The Prescott daily news., 1909-05-24
HAPPINESS THE BOON OF ALL.

and just as soon as he takes to heart Gods intention toward him in the divine plan of the universe his soul will be transferred from the temperate zone of intermit- tent happiness and fever of doubt and disbelief and sometimes pois- oned with the miasma of dispair into the beautiful tropical realm of health and happiness amid the luXuriant foliage of hope and love.
 That the soul has plenary pow CTS to control all outward con- ditions and circumstances is full ly demonstrated by the examples of countless individuals, both i'll sacred and profane history, who rose triumphant Overy every ad- verse surrounding and rounded out full and perfect lives,
 Moses betrayed, defeated, driv- en to the desert accepted con- solation from a divine source bowed his spirit in subjection to a high will and gained peace of souA At length when he had led his people to the verge of the promised land but was not allow ed to enter he meekly submitted. From "Nebo's lonely mountain he cast his eyes over the val leys flowing with milk and hon. ey," but there was no Wistful- ness in the glance there was no repining of spirit He had done his part, he had fought the fight, there was nothing more but submission to the will of God. Resignedly he laid himself down on the mountain side to rest after his iaborS. and aw oke with the angels.
 Socrates was condemned to drink the hem,ock juice in prison because he had tried to lead the youth of Athens to think for themselves and aspire to the sub lime heights of Knowledge. Yet was he wretched in his life or in his death? Not at all. He gave up fortune, fame and friends for his philosophy and pagan though he was believed that an immor- tality of consolation awaited him beyond the portals of the tomb. Socrates bore affronts, ridicule and persecution with magnanim- lty of soul. Even the nagging of Aantippe failed to disturb his equanimity.
 Gatl.eo father of physics and savant of science was forced to retract what he was convinced was true. He had to publicly ab- jure the Copernican theory of the earth's rotation around the sun but though he bowed to the DOW CTS that prevailed in his sou he Jolced conscious that he was in the right. Science and time vim dlcated him, but his upright Fife and conscious knowledge was his own yindicatiOn while in the flesh. Though his friends and fol- lowers were forbidden to visit him, he did not complain. Like many another he bent his knee to temporal power but his spirit renamed erect John Bunyan the puritan mystic was thrown into prison because of his religious cor Vlctlons. There he spent 12 years during which he wrote the great est alegory in all literature. The Jali confined his body but not his sou. His great spirit scared be- yond the bars and the confines ol ms cell It traversed the ''Elysian fields where the angels roam.' and saw that which is denied to mortal vision. His body wac wasted starved but what of that ms soul was far away on the hilltops wandering with Christ tan and Great Heart. His wood en couch was the de,ectable mountain and the faint stream let of light that came in through the lattice of his cell was the river of the water of life.
 Bunyan in his prison was far happier than those outside. and In his solitude he had more and better companionship than in the heart of a great city.
 Stone walls do not a prison
 make
 Nor iron bars a cage:
 Minds serene ard joyous take
 Such for heritage.
 Cervantes was another great soul who scared beyond the walls of dungeon. He commence ed his great and the greatest romance of all time while in a 6f.h .'e, ,0x,s.