“LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS.”

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15127, 18 February 1922, Page 2

“LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS.”

BE CHEERFUL. ■ ■ I Although I advocate the cultivation of apparent cheerfulness (says a writer in the “Lady”), I am not in favour of locking one’s grief one’s own heart and keeping it there until it breaks the spirit and poisons the whole body. Sorrow expressed relieves grief, and when somebody knows the intensity of our suffering the trouble may be lightened. But we must not harp upon that trouble and wear out kind, patient friendship in doing so,' for, although we may lay our head upon the shoulder of a kindly and sympathetic person and receive comfort, we must not leave it there too long or our sympathiser will be weighed down with the weight. Nothing is so fatal as to surrender oneself to the dreariness of a lonely life. People who are full of interests can rise above the greatest grief, will get a sense of relief that uplifts and carries them through many a day which would otherwise he black and dreary. There is nothing noble or grand about a life of morbid suffering. To rise above the commonplace, by suffering loss and hardship with a smile, is the true test of highest womanhood. A Lonely Woman’s Prayer. —And Thou, dear God, who answereth the prayers of all lonely women, answer mine: Give me Farsight to see Clearly, Faith to have Hope, and Strength to have Courage.—Amen.