St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-01

Who needs teacher to ad monish him
That flesh Is grass. that worldly Things are mistf
What are our joys but dreamsg and what our
hopes
Bnt goodly shadows in the summers clouds
There's not wind that bears but blows with 1t
Some goodly promise. Not n moment flies
But puts its sickle in the fields Of life,
And mows its thousands with their joys and
cares.
HENRY KIRK WHITE.
Another year is buried in the tomb Of
time. Another portion of the earthly course
is run, and humanity is one remove nearer
TO those untried scenes which must soon
burst upon the vision. How appropriate
then for all to pause, and turn their thoughts
TO within, and scan the hopes that are vested
in the great future, when years and
months and days with all are ended. 1t will
soon be over. The ftful dream of life will
terminate, and humanity shall have en-
tered that chaugeless state for which their
courses in life have fashioned them.
How many since the last New
Years. sun have paid the last great debt Of
natur,l How many who with the living en-
tered upon the scenes and hopes of the just
finished year are now in theii graves. How
many sunderiugs of esrth's tenderest ties has
the last year witnessedi How many happy
fireside circle has death iuvadcdi How many
domestic hearths, whose loves dropped daily
incense over the troubled sea OF life, have
been rendered desOlate forcverl How many
parent hearts have been wrung With
anguish at the loss OF the
dear pledges Of their mutual
lovei How many fathers, the support aud
stay Of dependent families, have ceased
from their labors! How many tender moth
ers have been summoned hastily away, Ieav-
ing their helpless charge in EXTREMIST in-
fancy to the rude buffetngs of a cherries
worldi
As it was in the past year, so shall il be in
this. Death has been busy in the past CON-
pleted year, so viii he be in this! Hearts
that now beat with hope may 5000 be rent
with sorrow. The history Of the past does
but inform that uncertainty and disappont-
ment are written upon all earthly hopes and
projects. Man. what IS e. To in the
pride OF Embellishments in tae tomb.
To-day Boosting OF his strength aud rsycling
in his curious but vain philosophy, tomorrow
introduced to his shroud, the coffin aud the
worm.
What Is the poTnp u Iearningi the parade
OF ia;ters snd OF tongues. Even he misss
or the gray morn before the setting sun.
That pass away and perish. Earthly things
Are bat the transient pggcSnts o. an a0RT;
And earthly pride = ike the pEssiag foUeT
That springs 20 bad, bat blossoms bat 70 die.
The wing Of Time never tires, his steady
fight never is retarded. Soon the rapid
sarAs ~ hts ~fass yin havs cb-,rfriad an
other year with the eternity that has passed.
and will have usherd tens and hundreds Of
thousands into thc great eternity just before,
vain in the pride IF earthly circumstance.
vain the asp.rinEs after earthly honor and
reuovn. few more rolling SIMS, few more
DAYS OF discipline and trial, aud the siEnet
viii be set to all earthly history, sud foFgui-
dormant memory.
Oh. hasten. drear to-day
Oh hasten fast away.
For hos sad tears hast b-o7zhs,
Ard hnurs With soTToS fr1aght.
Far hopes come 10 Ha1-ht
Take. take them all away
And lager not to-day.
The past has gone. Living men turn their
faces 70 the future 10 do. 70 endure, 10 await
aud accept whatever fate nav have in store.
Here pSuses the New Years greeting pencil.
tenderiag nov the compliments Of the sea-
sou. aud The GLoHE's eorsiisl wishes for the
fuiare happiness aud prosperity OF each in-
the helm that steers on the aoating bark over
LIES biIlS~y, tenpes;Goas sea, looking Ai0fs,
I with brave And fearless hear.