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  CHOOSING HAPPINESS
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: True happiness comes from union with God and conformity with
His Will.

Topics: "Joy In God", "Union With God"
Scripture References: Psalm 16:11, Psalm 89:16, John 15:11, Romans 15:13, Philippians 4:4

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the everlasting joy and happiness
found in God, where souls awakened to His presence see earth as a
fatherland and face the future with courage and light hearts. She
emphasizes that happiness is a natural portion for those who have chosen
God, as He is the source of infinite joy and communicates happiness to
the soul in union with Him. Tileston highlights that true happiness is a
perfect alignment and cheerful compliance of the soul with the Will of
God, making Heaven itself a state of eternal joy and conformity.

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In Thy name shall they rejoice all the day.

PSALMS 89:16

Now first to souls who thus awake

Seems earth a fatherland:

A new and endless life they take

With rapture from His hand.

The fears of death and of the grave

Are whelmed beneath the sea,

And every heart, now light and brave,

May face the things to be.

FRIEDRICH VON HARDENBERG

HAPPINESS, let us understand this well, is as truly our portion here as
above; it cannot fail to fall within the lot of those who have chosen
for their portion Him whose nature is one with infinite, unalienable
Joy. God, in communicating Himself to the soul, of necessity
communicates happiness; and all souls in union with Him have returned to
their central rest, and are happy, in exact proportion to the closeness
and fulness of their union,--happy, in other words, by so much as they
have within them of God.

DORA GREENWELL

HAPPINESS, Heaven itself, is nothing else but a perfect conformity, a
cheerful and eternal compliance of all the powers of the soul with the
Will of God.

SAMUEL SHAW, 1669

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