paltry. Men are happy in proportion as they yield themselves to the
best, as they tune their hearts to strike the highest key of their
lives. Paul is happier in the dungeon, where he can be true to his
ideal, than Nero on the throne without one.

There is feast in days of famine for those who have the inner eyes for
the riches of life. You always can find in this world what your heart
is looking for. But you cannot satisfy your heart on everything you
may chance to find, and until the heart is satisfied and the deeper
needs of the life are met there is no happiness.

The search for happiness is not altogether selfish. Few things can we
do that will help others more than the cultivation of serene strength
and cheer in ourselves. Not the soulless, set smile, but the strength
and sympathy that flow from a life fixed in confidence in eternal right
and good and unfailing love.



THE FOLLY OF ANXIETY

The great Teacher does not say that we are not to be thoughtful, or
provident; but He insists that no event can be provided for by anxiety,
by fretting over it before it comes. Half the people on our streets
look as though life was a sorry business. It is hard to find a happy
looking man or woman. Worry is the cause of their woebegone
appearance. Worry makes the wrinkles; worry cuts the deep,
down-glancing lines on the face; worry is the worst disease of our
modern times.