Walter F. MacGowan in a column in Front Rank, St. Louis, Missouri

The entire outcome of individual and corporate life in nations and among nations is totally dependent upon our attitude toward the matter of loyalty to the cause of the creator. Final outcomes are decided by a thousand little decisions. What motivates your little decisions? That's what makes the difference. There must be one great motivating force which determines your every little decision in individual life, family life, business life, and social life. That force is our loyalty to God.

Pasadena Star News in the column This Week in Religion Pasadena, California

A growing interest in divine, or spiritual, healing is being shown by major church bodies.

Although this field of work is generally associated with the Christian Science Church, several other communions are indicating a marked interest in it. Among these are the Church of England and the Church of Scotland, the latter a Presbyterian denomination.

The bishops of the Church of England [recently] asked the Archbishop of Canterbury to appoint a committee or commission to conduct a study of the ministry of healing, an action which was said to reflect the widespread interest in the subject in Great Britain.

Earlier, the Presbytery of Glasgow named a special committee to investigate divine healing. Similar groups, including one in Edinburgh, had previously been formed throughout Scotland.

And in Canada a spiritual healing movement sponsored by Anglicans has attracted an increasing following during the past few years.

The Anglican bishops carried on an extensive debate before calling for an inquiry into the problems and opportunities of spiritual healing....

The Bishop of Derby, Dr. Edward Albert John Rawlinson, said that the bishops must not deny the possibility of miracles. Dr. C. M. Chavasse, Bishop of Rochester, said that a doctor had told him of three cases of cures which looked like miracles.

"There is no doubt that there is an unexplained force, and we may be on the verge of some outstanding discoveries," said Dr. Edward Sydney Woods, Bishop of Lichfield, in urging full investigation of the question.

Coming from respected Anglican bishops such statements drew wide interest....

Of equal importance is the seriousness with which divine healing is being taken in the Church of Scotland. Here some study groups are concerned primarily with individual and group prayer in the treatment of ailments, others with pastoral psychology, and still others with the "laying on of hands."

The most striking development in this field has been the emergence during the last few years of a small group of ministers who practice the laying on of hands. [The ministers] claim successes in the treatment of such illnesses as tuberculosis, cancer, sclerosis, arthritis, rheumatism, pneumonia, and many minor complaints....

Prayer at the bedside of a sick parishioner is a tradition of Church of Scotland ministers, many of whom are firmly convinced that recovered health has been a direct result of prayer. Out of this has developed the practice of group prayer on behalf of the ailing....

The Canadian spiritual healing movement, led by Dr. Albert E. Cliffe of Montreal, an Anglican lay reader, claims many cures of physical ailments.

Dr. Isaac K. Beckes in an article in the Sun-Commercial Vincennes, Indiana

Spiritual factors are decisive in community life. They decide the outlook and the basic attitudes of a people. They decide whether a community is creatively progressive or hopelessly lost in the status quo.

Practical considerations press so constantly upon us we forget that overattention to material ends finally brings poverty and defeat in all phases of human endeavor.... When we think of God in human life, we think entirely of such qualities as personal piety and moral conformity and overlook the primary aspect of His spirit among us—creativity....

Why is it that a merchandising institution in the hands of one man slips into bankruptcy, but in the hands of another becomes a vital servant of the community and rewards its owner financially? ... The answer seems to be in the creative imagination which a man brings to his task and in his dedication to the community in which he lives—spiritual elements of life....

Spiritually, under God, we have no alternative but to respect each other as individuals and to honor the sincere, though differing, viewpoints among us. The spirit of condemnation divides us, but the spirit of mutual respect builds the kind of community atmosphere conductive to community growth, to the fruition of the highest ideals, and to the kind of co-operation that makes for progress rather than disintegration....

New ideas, new dreams, new possibilities for community life are essentially spiritual qualities, born out of the creative activity of divine Providence among us. And, upon these spiritual capacities, more than any other, the future of our community rests.