West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-03-01
LIVES OF FOLLY.
TALNiAGE'S RECEIPT FoR HAP
PINESS,
How Good Looks Soon Wear Away, the
batteries of Men Deceive aud
Wor.dIneSs Leads to Unrest.

hN VI tbl % nOsIOn newspaper q rev
days ago wrote, asking me the terso ques
tons; Nv hat is the road TO happinessl" and
Ought happiness be the chief aim of lifeP'
My answer was: ''The road TO happiness is
the continuous effort to make others happy.
The chief aim Of life ought to be usefnleSs,
not happiness, but happiness always follows
usefulness" This mornings text in n strong
way sets forth the truth that woman who
seeks IN worldly advantage her chief enjoy
nent Will come TO disappointment and death.
She that livoth in pleasure is dead while she
liveth.n
My friends. you all want to be happy.
You have had great many recipes by which
1t Is proposed 20 give you satisfaction-solid
satisfaction At times you feel n thorough
unrest. You know rs well as older people
what it is TO be depressed. As dark shadows
sometimes fall upon tho geography of the
school girl as on ths page OF the specialized
philosopher. have seen as cloudy days in
May as in November There are no deeper
signs breathed by tho grandmother than by
the granddaughter, 1 correct tho popular
impression that people are happier i'm child
hood and youth than they ever will be again
III we live Alright, the older the happier. The
happiest woman thst / ever knew was n
Christian octogenarian; her hair white as
white could be; the sunlight of heaven, late
IN the afternoon, gliding the peaks OF snow.
have 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
have 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 graSping
bubbles We have not found it So To
many OF MS IL has been discovering diamonds
larger than the kohinoor, and L think that
our Joy will continue 10 increase until moth
ins snort Of the everlasting jubilee OF heaven
Will be able 20 express il.
Horatio Greenough, at the close OF the
hardest life man ever lives-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 i'm this land | have
found life t. be n very cheerful thing and
not the dark and bitter thing with which my
early prospects were cloudedn
Albert Barnes, the good Christian, known
the world over, stood i'm his pulpit in Phila-
delphin, at 20 or 80 years of age, and said !:
This world is so very attractive 20 me, am
very sorry | shall have TO leave il.
know that Solomon said some very dolo-
rous things about this world, and three times
declared: Vanity OF vanties all is van
ity.n l suppose it was n reference 20 those
times in his career when his seven hundred
wives almost pestered the life out of him. But
l would rather turn to the description he gave
otter 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 he So The longer the
fruit hangs on the tree the ripper and moro
gram OF corn and il will send up n stalk with
two ears, each having nine hundred and fifty
grains, 50 that one grain planted will pro
duce nineteen hundred grams. And ought
not the implantat.on OF a grain of Christian
principle IN youthful soul develop into a
large crop Of gladuess on earth, and to q har-
vest OF eternal joy 4. heaven! Hear me,
then. while discourse upon some OF the mis-
taxes which young people make in regard 10
happiness, and point out 20 the Young women
what consider 20 be the source OF complete
satisfaction.
And, in the first place. a1vise you not to
build your happiness upon mere social posi-
ton. Persons at your age, looking Off tp1n
life, are apt 10 think that, If by some stro Ike
OF what Is called good luck. you could arrive
&C an elevated and aiiiuent position a little
higher than that in which God has called YOU
10 live, you would be completely Happy In
finite mstake The pa ace floor OF Aha uerus
IS red with the blood Of Nashti's broken heart
There have been no more scelding tears went
than those which cours,d rhe cheeks of
Josephine. If the sob OF unhappy WON an
hcoi IN tine great cities could break through
the tapes5ried wall, that sob would come
along your streets day like the simeon of
The desert Sometimes / have heard in the
lus.hug of the robes on the city pavement
the hiss of the adders that followed
IN the wake. You have come out
from your home, and 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 suth a one Her fathers holse was
plain, most OF the people who came Their
were plain; but, by a change in fortune such
as sometimes comes hand nd been oTere
that led her into n brilliant sphere All the
neighbors con ratulared her upon her grand
prospects; hut what an exchanged On her
side it was a heart full OF generous impulse
and affection. On his SIDE t was q soul dry
and withered as the stuhble Of the field ON
her side it was a fathers house where God
was hOuored and the Sabbath light flooded
the rooms with the very mirth of heaven.
On his side II was n gorgeous residence and
the coming OF mighty men 70 bo enter
tanned there; Int within b. were revelry end
godlessncss. Hardly had the orange blOsgomi
otthe marriage feast lost their fragrance, thar
the night Of discomfort began to cast here and
there Us shadow. Cruelties and unkindnessel
changed all those splendid trappings into a
hollow mockery. The piattsrs OF solid silver
tue caskeis OF pure gold, the head dress OF
cleaning diamonds were there: but no Col.
no PEACE no kind words no Christian svm.
patty. The fostll music that broke ON the
captive car turned out o. be a dirge and
the wreath In the push was a reptile coil,
ana the upholstery that swayoi in ths wind
was the wing OF a destroying angel and the
bead drops on tn pitcher were the sweat o..
everlasting CeF plir. Oh how many rival
Iles AMI ulhappin .sses among those who sex
lH bJtia' iii' tnelr cnlef happiness. 10 nat
tiers not how fine You have Things there are
oTn'r paoDo VINO nave rnem inner. taxing out
your watch 20 Q do the hOIr of the day. some
one viii correct your tim-pieoe by pulling
ou5 watch more 'chly chased and iewpled
Ride in carriage shat cost YOU $50 ami b..
fore you get around the park you will meet
with one that cost 5000 Have on your
wall q picture by COp.ey. nni before night
you WI hear az some ON who has n picture
fresh from ths studio Of Church OF Bier
st1dt
Am that this world can 10 for you I'm Sill
yer, in gold, bro Administer plush. in Goho'in
Tapestry. bob wide balls in lordiy acquaint
nuceship. VIII not give you the ten-tlOu
ta1Ith pTt ~ grain OF solid abstraction
lhe English lord. moving in tn very highcs
sphere, was ono day found seated will
D chin on his hand and bis elbow on th
window SOD, looking out and saying: "Oh.
wish / could exchange places with that dog
Mere spci1I 20 lt.on VIII never give happi
continuous y1servat ION. aud tell the yOuu.
wtuoa that they who build On mere so-i,
post Jn choir .YuIs immortal harUunss an
building Dl flo sand
nlDID- t.lt 20 young woman oTrou1e fh
frgltue 9' her carly lifa iu this uus8tisfno
iorN etflEEe sui Dmits tHe present Opp0r
tNnlfY M ueiin iu tle hgms circle. wha
ue sake,
So surely as tbe years roll around thq
homo Bon which son now dwell win ha..m
extinct THE parent VIII b. gone. the prop
frir wi.I r9 into other procession Sou your
etf wII Doe iu other raiat.0u-hiUs. aud faa
nome which. only year ago. vas fall o.