The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-02-23
TIE ROAD TO HAPPINESS.
DIR. TALMAciE SEVENTH SERMON TO
THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.

In. iHlNiHCE OGNGN n SeRMON ] q
THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.
'What Can and What Cannot Make a
Woman Happy His subject-The Chief
Aim of Life Should Be UsefuIness-lIls-
takes of Young People.
BROOKLYN, Feb. 19.-Ths morning
the Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage, DID.
preached the seventh of his series Of
|f5eI mons to the Women 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 Immanuel's ground.
To fairer worlds on high
DIR. Talmage took for his text the fol
lowing words: ''She that liveth in pleas
ure is dead while she liveth.n He said:
The editor of Boston newspaper, q
few days ago, wrote asking me the terse
questions: ssWhat is the road to happi-
ness2" and, ssOught happiness be the
chief aim of life2'' My answer was:
effort to make others happy. The chief
happiness, but happiness always follows
usefulness. This mornings text in
strong way sets forth the truth that a
woman who seeks in worldly advantage
her chief enjoyment will come to disap-
pointment and death. ''She that liveth
in pleasure is dead while she liveth.n
My friends, you all want to be happy.
You have had great many recipes by
which it is proposed to give you salts
faction-solid satisfaction. At times You
feel a thorough unrest. You know as
well as older people what it is to be de-
pressed. AS dark shadows sometimes
fall upon the geography of the school
girl as upon the page of the spectacled
philosopher. have seen as cloudy days
in May as in November There are no
deeper sighs breathed by the grandmother
than by the granddaughter. ! correct
the popular impression that people are
happier in childhood and youth than they
ever will be again. If we live Alright, the
older the happier. The happiest woman
that l ever knew was Christian octoge-
marian; her hair white as white could be;
the sunlight of heaven late in the afternoon
gliding the peaks of snow. have to say
to a great many of the young people
that the most miserable time you are
ever to have Is just now, AS you adj
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
thistledown and grasping bubbles We
have not found it SO. To many of us it
has been discovering diamonds larger
than the Kohinoor, and I think that our
Joy will continue to increase until moth
ing short of the everlasting jubilee of
heaven will be able to express it.
Horatio Greenough, at the close of the
hardest life man ever hves-the life Of
an American artist-wrote: 81 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 a
very cheerful thing, and not the dark and
bitter thing with which my early pros
poets were ciouded. "
Albert Barnes, the good Christian,
known the world over, stood in his pull
pit in Philadelphia at 70 or so years of
age, and said:
''This world is SO very attractive to
me, l am very sorry I shall have to leave
it."
/ know. that Solomon said some very
dolorous things about this world, and
three times declared: ''Vanity of vani-
ties, all is vanity" suppose it was a
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 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. You plant one grain OF
corn and it will send up a stalk
with two ears, each having csc
grains, so that one grain planted will
produce 1000 grains. And ought moi
the implantation of grain of Christian
principle in youthful soul develop into
q large crop of gladness on earth, to {
harvest of eternal joy in heaven9 Heal
me, then, while / discourse upon soslt
of the mistakes which young people
make in regard to happiness, and poin
out to the young women what I consider
And, in the first place, l advise yor
not to build your happiness upon mere
social position. Persons at your age
locking off upon life, are apt to thinl
that if, by some stroke of what is callec
good luck, you could arrive in an ele
waited and atiluent position, little highe
than that in which God has called you Il
live, you would be completely happy
Infinite mistakel The palace floor o
Ahasuerus is red with the blood of Wash
it's broken heart There have been M
moro scalding tears wept than thos'
which coursed the cheeks of Josephine
If the sob of unhappy womanhood IL
the great cities could break through
the tapestried wall, that sob woul,
come along your streets today like tn
simeon of the desert Sometimes | havt
heard in the rustling of the robes on tn
CITY pavement the hiss of the adders tina
followed in the wake. You have conn
out from your home, and you hav
looked up at the great house, and cove
a life under those arches, when perhaps
ut that very moment, within that house
there may have been the wrisging o
hands, the start of horror and the yer,
agony of hell. ! knew such q one. He
fathers house was plain, most of tn
people who came there Were plain; but
by change of fortune such as some
times comes, hand had been offero
that led her into brilliant sphere. A,
the neigkbors congratulated her upo
her grand prospects; but what an ex
change. On her side it was heart fu
of generous impulse and affection O
his side il was soul dry and withere
as the stubble of the field On her sid
il was fathers house, where God Wa
Lonorcd and the Sabbath light foode
the rooms with the very mirth of heavel
On his side it was Il gorgeous residenc'
and the coming of nlighty-men to be CT
tertaincd there; but within it were re-
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