---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Selected
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 4
number: 8
published: 1901-06
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Selected, "Scatter Sunshine," *Improvement Era* 4, no. 8 (June 1901): 582.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0408unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera0408unse
start_page: 582
end_page: 582
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0408unse
  publication_year: 1901
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1901, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Scatter Sunshine

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SCATTER SUNSHINE.

           (Song of the International Sunshine Society.)




        In a world where sorrow ever will be known,
          Where are found the needy, and the sad and lone;
        How much joy and comfort you can all bestow,
          If you scatter sunshine everywhere you go.


                          chorus:
        Scatter sunshine all along your way,
        Cheer and bless and brighten every passing day.


        Slightest actions often meet the sorest needs,
          For the world wants daily, little kindly deeds;
        Oh! what care and sorrow, you may help remove.
          With your song and courage, sympathy and love.

        When the days are gloomy, sing some happy song,
          Meet the world's repining, with a courage strong;
        Go with faith undaunted, through the ills of life.
          Scatter smiles and sunshine, o'er its toil and strife.