, 1874-01-04
1873 AND 1874,
The Teachings Of the Old ya,x
and tho Promises ot,the New

and the Promises ot,the New,
1t Ii dead,-thas Old Year to which. vhso !.
WIS young and fair, ne made such snac;..' -
promises How firmly We resolved that e,rh -.
lis days should bear 3 worthy record! Ho.
strong was our conviction that it would sea o,,.
nesettlng Elns conquered ,our special Weaknesses.
cured And then We loathed the tememhr,no.
IN June OF our January resolves. How ye val
coined the years close, that We might 8. tnr.
over new leaf :" and begin a{reah! Alas, NJ.
all out 's'
had yet taught us the folly Of New Year's rn.o-
1utiona. We began the useless labor In ch;1d.
hood. During the Chrissmas-hoIdays, whls
the coming echool-term loomed up before ia
and stretched away as measureless as etetntg
appears to Us now. our young souls agonize1
over premature and surreptitions consuraines Of
noonday-lunches. unrepo1ted whisperin1r
ahirked lessons, and other child1ahs peceadilloes
and most solemnly did We VOW to ourselves. ani
record in Uniformed penmanship, that no would
aoandon all tnese practices, calculated to ruin
ourselves, and bring disgrace upon our 1eiasiyea,
and would endeaTor to conform ourselves in
every way to those (noW known to be impossib1nl
models found in the Sunday -echool books. 81
midsummer nothing remained to remind us of
our good resolves, except an uneasy, iHitated
consciousness that We we're net what ne ought
to be; which consciousness, We have since Iesrn-
ed. is an inseparable adjunct Of humanity. but
which We then imagined to be ours By monopo-
II.
VERY CURIOUS
aIe the various subjects on which We make reso-
that bewitching t1zne known as Htho
teens" when everything WAS rose-coloy-
ed, ne were always resolving to
improve the time, as il youth did not alwaya
have = good time when let alone by ite aldern
and as if the surest way to spoil time was not to
seek to improve it: 4 little further On is tho
age when one resolves to save money, to rise
early, to leave of Light reading, aud take up y
coutee OF history or the languages, to swear OF
on tobacco and liquor. to quit flirting and Fet
married little later on come the years When,
sanitary measures appear OF paramount import
going to bed, to practice with the dumb.
bells every day, to sleep with tha
leave OF hair-dyes, to stop reading in bed etc.:
etc: That is the last stage; after that Jan. I
sinks into mere arbitrary di!ision Of tho eter
take our repentance in daily dtaughts instead Of
animal excesses, and content yourselves, On th.
opening OF the New, by a review OF the
LESSONS OF THE PAST FEAR.
Dear old III tAnynE that it mt aAfa tn has
cone hondsman far anv man thnt Solomon ~.
"A c)ear-headed Al ever when he remarked that
NHe tbnt 1naEath hasta tn ha ric| shaI1 nos
ha innocent: thnt all tie honest men
don't aItyavs ret nm tha sann nnlitical tfcket.'
that tbera ia nd knowing what nav hannen that
tha rorIa ooes m ;nst "a veil - ca7a6tatad mar
do s1e. that va can't change tha world. hnt ia
ten to one the world chnnres na: tRat. If \
Beecher a Titon. q Bowen. and church ulav
with string Of lies. no man caf1
eradicate fhe next combination. or on whose
hands it will be: TINT churches are splitting. in
eread Of consolidating. tbat tha nation.l deht.
won,f he na;d bv rhe individual nbneratie- of
c;1ors. 4bot ~ "a had onr 1ivaa ~ liza
80 ,r,a;r a,d vara horn 1i+h tha
same characfers and had The same opnortunities.
wa shonid DO tha sama things THAI hanging i
one % Of those m lisacraeab1ez M @ to WITCH man en-.
,,ot =. .c.,,sto,-, 1;;naa1 and renr;ava dnaz
not not mnteriailv a is heIp Elm: w that Washinetons
hod7.saTant lod y na9ennia, who dies areTS vear
~ fos.o. into to 1;fe aaa;n aa naxsnaner aIissn-
c;ea ~ nnsv -anniTa ana that iomrnaiSstio enter.
nr;ao haa heen hronoht tn arch nerfection that
tha 1rosarn, edtnr s7.nds ready - aacr;fce hin
49,, ro,a+;1os, rrofeason,1 nrosnacta tn a aens.-
tion f'''~
r. NAV be ~ we'll then. for mr. To lot down In
49, 49, .uaJ ar;as -; ~ "~A'' 'A01' 1o~ 0' ~ ~
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20 49, Is, ;a;i =. 10 .1,o5 +f;@a
uouse ttdI - - nottar - daf.1cs
;o1 - mete ~ s1Ta Eon conid hava h.nlled ~
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