Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-03-26
joys That Fade Not.

Quoting from Bishop Phillips Brooks
a comment on ''the vast power to make
one another unhappy" that is possessed
by mortals, the Philadelphia Public led
ger proceeds to investigate whether there
are not some individual joys so indie
pendent Of others that we can make
them permanently ours, and no man,
woman or child will have power over us
to take them away from us. The Led
ger thinks there are such sources Of hap
piness-plenty of them.
First of all is mentioned the Joy of
perfect work-''the hope Of excellence"
For this kind Of happiness we must have
a work we love. We place before our
minds vision an ideal of excellence and
beauty in that work. No matter what
it is--it may be one Of the mechanical
trades, it may be farm or a vegetable
garden, or it may be the loftiest dream
of rapturous perfection that ever IL
Illuminated ths brain of poet, painter or
sculptor. Whatever it is if we keep be-
fore us the desire and the determination
to reach perfection in that work then we
cannot be all unhappy. We are artists,
| loving our work, and no mortal can rob
US of this triumphant joy. Emerson
said "a man is relieved and gay when
he has put his heart into his work and
done his best, but what he has said or
done otherwise shall give him no peace"
Another joy made little Of in this life
is the pure and exalted happiness Of low
ing people, and helping them just be-
cause you like to do so, without looking
for any return price to be paid by them.
Some one has said that it is no true love
which exsots a return. If it is true love-
it desires only the happiness of the be-
loved. It matters not whether the one
beloved cares for the one whose affec-
tons are fixed on him; it matters not
whether they ever meet In this hfe--the
one who loves for the sake of loving and
of wishing good to the object of his af-
fections is the only true lover. So they
say
The Ledger mentions, too, the Joy OF
sterling character. Your reputation is
what other people think Of you. Your
character is what you know yourself to
be. Your character is bad indeed when
you know in your heart that you are dis.
f honest, or q teller Of falsehoods, or any.
e thing you would not be willing the
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you can look yourself in the face in thf
glass and feel conscious that there il
= not shade Of deception or hatred OF
e envy or desire to inture or crow ovel
. another, if you know as you look a
yourself that you would not wrong an
\ other out Of dollar to get on IN tn,
+ world yourself, that you would say n,
e word about person that you would no
I I say TO him, that you have not an epinioI
|. on any subject that you would sneak
t ingly hide from men because 1t Is un
/, popular, then indeed you have In your
d self joy that mankind cannot give o
take away.
n The Ledger ssys further:
o rhsse are sut few Of the mAny Joys wit
y vhioh ne ono MAY nedale. There b . sxpso q
:, beauty, tae delight sn nature Axt the lsVe o
, learning OF literature, tho Ny OF tAcuxht an
u truth. the enthusiasm In = good oansa II
7 web to reosive with sya<itu4s or endure VT
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up t<ea~uyes II nv IN the sssse< rsAe.ass Of o.
hsAsts, w<kh vh1oh no hAaa e~a pstdle All
whhcA no cArcunsts~sss ess sweep away.