Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1917 — LIGHTENS BURDEN OF GRIEF [ARTICLE]

LIGHTENS BURDEN OF GRIEF

Hard to Overestimate the Influence pf a Smiling Face on Those In Suffering. It would be Impossible to deny that love and sympathy possess a great influence over the whole course of our lives. How many, let the reader ask himself or herself, are daily drifting astray for the want of these virtues? The thought of havlng_ntL-one to care for them, no one to listen to their plans with a word of encouragement or sympathy in their failures; no one to soothe or heal bodily sufferings, or to whisper a word of comfort when bowed down in sorrow, has caused many hearts to fin with darkness and despair. The road to promote love and sympathy is open to all, there are no barred gates to prevent an entry, no one ready to prosecute for trespassing; all are free to enter. Its best visible and Invisible advertisement is a smiling face and a kind heart. As the sunshine is to the flowers, so is the Influence of the face which meets you with a smile; as the rain moistens the parthed ground and brings forth the fruit of the earth, equally so is the burden of invisible grief lightened by the tyelp of a gentle heart.