National Republican., 1888-02-20
TEE ROAD TO HAPPINESS.
REV, DIR. TALMAGE TELLS HOW 1T MAY
BE FOUND.
In His Series of Sermons to Women
He Finds u Text In an EdItor's 0ues-
ton and Tells How We May All be
supremely Happy.

'Then let OUR songs HDOun0,
And every tear be dry;
We're marching through Tmmanuel's ground,
To fairer worlds on high"
DR.. Talmage took for his text the following
words; "she that liveth In pleasure is dead
while she liveth." He said:
The editor of Boston newspaper few days
ago wrote, asking me the terse questions
"What 10 the road TO happine,sW and "Ought
happiness be the chlet aim of lifeW My an
swer was, THE road 70 happiness is the con. con
chief aim of life ought TO be usefulness, not hap.
piness, but happiness always follows useful
sets S forth the truth that woman who seeks Ii,
worldly advantage her chief enjoyment will
come to disappointment and death. ,She that
llyeth in pleasure is dead while she liveth."
My friends, you all want to be happy. You
have had great many recipes by which 1t is
proposed 10 give you satisfaction--so salts
faction. At times you feel q thorough unrest
You know as well as older people what It is TO
be depressed, as dark shadows sometimes
fall upon the geography of the school girl as
on the page of the specialized PHILOSOPHER. 1
have seen as cloudy days in May as in Novem-
beT There are no deeper sighs breathed by
the grandmother thanb by the granddaughter.
happier in childhood and youth than they ever
will be again. II we live Alright, the older tho
happier. The happlest woman that ever knew
was aChristian ootogenarian; her hair whiteas
white could be; the sunlight of heaven late
in the afternoon gliding the peaks of snow,
have 70 say to great many OF the young
btOpIe tuS must mlsGIhDlt llhlc SOu hlS
ever to have is Just now. As you advance in
and have your head and heart all full of
good, honest practical Christian work. then
yeu will know what II is TO begin to be happy,
There are those who would have us believe
that life Is chasing thistle.down aud grasping
bubbles, We have not found II So To many
OF usit has been discovering diamonds larger
than the Kohnoor, and think that our Joy
will continue to increase until nothing short
of the everlasting jubilee of heaven will be
able TO express II.
IIoratio Greenough, at the close Of the hard
est a e S ta A@e f6s
world until give some sign that born by the
grace of God in this land, have found life to
bitter thing with which my early prospects
Albert Barnes, the good Christian, known
Jbit, at. 20 or SO 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"
Isuppose 1t was a reference to those times in
his career when his 200 wives almost pestered
the life out of him. But would rather turn
10 the description he gave after his conversion,
when he says, In another place, "Her ways
peace" II Is reasonable to expect II will be
so. The longer the fruit hangs on the tree
The ripper and more mellow 1t ought to grow,
send up stalk with two ears, each having $50
grains. so that one grain planted will produce
1000 grains, And ought not the implanta.ion
OF grain of Christian principle In youthful
soul develop into large crop of gladness on
earth and to harvest OF eternal joy in
heaven? Hear me, then, while discourse
upon some of the mistakes which young peo.
pie make in regard to happiness, and point
out to the young women what consider to be
the source OF complete satisfaction.
And, in the first place, advise you not TO
build your happiness upon mere social posi-
tion. Persons at your age, looking OIL upon
life, are apt to think that If, by some stroke Of
I, an elevated and afiluent position, q little
higher than that in which God has called
yo1 TO live you would be completely happy.
rus 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 Josephine. lfthe sob of unhappy
womanhood in the great cities could break
through the tapestricd wall, that sob would
come along your streets today like the simeon
rustlipg OF the robes ON the city pavement the
hiss OF the adders that followed in the wake
You have come out from your home aud 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 change In fortune such as sometimes
into brilliant sphere. All the neighbors con.
graduated her upon her grand prospects; but
what an exchange! on her side Y was a heart
full of generous impulse and affection. Or
cred as the stubble, of the field. or
her. side IT was, fathers house, where
flooded the rooms with the very mirth o
heaven. on his side 1T was gorgeous resi-
denee, ana the coming Of mighty men to bl
and godlessness. Hardly had the orange bios
SONS of the marriage feast lost their fragrance
than the night OF discomfort began to cast her!
nesses changed all those splendid trapping
into hollow mockeiy. The pla,ters Q
solid silver, the easke,s Of pure gold
no King words, no, Christian sympathy, The
iestal music that broke on the captives eai
turnMi on TO be dirge, and the wrcath in tn
that ssSyed in the wind was the wing of th
pitcher Ware % tRe sweat S OF Of everlasting Despair
o. how, many rivalries and unhappinesse
among those who seek in social life their chic
things, there are other people who have !
finer. Taking, out, your, watch to tel
the hour Of lor the s,r,on,sSss day. some ST on
out a watch more richly chased lard jeweled
Ride in a carriage that cost YOU $500, and be
fore you get around .he park you will NEE
picture by Copley, and before night yo
will hear some one who has a picture fres
from the studio of Church or Biersladt.
All that this world can DO for you in silver
in gold, in Administer plush, in Gobeln tapes
try, in wide halls, in lordly acqualntanceshir
win 19t give the eten'thonsandth part of grail
ing in the very, highest sphere, was one dG
found seated, with his chin on his hand an
his elbow on the window sill, looking out an
saying: "oh, wish l could exchange place
Mere social position will never give happi
ness TO woman's soul have had wide an
hear m nd tall thn, ,,,
women that they who build on mere socia
position their souls immortal happiness ar
b uilolng ON the sand.
brightness of her early life in this unsatisfaC
tory struggle, and omits the present opportu
nifty OF usefulness in the home circle, what
So surely as the years roll around that hom
in which you now dwell will become eXtinc
The parents will be gone, the property will G
other relationships, and that home which
only year ago, was iull Of congratulatlor
w 0S So io6E back hSn S mat bPso
did or what you neglected to do In the way
making home happy. II viii be too late I
path ofyour parents toward the tomb; ifyou di
not make their last days bright and happy;
you'allowea your younger brother TO so outint
me wGIin, unha'lowed by Christian aud SIS
sisters of your family to come up without fee
ing that there had been a Christian exampl
set Ihem on your part, there VIII be nothln
but bitterness of lamentation, That bite
ness will be increased by all the surround
ings OF that home, by every chair, by ever
picture, by the old time mantel ornament
by everything you can think of as connecte
with that home. All these things VIII rous
up agorizing memories. Young women, hav
YOU anything TO do in the way of making you
fathers home happy? Now " the time TO a
tend to it, or leave It forever undone. Time
flying very quickly away. ] suppose you NJ
tice the wrinkles are gathering and account
lntinp those kindly thnt I'm N
looked upon you; there Is frost in the lock-
the foot Is not as firm IN ! step as IL used /
he, ana they will soon be gone. The heaveI