Article April 7, 1962 Issue

Signs of the Times

William Standish Reed

Sharing

William Standish Reed, M.D. in Sharing, journal of the Fellowship of St. Luke San Diego, California

Man is beset on every side by a multitude of conflicts and anxieties which he is unable to face with his own resources. If he is a materialist either in or out of the church he will probably obtain a materialist remedy and will launch out into or be launched by someone else into a non-spiritual answer to his problem which is never a solution to it and never will be.

... Many diseases which result from a lack of inner tranquility are a direct result of sin or rebellion against God. Many of our psychological and psychosomatic, illnesses fall in this category. I am certain that every disease has its spiritual component which has been to a great extent overlooked and completely neglected by physicians and by the clergy up to this point except in a few enlightened situations.

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