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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 25, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 34.

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The Point of View

By Nixon Waterman

WHETHER or not we are happy, depends much on our point of view. The disposition to look at everything through kind and beautiful eyes makes all the world more kind and beautiful. If we are gloomy within, the whole world appears likewise. Perhaps the two ways of looking at things could not be better set forth than in these lines by E. J. Hardy:—
“How dismal you look!” said a bucket to his companion, as they were going to the well.
“Ah!” replied the other, “I was reflecting on the uselessness of our being filled; for, let us go away never so full, we always come back empty.”
“Dear me! how strange to look at it that way,” said the other bucket; “now I enjoy the thought that however empty we come, we always go away full. Only look at it in that light, and you will always be as cheerful as I am.”—Nixon Waterman.