A Cheerful Face | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Jul 1, 1875

A Cheerful Face.

Carry the radiance of your soul in your face. Let the world have the benefit of it. Let your cheerfulness be felt for good wherever you are, and let your smiles be scattered like sunbeams "on the just as well as on the unjust." Such a disposition will yield you a rich reward, happy for its effects will come home to you, and brighten your moments of thought.

Cheerfulness makes the mind clear, gives tone to the thought, adds grace and beauty to the countenance. Joubret says: "When you give, give with joy and smiling."

Smiles are little things, cheap articles, to be fraught with so many blessings both to the giver and receiver—pleasant little ripples to watch, as we stand on the shore of every-day life. They are our higher, better nature's reponses to the emotions of the soul.

Let the children have the benefit of them; these little ones who need the sunshine of the heart to educate them, and would find a level for their buoyant natures in the cheerful, loving faces of those who lead them.

Let them not be kept from the middle-aged who need the encouragement they bring.

Give your smiles also to the aged. They come to them like the quiet rain of summer, making fresh and verdant the long, weary path of life. They look for them from you who are rejoicing in the fullness of life.

"Be gentle and indulgent to all. Love the true, the beautiful, the just, the holy."—Household.