Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1919 — LIFE HOLDS NOTHING BETTER [ARTICLE]

LIFE HOLDS NOTHING BETTER

Man That Has Contentment in His i Heart Need Seek No Further for Happiness. Discontent with his lot In life is the great curse of the man of ordinary estate In this world. To have the things that are beyond his reach con- I sumes him with a ceaseless fire. Such ! men, as a rule, have enough and to j spare, but this does not seem to satisfy them. If they would only deter* mine to be content with what they have they would be happy. The consequence Is that they make ( a dismal failure of a life that could easily have been a great success as far as their happiness is Involved, j And. without happiness.lt were better that a man had not lived at all. Then Tfre have the man who has all the wealth and power and maybe all > the glory that he craves, but who Is • in constant fear that it will be taken away from him; that he will lose his worldly possessions or that somebody will rob him of the limelight. Contentment never sleeps under the | roof of such a man. Wherefore, of what good to him Is all that he has? j Now, if the man who wants that ( which Is beyond his reach could school himself to be like Paul, “content in I whatsoever state” he found himself, ■ he would get things out of life , that ’ he never dreamed of. He would sleep soundly and awake in gladness. And if the man who has all the wealth he had craved could school himself to feel that it wouldn’t matter If he were to lose it all, he would ateo sleep , soundly, and awake in gladness. Who among us that would wish to | go through life and miss the biggest ' thing there is in life? Well, the least ' man on earth can have that big thing I for his very own simply by a motion ' of the mind that God gave him when > he was born. -1 The big thing in life —its name is j Contentment. It Jies at your feet. Take it up and let it warm you.— Lttica Globe.