The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1959-09-04
BAPTIST LEADERS
UNITING RELIGION
AND MEDICINE.
Baptist Hospital Takes Lead in
Developing Unique
Partnership

WINSTON-S ALIEN - Baptist
Hospital, pioneer in pastoral care
of the sick, has leading part in
one of the major developments of
modern medicine.
This development is the growing
partnership between religion and
medicine with doctors and psycllia-
trists all over the country begin
ming to welcome the minister as j
member of the healing team. 1t rec
ognizes the power of religion as
an aid in solving the most pressing
personal problems of humanity.
In communities in every part of
the nation, some 1000 ministers
who have been especially trained
for this work are adding their tai
ents and knowledge to mans fight
against disease. Among these mini
sters are some 400 of the 500 grad
yates of Baptist Hospitals School
of Pastoral Care, one of the old
est and largest schools of its kind.
Others of its alumni are serving in
16 foreign countries, including Nj
geria, Israel, Japan, India and New
Zealand.
Several months ago, DR.. Clarence
w. Hall of the staff of The Read
er's Digest became interested in
this phase of Baptist Hospitals
work. He came to Winston-S Salem
to talk with the Rev. Dr.. Richard
X. Young, its director, and to OBJ
serve the Pastoral Care depart
nent's program. The result is an
article by DIR. Hall in the Septem-
Der issue of The Readers Digest.
DIR. Young has added to his other
duties in recent weeks the writing
of book on spiritual therapy as
the newest ally of modern medicine.
1t viii be published by Harper &
Brothers in the coming winter.
Dr.. Halls story and DIR. Young's
book will focus attention on pro-
gram the Hospital began in 1916
with DR.. Young as director. A year
later, it opened the School of Pas
toral Care to give ministers clint
cal training for work with the sick
and the distressed. DIR. H all de-
scribes members of the department
as skilled therapists who apply the
spiritual ministry to mind body
problems which have been medical
ly established. The staff is COM
posed of six permanent chaplains,
II chaplain-interns, and 20 clint
cal tTainees. While such spiritual
therapists are now active in almost
every quarter of the globe, he ex-
plains that nowhere have their con-
cepts been more thoroughly tested
that at Baptist Hospital and no.
where has religious therapy more
convincingly proved its worth.
These men do much more than
visit patients and spread good
cheer. They focus their attention
on the spiritual aspects of the ill
ness just as the psychiatrist and
the doctor work to cure his mind
and body. They seek to get at the
root of problems and to help the
patient find the happiness which
comes from a soul that is well.
When their goal is accomplished,
the patient has much better
chance for gaining and maintain
ing a healthy mind and body.
DR.. Young went into this type
of ministry because he felt an in
sistent call to help people who were
troubled. Those who are sick are
certainly troubled. AS a student,
he wondered whether academic
theology would apply to human ills.
1t seemed necessary to him to find
out. He has certainly found out in