Sunshine was a "feel good" monthly digest, filled with uplifting short articles and anecdotes.

The issues were purposefully slim, often just 42 pages long, including the back cover, with short quick-to-read articles.

Gospel singer Rosa Page Welch said that there were three things she saw everywhere in her world travels, Coca-Cola, Standard Oil and Sunshine magazine.

The Volumes of Sunshine offered for sale were suggested as gifts to clergymen, as well as social workers, teachers, speakers and radio broadcasters.

Printed inside the front cover was the assertion: "A little magazine of uplifting stories and anecdotes to cheer people up."