The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-29
70 MAKE WOMEN HAPPY.
DIR. TALMAGE WARNS THEM TO BE.
WARE OF FLATTERY.


WARE OF FLATTEKY.
He Does Not Think Social Position Gives
Woman Enough Pleasure to Make 1t an
Object of Desire-What He Said to YounG 6
Girls About Flattery.
s'Wkat can and what cannot make q
woman happy, was the subject of the
Rev. DIR. Talmages discourse at the
Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday mo1ning.
It was the seventh OF the series Of popu-
lar sermons to the women of America,
and hundreds more Than could find &C.
commodation went 70 the church. s'The
editor of o Boston newspaper" began
DIR. Talmage, ga foE days ago wrote
asking me the terse questions: 'What is
the road to happiness?' and Ought hap
piness to be the chief aim Of Life? My
answer was: 'The road TO happiness is
the continuous effort to make others
happy. The chief aim OF life ought to
be usefulness, not happiness; but happi-
ness always follows usefulness This
mornings text in strong way sets forth
the truth that a woman who seeks IN
worldly advantage her chief enjoyment
will come to disappointment and death.
She that liveth in pleasure is dead while
she liveth.
Il correct the popular impression that
people are happier in childhood and
youth than they will ever be again. If
We live Alright, the older the happier.
The happiest woman that [ ever knew
was Christian octogenarian. have to
say to a great many Of the young people
that the most miserable time you are
ever to have is just now. AS you ad-
vance in life, as you come out into the
world and have your heed and heart ali
full of good, honest, practical Christian
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.
ssAnd in the first place, I advise you
not to build your happiness upon mere
social position. Persons at your age,
looking off upou life, are apt to think
that if, by some stroke of what is called
good luck, you could arrive IN an ele-
Tated and afHuent position, little high
er than that in which God has called
YOU to live, you would be completely
happy. Infinite mistake! If the sob Of
unhappy womanhood in the great cities
could break through the tapestried wall,
! that sob would come along your streets
to-day like the simeon of the desert.
Sometimes have heard in the rustlng
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 coveS life under those
arches, when, perhaps, at that very mo-
ment, within that house there may have
been the wringing OF hands, the start of
horror, and the very agony OF hell.
Gail that this world can do for you III
silver, in gold, in Axmmster plush, IN
Gobelin tapestry, in wide halls, in lordly
acqaintanceship, will not give you the
ten thousandth part of a grain of solid
satisfaction. Mere social position will
never give happiness to q woman's soul.
7 have had wiLe and continuous observa-
ton, and I tell the young women that
they who build on maze social position
their souls immoral happiness are
building on the sand.
ssYoung women, have you anything to
do i'll the way Of making your fathers
home happy? Nowis the time to attend
to it, or leave it forever undone. Time
is flying very quickly away. / suppose
you notice wrinkles are gathering and
accumulating on those kindly faces that
have so long looked upon you; there Is
frost in the locks; he foot is not as firm
in it's steps as it used to be, and they
will soon be gone. The heaviest clod
that falls on pareLt's coffin lid is the
memory of an ungr.teful daughter. On,
make their last days bright and beautl-
full. Do not act as though they were IN
the way. Ask their counsel, seek their
prayers, and, after long years have
passed, and you go out to see the grave
where they sleep, YOU will find growing
all over the mounds something lo7eller
than cypress, something sweeter than
the rose, something chaster than the lily
tile bright and beautiful memories OF
filial kindness performed ere the dying
hand dropped on you benedlctlon and
you closed the lids over the weary eyes
OF the worn-out pilgrim.
81 go further, and advise yo1 not to
depend for enjoyment upon mere per
sonal attractions. It would be sheer
hypocrisy, because We may not have 1t
ourselves, to despise, or affect to desplse:
beauty in others. When God gives 1t,
he gives it as 2 blessing and means OF
usefulness. The sloven has only one
mission, and that is to excite our loath-
ing and disgust. But alas for those who
depend upon personal charms for their
happiness! Beauty is such subtle
thing; it does not seem to depend upon
facial proportions, or upon the sparkle
of the eye, or upon the flush Of the
cheek. You sometimes find it among
irregular features. It is the soul shin
ing through the face that makes one
beautiful. But alas! Tor those who de-
pend upon mere personal charms. They
will come to disappointment and to a
great fret. There are 80 many different
opinions about what arc personal charms
and then sickness and trouble and age
do make such ravages. Thepoorest god
that woman ever worships is her own
face. The saddest sight in all the world
is woman who has built everything on
good looks when the charms begin to
vanish. Oh, how they try to cover the
wrinkles and hide the ravages OF time!