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Show I DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE - ( I Suppose you go through your Blbloj nnd scratch out the word "Joy" and its! derivatives wherever you find them; what would be the result? You would leave a stain on every page. You would in ako a breach In every chapter. You 'would throw out the Psalms, and crlp- pie the Gospels, and mutilate tho Epistles. You would shut the voice of every angel from Genesis to Revela- t'on. You would dull all lights and dim every star, and extinguish the torch that was meant to be a lamp fcr tho feet of pilgrims on the road to God. If it would ruin the Bible, then why go through your life scratching out Joy and Its derivatives? It is not a pious pastime. Thero is no merit in a long-fuced religion. Thero is no magnotlHin In a scowl. It Is no certificate certifi-cate of vlrtuo to be unhappy. If you want to scratch out anything, scratch jour complaints, your groans, your lamentations. i If thoie Is anything the Biblo makes H ! r-'aln about God, It Is that He wants HJ jus to be happy. Ho Is doing all that a HJ God can do to bring this about, and Ho HJ Is confident of success, if wo will only HJ let Him have His way with us. Thcrp M Is nothing too hard for Him, no hys- HJ tones, no norvous prostration, no HJ phantasmagoria of the hypochondriac. HJ There Is not one of the "divert dls- H crises" to which flesh Is heir but He H can handle. HJ If you can bo happy. It Is wrong HJ to be unhappyi Quit coddling your HJ gloom. Ccaso nuralng your misery. HJ H is worse than a waste of time. It is HJ a wicked waste of life Itself. H Cheer up- Life Is too short to travel H oa any schedule but Joy. ' Instead of H scratching out Joy, underscore it Glvo HJ the Joy moods the right of way, Thl3 IH Is tho prescription of the Great Phy- IH idclan. "Rejoice, and again I say unto HJ you. Rejoice!" HJ |