TEACHERS TOPIC BE OF GOOD CHEER Be cheerful always. There is no path but will be easier traveled, no load but will be lighter, no shadow on heart and brain but will lift sooner, for a person of determined cheerfulness. When facts or circumstances are met squarely and cheerfully, the battle is half won. Cheerfulness overcomes fear and self pity; it fills the humblest home with peace and sunshine. One finds themself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never say anything gloomy. Cheerfulness is a friend of grace; it puts the heart in tune to praise God, and so honors religion by proclaiming to the world we serve a good master. Be serious, yet cheerful. Rejoice in the Lord always. If we are cheerful our lives are happier and those around us feel the influence and are happier thereby. We can think greater thoughts and we can accomplish greater things, and all nature seems to smile with us. A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. Proverbs Let us cultivate the spirit of cheerfulness and imitate our Lord and Master, while He labored here below. TO MOTHER Twas not so much the lessons you taught of right and wrong; Twas just the simple living, the loving word, the song, the cheery smile, the trust in God, which taught me to be true. I pray each day that I may be worthy, Mother, of you.