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[MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] ♪ Where the wild birds are floating ♪

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♪ In the wild woods ♪ ♪ I have found a stranger ♪ ♪ And he's sweet like you ♪ [MUSIC]

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>> He's not happy he just comes. >> [LAUGH] [Crowd noise] [Unidentified man] Yes sir, yes sir.

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[Crowd noise] [Unidentified man] Officers, members of the National Congress, the teacher training department is indeed grateful for your support. Several years ago, Dr. Boyd gave me an opportunity to serve in this department

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By granting me the privilege of being the understudy to Dr. E.C. Smith This year one of our workers is out because of an emergency, Dr. T.T. Newman And he has given another young man an opportunity Brother Julius our Scruggs who's our assistant in that department there to

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Classes and if he's here, I'd like for brother Scruggs to stand by the Scruggs here Well all of the members of the teacher training department those workers and

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Persons who are enrolled in those classes, would you stand wherever you are? all. Thank you. Thank you very much and for those who have difficulty finding the way we would remind you that we are meeting at the St. Clair's Street Church and the buses will be ready following this session to take you there and to bring you back. For those who are interested in getting a copy of the lectures that were delivered in the last session of the Congress, three lectures, keep telling the story.

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They are available. We have a number of copies. My wife has them. Where are you? Where's my wife? She probably has them. Where is she? There's a lady in the red back there. So you may get them following this address. A curse on him who relies on man, who leans upon mere human aid, his thoughts from the eternal. He is like some desert scrub that never thrives,

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set in a dry place in the steps in a salt solitary land. But happy is he who relies on God with the eternal for his confidence. He is like a tree planted by a stream reaching its roots into the water.

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Untouched by any fear of scorching heat, its leaves are evergreen. It goes on bearing fruit in seasons of drought and lives serene.

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I ask God the meaning of happiness. It was revealed to me that happiness is blessedness. [Audience] Amen. Blessed is the man

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[Audience] Yes. that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, [Audience] Yes.

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nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful, but his delight is in the law of the Lord. And in his law, doth he meditate day and night, and he shall be like a tree planted by rivers

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of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season. His leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation

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of the righteous, for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, for the way of the ungodly shall perish. In the lectures for this Congress session, attention is given to the general theme, directions for teachers. The biblical basis for these messages is taken from the story which is

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expressed in the words of this familiar song from the Hebrew hymn book, the book of Psalms, which I've just read the first song. I consider this a song about happiness, a commodity which is of universal concern. Everybody wants to be happy and everybody tries in one way or another to

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secure happiness. And this song comes from the wisdom literature of the Bible and it tells us what the wise sages of the past thought about happiness. It embodies the thinking of the best teachers of Israel regarding how to live the good life. It is a story about the model man of the Old Testament. Now the

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teacher is a guide, for the teacher gives direction, pointing the way to be follow. The teacher is a disciple who seeks to make other disciples and those who have the task of giving directions for the journey of life need to check their maps from time to time. There is a story about Alexander the Great and his

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military campaigns. It is said that the general with his soldiers came to a point and they looked at their maps and they could not find this place located on their maps. They had marched off of their narrow maps. And it's good for teachers to check their maps, their sense of direction from time to time. Because

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he who gives directions needs to be definite and careful so as not to mislead those who follow. There is a story of a preacher who was walking in a neighborhood looking for the post office and he asked the little boy to show him the way to the post office and the little boy gave him the directions. Since

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he was a visiting preacher, he told the little boy that he would be preaching that Sunday at a church that was not too far away and he said, "Now you come to this church and I will tell you how to get to heaven." The little boy paused he said, "Now mister, I don't see how you are going to show me the way to heaven when

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you don't know the way to the post office. We need to be sure that we know the way. People everywhere are searching for happiness and it's ours to show them the way. searching for the abundant life. And the person who teaches must himself know the way. Now

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the teacher must first be taught the way of happiness in order to be able to teach the way to others. What is happiness? This commodity that those who come to us want so desperately. Many stories end with the words, "And they lived happily ever after." The idea is expressed When Shakespeare says, "All's well that ends well,"

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what do we mean by this word happy? What do we mean when we say happy birthday? Happy anniversary? Happy New Year?

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What's the meaning of happiness? This word happiness means different things to different people. Different strokes for different folks.

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Some believe that happiness is to embrace a hedonistic way of life. Eat, drink, be merry, live it up, seek to fill every moment with a thrill. That way of life says that happiness is pleasure. The satisfaction of human impulses,

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not only the satisfaction, but the gratification of our human impulses. It's a way of life that says that what feels good to me is good for me. Now we cannot rely on this way of thinking as being the road that leads to happiness.

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We know that there are many things that feel good and there is food that may have a pleasant taste, but it upsets our stomachs and contributes to our ill health. is just the satisfaction of one more human impulse. It serves in satisfying maybe that particular impulse.

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It may serve to the detriment of the whole. But happiness, this state that we are concerned about, this way, this direction that we are to give to others happiness is concerned about wholeness and holiness and hedonism fails the test. Pleasure does not produce happiness. You can think

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you're having a good time but it can contribute to your misery. Now there are others who embrace the utilitarian philosophy that happiness is that highest good for the greatest number and the American Declaration of Independence affirms the right of every person to be happy. It says that all men

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are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, those of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And yet the men who wrote this document had slaves whom they denied the right to liberty and happiness. They denied to others that which they demanded for themselves. What

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was good for the majority was not permitted for the minority. It was a situation of the greatest good for the greatest number. Now take care of the desires of the majority this philosophy says and let the minority catch as catch can. But this is not the way we are to teach. The experience of the prodigal son

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tells us that indulgence in the pleasures of the flesh does not contribute to ultimate happiness. The utilitarian philosophy of the greatest This good for the greatest number has been used to justify the alienation of six million Jews in our time.

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And it has been used to condone the sufferings of persecuted minorities in America and in the world. So neither hedonism or utilitarianism leads to real happiness. how can we find happiness? This is the question that comes in the eyes and in

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the hearts of those who assemble in classrooms for us to teach. Now one view is that the best way to find happiness is to forget it. This view is expressed in the old dog's philosophy and here it is. A big dog said to a little dog chasing its tail, as he saw this little dog chasing its tail,

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He asked, "Why are you chasing your tail so?" and said the puppy, "I have mastered philosophy. I have solved the problems of the universe which no dog before me had rightly solved. I have learned the best thing for a dog is happiness, and that happiness is in my tail. Therefore I am chasing my tail and when I catch it I

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shall have it. Now this is what the old dog said to the little dog. My son I too have paid attention to the problems of the universe in my weak way and have formed some opinions. I too have judged that happiness is a fine thing for a dog and that happiness is in my tail but I have noticed that when I chase it it

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keeps running away from me. But when I go about my business it comes after me. So our task in teaching the way and giving direction we must remember that that happiness is not endlessly chasing a rainbow. It's not a dead-end street.

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It's not a stage static and meaningless existence. It's not something we can pick and preserve like peaches. It's not something we can place

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under lock and key like valuables in a safe deposit box. Happiness does not come in a package that can be delivered to a certain address when ordered. Doesn't come that way.

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And we must teach this. People are all at sea today as to what really constitutes happiness. A healthy body is no guarantee to happiness. Many who have healthy bodies have a broken spirit.

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There are those who think that when they get a certain amount of money in their bank accounts and their homes paid for and their children educated that they will be happy. But wealth is no guarantee to happiness.

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For life does not consist in the abundance of things that a person possesses. We must teach them the way. And happiness is not determined by the acquisition of worldly knowledge. Sometimes the more worldly knowledge you have, the more you know, the more miserable you become. For some of

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the most knowledgeable people are the most miserable. Happiness is not success. Alexander the Great is said to have wept in despair because he had no more worlds to conquer. What direction shall we give to those who come to us that we might teach them the real way. What shall we say to them? How shall we show them

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the way? People really want to know. They don't want us to guess about it. They really want to know. Two men were walking in a cemetery and came upon an epitaph which read, "I am dead as all can see, prepare thyself to follow me." And one of them stooped and wrote beneath that inscription, "To follow you I'm not

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content until I know which way you went. People want to know the way. What makes for happiness? William Wordsworth raises this question and he answers it with poetic beauty when he says, "Who is the happy man that every man in arms should wish to be? It is the

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generous spirit when brought among the tasks of real life, has wrought upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought, whose high endeavors are an inward light that makes the path before him always bright. This is the happy warrior. This is the man that every man in arms should wish to be. But let's dig a little deeper.

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Let us consider what a wise teacher of Israel said about happiness. For he tells us that happiness is blessedness. Blessed is the man. The happy person lives in a state of blessedness and this means happy is he, salvation belongs to him for in teaching people how to be happy we must tell them that happiness is wholeness.

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And the younger generation today would say, they would put it this way, happiness or wholeness, they express it in this language, is getting yourself together. That blessed individual is that person who is united, that person who is an integrated personality that's not split off in all directions but that person who is all

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together, not a split personality, not many selves, but a person who is together. Happiness is blessedness. Blessed is the man. And this way which we are to teach is not some future hope, but it is a present reality. It is something that we will realize in its fullness in the future, but we have a foretaste of it

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right now. Blessed is he, and this blessedness is not something which is a remote possibility, not something achieved in the far off by and by, it's something realized in the here and now. We must tell people that in the midst of all of the circumstances of this life that they can be happy. And that means

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singleness of purpose. And a teacher must have this first of all himself, that that in all of life that there is one great consuming objective toward which my life is ordered and this somehow pervades everything we do. Every lesson we ought to teach that somehow we sit there and we make our plan with this

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objective in mind. That singleness of purpose and that is to please God. Now that's all happiness really is. It's pleasing God. No matter what may happen of being related to God in such a way that we seek to please Him. And if you please God you can do as you please one person says but if you please him

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everything's all right now let's let's tell them that there are three grand essentials of happiness it must pervade everything we do in the classroom three grand essentials and everybody needs in order to be happy the first is something to do, something to do. The next is someone to love and the third is

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something to hope for and you need these to be happy. These are essentials. When a person is happy you see his happiness whether or not he is happy depends on the way he lives. It's not what he does, it's how he does what he does. For people must be taught that happiness is not something that comes in a bottle. You

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know you can't create happiness with the cocktail party because it doesn't come in the bottle. It may loosen people up but it doesn't create happiness for the morning after is often worse than the night before and we must teach them that happiness doesn't come in a bottle and it doesn't come in

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peels it doesn't come in the drugs that many are taking today and our churches must be concerned about this drug addiction. And you see what causes many to use drugs is they're trying to be happy. It may give you a trip, and sometimes it's a trip that you never get off of, but it doesn't give happiness. It doesn't give you that kind of single relationship to the eternal that will guide you through the vicissitudes of life.

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And we must teach them that. The wise teacher says that those who teach the way of happiness must be happy themselves. We cannot reveal what we do not possess. Well, people want a sense of direction.

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But there also is another thing here. Not only is this man blessed, but we move to the next step here in this sense of direction. Is this a matter of discipline? is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in

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the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scoundrel." Now you see a teacher in the classroom as a model, as a guide, you have to be careful about how you handle your body. It's good for you to be able to have the words to say but sometimes your body says more than your mouth alone. There was an

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article in Psychology Today a few months ago that had to do with body talk and it went on to show how much we say with our bodies. You know sometimes a man may not say anything with his lips he just says it with his body and Isaiah talks about some women during his day in Jerusalem how they talked with their

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bodies and the Prophet says that they were haughty young women attractively gowned and brilliantly girdled who strutted and pranced down the main avenues of Jerusalem making brazen flirtations and attracting admiring glances with their fashionably set hair and leaving in their train a seductive

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aroma of perfume. They were saying a great deal with their bodies. And this happy person says a great deal in his body movement. He moves in such a way that those who behold him are able to see that this is a happy person. The happy person is not like an antenna or a radar picking up whatever is around him.

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This happy person that we're talking about has a built-in sense of direction. He's not happy because he confirms to the crowd. We must teach them that real happiness is having something inside you that enables you to know what you are to do and to be willing to do it.

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Have the courage. Okay, well, I got another meeting and I'm trying to see if I can divide myself on that. Okay, well, I got another meeting and I'm trying to see if I can divide myself on that. If it's besides the 7.

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Okay. You said 7 o'clock? 7 o'clock. How about 7.30?

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7 o'clock. Oh, see that's good. Okay. You said 7 o'clock? 7 o'clock. I thought it was 7.30. It's 7 o'clock. Oh, see, that's the one I'm talking about. Oh, it would be a bit later. Okay. Okay. All right. Well. Yeah.

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[Background noise] Okay. Okay, I got my folder here. I'll look at it. [Background noise] Okay. All right. Well, they eat too much bark. [Laughter]

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Well, if you ever conceal that is, uh, I can understand the reasoning of it. It's a what this article points out is that brackenry is not as safe as the shore. That's true. There's no question about this. But for the city of Missouri, this deal is a big one.

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[inaudible] And that's even if we have 85% of the board running. St. David's is 85% of the board. La Crosse is 70% of the board.

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And it shows three disportions. [inaudible] Well, uh... [inaudible]

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Well, it's pointing out that I would say that that would be very poor. In other words, I've got a housing project here. We've got a hundred and fifty percent. If we had eighty-five percent, we'd be housing.

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And we need to have the operation of maybe about ninety-five percent. And 95% you probably make it because that's what the housing budget is now. We'll assume the housing budget is very similar. And when you start getting 85% vacancy units, you have problems.

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They have a federal government in our situation has a 30% You know, a farm, you operate at that farm, you do it, you start buying under it, and you can sell it. And 85% I don't think you can sell it. So this is the reasoning behind it.

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And so when you add up these 5%, all these hospitals, 15% of all systems, 30 years. Which means this is, and this is 40 years since I've been here. This is a general hospital, isn't it? Oh, Cheryl Creek, I was out there the other night.

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I got a number out there. It's beautiful. I don't know who goes where. It must be private. Because you only have one city, so it must be, I don't know what you say. Boy, everything is different.

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It's as nice, if it's not the nicest that I've been here. It's as nice as anything here. And it's new all the time. I had just been out there the first time Saturday night.

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I didn't go all the way through it, but what I saw was that you didn't turn around. That was worse. I'm not sure if I'm out of your head to stand up to the folks standing up to you. I'm standing up to you today.

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Is there a reason why the service was not as safe as it was the first time, or was it the last time? Well, I just got a, what I would say, a quick view of what he says, and I probably have a whole right here to do what he says, if they send it out. If they send it out, I'm supposed to...

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(creature growling) (eerie music) [Music] ♪ As a ruler of America ♪

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♪ Her love is beyond compare ♪ ♪ Our pride and joy ♪ ♪ Ever leading this ♪ ♪ When he comes I shall find ♪

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♪ I will love you ♪ ♪ I will love you ♪ ♪ With me ♪ ♪ My Savior ♪

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♪ I will ever ♪ ♪ Follow Thee ♪ ♪ I walk with Thee ♪ ♪ As with Your children ♪

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[Choir singing] [Music] ♪ I live to be proud ♪ ♪ I am to all attention ♪

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♪ The hope and the proud ♪ ♪ I'm the child of the King ♪ [Choral singing] We continue our worship now in the dedication of our gifts.

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