The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-18
HOW TO BE HAPPY.
Poets and Others Give Rules for
Reaching Desired State.

RedcIllng DESIRED state.
When a popular magazine offered a
prize of $3.50 for the best answer to
the question, "What constitutes sue
cess?" the award was given to a wom-
an who said
HE has achieved success who has
lived well, laughed often and loved
much; who has gained the respect of
intelligent men and the love of little
children; who has filed his niche and
accomplished his task; who has left
the world better than he found it,
whether by an improved poppy, per-
feet poem or a rescued soul; who has
never lacked appreciation of earth s
beauty or failed to express it; who has
always looked for the best in others
and given the best he had; whose life
was an inspiration, whose memory was
a benediction.''
The Road to Happiness.
A poet whose work is better known
Ella Wheeler Wilcox-gives her recipe
for happiness thus:
I have lost the road to happiness.
Does any one know it, pray?
L was dwelling there where the view
was fair,
But somehow wandered away.
saw rare treasure in scenes of pleas
And ran to pursue them, when, 10,
had lost the path to happiness
And knew not whittier to go!
have lost the way to happiness.
Oh, who will lead me back?
Turn off the highway of selfishness
To the right, up duty's track!
Keep straight along and you can't go
wrong,
For as sure as you live, I say,
The fair lost fields of happiness
Can OOlV he found that WaV
But the secret of abiding happiness
lies deeper than any of these have in
Dictated. 1t is known only by those
who belong to Christ and are trying TO
please him. Then. one after another,
the things that some people think can
bring happiness-money and what
money can buy-may be taken away.
but the source of happiness will not be
removed, for Jesus can never be taken
away. Often the complaint is heard
that it is not worth while to be
Christian because Christians are SO
often deprived of the good things of
life Well, what if they are? God
metimes takes things away from one
of his children because he sees that
there is danger that the heart will be
fixed on these things instead of on
God and thus the real spring of happi-
ness will be lost. The heart may need
to be brought back to him by the loss
of the petty things that have come be-
tween the possessor and the Lord.
An Ancient Parish.
The list of Wears at Eastbourne par
ish church. in England dates back to
1894, one of Canon Goodwyn's prede-
cessors being the Rev. Henry Lush
ington, D. D.. representative of the
family of which the late Sir Godfrey
Washington was a member. This DR..
Washington, of whom there is a mem
orial in the church, had son who was
one of the survivors OF the tragedy of
the Black Hole of Calcutta and who
was barbarously murdered a few years
later by native rebels in India. A curl
Gus feature of Eastbourne parish
church is that the chancel is out of
rectilinear, being inclined somewhat to
the south. 1t is possible that this is a
suggestion of the inclination of our
Lords head upon the cross. One of
the most interesting antiquities of the
church is an eastern sepulcher in
which in prereformation times the
burial of the Lords body was symbol
icalIy represented by the consecrated
host being placed there on Good Fri