The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-24
METHODiSTS IN CONFERENCE
The St. Louis Conference Of the N. E.
Church South Holding Its Fifty.
sixth Annual Session in
Pennington,

IN our Town, some ul the MINIS
tcrS who We're assinged to commit
tees for the examination OF uppli.
cGurS to the ministry, the cXami-
nations being set for Monday and
Tuesday, arrived on Monday.
Tuesday evening Rev. James W
Lee, d, D., of st. Louis delivered
II lecture, after which collection
was taken up to dcfray incidental
expenses The lecture was Il liter
AIRY and philosophical gem, ana wns
highly appreciated and enjoyed 10y
'hc large audience who heard him.
Following Is II synopsis of the lee
ture, which we take from the News
conference daily:
The subject previously announced,
Buried sunshine" was lecture that
he had formerly delivered hut that
be- had forgotten, and hence he
changed tn" subject to Being Hap
by" the duty of hcjng happy.
Ne tool, the position that It was
our duty to De- happy. although it was
not commonly regarded as such aud
that happiness was not given to some
poupl" by accident and to others not
at all Tho speaker took as his
foundation 'ao words Of st Paul in
his opistlc to tn" Thcr-clouians. Re.
loice cycrmorc"
lie placed the duty of happiness
ON ihr same plane that II was our duty
TO bn honest and truthful, that while
every man was not honest. yet every
man had tn" capacity to b" honest:
that white every man was not truth
iul, get every man had the capacity
10 be truthful aud hence, while every
man was not happy he had the capac.
ity to make himself happy and that
IT was his duty 10 be happy as much
truthful He held that whore there
was an absence of any one Of these
clements IN mans life there was
-umuthing wrong
he then dwrlt upon the want of hap
pucaa among mankind taking for oX-
ample Tiborius the most accomplish
| ed ruler that Rome ever had and who
yet was one of the most miserable
Of mon who had tried every known
| mode Of amusement and finally offered
| . reward 10 any man who would in
| vent now mode Of amusement He
also cited Lord Chc.trrlicld who was
| one ~ III" most successful men from
| 1 worldly standpoint Of his time, the
| recognized social leader and who at
| the clos" of his long life of seventy
| i've years said ho could recall but one
| month in which b" was happy Also
| Robert Louis Stevenson. the prince
mnOug writer's Of fiction, who towards
'h" close Of his life declared that he
| could recall but thrc" weeks when
h" had been perfectly happy All
showed that this duty to be happy
was the most neglected that there
was something wrong, that mankind
generally was not happy
After citing the above and other
numerous examples Of men who had
been successful from worldly stand
pnini n" brought ont IN" central
idea that one oi the greatest causes
81 unhappIhcsS was IN" dread, the
idra, OF being poor III worldly goods,
that all men desired to be rich and
ID" lack oi rlch"s was III" cause OF
most people disregard "I the com
mani to b" happy
fauI saw III Jesus ChrlSt III" power
That enables every man to be rlch.
II" iouhI III linn the power by which
man not only individually could b"
perfect, but by which man could, by