The Republican journal., 1909-07-29
emmanuel Movement.
,,y criticised by Prot. Munsterberg.

sruel movement OF curing men,
would be only an episode and
that such would be the case.
hand, he said that it doubt
open the eyes of the physicians
for them to study psychology
# their preparatory education,
night use it more understand
rrection with their use of
.ther means to effecting a
teaIared that, although the
-aentists were deluded by the
philosophy in "Science and
-ev were more consistent in
a than were the followers of
anueI movement. Professor
concluded by saying that to
reh as a means of curing dis
way in which such usage is
s4i. seemed on the whole to
.a,uality and to subordinate to
-nience what should be the
IL highest ideals.
If the religious emotions in
sse said Professor Munster
nj new. The Greeks and Ro-
ill., DIR. Worcester was sur
~ told him recently that a
gyman named Gessner prac-
~ methods as those of the
5lNement in the seventeenth
lover, it had the same effect
as has this present out
ason that organic disease
mot be cured by suggest
use when the disease is not
1 of the nervous system.
does not work, except very
Whatever the claims of Chris
us practitioners can cure by
by such disease as lies with
# the nervous system; be-
r can accomplish little.
enough, there is in Eng
uuel Movement, similar to
ountry, but very different
hes that any disease can be
IN religious emotions. But
nation of disease is made,
a failure for psychology
I'm he little effect on the dis
F. is organic. In the case of can
u,osis, for example, it is not
they have been cured by
sian Science or by the English
Movement; but there are as
b these diseases secondary
ao doubt can be overcome by
trough the religious emotions
on this account-because of
j pain, that patients think
. cured and so declare, A
battlefield, often does not
.unded until the excitement
over. Therefore we can
at patients of Christian
uuoners get better temper
atment, but that is all-it
mt. We must use medicine
b never it is necessary.
{ S not too much to say that
ester, the Emmanuel Move
lartial justification; but as
seads, i takes on a different
has spread widely. How
wise? At any rate the his
should not be underesti-
AS opened the eyes Of regular
aI has convinced them that
neat patients partly by sug-
uody can blame the physician
gie towards the Emmanuel
With his exactly trained
d, he has a natural unwill-
inter- into a practice in which
10 work; he does not care to
ctors endlessly misused by
tt mixed with ideas of mysti-
.oyance and fraud. Again the
ysician is sufficiently trained
altitude of mind to know that
dt to 90 into a field without
Hg. The minister, however,
mnambulist on the verge of an
oesn't realize the dangers of
With the complexities of the
surgeon would dare to operate
uvact knowledge of anatomy
lcy, and SO a physician hest
rate on mental life without
rdge. AS a reaction of the
Movement, it is to be hoped
ly psychology will be studied
y medical students. If that
bout the church will have ac-
mach; on the other hand, l
,l LABELLING in medicine will be
uae. Indeed, the cure by sug-
5 hest after all, when used to
Jhe cure by drugs or by sur
thurch has seen its weakness
Act, and ministers add to their
p becoming amateurish ply
the movement becomes very
disease is beyond this
flourish physician: and tamper-
means far more danger to the
In the slight help gained by
feasibility through religious
ri short, the minister in trying
,hysician, attempts without
ledge what a physician can do
nd scientifically.
h for the patient. How does
raent affect the church. We
me in which too many factors
mated to self-seeking avoid
m; in a time when our ideals
2 very much dulled. We are
ing our ideals to what pleases
beauty, morality and even pro-
coming transformed through
cover of our ideals. If reli-
oecome SO transformed, then
st field of idealism will be lost.
the church emphasizes the
curing the sick, the more it
ght to be a leader in idealism.
'rs in the Emmanuel movement
rat through their cures they
',e to the church; but just there
ION arises. If religion is to be
nothing but a psychological
I mas no spiritual value at all.
1ef of the Christian Scientist,
oIute, or attempts to be, may
Wee more dignified. To be sure,
phy of Christian Science, as
m Science and HEALTH is a
i words, a set of deductions
confusion of terms, but it is
+ 1t is not the philosophy, as
#, but the results which i'm
blowers of Mrs. Eddy. In
they are more consistent than
erS of the Emmanuel move