News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-08
SUNDAYS SERMON.
ONE OF REV. DIR. TALMAGE'S
STERLING DISCOURSES.
Subject: What Can and What Can
not Make a Woman Happy.

TEXT: "She that hUeth in pleasure is dead
tcItae she Hreth."
The ed tor of a Boston newspaper a few
days ago wrote, asking me the terse cues
tlonS: Nv hat is the road to haDpineSs?n and
Ought happiness be the chief aim of lifeT
MY answer was: THE road to happiness j:
the continuous effort to make others happy
The chief aim of life ought to be usefuless
not happiness, but happiness always follows
usefulness Tnis nornings text in a strong
way sets forth the truth that a woman who
seeks In worldly advantage her chief enjoy.
men, iiehG VIII come to disappointment and death
liveth."
MY friends, you all want to be happy.
i ou nave had great many recipes by which
1t IS proposed to give you satissaction-solid
Satisfaction. At times You feel a 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
sGh0ol glrl as on the page of the specialized
philosopher. have seen as cloudy davs in
May IS i'll November. There are no deeper
sIghs breathed by the grandmother than bv
the granddaughter, | correct the popular
impression that people are happier in child
hood and youth than they ever will be AGAIN
II we live Alright the older the happier. The
nappIest woman thSt l ever knew was a
Christian octOgenarian; her hair white as
white could be; the sunlight of heaven late
IN the afternoon, gliding the peaks of snow.
nave to say to great many of the yonng
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
nave your head and heart all full of good
honest, practical Chistian 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 graspinr
bubbles We haUp fOI1p1 II To
many of us it has been discovering diamonds
larger than the KOhinoOr, and | think that
our Joy will continue to increase until moth
ing short of the everlasting jubilee of heaven
Will be able to express it.
dofatlo Greenough, at the close of the
hardest life man ever lives-the life of an
American artst-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 very cheerful thing, and
not the dark and bitter thing with which my
early prospects were clouded.n
Albert Barnes, the good Christian, known
the world over, stood in his pulpit in Phila-
delphla, at 10 or so years of age, and said:
This world is so very attractive to me, l am
very sorry shall have to leave it."
know that Solomon said some very dolo-
rous things about this world and three times
declared: Vanity of vanities, all is van
lty' l 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 p,easantness,
and all her paths are peace" 1t is reason
able 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
5rain Of corn and it will send up stalk with
TWO ears, each having nine hundred and fifty
grains, so that one grain planted will pro
luce nineteen hundred grains. And ought
not the implantation of grain of Christian
principle in a youthful soul develop into a
vest of eternal joy in heaven? Hear me,
then, while discourse upon some OF the mis-
takes which young people make in regard to
iiapplness, and point out to the young women
,,s;az:s s21,sjss<, 70 Irn tho ~-'-s-s - = S~'.
And, in the first place, 1 advise you not to
ouild your happiness upon mere social posi-
ion. Persons at your age, looking off upon |
ife, are apt to think that, if by some stro Ike |
of what is called good luck, you could arrive |
1t an elevated and afIuent position a little |
higher than that in which God has called you |
o live, you would be completely happy. In
mite mistake! The palace floor of Aha,uerus
S red with the blood of Vashtis broken heart. !
There have been no more scalding tears wept /
han those which coursad the cheeks of |
josephine. If the sob of unhappy WON an
oo1 in the great cities could break through |
he tapestried wall, that sob would come |
long your streets to-day like the simeon of |
he desert Sometimes have heard in the |
ustling of the robes on the city pavement |
he hiss of the adders that followed |
L the wake You have come out
rom your home, and you have looked
p at the great houSn, and covet
fe under those arches, when, perhaps, at |
nat very moment, within that house. there /
lay have been the wringing of hands, the
art OF horror and the very agony of hell.
knew such a one Her fathers house was
lain, most of the people who came there
ere plain but, by change in fortune such
sometimes comes, hand hld been offered
nat led her into a brilliant sphere. All the
aighborS congratulated her upon her grand
respects; Lut what an exchanged On her
de it was a heart full of generous impulse
nd affection. On his side it was a soul dry
nd withered as the stubb!e of the field. On
er side it was a fathers house, where God
as honored and the Sabbath light fooled
le rooms with the very mrth of heaven. |
n his side it was gorgeous residence, and
le coming of mighty men to be enter
lined there; but within it were revelry and
Odessness. Hardly had the orange blossoms
the marriage feast lost their fragrance, than
ne night of discomfort began to cast here and
lere its shadow. CrueltieS and unkindnesSeS
hanged all those splendid trappings into a
ol.ow mockery. The platters of solid silver,
lie caslets of pure gold, the head dress of
leaning diamonds were there; but no God,
0 peace, no kind words, no Christian SYM |
1luH. 1U6 ltSUtI lluSiC llldb DTOh6 OL IilS |
lptive's ear turned out to be a dirge. and {
le wreath in the plush was a reptile coil, |
nd the upholstery that swaye1 in the wind
as the wing of a destroying angel, and the
'ad drops on the pitcher were the sweat of {
despair. Oh how many rival
es and unhappin asseS among those who seek :
social life their chief happiness. 1t mat I
rs not how fine you have things, there are
her people who have them finer Taking out l
'ur watch to tell the hour of the day; some
lie will correct your timepiece by pulling E
It watch more richly chased and jeweled. !
de i'll a carriage that cost you $500 and be- I
re you get around the park you will meet $
it'll one that cost 81, 600. Have on your c
all a picture by Copley, and before night
III will hear of some one who has picture &
esh from the studio of Church or Bier b
idt. a
All that this world can do for you in sill t.
T, in gold, in Administer plush, in Gobelin f
pestry in wide halls, in lordly acquaint- t
ceship, will not give you the ten-thou- t
ndth part of grain of solid satisfaction. t
le English lord, moving i'll the very highest Il
here, was one day found seated with h
chin on his hand and his elbow on the r
ndow sill, looking out and saying: ''Oh, c
sh | could exchange places with that dogm a
ere social position will never give happi- &
IS to a woman's soul. | have had wide and &
ntinuous observation, and l tell the young a
)men that they who build on mere social q
sition their souls immortal happiness are d
ilding on the sand. d
Suppose that young woman eXCendS the a
,ghtneSs of her early life in this unsatisfac- 81
v struggle and omits the present oppor- d
nifty of usefulness in the home circle; what ST
II sake! h,
30 surely as the years roll around that rC
me IN which you now dwell will become II
tlnct. The parents will be gone, the prop W
y viii go into other possession, you your W
will be in other relationships, and that s.
me which only q w fIlll of y.
lgratulation, will be eXtinguished When I'll
1t period comes you will look back to see of
lat you did or what you neglected to do in it.
way of making home happy. 1t will be al
late to correct mistakes If you did not eS
Doth the path of your parents toward the CO
MT; 1t you did not make their last days w
ght and happy; if you allowed your mi
anger brother to go out into the world, W.
hallowed by Christian and sisterly intiu- ri
'eS: it you allowed the younger sisters of or
II family TO come up without feeling that ta
re had been a Christian example set them an
your part, there Will be nothing but bit au
ness OF lamentatiOn That bitterness VIII lie
by all the surroundings of that an
ne; by every chair, by every picture, by tn
old time mantel ornaments, by every be
ng you can think of as connected with an
{ home. All these things will rouse up of
,nizing memories. Young women, nave ev
anything to do in the way OF max in
your fathers home happyf Now IS the ev
q to attend to it, or leave it forever ul- Ma
le. Time is flying very quickly away. Ch
pose you notice the wrinkles are gather liv
and accumulating on those kindly faces is
t have so long looked upon you; there is Hi
st in the locks; the foot is not as firm in flo
step as it use1 to be; and they will soon ov
gone. The heaviest clod that. eyer falls. HC
a parents coffin lid is the memory of an w
.rateful daughter Oh, make their last set
s bright and beautiful. Do not act as yo
ugh they were in the way. Ask their Sa
nsel. seek their prayers, and, after long in.
the