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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 18, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 44, No. 9.

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GOOD SENSE.

Vice President Colfax, in a recent newspaper article, expressed the belief “that cheerfulness can be and ought to be cultivated by all; that kindness is most beneficently contagious; that to carry good nature and a wisely curbed temper with you is to take sunshine with you wherever you go; that patience and forbearance in your intercourse with family and friends and community will always bring forth the riches of social fruits; that the treasure of good deeds achieved and sufferings assuaged is worth entirely more than political honors; that the creation of joy is inestimably better than the besetting sin of borrowing trouble; and with Charles Lamb, that ‘a laugh is worth a hundred groans in any state of the market.’”