The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-05-30
HOPE is A NECESSARY
CONDITION OF LIES
HAPPINESS
True Happiness Comes in
Response to Our Needs and
Shaped to Suit the Temper
ament and Requirements of
Each Individual.
(BY W. A. GATTIS FOSTER }

l. disconnected and separate from
our present conditions, a happiness
eliminating in some future expert
ence which we expect to attain, OF
retain as a continuation of what I've
now have. With, hope filing our
hearts and carrying our mission be-
yond the present, We are made
strong and patient in suffering, cour.
egeous when the tide of battle seems
going against us, and if it be our
fate to suffer defeat at any point in
the struggle, we may still with cheer
full mein- and calm determination,
through the beneficent presence of
hope, transfer our thoughts and de-
slres of possession to other and more
promising points of acquisition.
Hope never surrenders. Thru its
power we are enabled to surround
ourselves in moments of adversity
with the halo of anticipated bless
lngs and enjoyments, though seen
from afar, or make it in unbroken
continuation one long series of
OAISuII AoPpy OdyS.
: There is nothing that helps us so
much to bear up under the trials
and sorrows of today as the hope of
a brighter and happier tomorrow.
The enjoyments of life would be few
and transitory and the way dreary
were it not for the promises held out
by hope. There could be no conso-
lation in our human sorrows, no
comforting thought of the posses
sion of any future good, without it
but the wretchedness of the present
united with the hopelessness of the
future would overwhelm and engulf
the soul of man in the darkest abyss
st hopeless dez4sair.,
J Hope does not always bring us
the things we look for. 1t is often
delusive and fails us in the final fru-
ition of our most earnest expecta-
tions. Where we had expected hap
pineSs we may have found bitter
sorrow, where we had looked for vic
tory we met with defeat. But with
hope alive in our hearts we cheerful
ly 60 on leaving behind the regretted
failures, though hard it sometimes
may be the escape the narrowing
memory of many a fondly-cherished
hope that we never realized. But
from the dead past we bring our
thoughts 10 a living present and
hope leads on with sweet promise of
,, attainment of the hearts fondest de-
sires a little further on.
Hope is desire united with expec-
tation" for something not yet at
tained and its cheering influence
abides with us to bless and to COM
fort in seasons of misfortune and
distress. AS faith is the substance
of things hoped for, so hope finds its
glad consummation in the possession
of the things desired.
Our earthly happiness is made
continuous through hope. We cannot
know what good things the future
may have in store for US. 1t may
seem dark and cheerless, but hope
comes to our aid and through it we
are enabled to look forward to a
happy continuation of any condition
which pleases us. However abun-
dainty blessed any life may be, or
however much it may be flied with
sorrow, it is necessary to hope tho
hope should be always deluded, for
hope itself is happiness and its f1us-
trations, however frequent, are less
dreadful than it's extinction.
Without the presence Of this con-
dition in our earthly life the present
would be powerless to bring us hap
piness, for there would be closely
united with any enjoyment con-
staAt dread of the future.
Happiness grows by cultivation.
1t is not dependent so much upon
external as upon internal causes. 1t
must in the first place come within.
That is the beginning point. Envi,
rontnents are only incidental factors
however much they may contribute
to it. 1t is easily smothered. 1t can
not thrive in an atmosphere of con-
tinued discouragements or constant
gloomy forbodings, but grows and
fiourishes in the sunshine of con-
tentment, of hope, and the expect
ancy of good:
We should never encourage the
habit of dwelling on the darker side
of life to the obscuring of the bright
er and more pleasing one. Let us
not belong to the unfortunate class
who can see no good in any one or
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