Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-29
A SHORT NEW YEARS SERMON.

The old year and your Shepherd, NY
Flocklings, have but little time to WASTE
either in long sermons or short apologies.
The chief end of man is to do the best he car,
while here in this earthly bernacle, ant
then give way, with cheerfuness, all in good
time, for those who are to come after him,
We merely do for others as we have been
done by. If the apes from which have
been evolutionized had been permitted to live
on and not go to dust and fossil, like enough
we should be pelted by cocoa-nuts and other
arboreous missiles by grotesqne aud chat
tering ancestry as we wandered through our
parental acres. 1t is better as it is. 1t i,
we'll that we have our exits as well as out en-
frances; and whatever Is i'll the future,
whether Pythagoras or Swedenhorg. Maho
ct or Joe Smith, Calvin or Auguste Cnnte
has tho right OF it, oven if they all are
wrong and the "Spirituaists" are on the
fresh fringes of the great mystery, all will be
well-we may be sure of that. This world Is
no mere accident, (.s human accidents go),
and the wisest and best thing can d Is to
commit ourselves and our future, III ali con
fdence of d right and bene6csnt outcome to
the Great Guide VINO has infinitely long,
and 50 tirelessy, and without failure mis
hap, governed, repaired and kept i'll motion
She machinery of the universe. Says writer
who is but little known but who has written,
in the following one of the most manful
3hings in all modern poetry:
Whatever b,os shall come to VI and me.
What 5unslIn! ani vat sl-i 'Ss, VIA delights
an what strdn ;ul n, want ionS durluS nights
Of lon 5liness aud sw5et sympathy:
What hours Of vision wien re Soen 10 see
somethin: OF tn5Anl.,s 70 Iud u. and "lat gloom
s,sht-f"ilinI: heu uns srrd prospect doVnAs
Our bAh ID 50 lis to mere petpicxI y:
WHAT 'er siisi come friend, Sot viii We not fear
For wlI aye to our-elves De Tide
T7,le TO hi. her selves a lifetime through;
Not murmurin; eeds unvita but s1srte1
TO search truth er tne search sh .ll lead
With bosom frncl.s,r al Allegiance gear
Now we like that brave and self respectful
determination ''To seal n for truth where
'er that truth shall lead. That religion
which builds about itself Chinese wall of
narrow inclusion and shuts out all earliest
searchings and probngs, deserves to tall
prey to the Calmuc Tartars of unbelief; for
that which may not be submitted to the MI
fallible and earthly and not perfect anu
heavenly.
The new year is upon us. There will be a
good deal of good old fashioned, well meant
can't visited upon US ali, beseechins Us to be
gin anG live through the year better anu
nubler aud more Christian like and exemplary
life Do not let us he caught forming any
weak resolves to hs broken under the firsi
cross, the first loss If temper. the first grea'
temptation. Man who is worth saving iuI-
proves, because he learns and learns To learn
and more, unto the end. Truth, I'M
folding day by day, comes fresh to the
healthy MUD as food to the healthy appetite.
Each fresh meal is as new a pleasure as IL nigh
se had but just learned to eat. Thus conl-
eth to each man the kindly visitation "f All
hourly Providence. Then why should We no.
learn something every day of our lives, not
only Of things material and tangible, but
things immaterial and intangibel Right and
wrong are relative terms unless defined and
related to things and acts within the fashiAl
and fabric of human society; bn,, standing
apart from some human Law or Divine reve-
istion. mere detectives. What we want l.
the truth-npt any man may conceive it in
his mind or believe it behind creed but as
it is and hath been, time cut Of mind. How
shall We get itl No man can tell How
shall we he most like to get in By earnest, |
honest, fearless, manful searching! When |
ne are , cd aud worn out with search, |
those who come after us will, we NAV be snre,
take up the trail where our Footsteps halted |
aud failed. The field is broad, but the reap |
drs and cleaners are many and constant; and |
where the ranks are rent there come those |
who may fill them and do all their duties
with honor and usefulness. The New Year |
lies in the path of TIL worlds future-not of |
ours, alone and the world will move eve |
though We should leave it. "Whatever is,
- right" And So brethren, repeating the |
following lines, We will dis,uiss the consrega-
ton for the day:
'U you OIL
To-Day 5ho lid die
The birds Usu.G sin ~ sweet to morrow:
Tne rGal sprI"s
Her flower, would bring,
AMI few woJ.d think Of : Wi.lts
Yes he /, lad,
WoI.d then DO said:
The corn voId fl 49, tue grass yield hay.
Tb5 Lttie low
hui Junmsr 20
And feV weul,i he ID pass sway.
Fl ~ soon We pass!
HjH few, 81!