The Christian has the blessed privilege of proving to a covetous, discontented world that man can by the grace of God he contented under the most adverse circumstances.

Oftentimes people conclude that they would be happy if their surrounding circumstances were different.  True happiness consists not so much in the environments, as in the dispositions of the heart.

After a day of labor, what a pleasure it is to meet at home the warmth of hearts we love!  After a life of toil, what will be the pleasure of meeting all the loved in heaven?

I am told that the language of the Algonquin Indians of North America contained no word from which to translate the word love.  When the English missionaries translated the Bible into that language they were obliged to coin a word for love.  What must be a language without love? and what must be the heart!

The Christian out upon life’s sea can, by faith, hope, and love, weather the wildest storm that ever the winds of adversity blew.  Hope is the anchor fastened to the eternal word of God; faith is the cable attached to the anchor hope.

[Illustration: 
My pathway of life is now paved with peace,
The flowers e’er bloom bright and gay;
A halo of light is shed around me
As I walk the beautiful way.]

HAPPINESS OF LIFE.

Down, down in the depths of infinite love,
     Filled with all the fulness of God,
Joy’s cup ev’ry moment filled from above,
     As adown life’s pathway I trod.

No sin sways its scepter over my soul,
     God’s righteousness fills ev’ry part,
His fulness of glory keeping the whole,
     And I love him with all my heart.

Sing not to me of the pleasures of earth,
     I have found a much happier way;
The joys of the Lord, of far greater worth,
     Are filling my life ev’ry day.

Sorrow and sighing have flown away,
     From trouble and care I am free,
The peace of God over my heart holds sway;
     I am as happy as I can be.

You are tempted, you say, and sorely tried;
     Of that I have nothing to say,
The victory is mine whate’er may betide;
     I’m happy each hour of the day.

My pathway of life is now paved with peace,
     The flow’rs ever bloom bright and gay;
A halo of light is shed around me
     As I walk the beautiful way.

THE HIDDEN LIFE.

You have experienced a resurrection.  You once were dead in sin; now you are alive unto God.  You have been translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light.  You are a new creation; you have a new life.  Though you have existence in this world, yet the world does not discover your true life.  With Christ it is hid in God.  The world knows nothing of you except as they see you in the life you live in the flesh.  You have