Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-06-18
The Bright Side,

" He always looks on the bright side,
said Mr.. Ashton, as if it were great fall
ing of his neighbor But what side would
he have him look on, if not on the bright
one, pray? What queer taste a mar
must have to prefer the dark side, espec'
tally when he can enjoy the bright one
Just as cheaply! What if he does get dis
appointed once in while, because he has
basked too much in the sunshine? that Is
not very bad only just half rs bad as II
is to look on the dark side, and be disap-
pointed. too. No fla person can't look
on the bright side, better not look any
where. The bright side is much larger
than the dark side. There Is far more
sunshine in this world than there is shad-
dow. Sunshine is the rule, and storm the
/ exception. So it is in the moral world
Joy is more plenty than sorrow. Pros
perity covers whole acres adverSity dark
ems only scattered patches. Sunshine
pours down in great floods of light day af-
ter day; but clouds hang darkling over
Us only now and then, just enough to
make us bless the sunshine more. How,
then, can person help seeing the bright
side; it is the very first side that the eyes
gaze upon; generally the side next to you.
the other side first. They get glimpse
of the back side soonest. We can hardly
tell how it is done; enough that it is done.
But who wants to possess this wonderful
faculty?
Bishop Hall once quantity remarked,
20 For every bad there might be a worse;
and when man breaks his leg, let him
be thankful that it was not his neck. =
frh,f =. -, II, 10
who saves his neck in some great calami-
ty, ought to think himself fortunate,
though leg be missing Not that he
values his leg less, but neck more; and
his gratitude for the deliyerance will show
that he appreciates blessings Just as God
sends them. All for looking on the bright
side! But the poor fellow who looks on
the dark side, utterly ignores saved necks,
and makes himself wretched over his
broken leg. He sees everybody else
around him with two sound limbs apiece,
while he has only one left, and it is such
hard fare, in his view, that he mOurns rs
if all were lost. The idea of seeing a
bright side to broken leg seems prepos-
ferrous to him, and he is almost vexed !
with the supplemented, trusting Chris |
tan who suggests such a thing. Well
Let him take the worst view of it possible, |
if he will; it is just the way to spoil all
his happiness hereafter. For one, we pre-
fer single sound limb, and Il bright side,
to two good healthy ones with dark
side.
1t was DIR. johnson, think, who said.
hat "the habit of looking OH the bright
'ldc is better than thousand pounds a
Tear." Now, we go in for this big salary,
/ thousand pounds year. We never ex-
beet to get SO much as this in clean cash,
,ut then its equivalent would be .joyfully
accepted. And what is pleasant and re-
lily heart-stirring about it is, that every
me who will, can have this blessed in
ome that is worth thousand pounds
ear. Since it depends not upon wealth
II position whether person shall have
right side to look at or not, but upon q
rusting, believing, regenerated heart, all
tho will can share the prize. And it Is
riZe better than q farm or nice house, or
ven store of goods, to many proba-
iOner particularly for the reason that it
; never cut down by hard times. Then
It no one forget that a bright side is
'orth thousand pounds year or more.
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