THE CHEERY HEART | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 12, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 37.

THE CHEERY HEART.

Tho you haven't gold or silver, Tho you've neither lands nor fame, Never dream you are not wanted; You are needed "in His name." In this world of change and sorrow You may take the valiant part, Needy souls will love and bless you If you have a cheery heart.

Do not look at clouds and shadows; Watch for sunshine day by day; Let your tones be full of courage; Scatter gladness on the way. Up and down the teeming present, Learn the dear and precious art Of meeting both haps and mishaps With ever a cheery heart.

All forecasting of to-morrow In a mood of bleak despair, All distrust of God's sure promise, All faint shrinking anywhere, From a lack of faith and patience, Marks the coward's foolish start. Trust ye God, with head uplifted; Bear about a cheery heart.

God forget you? Never! never! He will keep you to the end. If He send a sudden tempest, Still His rainbow He will send; Trust in Heaven; make earth brighter For the trust, and let no dart Of transient pain e'er rob you Of a God-given cheery heart.

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