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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 13, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 11.

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SMILES.

By Carrie Butcher

CARRIE BUTCHER.
(Red Oak, Tex.)
A SMILE is such a little thing, And oh! so easy given; And oftentimes bears upon its wing A love-lit ray from heaven.
Why should we smile on all we meet Outside the dear home portal, And scatter sunbeams at the feet Of every passing mortal,
Until we reach the very place Where loving smiles are needed; Then let the sunshine leave our face, And frowns come out unheeded?
O let us frown, if frown we must, On passing stranger faces, But hold a fund of smiles in trust To wear as sweet home graces.