In response to a devastating fire in Chelsea, Emmanuel Church rented one of the few houses left standing to provide care for the homeless.   The Emmanuel Relief Station offered food, clothing, and medical care for the wounded.  The church arranged for medical personnel, instruments, and supplies. The house was also used for the care of women during and after childbirth.

Religion and Medicine: The Moral Control of Nervous Disorders by Worcester, Samuel McComb and Isador A. Coriat, an early psychoanalyst, was published by Moffat, Yard.

Worcester published a series of six articles about the Emmanuel Movement in the Ladies Home Journal (Oct. 1908 – March 1909).