Did you ever find the Happiness Flower? It opens wide at the morning hour, In the meadows of cheerful mind. But it sometimes grows in the sandy dust And down in the fields of perfect trust It's sweet as honey, the Happiness Flower, If ever you find the Happiness Flower, By the rainbow's end in an April shower, May it flourish fair in your garden ground, May the sunshine of love the whole year round Lie warm on your flower and you. A. N. K. Our Heavenly Father, we come to Thee in our search for the happiness flower. Though in the years that are gone our search may have been in vain, let us not give over the quest. But with renewed hope may we set out upon the new year confidently expecting to find it in any turn of the road, in any field, in any human experience. may we not search afar, for by the divine alchemy of Thy love Thou causest the flames of happiness to blossom out of commonest soil. Yet may we ever remember that they blossom most freely in the fields of perfect trust. Amen. GEORGE L. PERIN. And To be alive in such an age! With every year a lightening page To be alive in such an age· To give to it! What if thy lips have drunk the lees? The passion of a larger claim Will put thy puny grief to shame. Breathe the world thought, do the world deed, Think hugely of thy brother's need. And what thy woe, and what thy weal? Look to the work the times reveal! Give thanks with all thy flaming heart Give thanks and clasp thy heritage To be alive in such an age. ANGELA MORGAN. Give us this day our daily bread, we pray, PHILLIPS BROOKS. |