of the doctor, has sometimes vanished in one sitting. The liver, long dependent upon alteratives, has at once begun to function normally. Heart pain, not less severe because only functional, has been relieved in one short interview. And the unhappy sufferer from hysterical paralysis has left her bed to walk as if by magic after one clear call to make the venture. But the only magic known in the Emmanuel movement is the magic of a mind surcharged with faith and operative within bounds set for it by the scientific doctor. And when the principles and methods of the movement are understood and everywhere in exercise no one will think to leave his faithful minister or his good family doctor to find the healing Christ whose "touch has still its ancient power. CHAPTER II THE CLINIC IN A COLLEGE TOWN NORTHAMPTON is both a literary and an academic centre. Though "How is your new book selling?" has not as yet supplanted here all current comment on the weather, with Mr. Cable, the Lees, and a score or more of lesser lights luminous in books and magazines, Northampton would appear to have some title to the place assigned it in a recent magazine among the literary centres of the land. To academic import the city rests its claim, not only on the circumstance that within a radius of ten miles are located Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and several other educational institutions of more than local reputation, but also on the presence at Northampton's very heart of Smith College, which brings here every year some fifteen hundred young women from all parts of the United States and enables the Northampton pulpit to minister to congregations almost as cosmopolitan as old St. Paul's in London. This is essentially a woman's town. While there are here important manufacturing and business interests, the young men as they grow up to manhood are apt, as in many other places in New England, to migrate to larger and more remunerative fields of usefulness and to perpetuate elsewhere the family name. To those they leave behind are added in increasing numbers every year students, teachers, officers of Smith College, Smith Agricultural College, the Clarke School, the Burnham School, the Capen School, and other institutions, mothers who for reasons of economy or family attachment would be within easy reach of their children in the colleges or schools, and women caught in the complex machinery of modern social life and glad to find a haven in a city of unusual refinement where if one waits long enough intrinsic worth wins social confidence. In such a city with its highly sensitised and truly cosmopolitan population, the Emmanuel movement would seem to have a special work to do. While as both statistics and appearances indicate the average of health here is unusually high and to become ill is ill form indeed, there are always some who, in spite of all the safeguards of a wholesome public opinion and the special provisions of our well-ordered institutions, fall into insomnia and other mild neuroses. There are others who are slow in finding themselves in an old community where social lines were long since drawn and relationships to mean much must grow slowly. For these and others there has long been needed a bureau of information about the things that make for inner health, a clearing-house for forlornness, worry, fear, and grief, a spiritual clinic to which frayed nerves, wounded hearts, and troubled minds can be brought for calm, |