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MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 25, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 5.

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MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY.

Everybody can make somebody else happy, and our world would be a pleasant place to live in, if all were trying to do this.
Some men move through life as a band of music moves down the street, flinging out pleasure on every side through the air to every one, far and near, that can listen.
Some men fill the air with their strength and sweetness, as the orchards in October days fill the air with the odor of ripe fruit. Some women cling to their own houses like the honeysuckle over the door; yet, like it, fill all the region with the subtle fragrance of their goodness. How great a bounty and blessing it is to so hold the royal gifts of the soul that they shall be music to some, fragrance to others, and life to all! It would be no unworthy thing to live for, to make the power which we have within us the breath of other men's joys; to fill the atmosphere they must stand in with a brightness which they cannot create for themselves.