The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-01-05
gAe lOeskla Gazette,
tuesday ITehing. Jan ., 1854

CITY or LANCASTER
Tuesday 1srehing. Jan 3, 1884
TaE NEw 4SAn-Anothor year will
sOoa be goae with all itsianlts and follies,its
pleasures and pains, is brightness and its
gloom and wirh tAOpgIalpas hearss and y a
dying hope, Tie world va rush on through
TIC ehahges Of anotherysbs. The year that
is aeu 80 soonslorass away has beeus year
o fProsperiy and brightness to our country.
Nodeyastating war or civil discord has dis
tuFbed her an her onward progress, but on
the contrary we can look back upon tho old
year asd see the most gratifying evidences
Of prosperity aud peace. There seems to
besnolhiBg To mar the happiness of the
young, aud everything to wake up ia the
old The recollection ofiey with which they
were wont TO hail the coming ofthe day
Tho signs of chserfuiness are seen in
eyesy young faoe,andt the ccntagion ofgiad-
nessis seen. at this season, 70 manifest it.
self in those who. but for these holidays,
might never feel the sensation of content.
The grouped merry children who now
thron : every place where good things are
to be had furnish l mostexcitng and grati-
tying sccSe, aud should teach al to be hap
Ply. sttbisy tmes mt leaai, and il there be
any who are indifferent spectators ofthese
stsr1ng sceles-wbo Iii They arc SO isolat.
ejin the world that they may not SHIRE in the
general JOY, let them be undeceiyed Fol
there arc homes in which the bestowal o
their even scabty bounty, will awake glad,
ness,.in which tho giyer viii share, mors
keenly than even the receiver. Ifthere BE-
auy such4wh think they have nothing o
which TO be Rladnov. let them Try this, anl
then tAsy win know how il Is that. chaphy
alesses him that gives and him that tIkes'
And ever those who. have SO many things 0,
which TO rejoice and be thsnkful. sbouldr re
member there Is a graliidcatVh in max,
ing tho sad happy, in administering to tb.
wants of the needy, AID Of extending III,
causeAfor their rejoicing, which they viii
not be wiss'to lode.
THIS day Is the dividing line between hop,
and memory, the future and the past, OF
which tnt u pause, as the traveller on som,
c~miuence, to review their labor and mari
out q course for their future progress. TheJ
look back with sober pensiyeDess and for
ward with pleasant expectation. This il
their festiyal, aud thought goes solemnly
back into the past and, with tho eagernes
Of ProPhesy far onward into the future.
The past wouldsbo nothing TO US wero /
not for its surviving Influences and perma
nent lessons. That we have done SO aud SO
is nothing. But that our past conduct ha
affected, or does affect, our happiness, is al
important fact, That those We love hay,
gone down into the silent grave would b,
nothing, we're it not for the pleasant com
T%union, tho outgoing love and aifeclionatC
hopes Of which death has deprived US. w,
feel that the past is the creator Of our fu
turo aud eagerly do we look back into 1t t,
gather some ~pr9Phesy Of the course Of com
ing time We know how. past relations
have affected US and as tho future is, OWN:
to our saweness Of social life, but a slightly
varied repetition Of the past, we submit our
selves hopefully to tho nionitory and Undue
tive influence Of mOmory.
Let good feeling, cheerfulness, aud aboy,
all charity, abound now, 4 then shall we no
wish IN vain for those who indulge in thes'
really good things, a"Huppy New Year,
we do wish for all.