New Britain herald., 1919-03-17

|are too soft for our h1ghIy complex |eiyilization, mary of the white people 1are going down with nervous wreck Sage, because many have forgotten how &fo rest No man can be happy who Bllas made machine or slave of him. Eself for selfish prosperity.
 "A great many people on the other Hfand lose their happiness forever, be- &cause they do not believe it IS pos &sible to be happy under such rest Hess and chaotic conditions, as the world has witnes in more or less degree from imm ble ines. This &is an erroneous and misleading ldea and much insulting to the higher na- 5 &ture in men. It is given to man to ' cast off the tyranny of circumstances, 10 smile at storms, to laugh at disas- fer. and stretch a sceptre over defeat and death itself. Dwelling in the desert Moses becomes founder or a nation and a lawgiver. Mobbed, stoned and f1ogged, Paul smiles in the very hour when he fronts the exc cutioner. Doomed for years to Bed ford jail, John Bunyan maintains his cheerfulness, writes his immortal book and climbs the happy hills with God. Huber was blind yet he be- came the great scientist. Alexander Stenhens was an invalid and made himself an orator. Beethoven was deaf. vet wrote glorious symphonies Philip Brooks stammered, but be- came a great preacher. Fire cannot burn, nor water smother, nor blows coercc the unyielding will. Why. why go to the past history? What do we see today, in the life and death of the heroic souls those who laff 10 If icht ness and justice-how can they be 50 happy? What makes them so con- tent and satisfied-love and devotion for ideals, for country, for God. Their will is set They have decided no morel drifting and they went over more drifting and they went over courage and hope. The curse upon most men is the disease of drifting along to find the cay paths in life and crave to get rather than to give.
 Happiness begins with the thought and confidence that God cares for man.
 And it is the business and aim of re- Iigion and particularly of Christian ity to inspire and make men and women to believe that God has time to care for each life. In world where no grain of land escapes na- flres' notice, where there are no run away stars or suns. where a divine Auler leads a beautiful world out of darkness and sin and chaos of war, man can not support the thought that there is no place for him in God loving providence. OccaSlonal Iall- 1lres, hardships and even loss m lire, does not mean that God has ceased to care for you, as the dlsappolht- nents and seeming hardships of a IA i.,Ii to has ceased to care for him. Man needs a friend. and when all friends fail, he needs God as his only abiding friend The most bitter cry that eve1 arises from human lips is this one that mo man careth for my soul.
 King Lear rushing forth from his palace, to wander amidst the dark ness. his white hair wet with the drenching storm, carries a heart that breaks not because he has lost his crown, but because he finds him uncared for by two daughters on
 whom he had lavished all his gifts
 And life holds no office, no gold, and
 10 honor that will stay the tears ot
 him who feels that he has drifteG
 beyond the divine care and oversight
 And in world full of conflict, ful
 gf labor, whose fruitage is often only
 sorrow, man is supported by the
 thought that the angels of Gods Prov
 idence go before him that the angel
 6f His mercy camp in His rearward
 And that from an urn above the diVin
 hand pours light upon his pathway.
 Every man needs life pilot il
 fhis world. God is carrying individua
 men and nations upward toward
 sublime continuation, when the dram
 of this life with it's conflicts, it's dis