Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-12-30
Washlngton Standard
OLYMPIA, WASH.
FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 80. 1892.
Good-B Bye 1892.

Ninotv-two is about gone. Iti
trlumphs and troubles will soon be
numbered with the past. \ momen.
tOus wear it has been, witnessing the
realization oi hopes and the fall Of
castles of tie brain that seemed ready
for realization of a day-dream. Its
course has been marked with the
usual disasters. Pestilence and
famine have raised their hideous
forms in some parts OF the world,
while peace and plenty have blessed
others. Our country, all things con.
sidered, has been truly favored.
1t is with more than ordinary emo
ton we pen the article which fills this
column at the close of each successive
year. The mind will revert to the
past, and we are filled with mingled
Joy and sorrow, as the incidents are
passed in hasty review. The Future is
a sealed volume b, lore us. Dav by
day, leaf by leaf, each life-history is
written. The fair pages of the new
year are as yet without blot or blem-
ish; their purity has not been tar
nished by Il touch, and it is for each
individual to determine whether the
record shall be such that, standing
upon the Threshold of the departing
year, Memory will delight to dwell
upon the page, or whether Conscience
will close the book in sadness and dis
pair. AS each chapter is written, it
passes beyond our power TO change it.
1t it is polluted by sin, the purity of
the remainder will not obliterate the
stain. If it is ennobled by heroic
deeds of self-denial or philanthropy,
there the mind will delight to linger,
and then we are filled with pleasure at
the retrospect.
Let US all begin the new year
with determination to do right; with
charity for the frailties of humanity
and love for all. How much of human
misery would be assuaged, how much
happiness would be diffused, how much
nearer Heaven Earth would be
brought, if everybody would make the
Golden Rule the guide-if each would
love his neighbor as himselfl The
suggestion may sound somewhat Chi.
merical. It may be affirmed that ut
the present stage of the worlds I'D.
vancement, it is asking too much that
man should all at once forget self and
be filled with the "milk of human
kindness" Here the common mis-
take is made of abstaining from effort
because Perfection cannot be attained.
Each may do something, and success,
even in a moderate degree, is worthy
OF great effort. Danish, then, all ram
cor and hate. Restrain those inn
pulses which have for their object the
mere qualification of selfish purposes.
Meet your fellow man in the spirit of
love enjoined by Holy Writ, and you
will be happier for it.
With the bright prospects before US
as a community, with the dawn of
prosperity just beaming on our be-
loved State, we but need to exercise
the common impulses of humanity to
make this indeed HAPPY New YEAR.
Hand Joined in hand and heart linked with
heart,
Assist those who are struggling in Poverty's
mart,
Aud ever with ready hands heed Sorrows call,
And tenderly scatter the tear-drops that fall.
In thus blessing Others ourselves shall be
blessed
All tranquil our day-dreams and peaceful our
rest.
And when our last year shall draw to Gloss,
Deaths angel shall wait Nc to quiet rep0se,
And bright be our waking In that purer cline
Where pleasure and joys are not measured by
time"