Mortals, the world over, are seeking contentment. The seeming impossibility to attain it leads to one of two conclusions,—that man does not know how to find it, or that it is not to be found.
Like any other problem, if we are ignorant of the solution, or are working from a wrong basis, we will fail to get a correct result. If we multiply where we ought to subtract, we will have a proportionately wrong answer. So, if we live in the belief that matter is the source of pleasure or pain, happiness or sorrow, and seek contentment from this basis rather than recognizing God, Good, as the source of all harmony, we will fail to find contentment, the false sense of life and intelligence in matter, which is the source of discontent, meanwhile increasing as we multiply our belief in it.
Paul evidently solved the question of contentment in his own consciousness sufficiently to warrant him in admonishing others, for he not only says, "I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content"; but also, "Be content with such things as ye have," thus proving contentment to be a present possibility.
