Show GENERAL L BOOTHS BOOTH'S RECEIPT FOR HAPPINESS IL lacking In originality tho the message ge which General William Booth of tho the Salvation Army has transmitted to the American people upon tho occasion occa occa- Ion sion of at his eightieth birthday Is well wel well worth taking to heart It Is Is In effect that happiness is Js to be t found und not In Inthe Inthe Inthe the quest for or In the enjoyment of ot material advantages ad but in fulfilling tho tIm precepts of ot Christianity This Is tho the conclusion to which tho the wonderful wonder wonder- ful old man who established tho now worldwide Salvation Arm Army has been conducted by what ho he has seen Been of at tho world worM luring during his extraordinarily active and ca Ca- reer reel and there is no reason whatever to doubt its entire sincerity Nor need its truth be questioned In ono way or another we are all aU engaged engaged en en- lu in the pursuit of or happiness but how few tew there bo be that find it ItI It is isa Isa a n. materialistic age As ad advances advances ad- ad vances ances the opportunities for luxurious enjoyment are multiplied In an earlier and r ruder der era the man of ot great possessions was not so 50 much better 01 off of for tor pleasure than ho who only owned land Jand enough to yield him a n. comfortable living He could live Ina in ina a larger house he could dould wear better clothes ho could dine at a moro more bountifully bountifully boun boun- I provided table and that was about all He was not obliged to o 1 1 had to do o a a. lot of dano dan- dan nn hla lead was never too secure upon his shoulders There are aro man many more ways in these modern times in fn which a man of or wealth can employ his mone money for tor his hisS S own enjoyment and for tor that among other reasons the accumulation of or property has become tho the great if it not tho the chief object with most of ot us Is happiness to be found along this road S Does the man who has been beon success success- ful rul in this direction feel fully satisfied with the result of ot his efforts Is he happy happ and cont content nt There Thero is no tellIng telling tell tell- ing but eve every once in a while somo Impre impressive evidence is offered to the contra contrary Some of ot the most successful successful success success- ful tul men in history have declared life lIfo a failure Disraeli who became Lord Beaconsfield said aid youth was ms a dream manhood a struggle le and old age a re reet regret regret re- re gret et and the Illustrious Bismarck was to recall seven happy days In Ina Ina Ina a career of or triumph So far tar as the tho record testifies the tho happiest men and women are those who have spent their lives for others It is not known that any anyone one of ot th these e eIn in looking back over tho the nearly completed com corn record has has' declared lifes life's effort to have havo been boen a failure |