164 BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN PROBLEMS 



that the milder grades of mental disorders belong. 

 The teachers of medicine have not been alive to the 

 necessity for recognizing the bearings of disorders of 

 this type. Conditions of modern life have favored 

 the multiplication and spread of these disorders, 

 and the medical schools have not met the situation 

 so arising. The result is the extensive movements 

 to embrace mystical methods that appeal to the 

 dramatic sense and are not devoid of individual 

 sympathy. In many cases the converts to these 

 methods have turned away from the churches to 

 which they have belonged, and from which they have 

 got as little satisfaction for their personal needs as 

 from their physicians. 



Although the originators of the Emmanuel Church 

 movement claim that their methods are not in imita- 

 tion of those used by the Christian Scientists, it 

 would be difficult for them to convince the latter 

 that they have not been borrowers in many essential 

 respects. Both make a powerful appeal to the 

 mystical side of man's nature and both make the 

 teachings of Jesus a fundamental feature of their 

 cult. Consciously or unconsciously, both make use 

 of the influence of suggestive therapeutics, although 

 in most instances they do not resort to the use of 

 hypnotic sleep. Both again appeal to similar mental 

 types, to persons influenced by emotion or imagina- 

 tion uncorrected by objective methods and strict 

 reasoning. The minds that fall under the control 

 of these cults are commonly mediocre or inferior, 



