Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-24
OF old AGE.
The Longer the Fruit Grows on the
Tree, the More Mellow 1t
Becomes.
The Seed That childhood should Plant
to Produce the Fruit Of Enjoyment
In Declining Years.
T. Dewitt TaImage breaches the seventh c I
His Valuable Sermons to the Women
OF This Country.
to the Gazntte

BROOKLYN, N. z, Feb. 19-Thls
D. D., preached the seventh Of his series
Of "Sermons to the W. men of America,
with Important Hints to Men" The
opening hymn begins:
Then let our songs abound.
And every tear be dry;
We're marching through Immaluers ground,
To fairer worlds on high.
Dr.lTalmsge took for his text the fol-
lowing words: "She that liveth in pleas
ure is dead while she liveth." he said:
The editor of q Boston newspaper few
days ago wrote asking me the terse ques
tons: "What is the road to happi-
ness?" and, "Ought happiness
be the chief aim Of life?"
My answer Was: "The road to
happiness is the continuous effort to
mske Others happy. The chief aim OF
life ought to be usefulness, not happiness,
but happiness al ways follows usefulness"
This mornings text in q strong way Gets
forth the truth that woman who seeks
in worldly advantage her chief enjoyment,
will come to disappointment and death.
"She that liveth in pleasure is dead
while she liveth."
My friends, you all want to be happy.
You have had great many recipes by
which 1t Is proposed to give you satisiac-
tion-solid satisfaction. At times you
feel thorough unrest. You know as well
ss older peop e what 1t is to be depressed.
as dark shadows sometimes fsll upon the
geography Of the school girl as on the page
OF the specialized philosopher. l have seen
as cloudy days in May as In November.
There are no deeper signs brea'hed by the
grandmother than by the granddaughter.
Correctt the popular impression that people
are happier IN childhood and youth than
they ever will be a. ain. II we live Alright,
the older the hapoier. The hsppiest
woman that l ever knew WAS Christian
octogensrian; her hair white as white
could be; the sunlight Of heaven late in
the afternoon gliding the peaks CT snow.
have to say 10 great many Of the
young people that the most miserable
time you are e7c- 20 have is just now. AS
you advance in life, as you Come out into
the world and have your head and heart
all full of good, honest, practical Chris
tisn work, then you will know what it is
to begin to be happy. There are those
who would have US believe that life is
chasing thistle down and grasping bub-
bles. We have not found it SO. To
many of US it has been discovering dia-
monds larger ih-n
THE HoHINooR,
and think that our Joy Will continue TO
Increase until nothing short of the ever
LASTING Jubilee of heaven will be able to
express 1t.
Horstio Greenough, at the close of tine
hardest life man ever lives-the life of
an American artist-wrote: az don't
wasn't to leave this world until give some
sign that, born by the grace of God 10 this
laud, have found life to be very cheer
full thing, and not the dark and bitter
thing with which my early prospects were
clouded."
Albert Barnes, the good Christian,
kno Rn the world over, stood. in his pull
pit in Philadelphia, at seventy or eighty
years of age, aud said: "This world is so
very attractive to me, am very sorry l
shall have to leave it."
1 know that Solomon said some very
d1lorous things about this world, snd
three times declared: "Vanity Of vanities,
sill is vanity" 1 suppose it was 3
reference to those times in his
career when his seven hundred wives
almost pestered the life out of
him. But would rather turn to the
description he gave after his cony.r-
sion, when he says in another place:
"Her ways are wsys of pleassntness, and
sill her paths are peace" II ia reasons
BILE to expect it will be so. The longer
the fruit hangs on the tree, the ripper and
more mellow it ought to grow. You
MA mil
up stalk with two ears, esch having
nine hundred and Atty grains, so that one
grain planted will produce nineteen
implnntation Of q grain of Christian prin-
ciple In youthful soul develop into
large crop Of glsdness on earth sud TO
harvest OF eternal Joy in hesven9 Hear
me then, while l discourse upon some of
the mistakes which young people make
in regard TO happiness, and point out to
the young women what consider to be
the source Of complete satisfaction.
And, in the first place, Isdvise you not
to build your happiness upon mere
SOCIAL POSITION.
Persons st your sge, locking of upon
life, are sps to think that IL, by some
stroke OF what is called good luck, you
could STRIVE in an elevated and sffiuent
position, little higher than that In
which God has called you to live, you
would be completely happy. Infinite
mistskei The palace floor Of Ahssuerus
ia red with the blood Ct Vashti's broken
hesrt. There have been no more scsld-
ing tears wept than those which coursed
the cheeks of Josephine. II the sob OF
unhappy womsnhood Ia the great cities
could break through the tEpsstried wall,
that sob would come along your streets
to day like the simeon of The desert.
Some times 1 have heard In the rustling
of the robes on the city pavement the hise
of the sdders that followed in the wake
You have come out from
your home, and you have looked up
st the great house, and covet 9
life under those srches, when, perhsps,
st that very moment, within thai house,
there may have been the wringiDg of
hands, the start Of horror, and the very
sgony Of hell. l knew such an one. Her
fathers house was plsiD, most OF the
people who came there we're plain; but,
by change In fortune such as sometimes
comes, hand bad been offered that led
her into brilliant sphere. All the neigh
bors congratulated her upon her grand
prospects; but what an exchanged On
her side 1t was heart full of generous
Impulse and affection. On his side it was
a soul dry and withered IS the stubble Of
the field. On her side it was fathers
house, where God was honored and the
Sabbath light q soded the raoms wish the
very mirth of heaven. On his side it wss
s gorgeous residence, snd the coming of
mighty men re be entertained there; but