p. 123 | Gayety and Good Humor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 17, 1861

Gayety and Good Humor.

It is imagined by many that whenever they aspire to please, they are required to be merry, and to show the gladness of their souls by flights of pleasantry and bursts of laughter. But though these men may be for a time heard with applause and admiration, they seldom delight us long. We enjoy them a little, and then retire to easiness and good humor, as the eye gazes awhile on the eminences glittering with the sun, but soon turns aching away to verdure and to flowers. Gayety is to good humor, as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, and the other recreates and revives them.