PERSONAL PROBLEMS
My own, partly personal and partly professional.
Q. Why don’t people send questions to this department?
A. 1. Because it does not interest them.
A. 2. Because they have no problems.
A. 3. Because they see no reason to expect satisfactory answers.
A. 4. Because they do not understand that questions are asked for.
Now if any of the first three answers are correct, there is nothing to be said—and no use for this department.
But if its the last—herein it is stated that the purpose of this department is to seriously discuss real “personal problems” such as do arise in most lives; and to which neither the minister nor Ruth Ashmore do justice.
It is not proposed to furnish absolute wisdom; only comparative.
One question was considered in the January issue; and a very earnest letter of inquiry was answered at great length for this number but proved too long—will appear in July.
What has always been a problem to me is how people can be alive and take so little interest in the performance.
Here is Life—Death—and a discussable Immortality. Here is Love—of all kinds and sizes. Here is Happiness—so big that you can’t swallow it; and Pain—an unlimited assortment.
Here are Things Going On—all kinds of things.
And here are we—making button holes in the back parlor—breaking our heads in a sham fight in the back yard!
Question. Why don’t people wake up and LIVE! World-size?
Answer ……………………..
Some of you send an answer!