Article December 10, 1960 Issue

Signs of the Times

Robert Tayler

The Christian World

Robert Tayler in The Christian World London, England

Has religion a vital part to play in the building up of the nation's health? The rapid development of psychosomatic medicine suggests that it has. One recalls the categorical statement of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung: "During the past thirty years, people from all the civilised countries of the world have consulted me. Among all my patients in the second half of life—that is to say over thirty-five —there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life."...

If a man can be freed from worry and mental and physical stress he will thereby have the best possible chance of being healthy in a comprehensive sense. It is also certain that a great deal of illness is caused by the failure of men and women to achieve that calm, confident frame of mind that comes most definitely and permanently from faith in a higher, benevolent Power that Christians call their Heavenly Father.

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