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Show said: "Oil, thry nru all happy; 1 am always happy wjien I see llio Lord's work going on." Dr. Robert Coilycr Mays: "The finest quality of happiness that I have boon able to find in my rather long lifetime is leaning on a certain trust in God as tiiu guardian ami guide of my life and fortune, u disposition to be on the sunny nidi of the road which I have alw ays nurtured, and the feeling that when I had done my best, it ought to be attended at-tended with results, even if I had not quilo reached tlio mark." WHAT IS HAPl'lNliSH? This question will bo answered in as many different ways as there are persons per-sons to whom it is put. Tlio Mail and Express, of New York has sent an interrogation in-terrogation point personified to various noted men and women for their replies, and wo condenso them for tho readers of tho Times. Mrs. Frank Leslie says that the proudest proud-est and happiest moment of her life was when she paid, through her own efforts, tho last dollar of indebtedness that hud broken the heart and crushed out tho life of her honored husband. Further, she says; "My ideal of happiness is far more like that of the rest of women. It is to meet ihe. 'Impossible he' who shall combine all that I look for in a man." Dr. Talmage could not for the life of him tell what was the happiest day of his career. Like summer time, humanity hu-manity has its sunny anil cloudy days. It had been his good fortuuc to enjoy many of the former. " A good conscience, con-science, joined with good digestion and an effort to make others happy, seemed to be the conditions precedent; to personal per-sonal comfort. Dr. J. II. Mclllvaluc thought Ihe only true happiness on earth consists in a belief in God and iu an immortal life, and iu living here with wise reference to a future existence. Tho most miserable miser-able people in the world are those- who, intent on personal gratification, are trying try-ing to make themselves happy. Colonel Joliu Arkins, the editor of the Rocky Mountain News, lays' stress upon a married life end family responsibilities respon-sibilities as the foundation of true happiness. hap-piness. His happy moment came to him a Her hardships and a struggle. "It came to mo one day," ho says, "after years of work. I sat down iu a comfortable home, my family around me, and I realized that at last 1 was independent and could keep the wolf from the door. There was more substantial happiness iu that thought than in any sensation I had ever experienced. Happiness, true happiness, hap-piness, is not selfishness." Stephen A. Douglas, son of ihe deceased de-ceased senator, agrees in the main with Editor Arkins, for he says: "My idea of happiness would bo a wife, child and a home, possibly because I havo none of thorn." . - Evangelist Moody, -when asked what had been tho happiest day of his life, j |