psychiatrist
prescribes
peace
by Frederick E. Milkie
a new Cadillac, or immediately solve all your problems, but God has prom ised to give life — eternal life. I have seen the power of the gospel trans form lives. When I was staff psychiatrist at the Ohio Penitentiary, it was my privilege to talk with five murderers as they were about to go to their death. As I witnessed to them, the two guards standing nearby listened intently. “ Say,” one of them said, “I ’d like to know about Jesus, too.” I witnessed to him from the Word; he received Christ as his own personal Saviour, and what a transformation took place in his life! The other guard allowed his intellectualism to stand in his way. Because he could not reason it all out, he turned down the oppor tunity for genuine peace and eternal life. In the privacy of my therapy room, I have many who unburden their souls. How they try to seek the pleas ures of this life! I believe God has left a void in every heart that only He can fill. There is no substitute. God came to seek and to save that which was lost. Recently a girl came who had been diagnosed as a schizophrenic reaction, paranoiac type. Six years ago I would have agreed with the diagnosis and the girl would have spent the rest of her life in a mental hospital. At our seventh session we had a prayer meet ing. She unburdened her soul and yielded her heart and life to the Lord Jesus Christ. Today she’s in Bible school, preparing to go to the mission field. There are many today who are seek-
I n the field of psychiatry, the one thing people seek above all others is peace. Until July 4, 1954, my pre scription for this rare quality was of little or no use. Now I am convinced there is an infallible remedy for the turmoil and confusion of individual lives today; I prescribe it with the utmost assurance and confidence, and I have yet to find it to fail. The answer came to me at Devil’s Lake, Michigan, where I own a sum mer cottage. A sound car drove around the lake advertising a drive-in church. The Billy Graham film, “ Oil Town U.S.A.,” was being shown. As I viewed the picture, I heard about the gospel of Jesus Christ for the first time, and that began a struggle with in my heart that lasted for five months. As I read and studied and searched the Scriptures, I tried to justify my staying in a “religion,” rather than trusting in a Person. Finally, on De cember 14, 1954, in my medical offices in Toledo, Ohio, I fell to my knees and asked the Lord Jesus Christ to corije into my heart. He did just that and transformed my life. Two weeks later, my office nurse said she too Wanted Jesus Christ as her Saviour. \“Why?” I asked. ' “ I see the transformation in your life,” she said, simply. To have Jesus Christ is to have peace, I quickly learned. To be with out Him is utter confqsion. Relatives in the other “ religion” declared I had gone “nuts.” They did not realize that true religion is a living Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and without Him is no salvation.
Today we have a peace-seeking, pleasure-hungry world. T h e only remedy they know is tranquilizers. But I have to tell them the truth: tranquilizers are not the answer. They ALONE IN THE CROWD Sometimes the human heart is strangely lone, f E'en in the crowd 'mid which we move, and live; We touch, in passing, other lives awhile, Yet seldom interchange the thoughts that give New hope and inspiration for life's way, And love that woos from doubtful things of earth, That helps some comrade, timid, climb each day To altitudes and peaks of nobler worth. We need not walk in loneliness of heart; For One is with us in the crowd to day, Who loves us as no earthly friend can love; Whose converse can delight our pil grim way, 'Tis Jesus, who draws near us in the throng And keeps His lonely children brave and strong. — Alice Maude Carvell have never cured a mental illness. The shock machine cannot cure all mental illness. To have Jesus Christ as Saviour will bring you peace. It will not give you
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