The Emmanuel Movement in a New England Town a Systematic Account of Experiments
The Emmanuel Movement in a New England Town a Systematic Account of Experiments
Lyman P Lyman Pierson Powell
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Perhaps not much can be made of this possibility till the Church has devised some machinery, which she has not now, for the effective co-operation of laymen with the minister in the reclamation of the drunkard. In few cases, at least of dipsomania, can a weekly visit to the minister, no matter what the treatment be, probably offset the continuous allurement of the saloon, for which no substitute has yet been found. It may be that in this country as in Europe the work will one day fall into the ...hands of trained physicians. There are certain reasons why they ought to do it. But even then they will either be obliged, like some European doctors, to i26 The Emmanuel Movement re-enforce suggestion by faith, or if they cannot make appeal to what Dr. Cabot calls "the core of a man" by appealing to his faith in God, they will evidently have to have the preacher's help. In a few instances, where there is special training, it may be possible for the minister to conduct the alcoholic clinic with the incidental help of the physician.
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