The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-01-07
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children, big and little, OH and young, nave
waited SO long and patiently, are to US, here,
notes among the forever gone yesterdays.
Whether they were TO US days Of happiness
and enjoyment or of sorrows aud mourning,
it is all the same, they are gone, and live on
Is in imma gination; leaving ne monument to
mark that they ever even existed; no trace,
except in the imperccptible furrows of our
years, that they wore looked for and lonsed
for, days enjoyed or mourned, but now, days
buried deep in the unflthomed depths of
obli,i9Hs grave.
We hope that to all, they were days Of
unalloyed rejoicing; and yet, this can hardly
he looked for 10 life lived amid sorrows,
disappointmcnts, disease and death, But
even amid these dismal surroundings there
may be a shadow of the substance Of ray
of momeutary pleasure which crossed and
iilualined our path If well, the presence of
friends and tokens of friendship were these
to cheer If sick, kind hands ministered to
us; if unfortunate in business the future
prospect ana the example Of the successful
were before Us 10 cheer US on to hope; aye,
even the gloom of death cannot shut out
that piercing ray which forces itself in from
those rich promises of God, which secure for
the believing soul a blessed Immortality
mhcTe neither moth nor rust do corrupt neither
SO thieves break through and steal To all
them, there IS a reasonable ground for belief,
that happiness was not altogether absent on
New Year day; aud that, after all, there is
rcason 10 lie found in It's experience upon
which 80 base the wish Of Happy New Year.
Though perhaps late to take a retrospect
of tue year inst closed it can do no harm to
look back. ard briefly scan the home happi-
ness which help to iii! the measure Of our ex-
rcric4ce during the last twelve months.
And, fist, as q community we conceive
that We have been blessed even beyond our
ucichbcrs in many respects. While the none
tary conclusions have affected nearly every
other section Of country, here, though times
have been slightly more piuching than usual,
we have had comparatively plenty of the
filthy lucrc to see US comfortably through the
yczg. Labor has not suffered stagnation,
anI the poor man has had the opportunity
70 earn the Uleans to feed and clothe self,
wife and little ones, and, if economical, to
say up a 1.-THE against rainy day Nor
have our men Of means suffered loss, or failed
to add few pennies to the many already
laid aside against the demands Of a time when
the care fthe body will draw heavier upon
the mcutal reservoir than the care of the
noaoy haCs. In our barvests two we have
lccn blessed, probably far beyond our just
deserts The drought Of the summer, it is
truc. shortened orr productions some, and
made living shade higher, but we have
ruou4h. and more, for all practical purposes.
Cur towns and villages have teen fed sunip-
tuousiy. and our farmers are by many dollars
better or III cash, than when the year Just
c,o-cd began. Aud so in almost every branch
q" Lu>:ness-curent expenses have been met,
cen II the cash side does not in every in
StaGca over balance the outgo. 1t is true
that soue who hoped for better things have
ecu compelled to succolnb 70 the. 10 them
bat such things happen even in.
most prosperous tiaIes-and at all times hap
Ieu merely because the hope is not properly
SccoIard by business vim and care Com
pared with poverty our situation is indeed
cavialle to those whose lines were laid in
l!accz, where stagnation il all things and
:4il,frs has -,r1a.l tho b0,r
= point Of hcalth, too, We fnd ourselves
Il lave been exceedingly blessed. While
other countries have been almost dcpopula-
ted with plaques, and other sections Of our
own country have suffered from the rayagcs
OF epilemics, We have lived with nothing of
the kind to mar our pleasures to
bring general grief to the community in
which We dwell 1t is true that places which
Il year ago were filed are now empty 1t is
true that lights which once burned brightly
in the social aud political and chinch circles
have gone out within the twelve mouths
We mourn the loss of these sincerely and we
join sympathy with the afflicted, but these
have bat paid the debt Of nature in the
natural course Of things, and their lives gave
assurance that they have but gone before, t.
lead the march of spiritual life, through an
eternity Of blissful immortality We miss
them, Dut we would not recall them; for
with them 'lifes ftful scenes are over, and
thy rest iO peace with the just
We might pursue the theme much further,
but wherefore. Enough is already revealed
TO show that IN the past we have much 70
T ioice over and but little to mourn over Nor
DO we see occasion to borrow trouble from the
future. An allwise Providence, who ruleth
all things for the best, will provide for US in
his wisdom shall seem most meet for US
Firmly believing this, without hesitation we
extend to each and every reader of the JEFF
q most heartfelt happy Neac Kear. -
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