THE eyes of many little girls will, doubtless, look upon this picture, and different ones will, perhaps, have different thoughts about it. Some may think, Well, I have a nicer doll than that! But do you think you are happier than these little girls? They look well-pleased, and as if they did not think of, or wish for, anything better.
Do you know, my little readers, it is not fine possessions that bring happiness? Men who are very rich are usually full of care and are far from being happy; and people who live in very fine houses and have all the comforts and luxuries that wealth can procure often have very unhappy hearts. No! fine houses, good clothes, much money, cannot in themselves bring true or lasting happiness.
Who then is happy, or where can we find true happiness? Hearken to what God says concerning this; “Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.” Ps. 146:15.
May you then seek your joy, not in the things of this world, but in Him in whom alone true happiness is found.
“A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.” Ps. 37:16.
ML 03/09/1902