Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-31
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Behold now is the accepted time; behold
now is the day of salvation: IL Corinthi.
ans 6-2.
There is no more favorable time TO,
forming good resolutions than the begin.
ing of a new year. The records of the yea,
just ended are written and sealed up fol
the judgment day. No new entry can be
made there; exactly as it was written for
good or evil, it must stand until the final
reckoning.
The new year commences new volume
as if the Creator put into the hands of ev-
cry individual new journal, on whose
white, unsullied pages he may
write what he will. There
are many reasons why this new volume
should show larger credit for each one
than any past record. One is the brevity
of time. The years are passing away; this
one may be on the incline that ends in
the grave. Another reason is that the
years are crowded so full of work that
must be done, work that the maker and
Judge has appointed for each one, and
where it has been neglected or put aside
for other business, each successive year be.
comes more heavily burdened. If last
years tasks are unfinished, when are they
to be done? Most men have a great
amount of back work to do to catch up.
AS the bells ring in the New Year, let
each one look over the situation and resolve
that this shall be an accepted year. No
one can raise the past years from the vor-
tex into which they have slipped, but it is
within tho power of every one now to com.
mence work for eternity. No good comes
of any resolve that does not resolve itself
into action. For man to say, 81 will not
drink another glass; have sworn off for
this year," and accept the first treat Offer
ed him, is weak and contemplate. To vow
to control ones temper, and then take fire
at the first ill-advised word, is childish.
Gods work is not the labor which en-
crosses the time of most men. The
business of building up an immense trade.
or making fortune will not enter much
to mans credit when time is ended: for
the results of such work ends with time.
When the grave closes over a man it mat
ters little whether he was rich or Door.
high or low. The only thing that will do
him any good is the work he has done
which will survive the grave. What is the
work that outlasts time! Any, that makes
others better and happier. SCOTS brave
heroine Jennie Dean said, SIT is ma what
we hae done for oursels, but what we
haze done for ithers that will do Ms anv
good"
Any business, or any way
OF conducting business that
makes man more liberal, more char
liable. and at the same time truer and
more honest, is work that will endure the
test of judgment. While any labor that
makes him dishonest, mean and selfish is
spending his time and money s'for that
which is not bread" Suppose this to be
the last year of a mans life. Would it paw
him to be cheat and liar, if he could
by so doing make fifty thousand dollars ?
The rich man in the parable said to him.
self, "Soul, thou hast much goods laid up
for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink
and be merry" And God said, s'Thou
fool this night thy soul shall be re-
quired of thee: then where shall
those things be which thou hast provided ?''
All this counts in the balance as loss. but
there are profitable investments to be
made in eternal values; there are treasures
to be laid up in heaven. New Years is a
good time to start in this business.
The first step must be to throw aside all
evil habits; they bind a mans hands faster
than chains of iron. Another step is to
look beyond self to the good of others.
Seiflshness is sin of many forms, but
the besetting sin of most persons. Many
inherit it, like bad blood; their whole nature
is poisoned. Others become SO through
the fostering care of parents and their
own indulgence, until they strive
to absorb everything within their reach.
The only question that interests them in
any subject is, how does it effect mo?
They are stumbling blocks in the wav Of
every public enterprise that will not nav
them. sarcastic divine once remarked
upon the death of such men, that tb.ra