Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-11-21

and domestic methods are affording
too much assistance, or ease, Or lux
ury to these little human pollywogs?
Every faculty of our being is made
more robust by constant and sensible
activity. To be able to bring things
to pass conduces to true happiness.
What real Joy is stored away in
good book! Study may be found an
unfailing source of pleasure. The
culture of the mind brings forth the
flower and the fragrance and the
fruitage of our ntellectual-natures
Truth invigorates; it makes buoyant
and youthful. Truth is never old,
never discordant. Then, too, what
perennial fountains of sparkling hap
piness are music and art and poetry.
And what shall be said about nature?
II people would be happy, they must
get out of doors. God made the
heavens, but man made the houses.
Many houses are devices of Satan to
shut man away from his God. All
nature is redolent of divinity. 1t is
hard for naturalist to be an un-
believer. Some great nature students
have despised creeds, but it was be-
cause their great God was too mighty
to be bounded and measured by mans
dialectica1 tape line or foot rule. Let
us get out OF DOORS God, music,
might and men ae out of doors, and
If we would be happy we must asso-
ciate muchsWith the world outside,
for we have divine commission to
subdue the earth. The flower in
the cranied wall" has yet many beau
tiful lessons to the thoughtful visi-
tor. Like the story of Edward Row
land Sill, let us fling open the win
dows Of our grim towns and let in
the "gust of sunshine and the sum-
mer scent of rose, and be sure that
the window sill stands open and shall
never be shut again!
Exquisite happiness is found in
life's true friendships. The widow
of Schumann says that whenever she
was to play in public any of her hus-
bands music, she would read over
and over again the dear love letters
! he had written her during his life.
All true love is divine, and what we
call human love is really divine love,
and 4s one Of our earthly faculties
which is the sure prophecy of the
estate of infinity to which we are
going, as it is the token Of the in
finite heart from which we have
sprung. No man can be truly happy
who does not love or is not truly
loved The greatest of these is love!
Happiness is always found in ser-
vice. He who would be happy"
among you, as well as he who would
be chief among you, must be the SER
want of all" When the old French
nobility chose as their motto, s'No-
blesse Oblige," they simply accentu-
ated one of the finest principles of
the social organism, that frank or
privilege is obligation" Autocracies,
feudal systems, wars and all selfish
ambitions must gradually go down
before such sceptre. He who is not
capable Of serving is not capable Of
joy. Any man who wears upon his
helmet eIch Diem" will soon have
| crown and kingdom.
| Since all clouds have a silver lin
I Ing and every dark shadow a bright
side, for there would be no shadows
| Il there were no sun. il any one would
be happy, he must look for the bright
| side. It may be his duty, unlike the
sun dial, to mark other than the
bright hours, but he will not be wise
| unless he adopts the motto of ven-
/ erable English bishop, Serve God
| and be cheerful It is hard to per-
suaie some people to be Christians
| when it Is seen that occasionally the
| most unhappy and most disagreeable
/ people pose In a community as Chris
tians One of the first things true
| religion does for people is to make it
possible for people to live with them.
| It may be probable that ault-finding
and complaining people will escape