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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

What can we do to help people who are depressed? They are many!

Wise counselors suggest, “Get professional help.” Physicians can often
treat clinical depression successfully. If a depressed person can get
such professional help, let him/her do so.

However, the number of people who can afford to pay for such
professional help or even have access to it, is comparatively small.
Even in America, there are large numbers of sufferers who cannot have
these privileges. Who can help them?

God calls upon those who serve Him to minister to others in need. He
told Abraham that his descendants would be a blessing to the world:
“Thou shalt be a blessing, . . . and in thee shall all families of the
earth be blessed” (Gen. 12:2, 3). Jesus saw that His mission was to
help depressed people: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he
hath anointed me to preach the gospel [good news, glad tidings] to the
poor [those who can’t afford medical treatment]; he hath sent me to
heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are
bruised” (Luke 4:18). These “poor” may be in India, Africa, South
America, Mexico, yes, in our inner cities, perhaps among our teens in
high school, who knows, maybe your next-door neighbor whose tears you
cannot understand.

Each of us who realizes his/her debt to the “Savior of the world” will
want to be ready to “know how to speak a word in season to him that is
weary” (Isa. 50:4), because the Lord has sent us to do the work that He
would do if He were here in person. As Paul says, “How beautiful are
the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, that bring glad
tidings of good things!” (Rom. 10:15). Do it for somebody!

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