Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-01
The oL.D AND TmE NEW YEAR.

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THE OLD AND TME NEW YEAR.
AS We write the old year is all blu
dead and the new year is just at hand.
The lapse Of less than an hour viii
conclude the former and inaugurate
the dawn of the latter. The point of
time at which the one retires and sinks
to rest and the other enters upon its
career Is the moment at which the past
and the future meet. We call it the
present; yet it is no sooner present
than past. 1t disappears in appearing.
Its salutation is its farewell. One
breath is alike its natal and its dying
breath. 1t begins to be and instantly
ceases. Strangely infinitesinal and
strangely powerful is that little bond
which joins the past and the future
and links all the ages in a continuous
history. Life Is made up of such bonds
and even eternity is not without them.
The year 1875, now almost gone, has
formed a part of "what men expert
ence CALL" What has it been? How
has it passed? What monuments will
it leave to tell its tale in the future?
Could it be photographed on some spa
cious canvas, so as to reveal itself to the
eye of thought in all its hues, in all its
detail, in all its joys and sorrows, in all
Its successes and failures, in all its
complicated and varied scenes, ans
that, too, not in the history of one man
merely lint Of the total race, the pic
ture, though in its contents composed
Of what we style common events, would
seem too sturendous to BY the record
Of q single year. The truth is, ths fee
bleness of our faculties gives us but the
fseblest grasp upon the past. We
touch but here and there a point and
leave the great mass among the things
forgotten. And yet every man carries
stored up in his being, incarnated into
the very structure of his personal life,
the fruits not only Of his W past,
but largely Of the worlds past. His
present is a creation to which mil
lions of agencies, his own included,
have lent their power. The past creates
the present. 1t has taken the world
ages Of continuous labor tc make even
the average man of these United States
in this nineteenth century.
And how about the future-the fu.
ture Of The coming year and OF other
years to succeed it, There is a tu-
ture N time, and q greater one in eter-
nifty. Where the former ends the latter
begins. They meet each other in that
event which is the extreme point OF
times future and the frontier If eter-
nity's future. Over both Heaven
hangs a deeper shade than over the
past. We Q more and can see more
when we look backward than when
we look forward. Memory heralds
the past and faith prophesies OF the fu-
ture. No life is normal without both.
By the n we learn from the past and
by the other we hope for the future.
No small part of u joys and certainly
tho most potential motives and inspir.
atoms which incite to action ara born
of the future and rocked in its cradle.
But We are moralizing, perhaps
preaching. over the old and the new
year. So we are. We mean to do so.
The one impression we wish our read.
ers to receive Is that Of joyous SOL
smnlty rs they change the yesr and
write their letters with = new date.
Time is flying, life is wasting. and soon
all Of our earthly years must pass to
the Nj just ~ the year 1875 has ebbed
away. 1t is a time for earnest, sober,
thoughtful personal resolves; . time
from which to date better and purer
lives and moro individual rectitude
and integrity; and trusting that the
readers OF the SENTINEL may thus
wisely determine, we greet you one
and all with . HAPPY NEW YEAR.