Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1904 — The Value of a Sunny Soul. [ARTICLE]

The Value of a Sunny Soul.

The world is too full of sadness and sorrow, misery and sickness; it needs more sunshine; it needs cheerful lives which radiate gladness; it needs encouragers who will lift and not bear down, who will encourage, not discourage. Who can estimate the value of a’ sunny soul who scatters gladness and good cheer wherever he gore, instead of gloom and sadness? Everybody is attracted to these cheerful faces andsunny lives, and repelled by the gloomy, the morose and the sad. We envy people who radiate cheer wherever they go and fling out gladness from every pore. Money, houses and lands look contemptible besido such a disposition; The ability to radiate sunshine is a greater,po.wer than beauty, or than mere mental accomplishments. —Success.