New-York tribune., 1922-11-09
Soul and Body
Hospital Plans
TO Be Outlined
Episcopal Clergy to Meet
with DIR. Cowles To-day to.
Consider Cooperation of
Church and Medical Men
Faith Healing Involved
Idea Calls for Institution
TO Deal With Spiritual as
Well as Physical Ills

pr. Edward s. Cowles will lay before
i. Queens and Nassau Glorious of the
pscsse Of Long Island at luncheon
i BROWNIES Chop House to-day his ar
v,menss for the unifcation of effort
-sesween clergymen and physicians in
creating the sick the appointment of
committees and subsequent action on
the part Of the churchmen is antic-
ipated.
.hs foundation of a hospital where
ministers and medical men will work
: sngethsr and where patients will be ex~
y .m;nsd and diagnosed not only physi-
esjly and mentally but socially and
spiritually.
Or. Cewles, who is head of the Park
avenue Sanatorium and specialist in
the treatment of nervous diseases, is
he e0ly New York physician to be ap-
pointed to the Episcopal Church Com
mission on the Ministry of Healing at
the recent Anglican convention in Port
land Ore.
Envisaging his scheme last night, DR..
cowles said that plans for the hospital
uers nearing fruition. The medical
nsr and scientists behind the move
asnt are anxious to be assured posi-
lively of the support of the church.
Finds No Cure in Cults
sick people are now as restless in
Christian Science and ether cults as in
their former churches" asserted DR..
Cowles. "The cults do not supply the
Feed. But we have no right to con-
denim until we offer something better
for these delicate mental and emo
tjonsl disorders than Christian Science
has given Us. The great masses of the
people, that body of restless, suffering,
ashappy humanity, will come to this
hospital for any form of treatment
that will give them relief from their
mental. physical and spiritual misery"
Il is in keeping with the historical
sraditions of the Episcopal Church that
i should join with the medical profes-
don for the relief of suffering human
ay. Or. Cowles pointed out. Ministers
VIII not be expected tc know medicine,
nor medical men to know theology; but
the association will be helpful.
aThe minister will help the doctor
10 know the spiritual side of the man
and its inference on his body and the
doctor will cause the minister to see
and understand the influence of the
body or the mind" DR.. Cowles said.
a0n, Of the truly great things this
proposed hospital should accomplish is
to bring into close contact the medical
and the ministerial professions. Min
letters would be able to give their peo-
pie the things OF which they are in
seaseh-mental peace and spiritual un-
dsrstanding
Hopes To Be Non-Sectarian
4ft Is hoped that this hospital will
not limit itself to one church but that
II viii be for all men of all faiths.
And when prayer is used, it Is not
The purpose to limit prayer to the mar
row bound. ries of scientific theory,
bot to use our scientific understanding
u aature's laws, Gods laws, to aid us
ID our prayers.
the hospital which is to be built
will have, believe, department not
only for the treatment Of delicate
mental and emotional disturbances but
department. under the control of a
body of physicians, psychologists and
ministers. In this department, any
man who seems to have a valid claim
to be able to relieve human suffering
may come and demonstrate his method
Of cure. The patient must be COM
pstently examined first, mentally and
-ahysically, and then the healer may