The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-28
SUNSHINE. From Mrs. Westover Alden.

language of the little verse that expresses our general feeling:
 Have you had kindness shown? Pass it oni''
 Twas not given for you alone;
 Pass 1t on!'
 Let it travel down the years,
 Let it wipe anothers tears.
 Till in Heaven the deed appears; Pass 1t on.
 But sometimes people press me further They ask: What denomination do you represent?" And then I have to plead absolute ignorance. We have whole Sum- day schools as branches in Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian. Episcopalian and Duh Reformed Churches. and Mothers Sunsine Branches in almost every State. The Jewish congregations have taken up the work. and the best of the periodicals carry a Sunshine Department in every number.
 Our Sunshine Bulletin announces all official meetings, news items and gives all general information.
 And yet it may be truthfully said that free as it is from the mechanics of or ganization, broad as its range of influence Sunshine has a creed. If were to fol- low the ordinary lines of denomination, I IQlBDL SAY we HdNe d Cu CLCSuos pus they are really all one.
 "Yes, we have Confucians, for We de- pend on the little courtesies and kind nesses of life to make up the great whole by which one must stand or fall. We are tender to the aged, and gentle to the little children. To the sage maxims of the venerable celestial we only beg leave to add humbly, but firmly a suggestion for the removal of most humane discom- forts, our watchword: DO somctning for somebody quicki'
 We are Hindoos, for our charity takes within its range every living thing, and a good Eunshiner couldn't even be cross to a dumb animal. We are stoics for poverty and wealth are all the same to us, and we find that one needs sympathy and help as often as the other. But to the faith of Epictetus. with all due re- gard to his epigramatic versatility, we could deferentially fasten the supple mental creed: Do something for some body quick"
 I've are Epicurians as well, for we be- lieve in enjoying life, and in making oth- CTS enjoy 1t, too. And we have learned something that the old philosopher never discovered; so to him also we would say. if he should appear to us in person, the surest way to be happy is to forget your self The receipt is an tmfailing one. Do something for somebody quick
 We are Parsees. fire worshippers, sun worshippers of course, as becomes our names; eager to testify at all times to the vital and mystic significance of the rays that shine alike on the just and the unjust. and ever keep alive on the altars of our hearts the similacrum of the ever lasting sunshine. But on these altars there is a deep carved legend that Zoroas- ter never knew, a legend that will bear repeating a hundred times and never weary the listeners: Do something for somebody quick.
 I've are Hebrews for We do not be- lieve in muzzling the OK that treadeth out the corn. But to the mass of gar nered and recorded wisdom which the Jews have clung to through all their sufferings and prosecutions, and which has made them the most distinctive race on the face of the earth. though they have no land they can call their own we add the same little supplement, the solace for the afflicted of all ages: Do something for somebody quick"
 But most of all we are Christians, for it was Christ who said, Tt is more bles sed to give than to receive" and What soever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them" And to his teaching we have no addition to make; we only insist that it finds its briefest formu- lation as a guide to conduct, in our motto which thrills with the very essence of Christianity-of Christianity as Christ taught 1t. of Christianity stripped of the worldliness of modern fashions: Do something for somebody quick.
 And now, lest your readers may not known who is the president general that expresses herself in this broad confess sion of faith I will quote further from the same source:
 Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden. the President General of the International Sunshine Society, is a native of Iowa, the child of parents from Virginia. She grew up among the pioneer surroundings in Colorado whither she was taken by her father at he age of four. She learn ed to ride and to shoot and to take care of herself in the wild country before she , was ten. She graduated from Colorado State University and taught for year in Boulder Then she went East to make her own way in life.
 For several years she sang in New York as church soprano. but she had a fad of trying all the Civil Service examina- tions and finally became Inspector of Customs in the United States service. Several important seizures are put down to her credit. For a long time she was private secretary to the Street Cleaning l Commissioner. being the first woman to be thus appointed in the State of New | ! ork Leaving politics. she entered newspaper work and became one of the | editors of The New York Recorder. There she began the Sunshine work that has | developed into the International Sunshine Society.
 She was one of the incorporators of l the Womans Press Club of New York City and is one of the best known club
 women in America. She spoke for New
 York at the Atlanta Exposition, and was
 named as one of the States representa-
 tive women to go to the Chattanooga Ex-
 psition. She was one of the American | speakers at the London Congress of Mo-
 men in 1899. as well as at he Worlds w. | c. T. U. in Toronto.
 As an author she has written two | books: Manhattan Historic and Artis.
 tic" and "Bushy" a story of child-lft
 in the Rocky Mountains Her father i.
 Oliver S. Westover, an expert mineraIo gist, now living at Santa Monica. Cal She is the wife of John Alden a Brook lyn newspaper man. MT. Alden is a linea | descendant of the Maytiower John an,
 nephew of Henry Mills Alden. the edito
 of Harper's Magazine"
 This is all that I will furnish the read
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