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Cfjt Cuming ttje <@lass IT has come once more to :urning*of die glass. The sand is all hut spentt die days of die old year are as chaff in die ■ > of die wind. By die gray light in die wester lack, at die heaped tables of die rich, within die f places of exchange, and even amongst diose wh< out upon die high seas, men will give pause, r it is die time of reckoning, and sober diought st go to die balance against mirth and merrymak It is die supreme hour of resolution. May G end of worship he not towards die god of gold. fcy men not overlean towards die side of materi no. May dicre he reverence for simple diings >r die young babe in die cradle and die old n nearing die valley. May die milk of human k less and the good hand of common sympathy forth to die natal feast. Then might die N< Year dawn bright, and people die world over co’ repeat with die poet: “Turn again die waste iss. Kingly crown and w r a crest Are not worth die hi grass God iashions ior die low's nest.** Newton MacTavish lf= ■■■ > »• 1 ENEW YEAR WHAT WE MAKE IT By Ada C. Sweet “The only consistent pessimist is a dead pessimist,” but unfortunately there are a good many of these hap less brethren of curs alive. Never are they more active, and happily unhap py, than toward New Year's day. when all the rest of the world is looking hopefully and cheerfully forward, in expectation of good luck and kind for tune during the next 36!). The pessimist delights in derision of the good resolutions which mark the celebration of New Year in the minds of many people. Shame upon the man or woman who would dull the bright ambitions and desires for the better of any human being! But there is little time to give to habitual mourners and augurs of evil. The | new year w-iil be what we make it. I so far as our individual lives are con J c-erned. and the man or woman who 1 resolves, to be happy in a healthful, j unselfish way, is taking the first road ! toward happiness. We are all after happiness, in one j way o'- another. Even the recluse, j even the martyrs of old. were on the endless search for happiness, though the joy of heaven rather than that of earth was the goal fixed upon in the eyes of those who sacrificed the present for the future. Eternal hap pdness was what they desired. Unselfish happiness is always wait ing, right around the corner, if we will only tak-» our eyes off the far distance and look nearer home. The resolve to make next year a happy one for those nearest us will bring a good deal of real joy and satisfaction to the maker of the resolution, if he holds out well. Silent resolve is a good thing, too. Sometimes one's enthusiasm evapo rates when it is much spoken of. But don't let us allow the enemies of the ; race of man to discourage us in mak ing good resolutions; and then don't let us fail to keep those that we make to the best of our abflitv. There is room for improvement in all of us, and when we have acknowl edged that, and set ourselves to im prove. why, we are on the nearest road to success and happiness. Christianity’s Teachings. To picture the change in the race wrought througt the birth of Jesus is I beyond the limits of an artist of either \ pen or brush. Christianity created J painting. The sculptor's art was : known and practiced to some extent ! ,■ before the birth of Christ. Sculpture | f could portray that beauty and ; strength of limb which was the Greek ! ideal of human perfection, but the Christian idtals were spiritual and could not be interpreted in cold, chis eled marble. The babe of the manger j taught that man's glory w’as not in j physical, but in spiritual triumphs. A recent ‘ History of our Lord as exem plified in works of art," has shown how the story of Jesus from nativity to resurrection was told by artists. Kach picture was a sermon. Under the light, of the babe of Bethlehem, motherhood, childhood, youth, man hood were inspired to new- purpose. Through these sermons in pictures, men were moved with pity for the ignoraut, the sick, the suffering. They were inspired with a new hope in sor row, a new strength in temptation, a new jov in social fellowship. Wondrous Influence! The comforts we «njov in material things from the influence of the babe of the manger might be approximate computed with our present almost limitless powers in mathematics, but how vain are the figures in an attempt to compute the influence and unT’ft of the babe of Bethlehem on the life of the world. The enlargement of life, the development of character, the & ^inspiration of lofty ideals, the ever 1 ' widening influence that is building for eternity. Daily Thought. Have a heart that never hardenB, \ a temper that never tires, and a touch that never harts.—Charles Dickens. e of the queerest features of the fi day of the year is the fact that it h been celehtated on many different d s. With us the year begins on .1 uary 1, according to the ealen .d prepared by order of Julius Caa s and later revised from time to t e as necessity seemed to require. J -dly a month in the year but what i been regarded at some time, by f te people, as the first of the 12. ; consequently tLe beginning of the i r year. Sometimes the date was I ical, determined by the position of sun in the heavens. , Sometimes it was fixed by agricultu or industrial conditions, sometimes a great historical event, and occa nally it was merely arbitrary, de mined without any special reason ing assigned. At one time the i “eks began their year September 1; ! another on She first day of July, t i beginning of the Olympian games. I what is called the Alexandrian era t year began on August 20. One J vish chronology assigns October 1 a the date on which the creation of t world began, and consequently a pts that New Year's d-y. At one ti e the Romans began their year on A il 24. at another on March 1, and fi lly as we do now. ccording to the meteoric cycle, the ye r began on July 15. During the pe ri4 of Alexander's empire the com mAcement of the year was on Sep tember 1; the era of the Maccabees wd dated from November 24. The peoeie of Tyre began their year on Octlber 19, while the so-called Sido niai era commenced on October 1. and the Augustan era made February 14 tip first day .of the new year. The anci at Egyptians began their year with the overflow of the Nile, when ever that might occur, while in India the Annual flood, of the Ganges fur nislfd a date for popular chronology, andlthe Mexicans, although they had a duplicated system of calculating timej popuiarly reckoned their year to W*gin with the spring planting. Tlje Jewish rabbis had four begin ning of the year, the first of the month N san. supposed to be the date r>f the Exodus; the first of Tishri, which began the agricultural year; the first of Elu. the day on which the ca tle were numbered, and the first of Shebat, which was called the new year for trees. Christmas day, East er, the beginning of each solstice and many other dates have been observed a; different times by various nations; even now in Russia the day of the new year is 12 days behind that of our calendar, the Russians having never adopted the Gregorian calendar, which, indeed, did not come into gen eral use until about the middle of the ■ighteenth century. A Christmas Prayer. Oh God my Father, looking up at the shining stars of the cold Decem ber sky I remember the patient moth er and the rock-hewn manger in lowly Bethlehem where lay cradled Thy Love for the w-orld. In the shadows of the silent stall I stand beside the Child. Speak to my soul as 1 wait I pray Thee. Let the trusting, loving spirit of the Child steal into my life ! until it calms all anxious fears and I soothes all bitterness and pain. In willing surrender and passionate ; longing let me take the Christ Child to my heart, that hencelorth I may .live as He lived, love as He loved and following in His loot, teps bring Help | io the needy. Courage to the weak. Comfort to the sorrowing and Hope to I the lest. Amen.—Congregationalist. The World’s Indebtedness. If you would take from literature ! the writings of Christian people you would take away nearly all the writ ings of classic poets, historians, scien tists, journalists and scarcely any thing would be left worthy of read ing. The great productions of man's intellect bespeak our indebtedness to the sun of righteousness who came to illuminate the mind as well as to regulate the heart No wind can do him good who steers tor mo port.—Italian Jte 0^7 ^Fr/on3 one?ffieT/our^&u. MostPPBOn N’OTHER year has found us just as we were getting comfortably used to the idea that summer had really gone. Busy people never have time to dwell very much on the passing of the sea sons. The days are so full of tasks and Father Time is always catching up and getting ahead of us in spite of his ad vanced age. It is always the same old story! Spring surprises us with its blos soms and its bursting brooks and then summer has come and gone before we know it. Very few of us stop to think that this swiftness of time in its passing indicates that we are really living rather than lolling through life. It is only when the days hang upon our hands that we know how blessed are those other times when we have to make lists of the many things we have to do and get up early mornings to begin them. Of course we are likely to complain that we get so little done, especially at this time, when the calendars tell i us that another 365 days have beaome i a part of yesterday's 7,000 years. We look back regretfully and repine that we have so little to record in the way of achievement, beyond the mere act of living from day to day and from week to week. But living in the right spirit, striv ; ing. if not always accomplishing and : completing the tasks we set ourselves, is nothing to regret. It comes near to that simple life i that sounds so grand and inspiring ' when it is lived in the woods, but which is quite as fine when lived in a : big city. There is no doubt that when we try to set up standards of happiness and , contentment and peace at the close of i a year that has had its rifts of sun ! shine and its stretches of shade, that j it is impossible to put wealth, or fame, ; or success, personal popularity, beauty I or even health itself forward as the i great, good thing that, makes life worth I living. It has become the general practice , to speed the departure of the old year with every indication of rejoicing, wel coming in the new with acclaim and expressions of satisfaction. It is natural and wholesome to look forward, but those of us who wish to include the brick of gratitude in the building of our characters should learn to omit our complaints of the luck the old year has brought us. In truth, the new year will be to a great extent like the old—what we make it and how we take It. Things will happen in accordance with the same laws that guide this big earth of which we are a small part. So we can greet 1908 in a calm and happy manner, rather than with any manifestations of frenzied joy at its coming, and let us have the good man ners to speed our parting guest, 1907, poiiteiy. With all his faults we know him for what he was and the new year is as yet a stranger to us. We can hope and believe that all good things will come with him, but let us avoid the hackneyed congratu lation on the passing of a twelve month that probably treated us better than we deserved. The dawning of another January is invariably the time for what are called •good resolutions,” which translate themselves into rash promises, usually broken before the new year is well un der way. That was the old-fashioned way of expressing an inclination to reform one's bad habits and people kept on from youth to old age making these good resolutions every 31st of Decem ber, finding themselves each year fur ther from perfection than ever. Good resolutions are not so preva lent, or at least not so noisy as they used to be at this tfme. They have become popular material for the comic papers and everybody knows what a joke they are. Nevertheless, the close of a year is a capital time for a look back, a retro spect in which we can see the faults that are on the mend with us. or the ones that have persevered and grown stronger. Maybe some new tendency has sprung up which does not promise well. At all events if we are able to get a new view of our characters as though a searchlight had been thrown in on our souls, we are in a fair way to improve. It is only when we blindly conside ourselv^s as right in everything that we are ail wrong. It is only when we blindly consider ourselves as right in everything that we are all wrong. So if your look back shows you mis takes and errors and misbeliefs, be glad that the New Year g;v3f you a clean slate to try for the r..-bt road and the true goal. Be thankful for the menta • e s-'ec tive when you see it with clear sight— with new true eyes. There is no need of making resolu tions, for right seeing means right ! thinking and right thinking is the | path to right living, j Perhaps your faults are those mean little ones which you would like to! i exchange in a bunch far one noble Bin,' but there are no exchanges of that son or we should all be noble smners. The petty faults are the thorns that cluster round some of the finest roses in life’s big garden, crowding, jarring, overtopping one another In their eager ness to get to the light. Maybe the old year has been a good, friend in some special instances that you can recall. Perhaps it brought you back with a short, sharp shock from a too arro gant happiness or an overconfident suc cess. Be glad of that jar, even though ft ijept you stirred up for awhile. Perhaps the past 12 months have healfj some breach or .brought some ship home, the white sails of which you have been watching wistfully for months or years far out at sea. Be glad of that. Perhaps some millstone has fallen from you and you stand free at last on the great highway with long, manacled arms reached out to the sky. Be glad: Or peace has settled on a troubled ocean and you can greet the sunrise ! with a smile and a prayer of thankful ness for another day. Maybe there is a cradle in one cor ner of vour home this New Year's eve with a most important guest cuddled in down blankets and rose-leaf palms upturned for your kisses. No need to tell you to be glad. Or success has come to crown som6 effort at which you have toiled rather wearily, hardly daring to hope. Or if it has been withheld, be glad that you have nevertheless tried. It will all come to you some day. The old year has taught us lessons. Let us profit by them and enter into the new armed with experience rather than plunge Into it as though it were a rose garden. It is quite as full of danger and con flict and clouds as the old friend that is going. Let us wish it will have even as much sunshine and gladness and joy. We can meet it with splendid hope and lively faith—for those two quali ties are what make our dreams come true. Let us cherish a few good hopes that it may bring us the things we stand in need of—health, hanpiness, good friends success, joy and the clear vision that will teach us to discern the false from the true. May it leave us our beliefs and our ideals. Teach us to love more and to bate not at all. To be content with the blessings that wc have. To cultivate sweetness and good na ture rather than exclusiveness. To meet the world with a smile. To stifle criticism of things and peo ple. Never to make little of our own. HAVE YOU HATED YOURSELF? Now Is the Time to Turn Over the New Leaf. How have you hated yourself dur ing the past year for doing the mean, contemptible, questionable thing! Yet you have tried to console yourse!f with the great good you could do with the money you made by it. It is astonishing how men will play with the poison of dishonesty, which is so insidious at first, which intoxicates and stimulates one. but paralyzes and kills later, says Dr. Marden in Success, if every youth were only taught that to be successful a man must be great er than his occupation; that his char acter must not be for sale at any price; that he will always be rich so long as he retains it. and just in pro portion to its strength and integrity, and weak and unhappy and a failure no matter how much money he may have, just in proportion to the weak ness of his character; if he only started out w-ith the conviction that only one real failure is possible, and that is the|floss of self respect, the barter of one's character, either for pleasure or for money; if the youth were only taught that he cannot afford to deceive even a little bit in the quality of goods he is selling, or in the quality of the service he is givftig, what a revolution would come to our civilization! THE POOR OLD YEAR. l ... , Hit Him Again. He’s Got No Friends. GOOD-BY, OLD YEAR. By Clifford Kane Stout. Good-by. Old Year, your mission ends With midnight chimes and all is done; The records writ with joy or less. The deeds fulfilled and guerdons won Are hung as trophies round thy rime. And thou are named with olden time. Forevermore;oh. fateful past. That saw so much no law can change; Beginning and the end of things That were to be. the new and strange. The old and worn and bloom and blight. Passed to the dark or born to light. And, oh, for some happy year; Sweet wedding bells rang joyously; Old friends clasped hands and strangers met. And sunshine fell so glad and free On buoyant youth, and smiles werd fair. And laughter bantered pain and care. Some tears must fall in every year; Your portion came when grief had sat A badge of mourning on the hearts Of some whose love could not forget. And hopefully, without dismay, Ti.ey covered friends of yesterday. 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