Article May 19, 1923 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Ralph S. Cushman

[From the Post, Princeton, Mo., Nov. 22, 1922]

The Nazarence declared one day: "The kingdom of God is within you." The true glory of life, and the real delight of its passing days, are to be found, if found at all, not outside of ourselves, in the great possessions of various sorts, but inside. ... The deluded mortals who are looking for heaven away off beyond the stars and the milky way will never find the thing they are after. They are fooling themselves. They have been listening to the teachers described long ago by the great Teacher as the blind leading the blind. The heaven we talk so much about is not some fixed locality that we go to, but the state of mind that comes from a certain way of looking at life and the world. "My mind to me a kingdom is," wrote one of the grand old worthies. He who has...the right way of looking at things is a king to whom belongs all recorded benefits of heaven and earth; while he who has the wrong way of looking at things is a wretch and a slave, even though he should happen to be surrounded by all the gilded fopperies that riches bestow. ... Money does not make happiness; and the sooner we learn that the way to happiness is along some other way than that of the dollar mark, the better it will be for ourselves and the the world.

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