Securing Happiness by Converted, Catholic

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 29, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 50.

Securing Happiness

By Converted, Catholic

MAN's efforts to discover in the material world what has till now remained hidden will be rewarded. Men like Cook and Peary, the Wright brothers, of Dayton, Ohio, Bleriot, the Frenchman who crossed the English Channel, and the other aviators who are traversing the air in their flying machines at the rate of fifty miles an hour, are applauded for their skill and perseverance. And yet man's limitations appear amid his keenest researches.

Ten thousand thousand things exist, we know, By Science tested and by Reason tried, With no conclusive issue; save to show How much we need a better light and guide.

Can Science gage the influence that draws The needle to the magnet? Can it see The perfume of the rose? or measure laws By which the flower gives honey to the bee!

Notwithstanding the great scientific discoveries of our time, man's happiness can be secured only by the union of the soul with God. The enjoyment of material things can never fully satisfy us. “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” When the soul is united to God by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, “the Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God and heirs of heaven.” Herein lies the solution of the mystery of life and of this world which God has created. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and He will send the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, to teach us all things worth knowing for the eternal life.—Converted, Catholic.