The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-02-24
WOMEN OF AMERICA.
TALMAGEs SUNDAY DISCOURSE AT
THE TABERNACLE,
What Can and What Cannot
Make a Woman Happy"

70 She That Liveth in Pleasnre L
Dead While She Liveth." -
'pec'"' 20 me Kansas City Times
BROOKLYN, Feb. 19.-This morntno tho
new l. Dewitt Talmage, D. D., preached
Inc seventh of his series of Sermons to the
women OF America, with Important Hints
70 Wen" The opening hymn begins:
Ihen let our songs abound
And every tear be dry;
were marching through Immanuera ground
10 fairer worlds on high"
" 1almage took for his text the following
"olus: she that liveth in pleasure is dead
while she liveth." He said;
The editor of Boston neyspaper few
Gays ago wrote asking me the terse question;
What Is the road to happinessl" and,
Ought happiness be the chief aim of life2n
My answer was ''The road to happiness IA
the continuous effort to make Others happy,
The chief aim of life ought to be usefulness,
not happiness, but happiness ALWAYS follows
usefulness" This mornings text in a strong
way sets forth the truth that woman who
seeks in worldly advantage her chief enjoy
ment, 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
nave had great many recipes by which it is
proposed to give you satisfaction-solid salts
lactlon. At times you feel a thorough I'M
rest You know as well as older people what
1t is to be depressed. AS dark shadows some
times fall upon the geography Of the school
girl as on the page of the specialized philoso-
pner. have seen as cloudy days in Nav as
in November. There are no deeper sigbs
oreathed by the grandmother than by
the granddaughter. l correct the popular
Impression that people are happier
III cn1idhood and youth than they
ever will be again. If we live Alright the old
er the happier The happiest woman that
ever knew was Christian OctOgenarian: her
hair white as white could be; the sunlight of
heaven late in the afternoon gliding the peaks
OF snow. have to say to great many of the
young people that the most miserable time
you are ever to have is just now. AS you ad-
vance In life, as you come out into the world
and have your head and heart all full of good,
honest, practical Christian 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 graspng
bubbles We have not found it so. TO MANY
OF US it has been discovering diamonds larger
than the KOhinoOr, and think that our jOy
will continue to increase until nothing
short of the everlasting jubilee of heaven will
be able to express it.
Horatio Greenough, at the close of the
hardest life man ever lives-the life of an
American artist-WrOte: II don't want to
leave this world until give some sign that,
born by the grace of God in this land, | have
found life to be very cheerful thing, and not
the dark and bitter thing with which my early
prospects were clOuded''
Albert Barnes the good Christian, known
the world over, stood in his pulpit in Philadel-
phia, at seventy or eighty years of age, and
said:
"This world is so very attractive to me
am very sorry shall have to leave it,"
know that Solomon said some very dolor-
Gus things about this world, and three times
declared Vanity of vanities, all is vanity"
| suppose it was 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 descrip-
tiOn he gave after his conversion, when he
says in another place: "Her ways are ways of
pleasantness, and all her paths are peace"
1t Is reasonable to expect it will be so. The
longer the fruit hangs on the tree, the ripper
and more mellow it ought to grow. Y GU plant
one grain of corn and it will send up stalk
with two ears, each having nine hundred and
fifty grains, so that one grain planted will pro-
duce nineteen hundred grains. And ought
not the implantatiOn of a grain Of Christian
principle in a youthful soul develop into a
large crop of gladness on earth and to a har-
vest of eternal JOY in heaven? Hear me, then,
which young people make in regard to happi-
ness, and point out to the young women what
/ consider to be the source of complete salts
faction.
And, in the first place, l advise you not to
build your happiness upon mere social posi-
tiOn. Persons at your age looking off upon
life, are apt to think that If. by some stroke of
what is called good luck, you could arrive in
an elevated and affluent position, a little
higher than that in which God has called you
to live, you would be completely happy. In
finite mistake The palace floor of Ahasuerus
is red with the blood of Vashti's broken heart
There have been no more scalding tears wept
than those which cOursed the cheeks of jose
phine. If the sob of unhappy womanhood in
the great cities could break through the
tapestried wall, that sob would come along
your street to-day like the simeon OF the des-
ert Sometimes | have heard in the rustling
of the robes on the city pavement the hiss of
the adders that followed in the wake. You
have come out from your home, and you
have looked up at the great house, and covet a
life under those arches, when, perhaps, at that
very moment within that house, there may
have been the wringing of hands, the start of
horror, and the very agony Of hell | knew
, such an one. Her fathers house was plain,
most of the people Who came there were plain
but, by a change In fortune such as some
times comes hand had been offered that led
her into brilliant sphere. All the neighbors
congratulated her upon her grand prospectus
but what an exchange! On her side it was .
heart full of generous impulse and affection
On this side it was a soul dry and withered as
the stubble of the field. ON her side it was a
fathers house. where God was honOred and
the Sabbath light flooded the rooms with the
very mfrth of heaven. On his side Ii was a
gorgeous residence, and the coming Of mighty
| men to be entertained there; but within 1t
were revelry and gOdlessness. Hardly had the
orange blossoms of the marriage feast lost
their fragrance, than the night of discomfort
| began to cast here and there It's shadow.
| Cruelties and unkindnesses changed au those
splendid trappings into . hollow mockery.
1 The patters OF solid silver, the caskets OF pure
| gold, the head dress of cleaning diamonds,
| were there; but no God, no peace, no KIM
| words, 20 Christian sympathy The festal
| music that broke on the captive's ear turned
| out to be a dirge, aud the wreath IN the plush
| was a reptile coil, and the upholstery that
| swaved in the wind was the wing OF destroy
| ing angel and the bead drops on the pitcher
! were the sweat of everlasting despair. o. how
many rivalries and unhappinesses among
! those who seek In social life their CHIEF happl
/ ness! 1t matters not how fine you have
| things: there are other people who have u
finer Taking out your watch TO tel
| the hour of the day, some one
will correct your timepeace by pulling
ont watch more richly chased and leWelled'
Ride in a carriage that cost you eight hun
dred dollars, and before you get around The
! mark YOU will meet with one that cost two