The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-01-01

that one great turning point for oetteTo
woras that l8 common to all the world
This is the particular time ut which At
poet has told us that
wlri, v,ettly Wlsl to talk with our past hour,
And EEk lh,u EhAt report they bore,
AID hos ihry might have borne more Nslean'
HuHs"
For better or worse all who are alive
to-day have been brought to new de-
parture in the way OF time. Every MAJ
changes in the course Of a yesr-GhRpgeG
in his "body, mind and estate" He can
not resis! the law Of change that is decreed
against everything animate, commencing
with its most insignificant atomic period,
and continuing up to the stage Of its full
lest and highest development, and on
down to It's extinction as animated matter,
Twelve months is an essential part ol
the life Of every human being, Asa link
in the "years Of the universe" it is IS moth.
ing, buL IA a link in the few years that
constitute the average lie Of humanity II
ia everythipS>. A year has all the posi-
bllisies OF life within ils keepiESAt4e very
issues Of lie and death. 1t has hidden
atoIe Of Incidents and accidents for all who
breathe, to be Disclosed day by day, here
y little ard there a &.tle, varied by az
occurrence now and then OF great mo
ment,
Hence no ono can afford 10 be lnditteT
ent to the incoming Of new year. !.
only takes 80 years for the entire popu
ls,iou OF tho globe to revoutionize, an
entire generation passing of the stage q
action in that time, -one thirty.third pof'
tion going every year. Therefore 1t y
sb,olutely certain that the most radical
and important change that can occur 70
any human SeihS" must.wssur to forty
millions Of all who are alive to-day before
another New Year shall come, They will
never live to see It. Tho permits issued
to that number Of people will expire with
in the presentysar. Therefore the liabil.
ity ai egsTst,iSdividual in existence in
such n "lo!tery Of life" as thin Ia start
ling enough, and may well give each and
all Of us AZ least short pause for retlec
tion on day like this.
Such changes ns these are bound to
c.mo thick aud fast within the year that is
NOW upon, us. They concern US
oil very deeply rs iOreordanled dnalities,
bat they come under the head OF the In.
evlta0'e, aud in only the rsmoLest degree
can We BY taking thought control our In
diYidnil liabilities in regard to them.
Therefore each individual must accept for
himself, as bes! ho may, the fixed liability
to which he 10 exposed in this respect.
There Rro other important liabilities to
which We ere all exposed that are not 80
radical and final in their character, and
over which We exercise limited control.
These arc the chances and accidents oI
business and social liie--the incidents Of
character, iaSaLsiUg- happiness or misery,
aud the long chapter that C6Ihpehends
the exercise Of choice and the formation
OF habits. This is the day which by uni
versal recognition should be devoted
to some extent to reflection upon the pos.
sibll.ics and probabilities Of our lives
under these various heads. " is easy to
discourse at length about them, but how
to make u lasting impression in regard to
thom Is quite another and more difficult
task Jns; rs tall men think all msn
mortal bat themselves" 80 almost all men
SUNK that advice is made for other peo'
Pic, not for them. The experience OF life
is the only teacher that can make IN i'm.
prosnion. "DeNr houRht but welltaught"
Is the expression that Gums II al up, In
youth we "venturs for the lack OF expert.
ience, and in nge We hesitate because Of our
experience" and hence noted writer
Os CO said that Experience Is mostly val.
uable to those who can do withoutit,"
New Years day iB recognized as astheappro'
PIRATE season for good resolutions. Who
hM not made good resolutions on New
YUsfsdGy2 Who has not turned over his
new leat-on paper2 And how few have
really and actually turned over new aud
lasting leaiin the book Of lite2 Alas for
tho habits thG. were to have been
changed on New YSar'4 day, and that re-
asserted themselves before week
had passed away. wOdld not realize that
d habit is not apt to be changed simply be.
cause an appropriate time for a change
has come. A famouO man was once
asked to write paragraph about good res.
olnsions fer young princes birthday,
and he wrote as follows:
@giahit" ia hard to overcome. II you
take of the frat letter, IL does not change
"a BIT" II you take off another, YOU still
have q "bitb left. II YOU take of still
another, tho whole Of ut" remains. II you
take OF another, II is not ~ totally used
up. All Of which goes, to show that Il YOU
wish to be rid ofa 'ha6it," you must throw
i. off altogether
There is a moral in this paragraph that
ev cry young man, though be DO not a
phi ace, may appropriate. II you are 20.
ing to change your habits to-day, be suts
YOU throw them OF altogether"
TIE old Latihs had ptOVetb to The
effect III at there were two forces that op.
Grated on a man to change and regulate bis
hsblts-tSe force "ab extra" and the force
"ab intra"-meaning, in tho fltstinstsncs,
the ioSCO that comes from without, which
they designated as public opinion, and,
in the second instance, the force from
within, which they designated as self re.
aneut. And Inv Iar tha ptaater and tnora