The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-02-21


preached The seventh Of his series OF "Ser-
mons to the Women Of America, With Iinpor-
tant Hints to Men" The opening hymn
begins;
"Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry;
We're marching through Immanucls ground,
To firer worlds on high"
DIR. Talmage took for his text the following
words; "She that livcth in pleasure is dead
while she liycth." He said
The editor OF Boston newspaper few days
ago wrote, asking me the terse questions
"What is the road to happiness? % and, "Ought
happiness be the chief aim of life?" My an
swer was "The road to happiness is the con-
tinuous effort to make others happy. The
chief aim of life ought to be usefulness, not
happiness but happiness always follows use
fulness." This mornings text, III a strong
way, sets forth the truth that a woman who
seeks IN worldly advantage her chief enjoy
ment, will come to disappointment and death.
"Sho that livcth in pleasure is dead while she
livch."
NJ friends, you all want to be happy. You
have had a great many recipes by which it is
proposed 10 give You satisfaction solid salts
faction. At times you feel n thorough unrest.
You know rs well as older people
what il is TO be depressed. As dark shadows
sometimes fall upon the geography Of
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tacled philosopher. / have seen as cloudy
days in May III NOyembe. There are no
deeper signs hreathed by the grand
mother than by the granddaughter. /
correct the popular impression that people are
happier in childhood and youth than they
ever will be again. II we live Alright, tho
older the happier. The happiost woman that
i ever knew was Christian octogenariau;
her hair white As white could be the sunlight
of heaven late IN the afternoon gliding tho
peaks of snow / have TO say to a great many
of the young people that the most miserable
time You are ever TO have is just now. Asyou
advance in life, as you come out into the
world aud have yonr head and heart all full
OF good, honest, practical Christian work,
then you will know what it is to begin to be
happy. There are those who wolld have us
believe that life Is chasing thstc-Iown and
gta,ping blbbles. We have not found it So
To many OF us it has been discovering dia-
Iponds larger than the kohinoor, and think
that our JOY will continue to increase until
nothing short of the everlasting jubilee of
heaven viii be able to express it.
Hoiaiio Greenough, Mt the close Of tho hard
est life man ever liyes--tho life Of an Ameri-
can artist al don't wont 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 bit
ter thing with which my early prospects were
Clouded."
Albert Barnes. the good Christian, known
The world over, stood in his pulpit in Phlade-
qha, at seventy or eighty years of age and
SAID: This world is very attractive to
me am very sorry shall have 10 leave it."
know that Solomon said some very dolorous
things about this world, and three times de-
'lared. VANITY Of vanities. all is vanity" |
suppose 1T was reference TO those times
IN his career when his seven hundred
wives almost pestcred the life out of
him. But would rather turn to the descrip-
tlon no gave after his conversation, when he
says in another place: Her ways are ways of
pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.5 1t
* reasonable to expect IT will be so. Tho
longer the fruit hangs on the tree, tho r!per
and moro mellow il ought to grow. You plant
one grain OF corn and IL will send up q stalk
with two ears each having nine hundred and
NIFTY grams, so that one grain planted win pro-
duCe nineteen hundred grains. And ought not
the implaniation OF u grain OF Christian prnc-
pie IN n youthful soul develop into large crop
of gladncss on earth and TO harvest of eternal
JOY in heaven? Hear me then, while dis
course upon some of the mistakes which young
people 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-
ton Persons ut your age, looking off upon
life, ARE APT to think that if, by some stroke of
what is called good luck, you could arrive in an
elevated and attluont position, a little higher
than that in which God has called YOU to live
you would lie completely happy Infinite mis-
take. The palace floor of Ahasuerus is red
with tho blood of Nashti's broken heart. There
nave DCch no moro SClld1nG tears went than
those which coursed the checks Of Josephine.
III the sob OF unhappy Womauhood in the great
cities could break through the tapestried wall
that sob would come along your streets today
like the simeon of the desert. Sometimes /
have heard in the rustng OF tho robes on the
city pavement the hiss of the addeis that fol-
lowed in The wake You have come
out from your home, and YOU have
looked up at the great house, and coyot q
life under those arches. wheu perhaps, at that
very moment, within that house there may
have been the wringing OF hands, the start OF
horror. and tho very agony OF he'll. | knew
such An one, Her fathers house was plain
most of the people who came there were plain
but by change in fortune such rs sometimes
comes, a hand had been offered that led her
into brilliant sphere. All the neiehbors
congratulated her upon her grand prospects:
butswhat an exchange ON her side il was n
heart lull oi generous impulse and affection.
On his side 10 was q suul dry and withcrcd rs
the stubblc of The field On her side it was a
fathers house, where God was hrnored and
the Sabbath light flooded the rooms with Tho
very mrth oi heaven, On his side u was n
gorgeous residence, and the coming of mighty
men to be entertained there; hut within il
were rcNcliN and godlcssucsS. Hardly had the
orange blossoms OF the marriage feast lost their
fragrance, than the ght OF discomfort began
IL cas-, here and there its shadow. Cruclties
and ulkludac,Scs changed all those splendid
trappings into a hollow nockoly. The plattcrs
of solid silver, the Baskets of uure gold tho
but no tod. no peace, no kind words. no Chlis-
tan sympathy. The fesal music that broke
ON the capiivc's car turned out To he a diree
aud the wreath in the plush was a reptile coil
ana the upholstery that swayed in the wind
Was tie wius ot destroying angel, and the
bead dto9s ou the pitcher were the sweat OF
everlasting despair q, how many riyalries
and unhappiucSSes among those who seek in
social hlo their chief happiness 1t matters
not how hnoAou have things; there are other
people who have il finer. Taking out
Your watch to tell the hour Of the day some
ono Will correct your time piece by pulling
OUT watch moro richly chased and jewelled
hide IN carriage that cost You eight hundred
dollars, and before You get around the mark
You viii meet with one that cost two thousand
dollars. Have ON your wall picture hy Con
ley and before night you will hear Of some one
who has picture fresh from the studio of
Church OF H.orstadt.
All that this world can do for You in silver.
III gold, IA ADMINISTER plush, in Gobelin tapes
try. IN wide halls, in lordly acquaintanceshin.
Wal not give YOU the Ten thouSandth part OF n
gram OF solid satisfaction. The English lord
moving 40 she very highest Sphere was one