Telegram-herald., 1888-02-20

TIE ssveNTH SERMON TO WOMEN
q. What csa ssa Nhst C.saet Make We
nsza HspFs'' the ssbisct-TSs Chief
aim 90 life >houfa De .-fslhsss
Mistzkss ~ Young Fsopls

AIM 90 Life shout" Dr = ssfsibess
Mistakes ~ Young People
Dao0xLxN, Fsa ~ This mernsnz the
Rev 7 - Wa Tslal@Se, d D, presolssl
tas sessath u his ssriSs II sermons 70 the
Women q AmeraA. With Importzat Hiatt
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Dr. TaIzlAge TOOK for his text the follow
lag words. '.SAe ta&t iiveth Ia pleasure Is
dad while sAs hseIh' lie said.
The e,htog q Boston Newspaper few
days aso wrote, ssklRg me TIE terse cues
tions. "ivast 5 the read 10 happiness And
''Ousht happiness be ths chief aim OF hfeF
NJ answer was. The road 10 happiness is
the continuous effort 10 make others happy.
The chief aim u life ought % Be usefulness,
not happiaeas, but happiness always follows
usefulness This mornings text ia a strong
way sets forth the truth that woman who
seeks ia worldly advantage her chief enjoy
ment VIII come 90 disappointment and death
'-She that lveth IN pleasure Is dead while she
hveth.p
My friends. you all wan, 20 he happy.
You have had great many recipes by which
IL Is proposed to give YOU satisfaction-solid
satisfaction AT times you feel a thorough
unrest You know .Ns well older people
what il is 20 be depressed. As dark shadows
sometimes fall upon the geography OF tho
school girl as Oh the page OF the spectaclsd
Philosopher. | have seen as .cioudy days in
May as in November. There are no deeper
Eghs breathed BY the grandmother than by
the granddaughter. / correct the popular
impression that people are happier in child
hood and youth than they ever will be again
Il 80 live Alright, the older the happier. The
/ happiest woman that | ever know was
/ Christian octogenarian; her hatr white as
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
people that the most miserable time you are
ever 20 have il just now. As you advance
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
viii know what it is 70 begin 70 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 il has been discovering diamonds
larger than the Kohinoor, al think that
ing short of the everlasting jubilee of heaven
Z will be able to express il.
Horatio Greenough, at the close Of the
hardest life a man ever lives-the life of an
American artist-wrote: IL 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 verJ 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-
dclphia, at 40 or 80 years OF age, and said:
'This world is so very attractive to me, am
very sorry shall have 10 leave it.
+ know that Solomon said some very dolo-
rous things about this world and three times
declared: Vanity Of van;ties, oil is van
ity.n | suppose it was a reference TO those
times in his career when his seven hundred
wives almost pestered TIE life out of him. But
would rather turn to the description be gave
after his conversion, when he says in another
place: Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
and all her paths are peace" 1t is reason
able 20 expect it will be so. The longer the
fruit hangs on the tree, the riper and more
mellow it ought 10 grow. You plant one
grain of corn and II will send up a stalk with
two ears, each having nine hundred and fifty
grains, so that one grain planted viii pro-
duce nineteen hundred grains. And ought
not toe implantation OF grain of Christian
principle in a youthful soul develop into a
large crop Of gladness on earth. and to har-
vest OF eternal Joy in heaveni Hear me,
then, while / discourse upon some Of the mis-
takes which young people make in regard TO
happiness. and point out 10 the young women
what consider 20 be the source of complete
satisfaction.
And. in the first place, advise YOU not to
build your happiness upon mere social posi-
ton Persons at your age, looking OF upon
life, are apt 10 think hat, If by some stroke
OF what is called good luck, YOU could arrive
IN an elevated and afIluent position, little
higher than that in which God has called you
TO live you would De completely happy In
finite uistakel The palace floor Of Ahasuerus
is red with the blooo OF ashts's broken heart
There have been no more scalding tears wcpt
than those which coarsed the cheeks OF
J0ephine. II the sob Of unhappy woman
hood in tho great cities could break through
the tapestrled wall that sob would come
along your streets today like the simeon OF
the desert. Sometimes | have heard in the
rustlinS Of the robes on the city pavement
the hiss Of the addeTs that followed
IN the wake You have como out
from your home. and you have boxed
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 toe wringing Of hands, tho
start Of horror ana the very agony Of hell.
Knew such a one Her fathers house was
PLAIN, most Of the people who came theirs
were plain. but, By a change in fortune such
as sometimes cones. hand had been offered
that lcd hcr into brilliant sphere. All the
ueighhors congratulated her upon her grand
prospects. but what an sxchangei On hcr
sids is was heart full of generous impulse
ana affection On his side it was soul dly
and withersd as the Stubhle ~ The field On
her side it wss a fathers hoslsc. where God
was honored snI the Sabbath bzht flooded
tie rooms With the very nirth ~ heaven
en- his SIDE it ras gorgeous residsnoe. and
TIE coming q mighty men - - enter
tain-i there. but within it wers reveirv AMI
r-,si ie~<nrss Hardly hs.i th~ oranxe blossoms
Ct the marriage feast lst t1sir frs GRANGE. than
the nixhr Il dlscontent began - cast here snd
taers iis shado~ Crueifies and nnkin.infss-S
changed al th.se splendid trarpinrs into =
hollow nocsery. Tee riatters u solid silver,
tie casirrts ~ pure Essd, the hesd drsss n
e-aninz sisnlonds. were thrrs b-it NJ Cod
10 peace. 10 sfnd words. 10 Christlan sTn-
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