The Washington bee., 1909-06-19
The Bishops Christian
Psychology, What it Is.
NO EDDY SCIENTIST
He Differs from the Followers Of Mrs.
Eddy In that He Does Not Scorn
the aid of Regular Physician
In Fact Insists Upon a Doctors
Diagnosis.

SIaiu o4tnOuOA SlESISS IN the Un4t-
ed States were not a little astounded
by the announcement that Bishop
Samuel Fallows of the Reformed
Episcopal Church had become a rival
Of Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy.
and set himself up as mental
healer" of diseases.
Bishop Fallows, however, differs
from all other advocates of mental
healing" faith cures" and the like.
He does not scorn the aid Of the reg
ular physician. In fact, he insists
that all his patients bring a physI-
clans diagnosis with them ,and in
ali his treatment" he proposes 20
have a physician Of the recognized
school present.
Neither does he call HIS new cult
Christian Science. He designates it
ab Christian psychology" He
does claim, however, that Christian
psychology" will cure anything that
is durable by Christian Science meth
DDS, which are, he believes, simply
cures by faith on the part of the pa
tient that they will be healed. He
declares that this faith cure is pTac-
ticed by all physicians, and ne be-
lieves it should be pTacticed in rs
highest form by all earnest Chris
tians.
This is not a new or a sudden
fancy of mine,' said the Bishop with
whimsical mile. For twelve
years have been lecturlng on physio-
logical psychology at the Bennett Epi-
leptic College. For the last three
years have been making a special
study of the relations between men
tality and disease.
Il have arrived at the conclusion
that mentality when based up
on a trust in religion, is a powerful
aid toward the cure of all functional
nervous disorders.
Il do nokgo so far as to say mat
all diseases may be cured by mental
suggestion. Organic diseases ike
cancer and typhoid fever demand he
services of a skilled physician. But
In every disease the mental attitude
Of the patient has much to do with
his condition, and in all those af-
fections of the mind which might De
classified as functional nervous disor-
ders the mental attitude of the pat
mt is the greatest single influence"
Th7 bishop then outlined few of
the diseases which he believed he
could cure by Christian Psychology.
p included in mis- list the follow
Ing.
HyphOchTondria.
SleepIessness.
Nervous dyspepsia.
! MelanChOlia.
Hysteria.
Drug habits.
Want of seIf-confidence, irritability,
| worry, anger, fear, and weakness Of
will.
The cure of the grip, 1 believe"
said the Bishop, "can be aided great
ly, and perhaps entirely effected by
the direct influence Of what | may
:all strengthened mentality. One Of
the chief factors in the potency of
grip is the mental depression into
which it forces its victims.
1t was last Sunday evening that
| Bishop FaIlows in his sermon al
nounced his purpose to put his be-
| lief into practice.
But go great was the confidence Of
the Bishop that the sick and suf-
| fering did not wait for the first
| Thursdays meeting to receive treat
| ment.
On Tuesday afternoon the Bishop
treated his first patient. A jani-
to- named G. P. J. Esnorff could not
wait until Thursday afternoon and
| sought the Bishop in the yestry
rooms of the church. He was suffer
| ing from a disease of the eye and
was anxious for reliefi He told the
Bishop that medicine had failed to
afford him any help.
Esnorff sat down and listened
while the Bishop told him that he nad
two minds-the consciuos and The
| ub-cOnsciOus-and how they con
tanned the force that was to drive the
! sickness out of his eyes.
| He then instructed Esnorff and let
| him &c. The patient went away de-
claring he felt 100 per cent PETER
that the Bishops talk ha ! effcted a
wonderful Improvement.
The Bishop hopes to enlist all the
churches in the country in this
movement. He explained this pur-
pose Ia the sermon in which he first
made his announcement He said:
Christian psychology uses every
curative agency In the world Of na-
ture as an aid to the powerful infu-
| ences of suggestion and auto-sugge5-
ton for mental and physical health.
! 1t unites the physician with the cief-
gyman in the great work Of healing.
1t aims TO give the physician trained
men and women TO ahssist him IN
his ministry 20 the sick and suffering.
1t ig along these lines that the
Boston Emmanuel Church movement
7 has been carried On for more than
| year by the Rev. DR.. Worcester and
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