The Washington herald., 1914-04-14
UPLIFT TALKS.
CHASING RAINBoWS.
by oRIsON SWEET MARDEN,

| Author of Pushing to the Front" Etc.
How many people go through life
deluded with the conviction that II
they could only get little more
money, get into a little more comfortable
position, own a little better home. or II
they could only get over the particular
trouble that is annoying them at the
moment. they would be happy!
I know a man who had a very hard
boyhood, suffered, great poverty, who Is
now fifty years old. and he has always
honestly believed that II he could only get
| the particular thing he was after. or get
over the particular difficulty that was
annoying him at the moment. he would
be perfectly happy; but he is the same
anxious, restless, expectant spirit today
as when a youth. He has been quite sue
cessful, and has done some very remark
able things. but he is invariably in hot
water. There is always something that
| nettIes him, or destroys his peace OF
mind. and. although he is a well-meaninS
| man and provides comforts and luNuries
| for his wife and children. he has made
| his family, his employees. and everybody
| about him very unhappy. because he is
always fretting and worrying-never sat
! isfied.
such a man purchases the means of en-
joyment at the cost OF the power to en-
! 10y. He murders the capacity for happi-
| ness while purchasing the means for hap
| piness itself Even the criminal thinks
! that his crime will improve his condition,
! that the theft will enrich him, or that he
will get rid of an enemy that stands In
the way OF his happiness when he COM
| mits manslaughter.
The entire human race has been hunt
ing for happiness from the dawn Of his
| tory, but how few have ever found II or
| have much of an idea what ii is.
People who are always thinking Of
themselves, who are always trying to find
| something which will make them happy,
some Indulgence which will crafty their
! selfish cravings. are always disappointed
seekers. Happiness was born twin. and
| only he who seeks another's good, an
others welfare. another's happiness, can
| find his own.
Nb man can be happy when he despises
his own acts, when he has any con-
sciousness of wrong. whether of motive
or act No man can be happy when he
harbors thoughts of revenge, jealousy.
envy. or hatred. He must have clean
heart. and a clean conscience. or no
amount of money or excitement can make
him truly happy. With the sense of hav-
ing done right men have been known to
be happy amid the most diverse cir
cumstances. Without that sense. men
have been known to be most miserable
with every worldly want supplied.
Remember, -Hr Happiness-Chaser, that
wherever you go for happiness you will
only find what you take with you your
self. Your happiness can never be out
side Of yourself and 1t must be bounded
by your own limitations. Your ability
to appreciate ard enjoy will mark the
bounds OF your happiness.
We shall find nothing in the world
which We do not find in ourselves" Hap
piness comes from n vigorous self-ex-
preston OF the highest thing Of which
We are capable. 1t is the child OF hon
est effort.
The trouble with US is that We try
to find happiness where it does not exist.
in transient. impermanent things: we
try to find it in the qualification OF de-
sire: We seek it in animal pleasure. Hap
plness lives in giving. in doing. not in
getting. in grasping.
Piling things around you. no matter
how high. can never make you happy.
What the man is, not what he has. makes
him happy or miserable.
The human heart is always hungry.