The stream is not marred, it is made only more beautiful, when
broken by rocks, and sweeping through eddies, than when silently
gliding through the sodded canal. And so the happiness which
is found in a course passed amid the conditions that invest
us in this life, may be only brighter, more full and more
animated, for its very interruptions. The pleasure shall be more
radiant than ever, when contrasting the darkness of an overpast
sorrow.--RICHARD S. STORRS.
(1341)
* * * * *
Dr. Raffles once said: “I have made it a rule never to be with
any one ten minutes without trying to make him happier.” It was
a remark of Dr. Dwight that one who makes a little child happier
for half an hour is a fellow worker with God.
A little boy said to his mother: “I couldn’t make sister happy
nohow I could fix it. But I made myself happy trying to make
her happy.” “I make Jim happy,” said another boy, speaking of
his invalid brother. “He laughs and that makes me happy, and I
laugh.” “To love and to be loved,” said Sydney Smith, “is the
greatest happiness of existence.”
(1342)