What Will Make You Glad?

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 10, 1908

What Will Make You Glad?

WHEN the years have slipped by, and memory runs back over the path you have come, you will be glad you stopped to speak to every friend you met, and left them all with a warmer feeling in their hearts because you did so.

And you will be glad that you were happy when doing the small, every-day things of life; that you served the best you could in earth’s lowly round.

You will be glad there have been some rainy days in your life. Clouds and storms are not the worst things in life. If there were no storms, the fountains would dry up, the sky be filled with poisonous vapors, and life would cease.

You will be glad that you stopped long enough every day to read carefully, and with a prayer in your heart, some part of God’s message to those he loves.

You will be glad you shut your ears tight against all the evil things men said about one another, and tried the best you could to stay these words winged with poison.

You will be glad that you brought smiles to men, and not sorrow.

You will be glad that you have met all the hard things which have come to you with a hearty hand-shake, never dodging one of them, but turning all to the best possible account.—Selected.