Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-26

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The family would sit up until twelve
O'Clock at night, and when the clock struck
twelve the family would all 20 to the
front door of the house, take down the ban
and turn back the dock and swing the door
wide open to let the old year out and the
new, year In. And that Is what we are
going to do. With the same measured
step that time has kept since ID started II
will come to our door in the closing night
Of this week With what spirit shall we
let the new year ini have alread y indi
Gated that 1t is to be one of the greatest
years OF all chronology.
"Whyf" you ask. Have you any fore
holdings or premonitions" MOI Are you
expecting the millennium this yearr'
MOI why, then, sayTthis about the COM
ing Year," For. the ssimplsr-re that
find as the years go by they become more
and more eventual Comparesthe Nihe-
teenth century with the Eighteenth lcen-
tury. Comparesthe first half of this.cen.
tury with the last half The surges OF
this ocean of time are rolling higher and
higher. The forces OF right. and wrong
are rapidly multiplying and their strug-
giles must be intensified.
It is a chronologic al fact that we are all
the time coming nearerto the worlds eden
ization a rst and then to its incineration, to
its redemption and its demolition. Ands
l expect that 1893 will be greater year
than 1892 It's wedding bells will be mer-
rier. It's obsequies will be sadder. Its sci
entific discoveries more brilliant. Its pros
perities more significant Its opening more
grand. its termination more stupendous.
Look out for 1S93R Let printers have In
their cases of ypeplentyof exclamation
points to set up a sudden paragraph. Let
the Conservatives have profusion OF flow
ers that can be twisted into garlands. Let
churches have plenty of room for increased
assemblages Let men and women have
more religion to meet the oscillations, and
the exigencies, and the demands, and the
raptures, and the woes of this coming 1893.
In what mood shall we open the door of
the new Year, With faith, strong faith,
buoyant faith. triunlphantfaith- God will
see you through. His grace will be suffi-
cient II you trust him. You can GO to him
at any time and find sympathy. Ny little
child got hurt one morning during her
mothers abs, nee. We looked after the case
as we'll as weNcould Toward night her
mother returned, and Cor tha first time the
child cried and cried vociferously
Some one said to her: what do yod cry
fors You did not cry all day" Her reply
was, There was no one to cry to-" And
so you sometimes suppress your trouble be-
cause there is no full resource OF earthly
sympathy. But | rejoice to tell you that
in God you always have some one to cry to.
He will condole and help in every crisis.
Come, now. let me nnstEap that knapsack
OF care from your shoulders Come pros
perity or adversely come wedding or burial,
come health or sickness, come life or death,
come time or eternity, all's well, all's well!
Keep your heart right and all else will be
right.
Men and women have sometimes given
strange and whimsical directions in regard
20 what shall be done with their hearts
after death. Robert Bruce ordered his
heartnto be sent to the Holy Land for
burial. The Earl Of Leicester ordered his
heart sent TO Brackley hospital. Isabella,
daughter Of the Earl Of Pembroke, died at
Berkhampstead, but ordered her heart
taken to Tvwkesbury cathedral. Lord
Windsor, dyi1g in foreign land, ordered
his heart inclosed in lead and sent to Eng
land for burial in the chapel Of Braden
ham. Vow, what shall we decree for our
hearti That il he the Lords. and Their il
last steep, ana may we have been so con
nderate and sympathetic In our demeanor
toward them now that they will then say
one to another as they pass the silent
mounds Of the village graveyard or city
cemetery, There rest as kind father and
Is Kind mother ss ever wished THAR nhu-