The Springdale news., 1916-03-31
LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE"

i, make them no easier to wear gloomy iand sad countenances. It is the
 sunshine and not the clouds that
 make the flowers. The sky is blue
 ten times where it is black once.
 You have troubles-so have others.
 None are free from them. Troubles
 give sinew and tone to life. That
 would be dull sea, and the sailors
 would never get skill, were there
 nothing to disturb the surface of the ocean. What though things look a little dark, the lane will turn, and
 night will end in a broad day. There is more virtue in a sunbeam than in d whole hemisphere of cloud and gloom.
 The man who has learned to tri- umph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow. and nothing is so en- tirelx admirable as man bravely
 wretehed Every tomorrow extends either hand Of anxiety or hand of faith. Mems lives should be like tue days, growing more beautiful to-
 ward the evening.
 Some kinds of diversity are chief Fly of the character of trials. and oth
 CTS of discipline. by discipline is to
 be understood. Anything that has
 direct tendency to produce improve
 ment, or to create some qualification
 that did not exist before; and by trial
 anything that tends to ascertain
 what improvement has been made
 or what qualification exists.
 Shadows lie on many fields of
 knowledge. but the light of God falls |oa the path of duty The good things
 which belong 10 prosperity. are to
 be wished, but the good things that belong to adyersity are to be ad
 mired The virtue of prosperity is 2 temperance, the virtue of diversity
 is fortitude.
 The weeping of the night dew is
 soon dried from the short grass, and abides not many hours upon the
 lawn. save where the shade of shrub or willow wards off the suns rays. So the tears of sadness remains but for a short space upon the eyelashes
 of those who are young, and even the older ones soon become so inter ested i'll the pressing cares of daily
 life that their griefs vanish into the
 great sepulcher of time. The great est of difficulties often lie where we
 are not looking for them. When : painful events occur, they are. per haps, sent only to try and prove us. If We stand firm in our hour of trial,
 the ffrmness gives serenity to the mind
 Fluctuations may come as a flood into the church; We may be dis
 appointed even in the brethren; but : those who have their eve on Christ . hold on their way. The Word which . they have heard and which ) they have kept. is strong link
 binding them 10 him who is more than all else to them.
 Such are hfe"s scenes. Change and disappointment are written upon : every leaf of times book. The pres
 ent seems cheerless, oftimes sad, and , We look forward to the future for a cup of bliss; the future comes and wa find the cup empty or sadly adul- } terated
 Our dearest joys. how fleeting they
 are, But carry the radiance of l your scul in your face; let the
 world have the benefit of it. Let your cheerfulneSs be left for good, f wherever you are, and let your smiles : be scattered like sunshine on the l just as we'll as the unjust. Such dis ;. position will yield you a rich reward, f for it's happy effects will come home
 to you. aadd brighten your moments
 of thought Smiles are the higher
 and better responses of nature to
 the emotion Of the soul. Let the : children have the benefit of them. 3 nhe little ones who need the sum- { shine of the heart to educate them
 and would find q level for buoyant $ nature in the cheerful loving faces y of those who lead them. Let them a not be kept from the middle aged J who need the e;ico;aTass ss,oillcIit they q bring. Give your smiles often to : the aged, they come to them like the I quiet rain of summer. making fresi :. the long weary path of life, be ger l. tie to all, love the true, the beau
 ful. the just, the holy. S~ Q If you stand upon the mounta |. you may see the sun shining lc { | after 1t is dark in the valley. T II l. to live up high, escape if you Y $ the malarious damns of the ! t lands. Make an upward path T ; your feet. - C Though your spirit may be de7