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Show Energy and Cheerfulness. A minister writing from Rome tells of the blessings brought to the Pope by his busy and cheerful life, saying: say-ing: "Twenty-five years ago an old man, weak and thin, was selected by the Sacred College to be the successor of St. Peter at Rome. None of his contemporaries con-temporaries thought he would live long. But he shut himself up In the Vatican and kept busy and cheerful, and has seen all of his colleagues of a quarter of a century ago pass away from earth. The lesson here is that energy and cheerfulness are powerful tonics to the body, and a long life is the natural tendency of a right spirit. Not that happy natures always reach old age, but that the joy of the Lord is the strength of human life. It matters mat-ters not so much what may be the circumstances surrounding life, the great token of Buccess is the spirit with which we meet the world. A joyous heart Is the Christian man's impregnable stronghold." |