Editorial August 3, 1974 Issue

Spirit, Not Matter, Satisfies

Naomi Price

Have you ever had feelings of uneasiness and emptiness, though you are not sure why? Perhaps you have been worshiping—without knowing it—a material god.

The uneasiness may indicate the dawning recognition of the nonexistence of such a god—the unreality of matter—and you are left with nothing but a vacuum. The author of the book of Ecclesiastes wrote at length about this state of disillusionment. He mentions the uselessness of material work, wisdom, pleasure, riches, and life in general. Then he sums it all up, saying, "I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun."^{ Eccl. 2:11;}

If at times we feel this kind of dissatisfaction, we need not be disheartened. It is often a symptom of the natural longing for righteousness (or right, spiritual consciousness)—a stirring of the human mind as it begins to waken from the dream of material sense to recognize that it should be looking to other than material methods to find peace. And Christ Jesus promised that those who had this longing would be comforted. He said, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."^{ Matt. 5:6;}

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