People were attracted to him for both healing and learning. It is said that he was so intent in his studies that he read books as he walked on the sidewalks of New York. In the early days of his work, the metaphysical movement was subject to hostility from the medical profession. During this time patients were experiencing better results from a number of modalities including Osteopathy and Homeopathy and the Power of Prayer was clearly demonstrating through Murray. Soon, doctors banded together and had him arrested on the charge of "practicing medicine without a license. However his incarceration did not last long as he had many prominent friends due to his positive work. there was no recurrence of this kind...He had moved some years earlier from small halls and midweek meetings in his own home into the great ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, which was filled to capacity every Sunday morning. On Sunday evenings he took the train to Philadelphia and spoke in the ballroom of the best hotel.