, 1874-01-05


day therefore, stand, not ut some pout Of time
mae M, e: conspicuous ~ ts aeeress Of tue manae
g7eat ruling star Of life Starts back tow1rd the great
htitablc zones to renew al things from The verduro
dustry and hope Of every heart. The Christmas and
Now fesr days arc not days created the convenience
soul 1ores rising and falling accents, loves 3oy and
pensigeutss, waking and sleeping, the opening Leaf
nd TIE falling leaf the hearts anttcipaon and The
heart's remembrance. In harmony with the whole
nusc Of mans sou! tue srea God Of man md Natrrs
commands the Sill to 60 away end come again, and
from SNOW 10 HARVEST from ice to flowers, from the
imprisonment Of winter to the great emancipation CT
le4iy June; BY THIS falling and rising music God
1aarks the time IN mans march between birth sud
drath And what march j: Is :! At tiElts toyuus and
quick in happy d.3s; ut times slow and solemn, when
Ne are following thu dead oc ourselves dying.
Having alluded now TO tlis New Year
period as ohe Of the great eou1csAtons OF
5 s,e Is not nst e1a r. xs
own poetry longer reflection this greatness and
Kindness Of Nature and must inquire what it is u
that tho great sun IL Dividing up beautifully into
and ten parta fur the individual md into
thousands Of pats for tho world? Tue is
ing for you Is your stops from thinking Us child 10
thiukns man, lro your joy If childhood to your
putting away Of childish things, from your seeing
through AL obscure css 10 your seeing truth fse to
face.
According to this outlook Of the great aaint
and in harmony with N4turcs spirit OF change,
we are fully authorized to expect natiuns,
to undergo great changes and pass alcng
Of life viii almost equally put away chlldi.h things,
for Nature is no respector Of persons, nnd # n-n
government he viii move away from infancy also in
religion. As childhood settles down upon the Whole
world Of our infancy, and makes us no poorer III
geography than We are in our theology, have
less wise view of the crth md tho than have
OF the sleigh and the reindeer that bring Christmas
presents; childhood tnus affects alike every opera
ct the brain. the coming Of malllQQI viii to
to and for all things, and nations viii no more reform
fsn up ulon m: yests!SsS and fsso upon =
no, believe in any New Year Of the soul 1t comes to
the harycs-feid, but not to nan in bis sanctuary
the oulJ law Of life to them But know their his
tory well toat any longer accept Of them
good interpreters Ct God to mum When the mis-
sion work began they opposed It on the ground that
God would attend to the heathen world In His
time; when the Sunday-school movement began, they
opposed for they had seen it thus iu their chi
hood; and When the abolition movement tegan they
opposed, because that which had oeen WIS the only
cry uad been from Washington to Moses. To them
the world wns not an ding plant not childhood
struggling toward manhood, hut it WIS finished
these stationary ninds, Nature went forward with her
New Iears full Of thoughts aud impulses aud
Of liberty, and Of religion In each era the world Ike
the Apostle put away childish thiugs and began to
Epcak 3 and nct lnAn.
But SO familiar Yon ali with the great Progress
nations have made in these paths that no further
words needed from the desk aud Furthermore to
all to-day tho individual bearing Of paus words is
dvidual h1sienR away. Nations are Of the earth only.
lndiyuals hasten :wn @ te an a. @4rl tn & ssreef On
these words sbout passing from childhood to manhood
come TO all to-day with al tho power Of passing
e ss4F' be ad feared coming set : e ros
will not advance rapidly enough IN it's reform Of eo
but M o ard M T no. the
better thought and liz: What is sne voice of each
year, uulees this: You, oh mortal, have had
other long lesson from the world you have Eat in its
great schoo-house for twelve long moutlB and have
sseh.eous the Industrious and The ile he murderer
aud the benefactoT the kind and the cruel the Atheist
and the Christian, and all conditions md qualities OF
life and Of character pass before you and you hare
studied tle long and deeply and now The curtain has
fnen upon the scene and what has your soul learned
in this thrilling schooi-rooun7 7"
You have seen those led to the prison Who
lived In palaces you have homes desolate which
Hy n @
honor; you have seen men Of science aud men II
fame become dust and he carried to the tomb; you
have seen the ma1ket-p'ace and the sanctuary, The
home Of the happy and the cemetery Of the dead mud
now coming from such wonderful experience, from
such Varied speetaee you sand at the open gate q
emn time eecns to ark. With what kind Ct Eoul do
you from the last scene, md with what do you
enter the ne1t7
Unless each one OF these years strips us Of some
childish thing or wicked thing, aud clothes us
with so1ue new truth or virtue. the great
thicker and richer every year. because the leaves and
grasses Of last year fall upon It, and carry to 1t the
wealth Of the atmosphere and SUNSHINE stolen from
The upper atmosphere so mans soul and mind
pected to grow more divine in their successive heart-
boata The events, happy and sad of The past the
peric1ces, happy and PAINFUL Of yesterday, tie
autumn leaves that fall and moulder the heart to
to make 1t richer for coming fruits and aowera- IN
but It increases By \ compound interest. Tie whole
BUM Of deeds. and thoughts and successes, and E0r
rowa up 70 the last night become the prinelal-,hs
immense experience IS te2pcd up, the mind
ought to oe found cutting loose from childish
things and putting on the grandeur Of manhood or
wonaunlood noble III every hueament.
The modern method Of spending middle life, in tha
pursuit Of ~ean, Is Of the caani,ies Of age.
mind and soul should put ther greatness; not the
greatness Of money, or dress, or equpnge but Of cul
:ad vanity Of youth past life should seek SIM
pliciy of material things ana richness Of mind and
conduct. The greatest King Of Europe is the one Of
simplest dress md equpage and the world is just be-
ginning to laugh. ANU Anvog begun. VII never cease
to laugh " the high heels and lofty head-lrets
that Louis XIV. wore in order to make himself
lofticr than common tnortautyloftier In body, be-
cause he did not know that man is not u
body, but soul But the world knows 1t was hiH
MIND and his morals that needed extension. One Of
the saddest tluRs in the world is to see RATIONAL end
divine being sl1 fashioned by temporary acei-
IL.
Luga ut tomorrow Could the Iast come up before
to-day in its costumes, we should all be conruEed
with laughter snd yet to mike those old toetR and to
them took up the day and night Of those losda
and adies OF yesterday. How they all exultea In what
the very next age w:s TO receive with mer1imen.
Now, when "tsh to nuuse cur children We parade
before them playmaes or friends dressed in
the style Of days TINT gone Now This devotion to
toilet is the nLulug Ut soul to an accident. It is
sacrifice OF divine, sweet life uron the altar Of
mcrrows laughter. But there are aitars Of to-mor-
rows lovo aud yeueration. Men Epeak lightly
Of tie riches Of C1aus, but Of The poetry Ct
blind Homer Or the fables of Esop. We al hugh At
King Louis XIV, but never at fenelon and Madame
Guyou. Louis XIV. WAS TN accident OF time and
place. Fcnelon part Of Gods greet eternity.
Tomorrow, my friends, the world Will smile at your
toilet which yon have arranged to-day with SO much
care but 1t will deeply love yoCr charity your in
teerity, your beauty, If you have any, in deeds
or in memory. Gods great New fcar ga,e Should
open, not for fashions, but new SOULS That mid
die life may be spent the pursuit Of gold is admit
ted but it must be gold about to &c well appded-ar-
uied not TO cLtd4huess but to that clearer view OF
human life which comes after the obscure eloss OF
fashion and vanity has been removed It IL not the
pursuit Of gold that is injurious it is the spending
Of it afterwArd- 1t may be disbursed rs to keep
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