Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19
Experiences of a Clergyman.

Since December, 1907, l have carried
on work similar to that at Emmanuel
church. Boston. This 1 undertook by
DIR. Worcester's advice. and the advice
also of DR.. Richard G. Cabot of Boston
who has given me much valuable help.
| have conducted Wednesday evening
meetings with a well-hlled chapel prac-
tically every night. These meetings are
devotional and educational, and have a
value which cannot be measured
also receive people for treatment az
my house, but without any fee, though
contributions for the expenses of the
work are taken at the meetings and in
some cases given by the patients. This
personal work is entirely private and
confidential, approaching at times the
sacredneSs of the confessional. | have
the cooperation of an excellent physi-
clan, who helps to determine whether
the need of the person who consults me
Is for a physician of the body or of the
soul.
l can see great value in the co-opera-
ton of physician and minister in organic
disorders. especially where the minister
can help to Danish fear worry, or de-
preston that is battling the efforts of the
physician. But | have never undertaken
to overcome any bodily disorder unless
1t was clear that the trouble must be
reached through the mind. Here is such
q case. A woman with marked physical
symptoms came to me with the consent
of her physician because she was .nery-
Gus. Medicine or physical aids had been
used almost daily for twenty years. She
was easily tired, found it difficult to keep
on with any definite work, and was at
times very nervous and depressed.
found need of self-cortrol and of faith in
life. | used explanation and encourage
ment, showing her how to gain control
and to take a larger hold upon life.
Physical Improvement became marked
within two weeks, and the depression
had disappeared. Though her bodily
troubles returned twice, they were over
come in each case, and two months from
the hrSt consultation the woman was
cured, and had gain in Encouragement
for her daily life. Ny strongest appeal
was to her as a being with power to
master her life. My real work was not
Tor the disorder of the body, but for
stronger character and moral CONTROL
and this seems fully justified.
Selt-contrOl to me is the key to the
whole situation. All the symptoms of
functional nervous troubles-weakness of
WILL weakness of attention. inability,
dependency, fear, and so on-point to
lack of self-control. To find the faults
in character, to educate the will and to
develop the cO-ordinationg faculty is a
task which strikes at the very root of
the whole subject. This is the task |
am setting myself.
By far the most effective method in
this whole work of the clergyman is
prayer, People may need to be instruct
ed concerning its value and its use TO
make it thoroughly effective, but nothing
else can approach it either to help in
the removal of the symptoms here in
question or of their cause in defects of
character. UnquestiOnably there is a
limit to the power of this personal moral
and spiritual appeal, but we cannot
draw the line vet. Many a human soul
afflicted with some nervous disorder,
feeling utterly helpless III the grip Of a
demon in the mind, can be given strength
TO cast out the demon, and then led on
70 mastery of self and to the power that
giveth eternal life.-Rev. Charles y.
Place in Good Housekeeping.
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With Lent Comes
Mr.. Fish in Various Forms.
As fish is called upon to play the lead
ing roll in the dietary of most people at
this season suggestions for varying its
service may be timely and welcomed. If
one is observing Lent in spirit as well
as in letter. he may feel called upon TO
eschew the extravagant fish dinners.
where terrapin, pompano, green turtle
soup with entrees of oyster crab or
caviars furnish quite as luxurious living,
as anything else he could devise. These
however. are not for the most Of US. who
find ourselves quite content with the
humber cod, paddock. behring's and their
near of kin.
Finnan haddie is simply our old friend
the haddOck in his Scottish dress, the
smoke from a peat fire. Not that the
smoke is always peat, however, nor the
hsh always haddie. for in New York, az