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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 7, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 27.

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The Capability of Happiness

By Anne Gilchrist

I USED to think it was great to disregard happiness, to press on toward a high goal, careless, disdainful of it. But now I see there is no human attainment so great as the capability of happiness, — to be able to pluck it out of each moment, and, whatever happens, to find that one can ride as gay and buoyant on the angry, menacing, tumultuous waves of life as on those that glide and glitter under a clear sky; that it is not defeat and wretchedness which come out of the storms of adversity, but strength and calmness.— Anne Gilchrist.