The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-27

w. W. CRAWFORD, President. the beauty of every department. She is the gentleness of the home, the elegance of society, and the trustful spirit of the church. Womanhood is bringing in the precious things and shutting out the evil.
 Trend of the True Life.
 Love for God Is the trend of the true life other life Is the wasted life These wasted lives are often seen, however Frequently we see brilliant young lives wasted. I once saw, in one of our south ern towns, young woman riding down the street in a handsome turnout, to which was hitehed a pair of very fine ! horses. The driver had on a linen livery, | and sitting beside the lady in the car riage was a little poodle dog. There was a young woman who was employing probably 5000 in the form of horses and carriage to carry her through town in or der that she might be seen. I could not help but study the pair in the carriage. I remember the woman as having on glasses, whether the dog had them on
 
 was the most intellectual. the poodle or the woman. The woman seemed much more interested in the poodle than the poodle was interested in the woman. so 1 gave the dseision to the dog.
 Young ladies, beware of dogs, especial ly pugs and poodles.
 "Again, we have the fashionable young woman, who wants. in her early life, to have every thing her own way. There Is nothing as rulnous as for young people to have their own way. The fashionable young woman falls Into the procession of the life of high society. She Is like the frehy, the brightest of all insects, but 1t dies before tho summer comes So, early in life this young woman grows poetlcally pale. and Is very short-lived. Then the preacher goes around and talks about the mysterious providenee of God. It is not the mysterious providence of God. but the mysterious lack of common sense. There is many young man lying six feet under the clay who put himself there by mysterious lack of common sense There are great many people who would rather die fashionably than to live senslbly.
 Beauty of UnselfIshness.
 "The unselish life is the most beauti- full. We have the most beautiful example of unselhshness in nature. The sun has shone down upon the earth ever since the beginning of time spreading it's health full rays over the earth, expanding nature and bringhtening everything, and 1t has never shed one ray for its own benefit. The flowers which bloom by the way give us their sweetness and they have never shed their perfume for their own benefit. You older members of the con- gregatlon, remember that old apple tree In your fathers back yard which yielded the sweetest fruit you ever tasted. If there was but one apple left on that old tree, and there was no one to pluck, and enjoy it, the old tree would shake it off so that some worm might enjoy il. What is more unselfsh than nature2 And so everything Is for our service.
 50 1t is with woman, when she sees all of Gods blessings she gives the home all she has, and is the heart of the house. Mold. Ifes aim is not happiness but usefulness There is nothing so destruc- tive as sef-centered interest. When you see a person WnO III SFNAy luAh of himself alone, tehre you will see a person who ls self-doomed.
 Just before concluding young ladies, I must say that you must not expect to escape from trouble. There must be some December days, and there is but one way to get over those days, The one escape is to rise above them by union and communion with God It is like the ascension of high mountain. We go up the mountain a way and look back. We can merely hear the din of the voices below Onward we go until we are out of hearing of the voices. Still higher and we go above the coulds, and finally. on top. we look down on the clouds where perhaps there Is A storm raging. We see the flash of the lightning, and hear the roar of the thunder; but we are above all, and out of the danger of the storm We have risen above the trouble, and while below destruction is being wrought, we safe.
 Finally, do not expect happiness throughout life. The best way to do Is to aspire to usefulness and let happiness take care of itself Happiness, to begin with, is a strange thing; and usefulness is the aim of life. Happiness if pursued will always flee, and is seldom caught; but if left alone and not courted, will meelly come back and offer itself'
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