Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-01-06

| advised that you divide this season into
| three chapters-ths first Q chapter OF llus-
trious birthday, the second a chapter Of an
nual decsdence and the third . chapter Of
chronological introduction-and this last
chapter we have reached. In oldsn times
there was q style Of closing an old year and
opening a new one that was very suggestive.
Toe family would sit up until twelve
o'clock at night, and when the clock
struck twelve the family would all go
to the front door OF the house. take
down the bar and turn back ths lock
and swing the door wide open to let the
old year out and new year In. And that 10
what we are going to do. Wita the same
measured step that time has kept since II
| started il will come to our door in the clos
ing night Of this week. With what spirit
shall we let the new year in, have already
indicated that it is to be one OF the grsatest
years OF all chronology. "Whyf you ask.
Have you any forebofings or premoni.
mum this year" mol why, then. say
this about the coming year, For the simple
reason that find as the years 60 by they
become more and more eventful Compare
the Nineteenth century with the Eighteenth
century.
Compare the first half of this century
with the last half. The surges of this ocean
forces Of right and wrong are rapidly null
| tipiying, and their struggles must be inten-
sihed. 1t Is chronological fact that We
are all the time coming nearer to the
| worlds edenization first and then to its in
cineration, to its redemption and Its demoli-
ton. And so ! expect that 1893 will be
| greater year than 1892. Its wedding bells
will be merrier. Its obsequies will be sad
der. Its scientific discoveries more brill
liant. Its properties more significant. Its
| opening more grand. Its termination
more stupendous. Look out for 1881 Let
printers have in their cases Of type plenty
Of exclamation points to set up q sudden
paragraph. Let the conservatorles have
| profusion Of flowers 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
vacillations and the exigencies, and tho de-
mands and the raptures and the woes Of
this coming 1893 In what mood shall We
open the door Of the new years With faith,
faith, God will see you through. His grace
will be sufficient II you trust Him. You
can 60 to Him at any time and find SYM
pathy.
Ny little child got hurt one morning dur
| ing her mothers absence. We looked after
the case as well as we could. Toward night
her mother returned, and for the first time
| tue Cullu duu VtCHcfOusiJ COho
one said to her: "What do you cry fors
You did not cry all day" Her reply was,
There was no one to cry tor And so you
sometimes suppress your trouble because
| there is no tull resource OF earthly SYM
pathy. But rejoice to tell you that In do1
you always have some one to cry to. He
will condole and help In every crisis. Come,
now, let me unstrap that knapsack OF care
from your shoulders Come prosperity or
adversely, come wedding or burial, come
health or sickness, come life oS
death, come time or eternity, alps
well, airs WE'LL Keep your heart
right aud all else will be right. Men and
women have sometimes given strange and
whimsical directions In regard to what shall
be done with their hearts after death. Rob
ert Bruce ordered his heart to 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 B.rkkampstead but ordered her
heart taken to Tewkesbury Cathedral. Lord
Windsor, dying in q foreign land. ordered
his heart inclosei in lead AMI sent to EGG
land for burial In the chapel Of Brakeman.
Now what shall we decree for our heartf
That 1t be the Lords. aud then it makes no
difference what else becomes of It Living
and dying, may 1t all be bis.
Thus in three chapters l have counseled
that the holidays be grouped. May nothing
interfere with their felicitiss. May they be
so spent that they will bs food for pleasant
reminisceuce further on. You know that
after awhile the old homestead will be broken
up. For years and years the children come
home TO spend the holidays and the house is
rummaged from garrett to cellar, and the
scenes Of childhood are rehearsed, and we
lau III till the tears come as we talk over
some boyish or giriish freak or cry over
some old trouble ended; but the heart swings
back again to mirth, for 1t does not take half
a second for a tear OF the eye to strike the
smile of the lip. For few years ths grand
children make the holidays merry. One OF
the many uses Of grandchildren Is to keep
the old folks young. Then after few years
the annual gathering at the old homestead
is half broken up. for father or mother II
gons.
About two years after flor there are gen:
orally about two years between the tune OF
their going, the other half Of the holiday
season Is broken Up. Then the old house
goes into the possession OF strangsrs and
the sons and daughters by that time have
homes of their own. They plant their own
Christmas trees and hang up their own chill
dren's stockings, and twine their own holly
and mistletos and have their own good
times They will perhaps be riding out on
some Of those holidays either in sleigh or
, carriage twenty or thirty years from now
? along the places where we slumber the last
, sleep, and may we have been so consderate
, and sympathetic In our demeanor toward
: them now that they will then say one to an
, other as they pass the silent mounds OF the
4 village graveyard or city cemetery, There
, rests az kind father ami as kind mother
4 as ever wished their children q merry
: Christmas and a happy new year"
l Meanwhile we, their parents and grand
/ parents, will, hope. through the atone
a ment Of our blessed Lori, be keeping holi
l. days livelier and higher up; in the presenc'
4 of the very Christ whose birth the earthly
r Christmas commentaries. and OF thu
d Ancient of Days who saw the first yea'
i open, and will see the last year close; II
Il companionship with the overwhelming
circle of heavenly kindred, many alread.
;. there and many soon to come, and the table
Al Of that festivity will purple with the grape
q OF Eschol, and redden with the new win
Il OF the kingdom and glow with "sweiv
V manner Of fruits' from the trees OF life, an
e the gifts Of those holidays will be mansion
n and thrones and crowns of glory that neVe
70 fade away. Oh, that these delightful mol
" DAYS of earth may fit US for those more az
{. lightful holidays Of heavsnl