The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-14
SPIRITUAL HEALING
sUBJnCF or DTsCUssfoN BY EPIs-
COPALIANs. 81.


Boston. Mass.. May 1s.--An attempt
by so-callsd radicals In the church
to have members Of the other derponi-
nations invited TO deliver addresses.
was defeated today by the general
committee in charge OF the Episcopai
church congress In session In this
city.
The congress does not represent the
Episcopal church In an ofncial ca
pacity, but the committee decided
that to admit outside speakers. might
add to the tumuIt which arose from
the passage of the open pulpit"
amendment adopted by the last general
confersnce. At tonight.s session was
discussed the subject of psychotherapy
a. embodied In the Emmanuel move
ment. q system OF mental and spirit
ual heaiing originated by Rev. Or.
Worcester, Of this city The session
was largely attended. Psychotherapy.
a. an aid to pastoral work. WAS de-
Tended by Rev. Liman p. Powell. OF
Northampton, Mass, and Rev. DR..
samuel 3. Marquis. OF Detroit. DR..
Thomas Darlington. health ofiicer of
New York. and Rev. DR.. Charles l..
siattery. Of Springfield. Miss. form-
eriy dean OF the cathedral Of Our
Mercifui Saviour, Faribault, MIMI.
held dissenting opinions.
Rev, DR.. Powell said In his adj
dress;
"rhe Emmanuel movement Is the
first intelligent and systematic eRort
to save psychotherapy to scientific
medicine by placing the responsibility
on the doctor for the determination of
the times and instances In which 1t Is
TO be employed, to save It from APP
plication to the uses of schismatic
cults by reinforcing IL with faith
a. Ne NofhAIln NJ =
ant alike"
DR.. Darlington said:
'"rhe danger of the movement 10
not to the medical profession but to
the church. The church has atfmany
times in the past suffered from quack
cry. II psychothera - becomes a
function Of the. church. the opportuni-
ties of such people are multiplied"
Rev. DR.. Slattery said among other
things:
18th ough / do not believe psychothe-
rapy q permanent part Of pastoral
work. think, its use by clergymen
IL making a definite contribution. It
is preached TO doctors as no sermon
could do. that they must be obviously
religious men. almost dare to pre-
dict that within ten years. doctors
and nurses who are not plainly re-
ligious people, will be discredited.
whatever their technical skill"
with two important topics to be
considered, the congress opened It's
third days session today.
In the morning the subject was the
Possible Contribution of Oriental
Thought to Present Day Christianity.
interesting papers were presented
nv Rev. Philip N. Rhineiander. pro-
feasor Of history Of religions at the
Cambridge Episcopal Theolosical
school and Or. A. Y. Williams jack
son. professor of Sanskrit at Colum-
bia University. Those who spoke on
the subject were Rev. d. C. George
Currie. Of London, and Rev. DIR. Ar
thur 8. Lloyd, OF New York. general
secretary of the domestic and foreign
missionary society.
This evening the general topic. was
"Psychotherapy as an Aid in Pastoral
DR.. currie contrasted the religious
thought in the East with that in the
west. The former. he said. was re-
luctant to receive the material while
the latter was not inclined to accept
the spiritual. He thought. however.
that the West was invading the East
although the thoughts and beliefs OF
to East were leavenins those In the
West.
zone divine mind and life runs
through ALL said DR.. Currie. Each
is taught and each receives according
10 it's own development"
Professor Rhinelander, who present.
ed the first paper at the forenoon ses-
aIon. dwelt at length on the possible
contributions which the Buddhist re-