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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 3, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 31.

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The Essentials of Happiness

An advertisement of a pleasure resort printed in the current issue of a popular magazine runs as follows: “All that makes one well and happy,—fishing, idling, hunting, swimming, mud baths, hot springs, varied sports, all the year through at ——.” And so these are the essentials of happiness—doing nothing, or killing God’s creatures for sport, or trying in various ways to kill time. How empty all this seems! How much more better is the inspired declaration, “Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord, that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands: happy shalt thou be and it shall be well with thee.”