Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-12
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<<T YELPS Toward Happiness was
n the subject of sermon by
Rev. DIR. L. NJ. Powers, one of
the most prominent preachers in Massa-
chusetts and delegate to the recent ma
tonal convention of the Young Peoples
Christian Union, at the Luther Memorial
Church on Thomas Circle last Sunday.
Keep the corners of your mouth turn
ed up <" and keep smiling" are the RENE
dies for unhappiness suggested by DR..
Powers.
His sermon, in part, follows:
Remember happiness never comes to
those who seek it. Says Hawthorne:
Happiness in this world, when it comes.
comes incidentally. Make it the object
Of pursuit and it leads us a wild goose
chase and is never obtained 1t Is with
happiness as with love: we were not made
to live for either. The best mated couple
on earth who try to live for each other
merely will never realize the meaning of
love.
If they only love each other
Never will their love be blest.
They who love the world together
Love each other best.
So happiness is always missed by those
who live for happiness. Happiness is
found in the pathway of duty, nowhere
else. Virtue" says Socrates, lis the
mother of pleasure" "In vain.'' says
Horace Mann, do they talk of happiness
who never subdued an impulse in obedi-
ence to principle. He who never sac
rificed the present to a future good, a
personal to a general one. can speak of
happiness only as the blind speak of col
ors" Said Jesus, Happy are the pure
in heart
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ourselves. Most of our unhappiness comes
from anticipations that will never be re-
allied. There are many people like the
woman who said: Il always feel bad
when 1 feel good, because 1 know I am
going to feel worse afterward.'
We all know there are people who car
ry three troubles at once. ''all they have
had. all they have now and all they ex-
pect to have
Don't bury your husband till he is dead
If there is any comfort in the thought
remember it Is just possible he may bury
you. Don't cross any bridge till you get
to it, and when you are we'll over forget
that bridge. Don't be like the little boy
who suddenly broke out crying.
What is the matter" asked his mother.
THE cat scratched me-
why the cat is out of doors. When did
II scratch you.
Yesterday"
well. what are you crying now for?'
"'Cause l forgot it them
Don't dwell on your troubles that are
past. and don't dwell on your present
troubles either. Don't sympathiZe too
much with the little foolish pains and
troubles of your children. Teach them
to endure, to be brave, to ignore the lit
tie things. Sympathy has been overdone.
Hundreds of people are kept half invalids
by petting. | know of good women who
are wearing out better husbands by de-
handing constant sympathy for maginary
ills.
A woman, who had been dying for
twenty years because she had nothing
better to do for the fortieth time called
her husband to her bedside and asked
him to be true to her memory after she
was gone. Tried human nature for once re-
belled. Instead of promising as she wished,
he told her that just soon as pos
sible, after a reasonable time for mourn
ing had elapsed, he proposed to marry
again. The woman got we'll
The best way to be happy is not to
think or talk of your unhappiness. You
can do this II you will. One Of those many
doctors we have in these days who cures