The Bright Side | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 14, 1878

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 a flower. There is always that before or around us which should cheer and fill the earth with warmth. The sky is blue ten times where it is black once. You have troubles; it may be so. So have others. None are free from them. They give sinew and bone 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 the ocean. Men are not made to hang down either their heads or their lips, and those who do so only show that they are departing from the paths of common sense and right. There is more virtue in one sunbeam than in a whole hemisphere of clouds and gloom.