Show r 11 Little Sermon on on Happiness of Being Poor There Thre was isas once onoe a n. woman who had hadan an alabaster box of oC ointment r and she poured this valuably valuable gift goUt over the head heath of or the lie theIa Master Ia ter as aR aRho he ho sat at at- meat meal In a humble home In the village of or Bethany No sooner was as the tho act witnessed than it gave Kavc vent to to an objection 1 To what purpose e Is this waste Thomen Themen The Tho men who saw lW it regarded this thIs act act as ns simply throwing material away that had a commercial value Ve We arc are all apt opt to think of or gifts tn In dollars and cents Ve We J see eE or want to see mone money in everything e that we do tb Wo We are arc money mon and being so so o we are apt to color our ouri i vision lon with it It is no new infirmity but It gets get too much attention nowadays and drives ls away the time sweetness and beauty of or life lICe Life can be ma made e happy without without with with- out much mone money or without emphasis emphasis- lz ing log this element clement Take the tho little that you are getting and take enjoyment In Its u use e. e It may be hard discipline to do th this 14 and ma may demand courage anti and patience in the trial But It Is h worth t trying The man who has a a- a little can little can more read readily II get th thy secret eret of enjoying life liCe than tho the man who has nas mu much muth h and ancl wants more It l is j this everlasting c d desire desire- to get more and anel make malio a better showing that Is oppre oppressing so m many ny minds In these days daS and driving them to self seIf tion ion U Wealth does not hrin bring continued I happiness it is no real veal pleasure sure to think of oC ways waS and means to spend a 11 large lare-e Income It rt Is the man of oC small means who can be really happy if IC he ne will smite safe guard his condition with simple tastes and desires Ho can look beyond money He can make his pleasures apart from his hl material possessions He can think away from the chains of ot riches and nd enter a field of pleasure which he can cart sow with his own sc seeds ds of ot experience drawn dra from his personal battles and I 4 struggles How to bo be happy though tho poor is 13 no dream of or the Imagination It is Ig this class who are ate rc really happy in life Ufe tolla today when they thoy tak talfe Ui their lr little and make it go so far Car and then and nd then think they have done their best belt with its us use This woman gave up of ointment worth fifty dollars the tho annual wage of or one man In those days clays She Sho made herself happy in her act even though she made hers herself lC poor by the tho sacrifice This is the tho true secret of at living hiving hiving- making yourself happy happy and and it can an bo be I done upon the tho basis of or having a a. little littlemore littlemore littlemore more than upon the necessity of havIng hav hair ing much S I. I ro To learn this will lot let sunshine and peace enter the humblest home and keep It radiant with the Joys that the 4 1 mere possession ot money does not give Rive and 1 cannot cannot- give r Send SemI wyn nurse to me please Miss hUgs Sherwyn Sher- Sher 1 |