Article November 14, 1925 Issue

The Comforter

FRANCES MAY HARPER

The whole world is in need of comfort! And suffering humanity seeks through every avenue of materiality for this comfort, which it so much desires and needs; but it seeks in vain.

Mortals think that their requirements are material. They think that wealth, health, and harmony may be gained from an abundance of money, perfect physicality, and congenial surroundings and companionship. But do not many who possess all these things still seem very miserable and sadly in need of something more? The very conditions that one may envy in another, thinking they constitute a paradise on earth, the envied one may find a veritable purgatory of dissatisfaction and discontent.

Now, how is this? Is it not because mankind needs to learn to think rightly, to think from a spiritual basis, to think in a Godlike way—to realize that "a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth," but rather in the understanding of what really constitutes life? Men have a perfect right to all the good gifts of the bountiful, loving Father-Mother God; but these gifts must be seen and acknowledged as ideas of divine Mind, expressive of spiritual sense, in order to bring true satisfaction, joy, and peace.

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