thenic, the
alcoholic, the world-weary, and the purposeless a truer conception of
the pleasures that result from vitality and from altruistic effort.

It is too early to classify by kind of functional disorder the patients
treated. Results from one patient have been described in newspapers as
follows:

A school-teacher, as a result of nervous collapse, had lost
control, began to fear the children under her care, and thought of
relinquishing her profession. She was instructed in the art of
self-control and the control of others; the notion of fear was
dislodged and a sentiment of love for her little charges took its
place. In the course of a few weeks this conscientious and
experienced teacher regained her poise and found herself
performing her duties better than ever before.

Many alcoholics have for months given evidences of complete cure.
Stories almost incredible are quickening pastor and physician alike
throughout the country. After individual treatments are given, after
religious motive is appealed to, and the soul stirred to heed the
lessons of religion, medicine, and sociology, patients are given the
work cure. Thus a branch of social service is established, where
after-treatment is given to the patient whose thoughts have been turned
from himself to others. All of a sudden the church finds itself in need
of definite knowledge as to opportunities for altruistic work, as to
definite community needs not met, as to people in distress who can be
relieved by volunteers, as to agencies which can be called upon to
cooeperate both in treating the individual and in utilizing his energies
for others' benefits.

Because a relatively small percentage of men and women are
neurasthenic, melancholy, morbid, alcoholic, the lesson of the moral
clinic is most serviceable when extended for the benefit of the "not
yet alcoholic" and the "not quite neurasthenic." In other words,
individuals in thinking of themselves must learn the health value and
soul value of purpose that centers in others' happiness. That thing
which we have called tact in personality, and which in the past was
discovered by induction, namely, the law of mental hygiene and the
control it gives over others' health, must be taught in schools to
children by wholesale, must be taught in medical and theological
schools, to all physicians and all pastors. This alliance of medicine
and religion, which is at present confined to one or two moral clinic