Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes.
Deuteronomy 3:27
Words: Maggie A. Pulver, in Sunday School Voices, edited by Charles Gabriel (Chicago, Illinois: Hope Publishing, 1910), number 12.
Music: Charles H. Gabriel (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Pulver (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Wear a smile for Jesus,
As you pass along,
Cheer this world of sorrow
With a happy song;
If a cloud should lower,
Hiding all the blue,
Smiles will rift the gloom and
Let the sunshine thro’.
Refrain
Smiling, smiling, happy ev’ry day;
Smiling, smiling, up the narrow way;
On the Mount of Pisgah
Some day we shall stand,
And with smile of triumph
View the promised land.
Wear a smile for Jesus,
Speak a word of cheer;
Many hearts are sighing
’Neath their burdens here;
Like the sparkling dewdrops
On the drooping flow’rs,
Smiles will cheer and brighten
E’en the darkest hours.
Refrain
Wear a smile for Jesus—
Do not stop to weep;
Tho’ some disappointment
O’er your pathway creep,
Smiles will lighten labor,
Soothe and banish care;
Scatter freely, then, your
Brightest everywhere.
Refrain