The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-03
The New Year.

j The New Year.
rone With al its trials, sorrows
1919 joys and success hes gone, an
J folded itself away in the forever "a,
J irrscoverabls past, where throughou
The unlimited, cesseless cycles Of tim
it must remain. No human hand .
mind, not avon Deity itself can remod
die or blot out any fault or remember
ance. The edict Of nature which 10 tn
nat Of God forbids its resurrection o.
reenaction. We must pass on dowl
the never ending tides Of time with
our vision and aim fixed upon th,
great unknown future, and endeavol
to draw from its mystic folds whatever
Of happiness and progress our failure,
and experiences of the past may have
taught NJ to expect. Time in ito cease
less. resistlsss march turns leaf after
leaf in she chspter Of our lives, until
the scene closes and the nolicules OF
our bodies true to the inevitable laws
Of nature crumblc into dust or are re.
solved into original elements to full
gil the almighty nat that NO matter
Is ever lost. Whatever Of mystery
may surround our existence in thiA
world, all created intellige noes Of
whatever order aAd wherever placed
admit, and all nature with her varied
aud ever speaking object lessons points
to one supreme all powerful. methodic
infexibls, never varying, wise, grand
creative power. The finite mind while
it can never penetrate or inquire iato
the arcane of the 'iodhead" nor com.
prehend the vastness or stupsndous
scale and desiga OF creation, yet IL ca o
not think. it cannot see, without being
confronted on every hand with the nm
mistakable evidence Of the grand con-
ception and execution of creative wis.
dom. Amid all this magnificent para
phena''a nf worlds upon top Of worlds
and all their GROWING excellence and
maltitudinous contents man stands out
prominently conspicuous above eli
else. What piece of work 10 msn:
how noble in reason; how infinite in
faculties; In form and moving, how
express AID admirable in action, how
like an angel; in apprehension, how
like God! the beauty Of the world;
the paragon of snimslsr Yet with all !!
these rich endowments so profusely
and beniAcently bestowed by the
great God OF all she universe how inn
perfect, how full Of faults 10 men.
How hesoutrsGes his own natural laws,
how he controverts sill We know Of d.
zine law in his relation to his fellow
nan in the feverish, avaricious drama
II life and its selfish attainments,
While all the world in one sense in
kin, and while the great public heart
hrsbs responsive to PHYS. call, -,
MANS inhnmanity to man,
Makes countless thousands mourn"
When retrospection leads us back
yer the departed year, slumberips
ov forever in the dead past. how many
listakes, heartaehss and vicious
ctions will be at our door or how
uch joy and blessings may we have
altered on our pathway. Whatever |.
10 record may be and however hard
n Ms to make an honest judgement,
: AZ one and all resolve that We will
gin the new year With our hearts
ii OF gratitude that we live, that our
{ il cast In land of freedon and
enty, and that we will amend all our
1lts and mistakes TO the best Of our
ility, and that the incoming year
all Be one In which we shall make
the progress our environments will
rmit, and especially will We cult :
te all the social amenities 90 that I
r relations with our fellow men may I
one unbroken pathway strewn with {
fragrant and ever blooming now.
of kindly and generous heart :
tsrre.
We live in deeds, not years-in ,
ughts, not breaths, \
In feelings, not in figures on . dial )
We should count time by heart :
obs. He most lives, K
Who thinks uo.t-feels ths NJ. q