. Mary Clarke Nind and her work : her childhood, girlhood, married life, religious experience and activity, together with the story of her labors in behalf of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. would seek it in learning and books, in colleges, and halls ofscience. But the poor, weary student says, Happiness is not ! where is it to be found—can I not find it in pleasure ? Sinners!it is not to be found in the dance and ball room, in the theater, inthe opera, or in the giddy maze of pleasure. There comes from allthose that seek it in such plac
. Mary Clarke Nind and her work : her childhood, girlhood, married life, religious experience and activity, together with the story of her labors in behalf of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. would seek it in learning and books, in colleges, and halls ofscience. But the poor, weary student says, Happiness is not ! where is it to be found—can I not find it in pleasure ? Sinners!it is not to be found in the dance and ball room, in the theater, inthe opera, or in the giddy maze of pleasure. There comes from allthose that seek it in such places the same sad words, Happiness isnot here. Let me ask all of you who have sought happiness insuch places as these, if it is not so. A young woman who had been the gayest of the gay said to methat with all her gaiety and round of pleasures she was stillunhappy. When she came to Christ and yielded her heart to theSavior, she said: I have had more solid happiness these last twodays than in all the former years of my life. And this testimonymay be learned from a multitude, that you cannot find it in suchplaces as these. You may seek the wide world oer and you willnever find it. This happiness can only be found when Jesus has. CHILDREN OF MARY C. NIND 1 J. Newton Nind3 Emma Nind Lacy 2 Louisa M. Nind4 George B. Nind A Sermon by Mary C. Nind 215 provided it; it can only be found in the water of life which is freely-given to all who ask for it. Jesus said to the woman, It shall be inthee a well of water, springing up into everlasting life. Thereswhere you may slake your burning thirst, heres where the thirst ofyour soul can only be met. Oh! hear the voice of the Holy Spiritfrom the letter of the Prophet Isaiah. Oh, everyone that thirsteth,come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money, come ye buywine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do yespend money for that which is not bread? Oh, how many hourssome of you have had in trying to find happiness where it can ne
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