One dear old saint told him to remember that his sweetheart's soul was not dead, and that she, undoubtedly, wished him to complete his law studies and to make himself a strong, good man. "For her sake, go on with life and fill the years with good deeds!" Years afterward he must have thought of that when, in the dark days of General McClelland's failures, he urged the soldiers to "cheer up and thus become invincible." Mr. Lincoln, in 1863, when speaking of his regard for the Bible, said that once he read the Bible half through carefully to find a quotation which he saw first in a scrap of newspaper, which declared, "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." That must have been done in those sad days when the darkness was still upon him. How little has the world yet appreciated the important maxim given to those who seek success, "to smile and smile, and smile again." It is a very practical and a very useful direction. But it may be a hypocritical camouflage when it has no important reflex influence on the man himself. The same idea was expressed with serious emphasis by Lincoln in 1858, when he urged the teachers of Keokuk, Iowa, to let the children laugh. He said that a hearty, natural laugh would cure many ills of mankind, whether those ills were physical, mental, or moral. The truth and usefulness of that statement it has taken science and religion more than a half century to accept. Now the study of good cheer is one of the major sciences. Some psychologists contend that laughter is one of the greatest aids to digestion and is highly conducive to health; therefore, Hufeland, physician to the King of Prussia, commended the wisdom of the ancients, who maintained a jester who was always present at their meals and whose quips and cranks would keep the table in a roar. It was an important declaration made by the humorous "Bob" Burdette, when he said that an old physician of Bellevue Hospital had assured him that a cheerful priest who visited the hospital daily "had cured more patients by his laughter than had any physician with his prescriptions." Burdette rated himself, in his uses of fun, as the "oiler-up of human machinery"; and good cheer and righteousness followed him closely, keeping ever within the sound of his voice. The life-giving, invigorating spirit of good cheer made Abraham Lincoln's great mind clearer and held him to his faith that right makes might, and that night is but the vestibule of morning.