Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle . eel athorough unrest. You know as well as older people whatit is to be depressed. As dark shadows sometimes fallupon the geography of the school-girl as on the page ofthe spectacled philosopher. I have seen as cloudy daysin May as in November. There are no deeper sighsbreathed by the grandmother than by the granddaughter. I correct the popular impression that people are happierin childhood and youth than they ever will be again. Ifwe live aright, the older we are the happier. Thehappiest w
Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle . eel athorough unrest. You know as well as older people whatit is to be depressed. As dark shadows sometimes fallupon the geography of the school-girl as on the page ofthe spectacled philosopher. I have seen as cloudy daysin May as in November. There are no deeper sighsbreathed by the grandmother than by the granddaughter. I correct the popular impression that people are happierin childhood and youth than they ever will be again. Ifwe live aright, the older we are the happier. Thehappiest woman that I ever knew was a Christian octo-genarian; her hair white as white could be; the sunlightof heaven late in the afternoon gilding the peaks of have to say to a great many of the young people of thischurch that the most miserable time you are ever to haveis just now. As you advance in life, as you come out into the worldand have your head and heart all full of good, honest,practical, Christian work, then you will know what it isto begin to be happy. There are those who would have [336]. THE WOMAN OF PLEASURE. 337 us believe that life is chasing thistle-down and graspingbubbles. We have not found it so. To many of us ithas been discovering diamonds larger than the Kohinoor,and I think that our joy will continue to increase untilnothing short of the everlasting jubilee of heaven will beable to express it. Horatio Greenough, at the close of the hardest life aman ever lives—the life of an American artist—wrote:I dont want to leave this world until I give some signthat, born by the grace of God in this land, I have foundlife to be a very cheerful thing, and not the dark andbitter thing with which my early prospects wereclouded. Albert Barnes, the good Christian, known the worldover, stood in his pulpit in Philadelphia, at seventy oreighty years of age, and said: This world is so veryattractive to me, I am very sorry I shall have to leave it. I know that Solomon sa
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