Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML. Toggle navigation. Bamberg, S. I Subject: Secret of Happiness. Brooklyn, N. Alfred H. Morse, spoke Sunday on "The Secret of Happiness. And these are pain and pleasure. Man was made to be happy. If sometimes he must eat the bread of sorrow it is because, as Mr. Beecher Baid, "Sorrow is medicine. Now, joy may be divided into three classes.
There is the joy of appetite, a merely animal condition. It comes from the fitting of a goodly organism into circumstances which are suited to supply its need. This is the joy that makes the child skip and play and fill the home with laughter. It is the joy of the singing bird. It is simply pleasure. But we are not always children. We grow and come into the place of work, and responsibility. And here also is joy, and this we may call happiness.
An earnest man finds joy in his employment The lawyer and doctor and teacher enjoy their professions. The minister enjoys to preach. The merchant enjoys his business, and the mechanic his shop in spite of all its toil. This is joy, but it is the joy of the bee that gathers the honey and stores it away against the needs of a hungry Winter. There is the joy of living, and there is the joy of working. These are all that many a man attains. But it takes a higher joy than these to fill the soul of man, as the sunlight fills the sky, or the ocean fijils the deep.
There is a joy that Is known as "blessedness," which arches these as the heavens span the sea. It is the joy of love, the joy of faith, the joy of a good conscience, the joy of doing right for the sake of right. These are so far above the others that they belong to another kingdom whose law is obedience, whose joy is righteousness, whose fellowship is with God, and whose entrance is by means of a birth from above. And into this kingdom there are certain well defined steps.
He is happy who throws aside his own rags of righteousness and going to God says, "Clothe me, for I am naked; feed me, for I am hungry; guide me, for I am ignorant; put Thine arms under me, for I am weak.
