eel happy within before we can show it on
the outside. And then it says: 'He that is of a merry heart hath a
continual feast,' which shows that if we are truly happy, everything
about us will appear brighter and more delightful. Again, it says: 'A
merry heart doeth good like a medicine.' How true this is; you never
saw a sour, gloomy pessimistic person who was in real good health,
while the one who shows the most gladsome face is either in splendid
physical condition or else has risen above his pains and distress in
his appreciation of God's blessings. They are always believing that
'it might be worse."

"But is this cheerfulness for the sole benefit of the one who smiles?
Not a bit of it. We cannot do evil without harming someone; neither
can we cultivate cheerfulness without proving a blessing to
others. Here, I want to draw for you the picture of a boy who doesn't
seem to have this happy disposition of which we have been speaking.
[Draw the lines to complete Fig. 86.] Perhaps he looks this way most
of the time--it is a bad beginning. We see him here, coming down the
street; perhaps he will meet one of the other boys. Ah, yes, here
comes another boy; and this boy has a merry heart, if we are to judge
from his facial expression. [Draw the second boy.]

[Illustration: Fig. 86]

"We have no way of knowing what this second boy said to the first boy,
but we can tell from his face that he has a merry heart. And what
about the first boy? Ah, he, too, has caught it, for his face reflects
the smile of the second boy. [Add line to change the facial expression
of the first boy, completing Fig. 87.]

[Illustration: Fig. 87]

"We refer again to the book of Proverbs, and there we find that 'a
word spoken in due season, how good it is!' It must have been such a
word that the first boy spoke to the second. 'A word fitly spoken,' we
read again, 'is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.' But we
must choose the right words to go along with the smile, and the
greatest danger seems to be that we will say too much, for the same
book of Proverbs says that 'he that hath knowledge spareth his words.'
He knows how to choose and when to stop. Let us remember that the
smile counts for more than mere words. The smile is a universal
language understood everywhere on earth. It is the badge of
friendship, and that is the thing which the world craves.

"A friend of Haydn, the great composer, once asked him how it happened
that his church