Article July 1, 1961 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Alvin T. Wallace

From a Springfield, Ohio, release of the Associated Press in The Burlington Free Press Burlington, Vermont

Christianity contains the essentials for promoting mental health, a psychiatrist told a meeting here.

Dr. Joseph J. Baker, Tennessee's commissioner of mental health, said three conditions required for mental health are "a well-balanced sense of self-esteem, a certain esteem for others, which can be called love, and esteem for an idea which transcends the individual and which gives one's life purpose."

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