Your ShelfYour Projects

The Best Way

17%

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 19, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 20.

Read the full edition

The Best Way

By Anna Cecilia Doyle

WHY should I wear my sorrows For all the world to see? Why should I let life's bitterness Cast its shadow over me?
Could I serve the Master better If I wore a solemn face? If I let each bitter heartache Too plainly leave its trace?
O, didn't he make the sunshine? And didn't he make the flowers? And do the hearts that love him Love him less in life's sunnier hours?
And his own dear face was brilliant With the light of his love, I know; If it did not glow with that fire intense, Would the children love him so?
Why not laugh, if the laugh is kindly? It is better than looks forlorn; The dear Lord made the lips that smile As well as the lips that mourn. — Anna Cecilia Doyle.