New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-01-01

III Jury was tPHPAStoNs fAA0 VIC PeA'Se0 ~
: Threshold af another year. Another yea
: that brings, Ike all the many which hav
n gone before, hope to the young and uaen
or to those who, in the march Of life
K have left youth and youthful hope De
hind
. Hope to the young. In all its changing
phases, from earliest childhood, when hi
feeling is little more than q vital instinct
to Inc further on of youth, where. it be
comes more thing of shape and purpose
Then onward to early manhood; onward
still, to its full and ripe maturity-and
! through all these changes hope remains
But, little by little Gecumulating mem
cries come with gathering years, saddel
and sadder as the years increase; wher
the bright anticiPations of youth become
more and moge dim with the dimness o.
oftrecurring disappointment. And when,
at last, man approaches the three score
years and ten described by the psalmist as
the allotted limit of human life; when
close his eyes as he may, he can not shut
out the dreary certainty that between him
and the goal of all human effort, the lone
and silent grave, there intervenes but q
few short days, little is left OF earthly
hope; little remains except the memories
of the past.
And these are sad, even to him who can
truthfully say, in the words Of the Apostle
of the Gentiles, ~ have fought a good
fight; have finished my course; have
kept the faith. For if the retrospect is
mingled with little of self-reproach, still
it tells of bafled aspiration, of disar-
pointed aims, of friendships broken by
wrong, or severed by unrelenting death.
1t tells Of the loved and lost Of hearths
invaded by the fell destroyer of promis-
ing offspring, of faithful and loving wives
and husbands, gone, gone. Gone to "She
undiscovered country from whose bourne
no traveller returns" never, never more
to soothe the heart of the bereft, the sad
survivor.
In the opening of the year, as we survey
and reflect upon the past, we feel that
our reflection should have especial refer
ence to the future, and that the season is |
appropriate to store the mind with lessons
derived from the experience of the year
that has departed.
Nor need the retrospect be joyless, For, !
mingled with the pensive and the sad,
are also memories ef happy hours, q
good 'sompR led of progress in the /
rigf Ul uposes Of life, ana above al.
of m sfeies blessings voueisafol b.
the Wise Displ Of events, tne Divine
Providence thaths aieldes irom dan
gers ard misfortune > ~ Of them ap-
parent to our perceptions, hut naany -s
Of themens1aly hiFaen from human ken.
y d as I've looh back on the past year.
and r. lessons to our hearts. we feel
thaf me irs sent Is Pscunarly To season
% sire ,saaen former resolutions for good.
On Z % forsify the mind By fresh res lgss
y9ithal, ii is most especially lss ssase of
ardent thanhialness TO the giver of every
good gift.
--the Mighty Hand,
By which supported, still we stand
The past, then is the monitor of the
present, and, so far as mans actions ere
the present is the parent Of
the future. For it has been SO willed by
Him who holds the seas in the hollow of
lis hand, to whom.a thousand years are
out as a day, That to each immortal soul
{ is eonfded to work ont it's own saliva
ion. Whatever Of wrong belongs TO the'
past is beyond recall, and for such wong
,ut penitenee remains. Bat the future Of
aan Is his own; and il were well for us if
low, Is We carefully scrutinize past ac-
Ions, with serious and earnest intention
q reform and amend whatever we find
miss, we set about the work that is be-
ore Us, that We work while it is called
o-day, knowing that the night cometh
wherein no man can work.
Fer while Of the hidden future we can
discern nothing, nor do we know what a
lay may bring forth, yet we may be well
lssufed that whatever is In store for us /
f veal or woes It has been SO ordered by ,
be Almighty Maker Of heaven and earth
hat every deed done in the body viii in
be future bring forth it, appropriate
guit ot happiness or misery. e
Whenever another year comes IN is
urn 70 lake the place Of thai npon which
% ars rsw entering, il VIII be happy for
II who livt 10 witness It's advent, If they !
an look b upon the pressnt point of
ime, ana ia thdt their reflections and
erolyes havs had salntary influence
lpeh their astisas For ii twelve short
onths this geer tao VIII have gone is
sag doNa tas DARN path q sgernlsy, laden
slsh tha deeds ef msn and their eter-
ael aen snees So9 seoa q fos evil.
Appropriate Is ths season 81 New Year
\ ioa mcsa retrospect ana asfious
VA esasion q TIN Future. 4 s. ~ ugigeg-
Il c toni. sud, fsf awght ge know, ID
qrdnne wish srne hidden Is
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