Take It With You

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 31, 1910

“I HOPE you’ll have a pleasant time, son,” I said, as the latter was starting out to spend the evening.

“Thank you; I always do, for I take it with me,” was the reply.

And that is a great big secret. Most people wish to have a good time. And that’s right. But so many of them seem to fail. Why don’t they take it with them? They can; they should. The good time is in you. It is with you as to whether you have good neighbors and find pleasant people everywhere you go. The glory of the heavens, the gorgeousness of the sunrise and the sunset, the sweetness of bird songs, the beauty of waving trees and blooming flowers, the very goodness of God itself — all are in you, all depend on what you are, on what you have brought with you.

What kind of time do you want to have? It rests with you. Will you walk in clear light or stumble along in gloom? Will you be strong and joyous, or weak and sad? It rests with you.— Brotherhood Star.