Seventy Years in Dixie - Recollection and Saying of T. W. Caskey and Others #255198

He is not a philosopher who would seek happiness by an effort to put himself in harmony with such rapidly changing environ ments. If there be any truth in the philosophy, the environments with which we must harmonize in order to find happiness, must be some thing less changeable than the fads fancies, customs and sentiments of this fickle age and generation. To seek happiness by a hard race to keep pace with such environments, is to act the folly of the discon tented slaves of fast life, who always make haste to worship at the shrine of the latest gods of fashion. There is no real happiness along that route. The peace which passeth understanding must come from anchoring the soul to something more sure and steadfast. To put it all in the fewest words possible, the nearest way, and the only way, to true happiness is stated in this one sentence Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. These two things are the same, and must ever remain the same, in all ages, among all peo~ ples, and under all circumstances. And On these two command ments hang all the law and the prophets. There is no fiction in this book. It is mainly the story of the life of Mr. Caskey, but such things as are not parts of the story of his life, are, nevertheless, real incidents in the lives of other veritable persons.