Article November 15, 1900 Issue

Christian Science brings Happiness

Willard S. Mattox

Syracuse (N.Y.) Journal

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is the philosophy of joy and peace. Because it teaches how we may be perpetually harmonious, it must commend itself to those who have followed the ignis fatuus of pleasure, and have come to the end of human things, unsatisfied. The longing to be happy supersedes every other desire in the human mind. Happiness, from the view-point of mortal man, consists of health, contentment, wealth, and agreeable environment. Every system of pagan or Christian philosophy had for its ultimate, happiness. Because every such scheme had a humanly constructed basis, it failed to realize its desires. No matter what the era, no matter what the race characteristics, the struggle, the straining at the leash, has ever been an expression of the desire to arrive at abstract happiness. Utopias have been mapped out, in theory, but never occupied, in fact.

It is instructive to read the words of the man who "gave his heart to know wisdom," and who searched the depths of mortal existence for happiness. What saith the Preacher?

"I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit."

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