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
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»• 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.
Good-by, Old Year; we regret the New;
When we recall your gifts and cost
May then a double portion show
Thy favors won o'er which was lost
Good-by! A hand at parting; then
A benediction and amen.
—Cincinnati Enq—.cr.
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