The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-03-31
A Smiling Face Is a
Great Heritage
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.

| Copyright, Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
81 jist loike to let her in at the
dure," said an Irish servant of a lady
caller. THE very face of her does one
good. shure."
How glad we all are to welcome
sunny souls! We are never too busy
to see them. There is nothing we vel.
come so much as sunshine. Someone
has said, "A happy human FACET is
the gift that may be made by poor or
rich, by old or young. 1t is the gift to
which all are entitled, with which all
are pleased"
Oh, what riches live in a sunny
soul; what a heritage is a smiling
face-to be able to fling out sunshine
everywhere one goes, to scatter the
shadows and to tighten sorrowing
hearts; to have the power to send
cheer into despairing souls through
sunny and radiant disposition!
And yet all about us we see people
going through life peddling vinegar,
radiating bitterness, finding fault, and
seeing only the ugly; worrying. fret
ting, cynical and pessimistic! Some
people have a genius for seeing only
the crooked, the evil and disagreeable.
Ressimism is always a destroyer, never
a producer.
We need more Joy peddlers, and sun
shine makers. more people who refuse
to see the ugly, the bitter and the
crooked; who see the world of beauty
and perfection which God has made,
and not the world which sin and discord
and disease have made. We need
people who see the man and woman
whom God has made-pure, clean,
sane. healthy-and not the ugly, dis
eased, discordant dwarf, the burlesque
of man, which wrong thinking, wrong
living and sin have made.
A cheerful, optimistic mind is sort
of prism which brings the rainbow
colors out of things which are invisible
to the pessimist.
The prism does not make the colors
in the spectrum. They are everywhere
in the light before our eyes. Our light
Is made up of all the different colors
of the rainbow. The prism merely sep
arates them and makes them visible to
the eye.
The ability to radiate sunshine is a
greater power than beauty or wealth.
II you would do the maximum of which
you are capable, keep the mind filed
with sunshine, with beauty and truth,
with cheerful, uplifting thoughts. Bury
everything that makes you unhappy
and discordant, everything that
cramps your freedom, that worries
you. before It buries you.
Take joy with you; cling to it, no
matter where you go or what you do.
1t is your lubricating oil which would
prevent the jars, the discords, and
shut out the sorrows of life.
True religion is full of hope, sun
shine, optimism and cheerfulness. 1t
Is joyous and glad and beautiful. There
is no Christianity in the ugly, the dis
cordant, the sad. The religion which
Christ taught was bright. cheerful and
beautiful. The sunshine, the lilies of
the field" the birds of the air." the
hills, the valleys. the trees, the noun
tains. the brooks-all things beauti-
ful-were in his teaching. There was
no cold. dry theology in it, It was
just happy Christianity!
Refuse to be gloomy. Cheer up! Get
your mind off your troubles. Do not
think about them. Think of the bright |
things in life. Think gratefully of the
good things you have. Wake up. and
be cheerful