Article July 3, 1937 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Power of Prayer

with contributions from William S. Sadler, C. F. Andrews, W. B. Donegan, Alfred Grant Walton, Stevens, Wilson E. Tanner

[William S. Sadler, M. D., in the World's Crisis, Boston, Massachusetts]

I regard prayer as a master mind cure.... There can be no question that the religion of Jesus, when properly understood and truly experienced, possesses power both to prevent and to cure numerous mental maladies, moral difficulties, and personality disorders. It must be evident that fear and doubt are disease-producing, while faith and hope are health-giving; and in my opinion the highest possibilities of faith and the greatest power of hope are expressed in the sublime beliefs of religious experience. The teachings of Christ [Jesus] are the greatest known destroyers of doubt and despair.

No one can appreciate so fully as a doctor the amazingly large percentage of human disease and suffering which is directly traceable to worry, fear, conflict, immorality, dissipation, and ignorance—to unwholesome thinking and unclean living. The sincere acceptance of the ... teachings of Christ [Jesus] with respect to the life of mental peace and joy, and the life of unselfish thought and clean living, would at once wipe out more than one half the difficulties, diseases, and sorrows of the human race. In other words, more than one half of the present affliction of mankind could be prevented by the tremendous prophylactic power of actually living up to the personal and practical spirit of the ... teachings of Jesus.

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