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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE HAPPY HEART Neither hath it entered into the heart of man what things are prepared for them that love Him. The Joy or Our Life Happiness?an Essential Impulse HAPPINESS is the possession and enjoyment of good. The pursuit of happiness is the occupation of mankind. We do not perform any act except for good; we do not take a step; we do not move a little finger; we do not so much as lift an eyebrow unless we see at the completion of the act the attainment of some good. Take good out of this world, and every man, woman and child would stop still and do nothing until good came back again. If there was no happy harvest, would the farmer work? If there was no salary, would the laborer work? If there was no profit to be gained, would the railroads run, would the factories smoke or the mills keep their wheels revolving? If there was no honor, no glory, no good for God or man, would writers write, or speakers speak, or statesmen govern? If no charity existed or other virtue, would the Church continue or the schools, or would the Sisters and priests sacrifice home and all to take their places at the altar or in the classroom? No, surely It is good which keeps the world going. From the infant, whose longing for happiness is hardly known except in its weak, helpless cry, to the old, who totter feebly to the grave with the hope of immortality in their dim eyes, all are tending toward happiness. Even the deluded suicide strives blindly but desperately to reach the same goal by hurling himself to death. Happiness is the motive-power of mankind. Happiness?an Impulse Towards God Where does this universal, perpetual, invincible tendency come from and what does it mean? There is only one hand which can implant so deeply and so widely in man, and that is the hand of the Creator,...

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE HAPPY HEART Neither hath it entered into the heart of man what things are prepared for them that love Him. The Joy or Our Life Happiness?an Essential Impulse HAPPINESS is the possession and enjoyment of good. The pursuit of happiness is the occupation of mankind. We do not perform any act except for good; we do not take a step; we do not move a little finger; we do not so much as lift an eyebrow unless we see at the completion of the act the attainment of some good. Take good out of this world, and every man, woman and child would stop still and do nothing until good came back again. If there was no happy harvest, would the farmer work? If there was no salary, would the laborer work? If there was no profit to be gained, would the railroads run, would the factories smoke or the mills keep their wheels revolving? If there was no honor, no glory, no good for God or man, would writers write, or speakers speak, or statesmen govern? If no charity existed or other virtue, would the Church continue or the schools, or would the Sisters and priests sacrifice home and all to take their places at the altar or in the classroom? No, surely It is good which keeps the world going. From the infant, whose longing for happiness is hardly known except in its weak, helpless cry, to the old, who totter feebly to the grave with the hope of immortality in their dim eyes, all are tending toward happiness. Even the deluded suicide strives blindly but desperately to reach the same goal by hurling himself to death. Happiness is the motive-power of mankind. Happiness?an Impulse Towards God Where does this universal, perpetual, invincible tendency come from and what does it mean? There is only one hand which can implant so deeply and so widely in man, and that is the hand of the Creator,...