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REV. Mr.. DUNKLEY GIVES
TALK ON CHEERFULNESS


The Brighter Side OF Life is Depic
ted by Pastor of Grace Church
Mrs. Mabel Phillips Smith, Wifi
OF First Lieutenant NJ. Duk'
Smith, is Soloist.
The Rev. H. W. Dunllley, pastor o.
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
South, this city, conceived d very
| happy selection of a subject when he
decided to talk yesterday Afternoon
at the Elks Home on the subject OF
| ''Cheerfulness." In announcing the
selection Of this subject, Mr.. Dunk,
| ley stated that in connection with
| the terrible war which has been
waged and the more recent outbreak
of disease throughout the world
! there had been SO much sorrow and
/! sadness that there was a serious dan
ger Of people becoming depressed
and allowing their depression to ex-
ert baneful effect upon not only
| their own lives, but those Of the ris-
ing generations.
There is. the speaker said, SO much
for which to be thankful, so much OF
goodness, so many blessings, so
many joys, that one cannot afford to
become morose and unhappy. Every
one can find in their lives some sor-
rows. but everyone, too, can find in
their lives more for which to be
thankful, and more of brightness
than OF sorrow. Sorrow weighs
down, it destroys usefulness, it
drives out those very characteris-
tics which make for happiness and
which permit one to use to the full
est extent the gifts with which he or
she has been endowed. He remin-
ded his hearers of that character Of
person, who lives in every commune
ty, who never sees anything good in
the world, who goes from house to
house with gossip, whose delight is
in whispering and spreading rumors
of scandal, whose chief efforts are
given toward the tearing down of
the very fabric of civilization, thru
innuendos, such as Have you heard
about poor, etc." or Isn't it a
shame that so and so does so and so.
Then there is another class who
are always complaining that things
are not like they used to be, the
world is going backward; these are
inclined to cluster around The stores,
sit on boxes, spit tobacco juice all
over everything around them, and
whittle and whittle and white, as if
their very lives depended upon the
industry with which they welded
their pocket knives for the destruc-
ton of the goods boxes upon which
they idled their time. He told of an
incident that had occurred during
his ministry when in another State;
he had gathered close to listen to the
conversation of some of these gentle
men, and found one speaker decry-
ing the railroads because they haul
ed his tobacco and charged him frei-
ght. Years ago he said he used to
load his tobacco on his wagon and
haul it down to the town, distance
of forty miles, and then there was
something in growing tobacco, but it
was so no longer. So the speaker
said he asked him if there were not
a good many miles of poor dirt road
left between his farm and the town?
If he still did not have the team and
wagon? And he replied that he did,
whereupon he asked him what in
the name of goodness then prevented
him from continuing to load his to-
bacco upon the wagon and haul it
the forty miles or more over the poor
roads to the city? And he replied, 1t
took so much Of his time, and that
of his team that he could not afford
it; the train could bring it a great
deal cheaper, but still he complained
and complained and complained; he
was afraid he might really see some
thing bright in life, that there might
be radiated from him something of
cheer and joy.
Then he related an incident Of an
old lady who had lost her husband
and her son, and TO whom, it seemed
more than her share of misfortune
had come. She had permitted her
sorrow and grief to so monopolize
her thoughts that gradually the
rounded face became drawn and
pointed. the brightness Of her eyes
became dulled, and careworn; wrin-
kles took possession of her brow,
while lines of bitterness implanted
themselves deeply around her eyes
and mouth. One day she went to
have a picture of herself taken, and
the photographer told her to smile
and look bright, but she did not dc
so; then he SPOKE sharply, and told
her to look brighter, and she replied
| that she could not, but he told he1
| that she could smile, that she could
look happy, and she tried; then he
| told her that was much better, tc
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