The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-01-31
ILlFE'S JOYS AND HAPPI-
NESS REVEALED
Every One Wants TO Know the Road
That Leads That Way--Presenf
Pleasures Alone and Selfish Inter-
ssts Never, Are Not Safe Guide
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treasures Alone and Selfish Inter
eStS Never, Are Not Safe Guid
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Written for The Review by w. A. .Cattis Foste
lFE has been described as open
- ing before US two ways. on,
leading to happiness, the other e
sorrow, either of which we are fret
to take as we may select. Let u,
call them the glad way and the sac
way. for of, truth they are surely
AeadIng us on to happiness or to sor.
row. 20
All along the way there is ever 81
mighty. anxious tnrong earnestly
seeking the way to happiness and as
earnestly trying to Shun the wav
that can leadethem only 10 sorrow
and suffering. for afterrunnine close
iy parallel and not at all points clear.
iy defined, the two ways are not al.
ways easily distinguished one from
the other and because of this fatal
similarity many 90 the sad way and
happiness is lost.
There is no one who does not wish
with all his heart and mind to know
the road that leads to happiness. It
Is the sincere, earnest desire of US
all; but the way is so often confused
by many outbranching pleasures
Turing by-Ways pointing in the most
Degulllng and seductive manner to
sweet and delightful pleasures lust
ahead, but where awaits the delud-
ed Wayfarer, the sad awakening to
all he has lost. We come to the part
ing OF the ways and we do not know
which one to take. We hesitate.
There is a conflict between devotion
to our own personal interest and a
vague sense of an uncertain dutv.
The call to service and helpfuIness
points one way, the delights of
personal pleasures and worldly gain
may point in another, and in our
beWl dering and conflicting emo
tons we too often. make the fatal
mistake of choosing tie wrong
course We are for the time beine
brought under the seductive inf1u-
ence of imaginary pleasures-which
are only temporary in their nature
and can never bri2S recl 90 'oo:-
lng happiness-and the sometimes
false claims of personal PRIVILEGES
and individual rights; and uncon-
sclously we may allow them to de-
eide for us. And in this way MANY
are often turned aside from the safe
course into the uncertain one where
urks many hidden dangers for the
lnwary and thus miss the richer
oys and happiness for which they
o earnestly sought and hoped.
Present pleasures alone, and sell
1sh interests never, are not safe
guide posts to true happiness. With
uring limitations and cunningIy de-
Used promises they draw many
rom the true way to be soon caught
n the bewildering entanglements of
leeting enjoyments and disappoint.
ID hopes and instead of happiness
hey find only sorrow; instead of joy
nly the agoniZing pains of remorse.
p The greatest problem of life before
he known mind is to learn to dis
inguish truth from error, to know
ight from wrong. 1t is wonder
ul help to understand clearly our
oint of destiny and be fully per-
uaded as to. the directions leading
0 it. Often in the confusion of ways
1e become beWildered and lost not
moving which way to turn or where \
o. 90. Troubles and perplexities
neet US on every hand, and there is
70 peace of mind, DO comfort for
ur souls. There is b strange ming
ng of ways >and conflicting de.
nanjs upon our time and service
nd the seeming claims of many du-
les drawing us in many. and con-
letting directions and we stand as
ne lost in the maze of doubt and
onfusiOn. We Stoop to pluck
eautiful flower by the roadside and
re stnng by its pricking stems ere
re i1hale its sweat fragrance. The
'untaln at which we would assuaee
Ut thirst proves only a mirage Of
eception, yielding no cooling and,
fe giving drought.
Much of our happiness here ON
ath-and until we have passed
ITO the Great Beyond we can know
0 other-lies in and is dependent
pom our faculty of perceivine the
'rces that make for good and the
Dlllty to distinguish the true from
le false. I'VE Stand in constant
anger and often make the fateI
listake of refusing the one and ac-.
'pting the other, "leaviHgth eloris
IS and abiding realities of like and
lrewlng :, away the cool grain for
Ie echaff ''Is@ ~ =
And our happiness is also equally