Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-04-27
Chips of Advise.
SUNBEAMS.

be dark and dreary waste-an unGe-
sirable place in which to dwell-where
it not for the Sunbeams that dance on
the hills, and toy with the flowers, and
coquette with the streams as they go
singing, ripping on their journey to
the sea. Clouds and shadows only
serve to enhance the glory and beauty
of the sunlight. They give to it a value
that eclipses all the gems that ever
graced the cornets of kings or flashed
in the mines of Golconda. When the
heavens are dark above our heads,
and the footbeats of the coming storm
are heard, and the thunder leaps, on
wings of fire from cloud to cloud, the
scene is awe.inspiring and grand; bul
how wonderously beautiful are the
sunbeams us they fall from the sky
after it has wept itself into peaceful
beauty Shine on! o, beautiful sun!
Clouds may obscure thy shining for a
season, but they cannot destroy the
source from whence it comes, Not till
the stars shall be quenched in eternal
night, not till systems shall have fallen
in hopeless decay, not till countless
worlds lie wrecked, and time itself
shall be dead, will thy shining be gath
cred back into the treasury of Heaven,
from whence it emanated.
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We can make for ourselves sum
beams that will shine on our path, and
on the paths of others when life's sky
is draped with sorrow and weeping.
We can if we will, and if we do not we
shall suffer ourselves and cause others
to suffer with us. But, how shall we
do this? The process is not difficult,
nor is the result uncertain in char
acter
Kind words are sunbeams that go
straight to the heart and leave an i'm.
press there that will last till the eye is
dim and the hand cold in death.
Surely we can speak kind word now
and them especially to those who have
erred from the path of correct living.
Perhaps we, too, would have fallen had
we been exposed to the same tempta-
tion before which their manhood or
womenhood went down. Oftimes we
meet with some poor unfortunate one,
who has trodden upon a sharp thorne
and who is just hungerlng for kind
word to help him endure his pain and
burden of almost hopeless misery.
Shall we pass by on the other side OF
the way and leave him without q kind
word 10 help him Just a little?
Kind words fall upon the human
heart like dew upon the thirsty droop-
ing flowers. They help to make the
weak strong, the dependent hopeful,
and not infrequently lead the wander
er back to the path of a virtuous life
A kind word is hundred fold more
potent for good than censorious speech
which is born of untempered wrath.
The world, society, and the home
would be brighter, better, happier and
purer to-day il men and women would
practice more of the religion Of human
kindness and less of that iron severity
of department which so often makes
the eye weep and the heart ache
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Kind deeds are sunbcams that will
outshine the stars in the crown of night
and live to bless and beautify the
memory Of him who performs the N
long after lifes sun shall have set amid
the shadows of the tomb. In this de
partment how much we may and
portunities which daily present them
selves to our notice and claim a help
ing hand To smooth the path over
which some weary one is passing; to
tighten the burden under which some
hopeless one is bending, to kindle fire
on some desolate hearthstone, and
light the lamp of hope in same home of
SORROW is q work of transcendent
worth far beyond the reach of human
computation. 1t is more replete with
sublime results than was ever gather
ed from fields of human fame, or amid
the glare and glitter and fictitious
splendors of the passing hours Kind
deeds! Let us SOW them in the hard
and dusty road of life. They are seeds
that shall blossom into beauty and
bear fruit when the hands that planted
them shall lie nerveess in the dust
Yes, kind deeds are sunbeams.
Smiles are sunbeanis, and there are,
alas! too few of them in the world
There might be more, and would be
more if men and women could be in
duced to live and act in closer sym
pathy with the law of human cheerful
ness, and the different sources of legiti-
mate pleasure that are found all along
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