The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-28

spect and esteem. Indeed, were the story
of the year placed into our own hands I
am not too confident l think, in asserting
that before we were half way through lis
perusal we would throw it away from us
with impotence and in anger.
but, nevertheless, does it not strike
you, as it must every other reflective
mind, that this Story of the Year has
lost none of its old-time importance and
significance, and that its very failures,
which it chronicles, map out to no small
extent, the programme for the coming
year, SO that, indeed, the Lord may be
with US in ell that we may undertake to
accomplish. We must not lose sight of
the fact, that many, if not all, of our res
olutionS for the coming year, should be
prompted by those feelings of gratitude
to that one omnipotent power who has
steered the individual, s well as the COM
munity, further and further away from
the dangerous shoals and rocks and reefs
without hurt or injury. Comparisons be-
tween the sad experiences of the dead
past and the hopes and promises and
prospects for the as yet uniformed future,
will play no unimportant part, I can as
sure you, in bringing about these desired
results. To-day at least, we are not toss
ed about upon the seethtng waters of
painful uncertainty as to whether this
great American republic will live. or die;
to-day no black storm clouds are lower
ing above our heads, threatening at
moments notice to burst forth in all the
fury and tempest of war; to-day no finan-
cial depression is robbing the merchant of
integrity, of either rest or ease of mind;
upon this new year we are not threaten
ed with the possibility of being compelled
to write the first chapter Of our Story
of the New Year with the pen of appre-
hension and with the life's blood of the
human being. On the contrary, with
ewes IIY1t1Irned n the great qOOd God above
us, we are encouraged to herald forth
good tiding throughout the whole civil
lied world, the heaven-sent dove of
promised prosperity has joyfully winged
its way among the sons of man, bearing
in it's mouth the green olive leaf with the
comforting message of the Psalmist king,
Weeping may endure for a night but
joy cometh in the morning.
whether as private individuals, or
whether as public communities, let us hail
this welcome promise contained in the
prospectus for the New Year. Nothing Is
better calculated to prepare us for the
struggle and changes, and battles of life;
nothing can better convince us that it Is
not by strength, nor by power of our own,
but by the spirit of Almighty God that
we are able to sustain our equilibrium, and
tread this earth of Gods as the GROWING
effort of His artistic work. Memory S harp
can give forth no sweeter strain than the
X,
shalt remember the Lord thy God for it
is he that giveth thee power to get
wealth; in order that he might fulfil his
covenant which he hath sworn unto thy
fathers as it is this day No better, ho-
lier seal to that fatherly admonition than
the prayerful refrain of Kipling's Re
cessional, Lord God of hosts be with us
yet lest we forget lest we forget 3"
Let not the rebuke of Hare In his
'Guesses at TRUTH be ever applicable
to any one Of us, when, in speaking about
the relation between God and man, he as
serts, Some men treat the God Of their
fathers as they treat their fathers friend.
They do not deny him; by no means; they
only deny themselves to him, when he is
good enough to call upon Them On the
contrary, let us be ever glad and anxious
to honor His every call, convinced that
His visit will only furnish us with use
full and valuable material for our STORY
of the Year. and will leave us better
equipped to cope with the difficulties and
temptations which form a necessary and
an integral part of every individual and
of every communal life. The connection
between earth and heaven will be the
more firmly established: the year 565S will
tell a better, more profitable and more
interes ting story; the individual in re-
Numbering his God will be always ODE
dent, submissive and grateful, whilst the
fearing, filled with thoughts of God and
with the golden deeds of man. Such
story, written in such indelible charac-
ters, will be the worthy record Of worthy
people; in fact. it will be the practical
application of our Roshashannah prayer
God of our fathers. known Of old Lord
of our far-hung battle line, beneath whose
awful hand we hold dominion over palm
and pine Lord God of hosts, be with us
yet. lest we forget, lest we forget
The text was as follows: "Thou shalt
remember the Lord. thy God; for it is
He that giveth thee power to get wealth;
in order that He might fulfil his cove
nant which He hath sworn unto thy faith
ers, as 1t is this day." Deut., viii, 49,