Article February 26, 1972 Issue

Hats That Don't Fit

HENRY F. MUNDT

During a small town election campaign, a politician referred to one of his opponents as "a little grasshopper." Now, this aroused the one who felt singled out to demand an apology. Although slightly built and quite active, this particular opponent felt his being compared to a lowly insect wasn't justified. His defamer, however, declared he hadn't mentioned his name but if the hat fitted him, he should wear it.

Many people are wearing hats that not only don't fit but actually don't belong to them.

These hats are comparable to the mesmeric suggestions of the devil (another word for evil) that would bombard us every day. They accuse us of being material, subject to fear, sin, lack, sickness, and death. These hypnotic suggestions no more fit us than they do God, for our real selfhood is the exact image and likeness of Him who is Spirit, perfect and eternal. The material image of us that seems so real is utterly false. It is as foreign to our real nature as darkness is to sunshine.

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