Arizona republican., 1911-06-12
HAPPINESS
ATTA|NABLE.
.ContenIment The Reward Of
Faith and Trust
SECRET OF HAPPINESS"
DR.. Campbell breaches Fare
well Sermon-Leaves To
day for Summer Vacation.
Will Return In October.
His Church Crowded.

The auditorium of the Presbyterian
church was crowded yesterday morn
ing when DR.. Henry Martyr Campbell
tho nastor. preached on the subject
! ..Tbe secret of Happy Life Both
tho morning and evening services were
OF the nature of farewell services as
DIR. Campbell leaves today for ms sum
mer vacation. He will spend me next
three months in Long Beach, Cahiorhla'
Five texts were used in the sermon
all taken from the thirty-seventh
Psalm. verses one. three, four, five and
seven The texts were: Fret not thy
self because Of evil doers.' Trust in
the Lord" Delight thyself IN the
Lord" and Rest in the Lord.
DR.. Campbell said;
What a contrast there is between the
sentiment of David in the closing years
of his life and the sentiment OF his son
Solomon. one was happy and the oth-
or was sad. one was satisfied with
the dealings of God all through ms
wears. and the other seemed to have
soured upon life and had finally been
willing TO testify that 1t was hardIy
vanities. all is vanity and veXation or
spirit" He says. What profit hath
man in all the labor that he hati taken
under the SUM-" But David gives voice
| TO no such sentiment. He had not had
| everything in life as he might nave de-
sired He had seen many evil expert
erces. In his life a good deal Of ram
| had fallen and many Of his days we're
dark and dreary. He had been Giscour-
aged and disappointed and brought al
most to the very verge Of despair: but
| he did not falter. And God lifted nm
iup and had kept him and now IN the
evening Of life he is supremelr happy
and contented. And so it comes to pass
that he seems to sing most gladly in
the very last days of his life here on
earth.
The experience of David the king
should be the experience Of every true
| child Of God. And that it might be was
the very purpose for Gods Inspiring
| David to write the words OF the text.
think they contain the secret in large
| degree of a happy Christian life, and |
desire to take as our theme this morn
| ing from these words, The Christians
| Secret of Happy Life And ! want
TO present the secret OF a happy life
from the standpoint of the text
The first characteristic is Fret not
thyself because of evil dOers." I picked
up a little book the other day in the
home of friend which had as its title,
| Don't Fret I did not get to look
much into it's pages; but I know one
thing, and that is thar it had a very
good and very practical subject. The
advice contained in that subject is of
| inspired origin. And it has the backing
| of every wise man and woman OF ev-
ery age Why. we hardly need to look
| to the word of God to see the wisdom
of not worrying. All literature teens
with that sentiment. These are house
hold words. What can't be cured must
be endured one commenting on that
| expression put it even better when he
said What can't be cured must be en-
joyed" That is good. But here is
another. BE cheerful; a light heart
lives long" And again, "Cheerfulness
is the sunlight of the soul; II lightens
every burden; it brightens every path
way. where its radiant beams abide
He was right who. on being asked
the secret of happy life, said. Cheerful
ness is the first thing. cheerfulness the
second. and cheerfulness the third
All, and how much unwisdom there
is i'm fretting because so much of il is
causeless. 1t is has been estimated. and
! | have no doubt Of the truth of the
conclusion, that three-fOurths OF all our
worries are about the things that never
happen. Then you say how strange
How foolish. Then why not cease
worrying. fretting? You say promptly.
because we can not. Well. there may
be some truth i'm that, but not as much
| as we think. Helen Keller has about
as much to fret about and to worry
about as any person Of whom we know,
and yet she is about as free from worry
as the most cheerful why, without
a doubt some Of the most cheerful and
happy people in the world are they who
so far as can be seen have the most
about which to worry and fret. You
have looked upon faces beautiful and
cheert and bright with smiles. all Gov
cred with evidences of a glad heart and
cheerful spirit within, and the possess
ors of these faces have been shut-ins
or invalids or cripples. They have
been wheeled about from place to place
by friend or have crippled here and
there on crutches. | have sometimes
been shamed into at least a temporary
forgetfulness of my own troubles and
| worries. as | have enjoyed the priv
lege Of chatting for little while with