_T0 BE HAPPY, 5

But instruction will not make us happy,
unless we listen to it, and obey its teachings.
We must not only know what is good and
right, but we must pursue and do what is
good and right. .

We all desire to be happy: -no one can
by any possibility desire to be tniserable.
And how can we be’-happy? The answer is «
easy, to do good, and to do it in the right way.
We must not only take care to have our
hearts right, but our manners must be right:
we must not only be honest, true, charitable,
virtuous, but we must be amiable, kind,
* cheerful, agreeable. We must not make it
our sole object to be happy ourselves, but we |
must constantly try to make others happy
also. And how can we make others*happy,
if our manners, our looks, our words, our
mode of speaking, are disagreeable?

Now proceeding upon the certainty that
all my young friends desire to be happy, I
* write this book, to.assist them in becoming
so. I intend it to be a pleasant book, full of”
truth, but full of amusement also. My pur-
pose is to teach young people the great art of
life—that of doing rightin the right way +
that of being not only good, but agreéable.

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