Article May 23, 1925 Issue

Satisfaction

ELIZABETH CHALLIS ADAMS

"I demand satisfaction!" many an affronted gentleman of the olden time has declared; and he was thinking of a certain definite compensation, without which he did not intend to forget the affront.

Men of to-day may not express their desires in those terms; but they are just as eager for satisfaction, and spend their energies in a lifelong struggle for it. The pity of it is that most of us have wasted many years looking for satisfaction in the wrong place. Mothers want happiness and success for their children, and strive anxiously to give them every worldly opportunity for advancement. Husbands try in vain to satisfy the cravings of their wives for elegance and comfort in material surroundings. Young people rush from one excitement to another, always looking for the supreme thrill, but never satisfied. Philosophers juggle with words in a pitifully futile attempt to satisfy the longing of the human heart for Truth. In fact, it is hard to find any one who has not some sense of lack or dissatisfaction.

And yet, how many years ago one sang with the clear vision of a simple heart, "I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness"! Why is it that during all the years since the Psalmist's day so little attention has been paid to his profound analysis of the universal human longing? Is it not because his statement was misunderstood to mean that in order to awake with God's likeness one must first experience physical death? That was the commonly accepted belief until Mary Baker Eddy uncovered the meaning of that inspired and inspiring song by showing that the real man was made, and has always remained, in God's image, and that men need only to accept and put into practice this truth in order to prove and enjoy that likeness.

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