Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
JOY AND PLEASURE.

1here is q symphony IN the very
sound and accent of this synonymous
couplet. The words, apparently short
and easily defined, have great strength
of character and a deep tendency to
acquaint US with their meaning. Their
harmony seems delightfully."- conseryant.
Those who respect, esteem, and desire
another's welfare, can give or afford
unlimited pleasure to them, gratifying
or pleasing one friend, or many, III
various yet simple degrees. There ere
favcFs that do not always require great
care, skill or time to confer There are
deeds of kindness, love and gratitude,
that cause pleasure among our different
fields of life that can be effected through
simple, easy, measures, that will cause
boundless and unalloyed happiness
without an equivalent or thought of
compensation. We are given power
of action wherein we can convey or
transfer many happy pleasurable hours
to some weary, disconsolate, shut IN
There are others endowed with strength
skill, and ingenuity, to produce illus
trious acts, great achievements, won
dcrful exploits, and brilliant events,
whereby meritorious reward will sooner
or later follow in the pleasure and joy
it affords the participant whom we
allow reciprocal right. Joys and
pleasures galore attend our childhood
and schoolboy days throughout this
bright, happy period of our existence.
Grand, glorious hours belong to us,
filled to the brim, with memories of
sunshine, gayety, exultation, and de-
light, being devoid of care or response
bility. This season of life, that succeeds
childhood, requires a great and decided
change in the vivacity of this youthful
embarrassed period, before we are able
to distinguish the difference and realize
that life's stern, unrelenting duties, are
sure to crowd and press themselves
upon us, obliging us, in our gayety, to
notice that time had come for their
acknowledgment.
Joy is a delight of the mind Pleas
ure is what the will dictates or prefers
Kings and queens royalty in all
spheres; the patrician or the plebean;
the ranchman or the peasant, are all
able to become enthusiasts over these
attributes of life. Were we less selfish,
suspicious, and uncharitable, allowing
our nature instead, to become endowed
with joy and pleasure, with what
daily happiness would our lives
be filed 1t is safe to say many
cares and sorrows-that are more
frequent than otherwise, and could
we realize the undaunted fact, decid
edly unnecessary appear on the hori-
Zon of our existence, through weak
aud feeble imputation of fault, blame,
misconstrued obligation or duty.
Christianity in our hearts is great
elixir to our joys and pleasures. 1t
chastens, purifes, and causes many
dark days to become bright and glor-
ious through time and eternity. a
gigantic sorrow may suddenly arise be-
fore us. With scenes of thrilling import
we may be caught in the bright delu-
sion of some fraudulent and hypocriti-
cal soreerer. We may become verita-
BILE, petulent, morose and annoyed over
every day troubles, vexations and do
mestic cares, for life is stormy, unre-
lenting sea that approaches us often
times with shivered masts and sundered,
futtering sails. Yet, if we have in our
possession an earnest, heroic Christian
heart, filled with precious prayers, all
would become Tranquil, serene and
bright, as the summer sky, around and
about us. For the power of prayer
accomplishes and mediates wonders,
allowing us to grow bright and joyous,
even through dire adversely.
Let us then inculcate Christian prin-
ciples, methods, and ways of living into
the hearts of our children, warning
them most emphatically against the
way of evil, instill in their minds that
the way of the transgressor is hard, and
to that, not one of us is able to serve
two masters. Thus should we strive to
choose a joyous, happy life, in prefer
ence to the dark disastrous one SO
often accepted. Let us, like the trusted
and faithful mariner, keep in sight the
bright luminous star that will guide ouI
steps unharmed and unscathed through
the raging temptations that so frequent
ly arise and befall our unexplored path
Fand the immensities as yet untold.
MAY.