Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-29
A NEW YEARS GREETING,

pooeoty W bGTCO7t Le1n0tUg, Jan INA,
1872, By Hrs. Geo. Bush.
Friends With Happy New Year
we are glad to greet you; glad to be
ushered into the presence of so many no.
BILE minds, interested, in the promulga-
ton of the objects of your society.
Here we find manhood in It's varied
forms. Those whose silvered locks tell
US they have passed through the fancy
wrought ideals of life; and grasped its
stern realities and whose minds have
been disciplined, by the sunshines and
sorrows, which checquer life's pathway.
Stately manhood, now in its prime, &C
tive and vigorous, imbued with a deep
sense OF justice, and honor, strong to bat
tie with error and ignorance.
Manhood, youthful, buoyant, radiant
with high hopes and aspirations, with
SUBMITS of science and literature in the
landscape of their marked-out future,
with minds tutored and strengthened by
weary hours of toll and study. till they
know no defeat, but bear the prond in
scrlption. Eureka
Here do we find woman, placed upon
the same platform, enjoying the same
rights and benefits of your society.
Proud and noble mothers, whose every
breath is freighted with well-wishes, and
whose countenances beam with admira-
ton as they behold the coward and LIP
ward course pursued by their sons and
daughters.
Maidens, queenly maidens, glowing
with purity of nature, brows radiant with
intelligence, wrought by no fancy-fckle
mind, help to give you power and swell
your numbers. United you are a mighty
power, cemented by the bands of broth
erhood, encircled by the mantle of char
ity, your influence is patent in dispelling
ignorance around you, and in elevating
the young in your midst to higher po-
sition, moral and social
Nor alone are the young recipients of
your earnest endeavors, but every mind
engaged in this grand interchange of
thought when tremendously uttered, is
strengthened and led out into broader
field of investigation. The Old Year
has passed away, carrying upon its bo-
som many events both sad and pleasing
to each of US. The New Year that has
been ushered in upon US, will too, bring
its events, though, perhaps of a greater
Specification as our minds develop and
reach out for greater things.
But ere the old year passes beyond
our thought, let us take one retrospect
i've glance of our lives and see if there
is not some frailties closely allied, of
which we would gladly divert ourselves,
and toss upon the pillows of the past
year, soon to be waited into utter for
getfulness. Let us disarm ourselves of
egotism, self-pride, false prejudices, and
many other structures which are huge
barriers in our way of accomplishing the
greatest good unto ourselves and human
ity. Each coming year will bring us
volumes of new thoughts and ideas fresh
from the garner of eternal literature
Each year will bring us many minds fir
ed with the zeal of investigation, and
who are willing to step beyond the time
worn paths of the ignorant past in search
for knowledge, which is more self-Sus.
tanning, more soul-satistying, more il
harmony aciM the great laacs of ow Ore.
dtOr Each coming year will open new
pages in the great Arcana of nature, and
bid man learn of its hidden mysteries
and of the great laws by which he il
governed.
These great steps of advancement anc
progression will bid man no longer ''cry
of the mysteries of godliness," but Oh
the mysteries of ignorant man.
Friends, you who have congregated to
gether to grasp at the highest summit;
of science and knowledge, which you
combined intellects may bring forth, re
member, that each word uttered is launch
ing a tiny boat out upon the great ses
of thought to be anchored ''ye know no
where" each blow struck at the barrier;
of ignorance will resound Throughout
coming ages, each mind unfettered from
its darkness and superstition will swell
the great tocsin of freedom and liberty t,
the minds of ignorant humanity.
Think for moment how much yol
owe of the knowledge you now possess
to the great and noble minds of the past
and whose memories are to-day beacon
lights reckoning you up to a higher pc
sition, mental and social.
They lived in a darker age than ours
their tiny boat of thought was oftea
wrecked upon the shoals of Ignorance
their pillows of life were rougher, thei
breakers deeper than ours, with the al,
they have been able to bring us, and ye
how rich the legacy they have left us t
anchor upon. Friends, shall we to-da.
) with new era of education dawning up
on us, when every earnest effort is crown
ed with success, grasp at the heritag
: they so dearly earned for US, clasp it t