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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 8, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 19.

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Cheerfulness.

By Eliza H. Morton

A SMILING face helps recommend religion to the world, therefore it is the duty of Christians to be cheerful. Cheerfulness sweetens toil. The hands move faster, and the wheels of every-day life run smoother, when the heart is full of sunshine.
Why should we not be cheerful? The ransom price has been paid. The joys of faith and holiness and the everlasting glory of the other world may be ours. If the Sun of righteousness shines in our hearts, shadows will disperse, clouds disappear, and gladness take the place of heaviness. Let us then drink deep draughts from the Fountain of joy and bask in the “Light of the world.” If we do this, our faces will grow radiant with smiles. Glowing songs of praise will fill our hearts, and pleasant, gentle, loving words drop from our lips. Our lives will grow more beautiful day by day, and we shall finally enter the palace of the King, and in the “Land of Beulah” remain for endless years.
Eliza H. Morton.