The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-03-01
70 MAKE WOMEN HAPPY.
DIR. TALNIAGE WARNS THEM TO BE-
WARE OF FLATTERY.

woman Enough Pleasure to Mako 1t IN
Object of Desire--What He Said to Young
Girls About FIattery.
"Wbat can and what cannot make q
woman happy" was tho subject of the
Rev. DIR. Talmage's discourse at the
brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday moIning.
Lit was the seventh Of tho series of popu-
lar sermons to the women of America,
and hundreds more than could find ac-
commodafion went to the church. "The
editor of Boston newspaper" began
DIR. Ialmage, go few days ago wrote
asking me tho torse questions: what is
the rond to happiness?' and Ought hap
pincss to be the chief aim of lifc?' My
answer was: 'Tho road to happiness is
the continuous effort to mako others
happy. Tho chief aim of life ought to
be usefulness, not happiness; but happi-
ness always follows usefulness This
mornings text in strong way sets forth
the truth that Il woman who seeks in
worldly advantage her chief enjoyment
will come to disappointment and death.
SHE that liveth in pleasure is dead while
she livoth.
81 correct the popular impression that
people are happier in childhood and
youth than they will ever be again. If
we live Alright, the older the happier.
The happiest woman that J. ever knew
was 4 Christian octogenarian. / have to
say to great many of the young people
that the most miserable time you are
over to have is just now. AS you ad-
vance i'll life, rs you come out into the
world and have your hef d 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
thistledown and grasping bubbles. We
have not found it SO.
''And i'll the first place, J. advise you
not to build your happiness upon mere
social position. Persons at your age,
looking off upou life, are apt to think
that if, by some stroke OF what is called
good luck, you could arrive in an ele-
waited and atlluent position, a little high
CT than that i'll which God has called
you to live, you would DO completely
happy. Infinite mistake! If the sob of
unhappy wOmanhood in the great cities
could break through the tapestried wall,
that sob would come along your streets
to-day like the simeon of tho desert.
Sometimes J. have heard in the rustling
of tho robes on the city pavement tho
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 coFat Tito under those
arches, when, perhaps, at that very mo-
been the wringing OF hands, the start of
lNrrOr. and Che very OJOnV of boIl
'tAll that this world can do for you in
silver, in gold, in Administer plush, in
Gobclin tapestry, in wide halls, in lordly
acqaintanceship, will not give you the
ten tn ousandth part of n grain of solid
satisfaction. Mere social position will
mover give happiness to womans soul.
1 have had vice and continuous observa-
ton, and [ tell the young women that
they who build on mere social position
their souls immortal happiness are
building on the sand.
"Young women, have you anything to
do i'll the way of making your fathers
home happy? Now is the TIM 10 attend
to it, or leave it forever urdone. Time
is flying very quickly away. | suppose
you notice wrinkles are gathering and
accommodating on those kindly faces that
have SO long looked upon you; there is
frost III the locks; the foot is not rs firm
in its steps as it used to be, and thoy
will soon be gone. The heaviest clod
that falls on a parents coffin lid is the
memory Of an uDgrateful daughter. Oh,
make their last days bright and bcauti-
full. Do not act as though they were in
the way. Ask their counsel, seek their
prayers, and, after long years have
passed, and you go ont to sec the grave
,1n tod
oil over tho mounds something loveher
the rose, something chastcr than the lily
the bright and beautiful memories OF
tilial kindness performed ere the dying
hand dropped on you n bencdiction and
You closed the lids over tho weary eyes
Of the Worn-out pilgrim.
81 go further, and advise you not to
depend for enjoyment upon mere per
sonal attractions. 1t would be sheer
hypocrisy, because we may not have it
ourselves, to deSpisc, or affect to despisC,
beauty in others. When God gives it,
He gives it as blessing and Il means Of
usefulness. The sloven has only ono
mission, and that is to excite our loath-
ing and disgust. But alas for those who
depend upon personal charms for their
happiness! Beauty is such subtle
thing; it does not seem to depend upon
facial proportions, or upon the sparkle
OF tho eye, or upon the flush Of the
check You sometimes find it among
irregular features. 1t is the soul shin
ing through the faco that makes one
beautiful. But alas! for those who de-
pend upon mere personal charms. They
will come to disappointment and to a
great fret There are so many different
opinions about what are personal charms
and then sickness and trouble and age
do make such ravages. The poorest god
that woman over worships is her own
face. The saddcst sight in all tho world
is woman who has built everything on
good looks when the charms begin to
vanish. Oh, how they try to cover the
wrinkles and hide the raYagcs of time!
When Time, with ironshod feet, steps on
a face the hoof marks remain, and you
cannot hide them. II is silly to try to
hide them. l think the most repulsive
fool in tho world is an old fool!
"Again, | advise you not to depend
for happiness upon the batteries of men.
1t is a poor compliment to your sex that