Religion: Body & Soul

Mental hygiene interests the Protestant Episcopal Church. A chief feature of the Summer Conference for Church Workers of the Middle West, in session last week at Racine, Wis., was a course in psychiatry by Rev. Herbert Ralph Higgins of St. Paul's Cathedral, Detroit, who explained: "If the church does not move forward to newer fields of knowledge, she cannot complain if medicine takes them over."

A lively squabble over mental hygiene has been occupying Episcopalians in Manhattan for several weeks. Scene was the old Church of St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie, where Peter Stuyvesant...

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