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Genlemen md Ladies Fellow Citizens should have aad
have assembled to-day under unlike those any obe
s4sHe @ he a u she New Year not beosbpe s a. s.
New Years day era Is the first one We eve
how different this day from similar days Of The pa
The st day of January hitherto gloom fearful sus
~ The foundation Of social upon scales
md fate with it, decisions looked ever
one of The face and dread forebogs kept ubus agitation
every heeng that passed But to-day we stand upon
such sandy foundation Uncertainty basis Of our ex
ence Ne nave M our ucrun the eternal principles Of right
Associated With day Of January are peculiar interests
which their accommodation to the world coored men, hereafter
cnne II il their sacredness forever and
This day which hitherto seperated many families tear
many groans aRd this Of All Others The most btday Of the
year poor shall henceorh and forever Be filed
wa aocanaOns q 1hs Ed joy and expressions Of ey TOO
will dWndle insignfance with U.S. glory that shall en-
vii compared with which make hazy appearance all other
days Gods day excepted IT has been the ages
to celebrate certain days Of certain achievements
Or national nsacions few out of the many which observed
some msnnsr days which hold universal claim upon the oe
vance OF a aong them the Sabbath
Christmas The observance Of those heaven conecrated
days follow only the wake Of religious civilization while nations
civilized paans have their regular aDhigee be the cause of
the Observance fictitious real But rveng the
civilized nations we will only few. The Sabbath day
demands attention noticing those reckned e
sacred This day haloWed and apart by God
self ODE observed by all The inhabitants of the earth
and Of gratitude God for The marvellous act which his Almighty
Cat performed standing out upon the unhoab abyss Of al
eternal noneDt and decorating the old chaos with
burning scas and rolling worlds This Of Almighty greatness
and wisdom At first d forth the undyng praises the skies
God erpeuatsd its sancit earth By hOWg the
completion That day remained sacred the hearts mankind
four thousand years A the Of time God clothed his Son.
che Of Heaven garb
Of humanity and He left that throne for while which had been
vacated the Of eternity and came With his
abutes by Hea and blood ndured miserabs
their yonarg opT nd tie I Ss7 q tbs week rose from
the dead the Of earth and ecacy Heaven changed the
anc Of the By virtue Of the greater feat performed from the
seventh Of the week over eighteen hundred
years Christians Of tongue and CLINE have kept
day Of gratitude Heaven for the phs Emmanuel This
day above all Others holds the claim upon men irrespective
Of class condition. day upon which stamped fdes perpcu
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ized world the first day Of the year Of Jubilee Theogans
have differed true to whether the claims of the jubilee
national universal whether its special bearings contemplated only
the Of Israel religious humanity large However
day arrival the blast Of the Trumpet the blow
horn thrill Of universal joy among all the people which
peculiarly intensified BY the shouts Of The bondman nove
because the day Of the release Of the former and restoration
the property of the latter. C,
sd Christmas the day the birth Of Christ is celebrated
and bis nativity has also been observed ormany centuries
since TIE reign Doclesan np To the present. if not before Chris
tan people and Christian nations every where have made
special nevertheless thousands regard day of
ton and festive reVe while others wild with drunkne and
honor with bacchanaan retorts They the birth day
with solemn contempt and hundreds of church regard as
day to shake hands with sin and compromise with crime
9Th For the sake of bey We will only notice or two
days which have been honod for that have changed
the Of things the nations history For ages Catholicism
small opposition in the executive the Government Caesby
other disappointed and desperate hearted Catholics planned
scheme known the unpoWder plot for the murder Of the hing
and the Obstruction Of both houses parliament It resolved
Guy FaWk of the number should FIRE Of pow
which they had prepared they all ready the 5h
1905 at hand the day which parliament
rogue But God avrd the horrd catastrophe by timely
coyy and gave catholicism its death blow and crowned the
ant h With eternal donors has gathered strength
with increasing years. mighty volume truths have
paned the broad Atlantic and dashed against American shoeot If
broken but divided into religious orders Of different have s
sweed valleys with Of joy and dotted hills with res
bounding praises Thus the 5h November will ever stand
prominent among The of English COMMUNICATION s
5h The Ah of especially familiar TO every school boyin q
this cursed but beedcount The white people
made az gratitude and general rejoicing since
conseqspY 6rd bells rung fagse raised speeches
delivered and mode 70 express their pleasure
resaFted that threw off e British Yoke and
aped updertOot tie tyranny They raised the
stapdaz on tba day every
rallied toH support hE the declaration Of An aged
stood II esteee a Independence Haih the city
delph lor hours With bf tongue ofa ng IA
head the while * the multitude when Questaned upon
As every name that august
assembly Within appended to mighty document b
Which daed the Little boy shouted
ringp and Wh At &C. power he struck bel
hundred blows he same number Of days took Abraham Lincoln