The Cheerful Man

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jan 2, 1908

WHAT a boon he is in everybody's life! Like a bright sunrise and a gentle south wind, coming together on a winter morning, he is to all who cross his path. He brushes cheerily along, knocking grief and disappointment out of his path, and leaving it fringed with flowers. Such a man is worth a great deal to the world, more than all his money, his wisdom, or his ambitious schemes. People feel a sort of pleasure just seeing him coming down the street, and when they meet him, there is not a cloud in sight. Such men are a blessing to the people of any community.

A cheerful man does not realize the amount of good he is doing in the world. But it is his nature, and he can not help it. Heaven has picked him out as one of its angels, and he is faithful to his mission. Every day some fellow has been made happy by his pleasant smile and his genial “Good morning;” and if one has a bit of business with him, it passes by very much like an exchange of compliments.—Ohio State Journal.