Article December 12, 1953 Issue

REAL HAPPINESS—FOR YOU!

ROBERT DOLLING WELLS

Real happiness is not costly, as mortals count cost, but what a price is paid for its substitute! How miserable is the mortal who has sought happiness but has, instead, found unhappiness or satiation through the exercise of the physical senses! But the depths of agony, the misery of despair, have bright sides. They show men the nothingness of nothing and lead them to a conclusion that has only good in its promise—the realization that matter's rainbow of hope is false and that happiness must be sought elsewhere.

There is a one-page article in "Retrospection and Introspection" by Mary Baker Eddy that will encourage and strengthen the weary heart. Called "Emergence into Light" (p. 23), it contains an account of Mrs. Eddy's own experience. "The trend of human life," she writes, "was too eventful to leave me undisturbed in the illusion that this so-called life could be a real and abiding rest." "The oncoming hours," she continues further on, "were indicated by no floral dial. The senses could not prophesy sunrise or starlight. Thus it was when the moment arrived of the heart's bridal to more spiritual existence."

How precious this "moment" when we give up all hope in the flesh, in the world of sense, and turn without the heavy baggage of material anticipation to trust in Spirit and Spirit's ways! It is for us individually an emergence into light, light that shows nothing new to God but reveals to us the ever-presence of that which meets all human needs.

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