Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-01-13
Religious.
Resolutions for the Year 1913.

Are you prepared to meet your God7 The
last setting sun has added one more to the num-
Der of your years. What report has it carried
to your Judge? Has it recorded in eternal
lines your usefulness or your Incidence; your
self-denial or your indulgence your devotion or
your impiety? Gods judgment will be as exact
as his memory. What you have sown, that you
will surely reap. If the last year has convinced
you of the lapse of time, the decays of age, the
frailty of human life, the certainty of death, and
the need of preparation-what are the resolu-
tons which this day requires?
You must put a new value upon time. You
must remember that time, unheeding your de-
lays, mindless of your wishes, travels on with a
n~oiseless, but memorable step. Unaccommoda-
ting to your sloth, the awful Now asks you but
once to embrace t, then turns its back upon
you, and your hands are stretched out after it in
vain. All you hope to accomplish, must be done
in the few days of the uncertain future. If you
have neglected, till this period, the cultivation
of your Intellectual powers, and the establish
ment of religious principles, you have added
another chain to the bonds of moral servitu de
the bonds which moral fortitude has to burst as
sunder. Reformation in you will now require
another struggle, and the resolution necessary
to enter upon it another sinew. The God whom
your moral Incidence has displeased from day to
day, has suspended your punishment from year
to year. Shall not this fresh proof of divine
cIemency melt the frozen bosom of lngratitude ?
Has your heavenly Father, ever thoughtful for
your good, preserved you in life and loaded you
with blessings, only that you should be forgettul
of him?
Are you in youth-resolve this day, that you
will be Industrious in order to be useful and
v%irtuous in order to be happy. Let this coming
year witness your increasing efforts to CRAFTY
your parents and friends by your intellectual and
religious Improvement. Jesus Christ ~increas-
ed in wisdom as h increased in age; and so can
you.
Are you in middle life-now is your time for
great efforts, great sacrifices, and great attain
ments. Time to you is of exceeding value
waste not an hour. Remomber, that while YOU
fold up your hands, time folds not up her wings.
Prevent the lethargy of your best energies. Do
what you can do; for this is the measure of your
duty.
Are you in age-and have many years wit.
messed your virtue? You know its delights and
its consolations-well done, good and faithful
servant. But, if your hoary head tells only Of
your vices, religion has no consolation for you.
Habitual sin cannot enter the kingdom of God
You may repent, and yet receive the benefit.
promised to the deeply sorrowful and the truly
converted. Christ is an all-sufficient Redeemer,
able to save to the uttermost all who come unto
God by him.
Whatever your age or condition, r%ecollect
that this year you may die-and are you now
what you hope to be when death mmon you
to Judgment
"Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand no worthy action done"
Req. Charles Brooks.