The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-01-31
SUNSHINE IN LIFE
DR. Willis Delivered an Interesting and
Instructive Lecture to a Very
large Audience.
He Urged People to be Happy by Max
ing Other Lives Move Along
Happily.
Cold Snap Followed a Month Of Pleasant
Weather No Locality Escapes
in Northwest.
THEW llkEn TUE CIlNCuIMC
THEY LIKED THE SUNSHINE.
DR.. Willis and His Sunshine Lecture
Was Very Much Appreciated
by Mitchell Audience.

The fifth entertainment of the
lecture and concert course was given
at the Grand opera house Monday
evening to very large audience.
The speaker was introduced by Prof.
e. r. Graham. The night was very
cold outside but when DR.. Willis
commenced to turn his sunshine on
the audience there was perceptible
difference in the atmosphere. His
lecture was on Sunshine, OF the Sc
crets of Happy Life.'' DR.. Willis
is man of long life and we should
judge has seen it in all it's phases
and knows wherein happiness is
found. He is of that cheerful, happy
disposition that he can talk sunshine
in life with a very good grace. He
believes in being happy and turning
to account anything and everything
that will conduce to happiness. He
does not believe in being happy alone,
but that it is the duty of every per-
son to try and make some other per-
son happy, and thereby create happi-
ness for oneself. He said that people
often forgot that anybody else in the
world was entitled to be happy but
their individual self.
DR.. Willis said that in his travels
he had come across the individual
who assassinated the happiness in
other peoples lives by their seeing
no good in them, always with a crit
icism on their lips, and their pres
.ence at any gathering is felt for the
worse. He would like to see that
class relegated to--oh, most any
place. They were of very little use
in the world. He believed that the
grateful man was the happiest of all,
who appreciated his blessings whether
they were large or small. The speak
er said to his audience that in count
ing your blessings you would discover
that you had many things to be hap
py over which were not considered
in the every day run of life. He did
not believe that circumstances had
anything to do with ones happiness
and declared that happiness did not
lie in bank vault nor in the
breeches pocket-it was all bound up
in that little organ beneath the waist
coat, the heart. With that object
right, happiness was assured.
He talked on religious happiness
and got at the person who thought
when one donned religion that there
should be no smiles, no laughter, but
long drawn faces and solemnity.
That class Of people he had but little
use for and could not see wherein reli-
gion was to make one solemn and
sober, blind to the joys Of life. On the
other hand he believed that JOY came
from God and it was not His way that
people should shut themselves out
from the Joy of the world. 1t was
joy that attracted the young to the
church and the speaker said that
anybody who made Christianity look
like a dose of castor oil would sue
ceed in driving the young people
away from the church.
The one thing that DR.. Willis
wanted to leave as the deepest i'm
preston of anything he might say
was the thought Of living to make
others happy. 1t was not Il hard
thing to do when one became sac
customed to it, and as a consequence
we carried around a lighter heart
and better conscience.
DR.. Willits gave us all much food
for reflection in the course of his
highly interesting lecture. and the
sunshine that he spread through the
audience we hope will be lasting and
that should he come to Mitchell again
no matter how many years elapse
that he will see the benefits of the
sunshine he spread among us for an
hour and a half.
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