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The Bright Side

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 20, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 1.

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The Bright Side.

Look on the bright side. It is the right side. The times may be hard, but it will make them no easier to wear a gloomy and sad countenance. It is the sunshine, and not the cloud, that makes the flower. The sky is blue ten time where it is black once. You have troubles, so have others. None are free from them. Troubles give sinew and tone to life—fortitude and courage to man. That would be a dull sea, and the sailor would never get skill, where there was nothing to disturb the surface of of the ocean. What though things look a little dark? the tide will turn, and night will end in broad day. Men are not made to hang down their heads. There is more virtue in one sunbeam than a whole hemisphere of clouds and gloom.