In the field of Psychiatry, the one thing people seek above all others, is peace.   Until July 4, 1954, my prescription for this rare quality was of little use.   Now, I am convinced that 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.

     I heard the gospel of Jesus Christ the first time, while viewing the Christian film, Oil Town U.S.A., and that began a struggle within my heart that lasted 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, in my medical office, in Toledo, Ohio, I fell to my knees and asked the Lord Jesus Christ to come into my life and heart.   He did and my life was transformed.

     To have Jesus is to have peace, I quickly learned.   To be without Him, is utter confusion.   Relatives in the other "religion" declared that 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.   The only remedy they know is tranquilizers.   But I have to tell them the truth:   tranquilizers are not the answer.   They have never cured a mental illness.   Insulin shock has never cured a mental illness.   But to have Jesus Christ as Savior will bring you peace.   It will not give you a new Cadillac or immediately solve all your problems, but God has promised to give life, eternal life.   I have seen the power of the Gospel transform many lives.

     In the privacy of my therapy room I have many who unburden their souls; how they try to seek the pleasures 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 is lost.

     Recently a girl came to me 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 MEETING.   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 seeking the wrong information.   They want their conscience salved.   They don't want to cut loose from their sins.   They don't want to be told of God~~ a just God.   True, God is a God of Love, but there is a hell to shun and a heaven to gain.   Many others are wrapped up in things of the world.   They have set their affections on things of the earth, whereas God says to set our affections on things above.

     Three years ago I witnessed to a cardiologist on the boardwalk in Atlantic City.   "Fred," he asked, "Why don't you stop that nonsense?"   As we continued to wait for two other doctors with whom we planned to eat, I refrained from witnessing to him further.   "Here they come," he said, "I"m hungry."   In the next moment he dropped dead, although he had never been sick a day in his life.   He turned his back on Jesus, and died without excuse.

     Let me assure you today, as you read this, that if you settle it all with Jesus, according to His Word, you will have peace.   No kind of Doctor or Psychiatrist can promise you that with certainty.

Editor's note:   The above article was copied from "The Baptist Watchman," a paper put out by Vashti Baptist Church, Taylorsville, North Carolina.

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     The Rocky Hock Playhouse is presenting the musical David (A Man after God's Own Heart), by Gloria Emmerich, this summer from July 15 - August 14.   A day trip to Washington would make a perfect outing for a Sunday school class, the youth group, the choir, our seniors, and our families.   The Playhouse also has a wonderful on-site buffet restaurant called Mrs. Cromley's Country Buffet.   The theatre is newly remodeled and seats 1000 people.   Performances are on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.   Call 252-482-4621 for tickets and information.www.rockyhockplayhouse.com.

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     We are all looking forward to the fellowship meeting at Cloverdale Baptist Church in Cloverdale, Oregon.   They hold this two day fellowship meeting every year in June.   The editor of this paper looks forward to this meeting every year.   For him, it is like going home.   Pastor Randy Winesbourgh tells us, this year, the days are Thursday June 24th, and Friday June 25th.   The fellowship starts with lunch at noon on Thursday and ends with lunch at noon on Friday.   In between, there will be preaching, special music, sleep Thursday night, breakfast Friday morning and even some testimonies.

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