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This devotional address entitled The Healing Power of Christ was given on March 27th of

1984 by J. Richard Clark, then second counselor in the presiding bishopric of the Church

of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I gained an appreciation for my value as a human being by realizing what it caused him to

purchase my salvation.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, said John, because he laid down his life for us.

In 1971, the eminent historian Arnold Toynbee wrote a book titled Surviving the Future. He expresses concern about the inequality of man's scientific and technological advances compared with his spiritual

progress. He refers to this inequality as the morality gap. He is convinced that this gap

has been growing wider and that technology has been making cumulative progress while morality has been stagnating.

Dr. Toinby observes science has never superseded religion, and it is my expectation that it never

will superseded. Science has shown no signs that it is going to be able to cope with man's most serious

problems. It has not been able to do anything to cure man of his sinfulness and his sense

of insecurity or to avert the painfulness of failure and dread of death. Above all, it has not helped him to break out of the prison of his inborn

self-centeredness into communion with some reality that is greater, more important, more valuable,

and lasting than the individual himself."

He is convinced that man's basic problem is selfishness.

Two years after Toin B's work was published,

Dr. Carl Menninger, the famous psychiatrist, wrote his famous book,

Whatever Became of Sin.

His motivation for writing the book was the alarm he felt because of the growing number of clergymen who were becoming discouraged in their ministries.

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