Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02
ROAD TO HAPPINESS.
,,.,,,,sses Seventh Sermon to the Wo-
men of America.

can and What Cannot Make a Wo-
'' ,,,,,y- His Suhiect-The Chief Aim
u" odd Re Usefulness-NIist axes of
mag People.
'' |7,,,yx. Feb. 19.-This morning the
zoe" :" n ), WITT Talmage, D. D., preached
IL a,b If his series of Sermons to
s $. ,n.,, of America, with Important
No o. Ven The opening hymn be-
io. ,i,, songs abound,
And ,es, s". through Immanuel's ground,
e. re- .a 'i,, worlds on high.
r,imose took for his text the follow.
Il IDS a. she that liveth in pleasure is
N ',,;,e she liveth." He said:
1e editor of Boston newspaper, few
~ AGO. wrote asking me the terse ques.
>. "Wnat is the road to happiness?"
s.ouelt happiness to be the chief aim
,..n NV answer was: "The road to
ne ;,ass is the continuous effort to make
, na Sopuy. The chief aim of life ought
fls ,s cot not happiness, but happi-
always follows usefulness. This
mas text in a strong way sets forth
ILL., Nth that q woman who seeks in
INV Nv" advantage her chief enjoyment will
- disappointment and death. "She
Iyetb in pleasure is dead while she
w. friends, You ell want to be happy.
hove !, great many recipes by which it
.o AMOS to give you satisfaction-solid
pfaac,;or. At times you feel a thorough
~. You know rs we'll as older people
II is to be depressed. AS dark shad-
sometimes fall upon the geography of
school. girl as upon the page of the
r,acled philosopher. I have seen as
1y DAYS in May as in November.
re- are no deeper signs breathed by the
almothcr than by the granddaughter.
rrect the popular impression that peo-
are happier in childhood and youth
tbey ever will be again. If We live
nj. the older the happier. The happi-
woman that / ever knew was Chris
octocenarian; her hair white as white
la be; the sunlight of Heaven late in
afternoon gliding the peaks of snow.
i've to say to a great many of the young
nle that the most miserable time you
ever to have is just now. AS you adj
ce in life, as you come out into the world
have your head and heart all full of
4. honest. practical Christian work,
YOU will know what it is to begin to be
nv. There are those who would have
believe that life is chasing thistledown
grasping bubbles. We have not found
). To many of us it has been dis
ering diamonds larger than the Kohl
r, and think that our joy will continue
Increase until nothing short of the ever
inc Jubilee of Heaven will be able to
ress it.
cratic Greenough, at the close of the
lest life man ever lives-the life of
American artist-wrote: II don't want
cave this world until I give some sign
born by the grace of God in this land,
Ave found life to be a very cheerful
be-, and not the dark and bitter thing
which MY early prospects were
ldei."
lbert Barnes, the good Christian,
wn the world over, stood in his pulpit
Philadelphia at seventy or eighty years
Ice, and said:
This world is so very attractive to me,
very sorry shall have to leave it."
know that Solomon said some very
bious things about this world, and
times declared: "Vanity of vanities,
is vanity" | suppose it was reference
hose times in his career when his seven
(dred wives almost pestered the life out
lin. But I would rather turn to the
cription he gave after his conversion,
In he says in another place: "Her ways
ways of pleasantness, and all her paths
peace" The longer the fruit hangs on
tree, the ripper and more mellow it
|ht to grow. You plant one grain of
and it will send up stalk with two
each having $50 grains, so that one
IN planted will produce 1900 grains.
ought not the implantation of grain
christian principle in youthful soul
elop into large crop of gladness on
b, to a harvest of eternal joy in
Ryen? Hear me, then, while I discourse
n some of the mistakes which young
pie make in regard to happiness, and
pit out to the young women what con
n to be the source of complete satisfac-
nd, IN the first place, advise you not
lulld your happiness upon mere social
tlon. Persons at your age, looking of
life, are apt to think that if, by some
Ike OF what is called good luck, you
va &c! arrive at an elevated and affiuent
tlon, little higher than that in which
mas called you to live, you would be
petely happy. Infinite mistake! The
Zee floor of Ahasuerus is red with the
pa OF Vashtis broken heart. There
oeen no more scalding tears wept than
Ie which coursed the cheeks of jose
ae' II the sob of unhappy womanhood
Ie great cities could break through the
'strled wall, that sob would come along
street to-day like the simeon of the
IT. Sometimes I have heard in the
ing OF the robes on the city pavement
n'ss OF the adders that followed in the
e. You have come out from your
e. and you have looked up at the great
w. and covet a life under those arches,
~ perhaps, at that very moment, within
nsouse, there may have been the wiring.
VI hands, the start of horror and the
agony of hell. I knew such one.
ialner house was plain, most of the
pc VINO came there were plain; but, by
ange of fortune such as sometimes
es, hand had been offer ed that led her
brilliant sphere. All the neighbors
B = her upon her grand pros
5; but what an exchange! On her side
~ "a. heart full of generous impulse
ahecuon. On his side it was soul
'nu wlthered as the stubble of the
un her side it was fathers house,
e uod was honored and the Sabbath
hooded the rooms with the very mirth
ae e On his side it was a gorgeous
selice' and the coming of mighty men
entertained there; but within it were
ny ny az ana godlessness. Hardly had the
e blossoms of the marriage feast lost
LAGRANGE than the night of discomfort
W. 10 cast here and there its shadow.
'''es and unkindnesses changed oil
Splendid traLpings into q hollow