p. 143 | Admit the Sun

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · May 1, 1879

Admit the Sun.

Don't shut out the sun, even though your carpets suffer a little under his ardent gleam. We are more active under the influence of the sun-light, and can think better and act more vigorously. Let us take the most airy room in the house for our living-room—the workshop, where the brain and body are built up and renewed—and let us have a bay-window no matter how plain the structure, through which the good twin angels of nature—sun light and pure air—can freely enter. Dark rooms bring depression of spirits, imparting a sense of confinement, of isolation, of powerlessness, which is chilling to energy and vigor; but in bright rooms is good cheer. Even in a gloomy house, where walls and furniture are dingy and brown, we have but to take down the curtains, open wide the window, hang brackets on either side, set flower-pots on the brackets, and let the warm sun stream freely in, to bring health to our bodies and joy to our souls.