Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-02-29
What Can and What Cannot
Make Woman Happy.
LIFE MUST NOT CONSIST OF CHAS-
ING BUBBLES.
A GIRLS BLISS.
DIR. TALMAeE's SERMON SUNDAY, FEB. 10TH.

BROOKLYN, February 19th.-This morn
ing the Rev. T Dewitt Talmage, DID
preached the seventh of his series of "Sel
mons to the Women of America, with In
portant Hints to Men," The opening hymn
begins:
"Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry,
We're marching through Immanuel's groun
To fairer worlds on h1gh."
DR.. Talmage took for his text the fol
lowing words: s'She that liveth in pleasur
is dead while she liveth." He said 9th
editor of a Boston newspaper fey
DAYS ago wrote asking me the ters
questions: ''What is the road to happiness?'
A nd "Ought happiness to be the chief all
Aof life? My answer was: "The roas
to happiness is the continuous effor
to make others happy. The chief aim o
life ought to be usefulness, not happiness
but happiness always follows usefulness.
This mornings text in strong way get
forth the truth that woman who seeks il
worldly advantage her chief enjoyment, vii
come to disappointment and death. Ssh
that liveth in pleasure is dead whil,
she liveth." My friends, you all wan
to be happy. You have had grea
many recipes by which it is proposed
to give you satisfaction-sold salts
faction. At times you feel thorough un
rest. You know as well as older peopl,
VN7hat it is to be depressed. Az darl
w shadows sometimes fall upon thu
geography of the school girl as on The
page of the spectacled philosopher. l have
seen as cloudy days ia May as in November
There are no deeper sghs breathed by the
than by The granddaughter.
correct the popular impression that people
are happier in childhood and youth thar
they ever will be again. If we live Alright, the
Nlder the happier. The happiest woman
Othat 1 ever knew was Christian octo.
genarian; her hair white as white could
be; the sunlight of heaven late in the after
noon 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 advance in
life, as you come out into the world and
have your head and heart all full of good,
honest, practical CariStian 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
aud grasping bubbles.
We have not found it so.-
To many Of us it las been discove-
d ing diamonds larger than the Kohinoor,
IOand l think that CIR joy will continue
to increase until i,,iAing short of the
everlasting jubilee Of Heaven will be able
to express it.
Horatio Greenoueh. at The close of the
hardest life man ever lives-the life of an
American artist-wrnt,: II don't want to
Iao va this world mill riYa some sion that
born by the grace oi doo IN tnis land'
l have found NE 20 oe very
cheerful thlng, ana not the
Mark and bitter thing with whlen my
prospects were cicuoeo.
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known the world over, sfo'd IN tne pulpit
in Philadelphia, at seventy or elgnty years
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