| Show THE tiie LIGHT OF A CHEERFUL FACE there is is no greater everyday every day virtue than cheerfulness th a quality in man amon among 1 men is like sunshine to the day or 0 gentle gentie antle renewed renewing mois mols ture ure to parched herbs the light of a cheer ful fui ul face diffuses itself and communicates communicate a the lappy happy spirit that inspires it the sourest temper must sweeten in the atmosphere of con inked linued good humor As veil veli vell well might fog and cloud and vapor hope to cling to the sunil sun il luminer landscape as the blue blues and moroseness to combat jovial speech and exhilarating laughter be cheerful always there is no pat jath path h but will be easier traveled no load but will be I 1 lighter liter ilter no shadow on heart or brain ailt but will litt sooner in presence of a determined cheerfulness it may at times tines seem difficult for the happiest tempered to keep the countenance of peace and content but the di difficulty will vanish when we truly consider th that sullen suilen n gloom and passionate despair do I 1 nothing but multiply thorns and thicken sorrows rows I 1 ill lii comes to us as providentially as good and is a good if we rightly apply its lessons why not then cheerfully accept the ill aej and 1 hus thus blunt its apparent sting cheerfulness ought to be the fruit of philosophy and of christianity what is gained by peevishness and fretfulness by perverse sadness and sullenness if we are ill let us be cheered by the he trust that we shall soon be in health if misfortune befall us let us be te cheerful b by hopeful visions of better fortune if deack death robs ua us of thedeas th edear ones lat let us be cheered by the tha thought that they are only gone before to the bilse blise blissful ful fui bowers where we shall all part no more forever cultivate cheerfulness if only for personal profit crofit you will do and tear bear every duty and burden better by being cheerful it will be sotir consoler con eon soler in solitude your ur passport and in society gou vou you will be more sought after more trusted and esteemed for your steady cheerfulness the bad the vicious may be boisterously gay and vulgarly 1 iu but seldom or never truly che cheerful e ia I 1 genuine cheerfulness is an almost certain index of a happy mind add alid and a pure good food li heart dart cart |
