Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-02-16
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WHAT HAPPINESS IS.
We Have Theories, bYt Really Know
Very Little About 1t.

Fron the st. Louis Globe Democrat
Really in our present state Of being
where flesh and spirit are 50 tenderly united
to each other that not the finest reach of
science can even guess at the point that
divides them, the legitimate things that
minister to bodily comfort and bodily needs
are essential to human happiness. and who
Susver says they are not says what is ever
laetngly not so. About the only book that
tells the naked truth as to poverty is the
Koran, and that declares that 1t is worse
ttan the plague. And it is for shutting one
out from all human JOY. sweetness or OPP
portuuity. The poet who tells that even
love. the strongest spirit force that can
be brought to bear upon It, flies out Of the
window when poverty comes In at the door
covers the whole ground. Love cannot mas
ter IT, and If love cannot nothing else can.
Religion may console Ii by pointing to
something better beyond, but If you want to
know how much happiness and grace it
ius;ils into the situation here just consider
the position of the poor in any of the
arisJocratiC church ~circies or communities
that YOU know of Even Christ himself.
tEOuGh he said. Blessed be ye poor. for
yours is the Kingdom of heaven. did not
promise much for the Kingdoms of earth.
The woefulness of Lazarus at the gate of
Dives he fully recognized. and does not in
Vite him to be happy over It, Neither did
they stood at the grave of that other Lag
HruS 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 were
never more fully recognized than by the
Lord and Master of all spirit ends and
f. rces. And certainly this might be point
for the psychic teachers to consider who
are trying to introduce us to the "happi-
-Rade-easy' process along their lines
The most. perhaps. that we may be COM
PEELED To grant them is that man was meant
fOy happiness. since he certainly does dis
close capacities and aspirations In that d.
ton that would argue some end or aim
FOR it in his creation. Moreover. all nature.
with her many COlored. thousand-tongued"
appeals to every inner and outer sense of
Joy and beauty. whispers ceaselessly Of
some lost key to harmony and happiness
somewhere. But. after all, this only shifts
the matter back to that rather irritating
philosophy which tells US that We were
meant to be good, meant to be loving. meant
10 be fair, when we know that we are dark,
crooked and cross grained in all our ma
ture and anatomy. Who has Numbered 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 and JOY has been forcing upon its
advocates everywhere. so that we are only
getting ourselves into deep water by strik-
ing out for the eternal purpose in the case.
To tell the truth and admit frankly that
We do not know much about happiness, but
have a fond idea that the bright and at
tractive primrose things of time were really
meant to minister unto 1T. is perhaps as
honest thing as the poor mortal can do
anyhow. especially when he knows that
saint or sinner. he intends to strive after
them to the end of the chapter. Meantime
81 fate does not incline 10 favor him, there
s. trick he can try TO outwit her which Is
"a near 10 the secret of the matter as any
thing which science, psychic or otherwise
can unfold to him.