Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-23

possessed BY the church. Of healing
The physical innrmities or those who
were sick. he says.
During apostolic times the clergy
man and the physician we're one and
the same He who mlnistered 20 the
spiritual needs Of men. For loo years
this was 80 Then came what is
known sne the new scientific era. and
medical science and religious science
were separated one being taken un by
the physicians and the other by the
clergy.
"The development OF Tho modern sys.
tenn OF medical knowledge and rrdc-
tice. with he marvellous cures VI hui
man iils and the alienation Of human
suffering was let almost entirely in
the hands of tine doctors of medicine
Doctors OF divinity confined theme
selves 60 the treatment of spiritual
diseases and the cure of sim. The
church eventually almost forgot the
power vested ln Do by Christ The pas
tor visiting his sick parishloners
prayed for the peace OF The soul and
lef 20 the physician the heaiing Of
the body
This is reasonable and not improb-
able cause. in one sense. of the loss
of the gft of healing yet the real
cause lay deeper. aud consisted simply
in the lack of living faith That the
latter wac the underlying reason for
the retrogression OF the church seems
to be felt by AR clark. who at once
proceeds to argue that the church
should have and might regain this lost
power and blessing 81 It's members
would only live Tor &c. lie admits
that the place of prayer and its rela-
ton o. the cure OF human ills were
not properly appreciated by the church
at large until a large and aggressive
party. quite recently. seeded from the
church and boldly declared a new and
revolutionary Interpretation Of the
Scriptures. The rapid growth OF this
new body and the apparent success |
which followed the application Of
their principles he declares has |
aroused the leaders Of the old church
from their lethargy and caused them |
to reconsider the whole field OF Chris /
tian theology. He adds that the the
ology was found to. be an right, but an
undue emphasis upon certain doctrines
had distorted the whole system.
But are the old churches vet |
aroused?
M. clark gives the following de- |
tails of the movement just indicated
"The Rev. Dr. Elwood G.. Worches-
ter rector Of the Emanuel Protestant /
Episcopal church OF Boston. Mass. be /
al. bal
of articles telling of his sue /
cess in treating mental diseases with /
prapcr out OF his writings sprang /
what Is known AS the Emanuel move /
ment
"Tvo years prior TO this Bishop sam
uel Fsllows had promulgated somo- \
what similar views but had not dis
semiuated them widely. Early In Jan
uary 1908, Bishop Fallows preached a
sermon in ST. Pauls Reformed Episco- 4
pal church iu Chicago, on the value
Of prayer I'M the healing OF disease.
The people of his church and neigh
borhood gasped eagerly at his sugges-
tiOns. A class was formed for treat
ment-a prayer clinic.
"rhe announcement Of his wonderful /
heallngs attracted so many people 70
him for help that he Instituted a num-
Der OF health classes In his church.
every Wednesday night
and on Thursday afternoons he has
a church clinic In the yes
try Of the church for the treatment |
Of individual cases
Just how tho present day churches
can assimnate this revolutionary pro- |
paeanda and practice remains 20 be |
seen; for e is BY no means certain /
that the new vine can be contained /
In the old bottles.
II all tends powerfully TO demon
strate the correctness OF the lnterpre-
tation, since the rise OF the Church In 4
1880, constantly put upon the divine |
promises by the Latter-day Saints,
and serves TO illustrate the efforts or /
the refrigerated Christian sects 20
square themselves with the facts made
known anew by divine revelation In
this age.