feel that the suggestion made |
1nanusi movement and the widespread publicity !
given 70 II by means Of newspaper and magazine |
Eases sne increase, rather than decrease our cases
While in the practice Of medicine suggestion
eno iAphotsm aTe somewhat better understood |
thsn formerly. 50 much Is unknown, and possibly |
unknoVsble that reputable physicians do NOT |
as yer cot ider it safe treatment except possibly
n me hands of very skilled few. II is even ad- |
ntted by those who have charge Of the Emmanuel +!
- e,leht lnat mistakes have been mace ana tat
net every clergyman is fitted for this kind Of work
ms movement. thon. matter what have been
TIE statistical rrsultr thus far. purely expert
.el AZ ldcl'f and the question arises. ShaH
experiments ~ doubtful medical procedure he in
sutnted In connection with church work 2?
-. - - sSt'-'ohS'viS man a distinct peihg from
rs conscious man. Tndoubteilv the talk of the |
eun-coHsc"us s'lper-conscious mind. sublimi-
nsl consciousness carries with il to the laity an
81 - mysticism which both the Church and medi-
e.ne nave long trAd to rid themselves Of The laws
- rQsFfhology have special religious significance
"hF make il function ~ the Church?
Trying still another objection. the doctor said:
he Statements made by patients physicians |
such statements to- anv one Is against law and /
e5ales a person is poor pay for the ser
.l-sn' refer the 10 the clergyman. shall he. /
NE SO ne case 10 go 10 the clergyman, reveal to |
70 MN or the person who is i'll?
THREE CLERGYMEN SPEAK
Other Speakers the evening SESSION the |
fSeN Lyman P. Powell. OF Northampton, Mass the |
rev Dr. Charles L. Sattery. Of Springfield Mass,
tna the Rev DR.. Samuel S. Marquis OF Detroit
N ths morning the subject THE Possible !
Contribution Of Oriental Thought Present Day I
onristianity-' Papers presented by the Rev |
Ffiiip y Rhinelander. professor Of history of /
lelcns al the Cambridge Episcopal Theological |
school and DR. A. V. Williams Jackson. professor
q sanscTit al Columbia University Those who |
spoke on the subject the Rev DIT. g George |
currie, Of London. and the Pew. DR.. Arthur S. |
Lloyd. Of New York, general secretary of the Do |
Hestic and Foreign Missionary Society.
Dr. Currie contrasted the religious thought in /
me East with that IN the West. The former !
reluctant TO receive the material. while the latter
vas not inclined accept the spiritual. He /
thought however. that the West was invading the |
East although the thoughts and beliefs Of the East
we're leavenins those in tn. West.
Professor Rhineander dwelt at length on the pos