Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1901-03-23
What Happiness Is.

Really, in our present state of being.
where flesh and spirits are SO tenderly
united to each other that not the fin-
est reach of science can ever guess at
the point that divides them, the legi.
innate things that minister to bodily
comfort and bodily needs are essential
20 human happiness, and whosoever
says they are not says what is everlast.
ingy not so, says "a writer in the st.
Louis Globe Democrat About the
only book that tells the naked truth
As to poverty is the Koran, and that
declares that it is worse than the
plague. Aud it is for shutting one out
from human joy, sweetness or oppor.
tunity. The poet who tells us that
even love, the strongest spirit force
that can be brought to bear upon il,
flies out of the window when poverty
comes in at the door, covers the whole
ground. Love cannot master it, aud
II love cannot nothing else eau. Re-
ligion may console it by pointing to
something better beyond, but if ynu
want to know how much happiness
grace it instills into the situation here
Just consider the position of the poor
in any of the aristocratic church cir
cles or communities that you know of.
Even Christ Himself, though He said:
Blessed be ye poor, for yours is the
kingdom of heaven, did not promise
much for the kingdom of earth. The
woefulness of Lazarus at the gate of
Dives he fully recognized, aud does not
invite him to be happy over it. Meth
err did he tell Martha and Mary to re-.
iOice, when they stood at the grave Of
that other Lazarus, but wept with
them over the eternal sorrow of death,
though He knew that He was to reveal
to them the victory over it.
Indeed, the limitations and blindness
that bar the way to perfect happiness
here we're never more fully recognized
than by the Lord and Master of all
spirit ends and forces. And certainly
this might be point for the psychic
teachers to consider who are trying to
Introduce US to the "happiness. made
easy" process along their lines. The
most, perhaps, that we may be com
pelle1 TO grant them is that man was
meant for happiness, since he certainly
does disclose capacities and aspira-
ions in that direction that would ar
que some end or aim for it in his crea-
ton. Moreover, all nature, with her
"mauy-colored, thousand -tongued" APP
peals to every inner and outer sense OF
joy aud beauty, whispers ceaselessly
of some lost key to harmony and hap.
piness somewhere. But, after all, this
only shifts the matter back to that
rather irritating philosophy which tells
u that we we're meant to be good
meant to be loving, meant to be fair
when we know that we are dark
crooked and cross grained in all our
nature and anatomy. Who has blum
dered that we are not what we were
meant to be, is the rather troublesome
question that, from Omar down, this
admission OF the intended good aud
joy has been forcing upon its advo
Gates everywhere, so that we are only
getting ourselves into deep water by
striking out for the eternal purpose il
the case.
To tell the truth and admit frankly
that we do not know much about hap
pineas, but have fond idea that the
bright and attractive primerose thing,
of time were really meant TO minister
unto it, is perhaps as honest a thing a:
the poor mortal can do anyhow
especially when he knows that, saint
or sinner, he intends to strive aftel
them to the end of the chapter. Mean
time, il fate does not incline to favor
him, there is trick he can try to out
wit her which is an near to the secre
Of the matter as anything which sci
ence, psychic or otherwise can unfold
to him.