Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-30


tus, as a completed work is vastly superior
to the plan of gigantic enterprise, SO
the past in lis completeness and finality is
worth moro than all the promise of the
future.
The second reason why the past is SO
valuable is, that by it a PERSONS
real character is determined. It
is not by what psrson
appears today or promises TO be to-nor-
row, out by what ne has been, by the work
he has done THAI we judge of his integrity
and worth. Character is human nature
in its best FORM and is made of right
thoughts embodied in rig bit actions. Every
mans character is the edifoe he has erect
60 by simple daily acts. Where the foun-
dation was with integrity and virtue the
walls will rise strong to shelter,
strong to resist evil, strong to
bear the storms of lifs. When man has
commenced to build upon the sands of
deceived would any one be to trust il such
a building.
Many persons have very mistaken no
ton in regard to the way other people es-
innate them. A treacherous, vulgar, dis
honest man may congratulate himself
that, because he is jolly fellow,
OF sometimes free-handed, or
puts on airs, he has
thrown dust in other mems eyes. He is
fooling himself. Others see him in a
clearer light than he sees himself and to-
day ne is stamped with his true worth.
Each one of US can look back upon the
character We have built and decide whether
it is the crown and glory of our life or
thing of no value, "a thing to be thrown
| out in the dust bin Of creation like dirty
| rag
We may hope that the future will see
| different work; that as we have built dis
| honorably in the past, hereafter our work
shall be true and square. Too many of us
know how difficult is the labor of putting
| good work upon bad foundation. In
building house upon frail, uncertain,
foundation, how the walls settle and crack
open, although the bricklayer's work was
we'll done. So it is when man
with bad yesterday tries to lead
a better life. How many man,
who all his life has done any thing to get
rich, tries at last to live clean honest
life. What fierce battles he has had to
fight with his old habits often being con-
quered by them! Religion he's not chang
ed him much. If you have dealings with
him you need to put it down in black and
white" is often remarked of some church
member. The difficulty lies in the wrong
beginning, the bad yesterday. He was a
trickster then and only when many
better yesterdays shall have crowded the
old out of memory will men feel sure of
his honesty.
The third reason why the past is invalu-
able is that God requireth it," that OF all
the deeds committed, the thought, conceiv-
ed, or words spoken we must give an &C
count. Young persons in their plans and
hopes for the future,which seems to prom
| Use everything, over whose blue sky no
cloud darkens, are apt to underestimate
the importance of each day whose hours
once past return no more until the final
reckoning. There is no judgment for to-
morrow, nor for to-day until it becomes
yesterday. When once the day is gone,
whether we'll or lily spent, nothing can
| change it, so it must remain until we an
swer for its spending.
| Many protesting Christians think that
a little sin is excusable as we are only hu-
man, besides being Christians ''the blood
| of r;zf nj oil c,,J
is no lack in the mercy of God,or the grace
| OF Jesus Christ He is able to save unto
the uttermost all who come unto God by
him." but does sin leave no trace on the
soul any more than the breath of the
summer wind on the face? Can a man
steep his soul in vice and hope to be the
| same being he might have been without
the deflement? The truth lies here, every
sin thrusts man further from truth and
right, and the habit of sin obscures the
dividing line between right and wrong.
Take a person in the habit Of lying,
and the time will come when
he can hardly tell truth from felsehood.
So with vile tongue, obscenity blunts
the taste. The person who first assays
the use of tobocco is nauseated almost to
commissions, but habit not only overcomes
that but destroys the fine perception of
fovors, merging all into the pungent to-
bacco flavor. So the vile talker becomes
more vile until ''even his conscience is de-
| fled"
Christ's righteousness covers all sins
repented of, but can it undo
the effects of sin? We can
not go on SHINING and hope to become as
noble and good men and women as we
might have been if we had q good past.
''If one can look back upon good yester-
| day, the future need not be feared" To
hope to be and to do good is noble, shut
| better than the hope of good thing to
come is the memory of good deeds al
ready accomplished"
A youth we'll spent is almost sure to
bring a noble manhood. A man who
has wasted all the life behind him,
who has been going downtown, no mat
| ter whether he has gained riches OR fame,
| they do not count in the final result, Can
never climb hope to as far hesvenwa-d as
| he who has no backward steps to take.
Let the departing year, as it confronts