The record-union., 1898-01-02

Of life, and in the wisdom not to waste
its glorious fullness
A Prosperous New Year to you.
Fathers. You have thought your indi-
viduality worth peTpetuating, and have
won an attribute whose name belongs
to God himself. You are an autocrat.
Wistful eyes watch your every look and
word, and eager minds strive to mold
themselves on your character. You have
provided for yourself an earthly immor-
tality, second self to take up your
ambition and carry On your works of
good or evil.
So, may this year be happy to you
happy. because you have had courage
to undertake responsibility, and conf
dence in your worth and in your good
intentions.
A Bright New Year to you, Mothers.
Consciously or unconsciously, you have
made the great sacrifice You have
risked pain, sorrow, anxiety and death
itself, in the sacred hope of a Hebrew
mother, that to you may fall the honor
OF bringing into the world some prince
of peace. That sacrifice was a dedi-
cation. You are priestess forever
So, may this year be happy to you;
happy in the knowledge of your high
calling; happy in the discharge of it's
holy duties; happy in the hope that
your constant care may furnish to the
world being worthy to hand on the
torch OF lofty deeds; happy in the
thought that you have forged another
link in the chain of love. whose clasp
is held by God.
A Happy New Year to you. Inva-
lids. Does happiness seem a mockery.
and my very wish almost an unkind-
ness? Nay, I know it is not so; for
the same power that permitted the de-
mon Pain to work his will with you,
chained him to the angel Patience and
you will be happy in her tender coun-
CHS. For she whispers to you that all
is not In vain; that souls hungering to
do good deeds love to minister to you
and, that from your agony are borne
into the world pure self-denial and
sweet compassion. May, then, the
breath Of sympathy SO stir for you,
during this year. the sullen waters of
affiiction, that they break into the
laughter OF a summer stream.
A Tranquil New Year to you, Aged
ones. You have anchored in the har
Dor, and only wait the Masters call TO
land. Meanwhile the waters are calm
around you. The anxious Captain and
the busy sailors sleep; the weary helms
man stretches his strained limbs. You
can watch the changing sea beyond.
smile at It's sunny stiffness, send warn
lngs or storms as you yourself have
seen, and counsel the strife wherein
your past is done. Your fellow-yeteran
are moored beside you and cheer YOU
with their brave, familiar shapes. To-
gether you live again in tender thought
the varied voyage together all the
neW-tr1mmed craft that pass outward
on some unfinished quest. rejoicing that
they may gain fresh courage by seeing
you safe sheltered after storm, and
shoal, and strife.
And now Success to All"
What IS it to succeed? 1t is to gain
APpiause from men, the vacuous refrain
FROM nckle crowds, who waste their idle
roar 49,
Like ocean waves upon rock-bound
shore,
Whose finest fervor fades as suddenly
AS does the full-eyed sun from lropic
Is Is, 1t to gain greet store of gathered gold
Ihat can for you earth's choicest gifts
unfol6
But brings no happiness to minds un-
taught
TO use It's wondrous powers as they
ought,
Which tempts too long stay in pleas
ure'S bowers
Like bees in over lush of summer flowers?
Nay, rather tbs to take the life that's
ana a, mold It to the pattern set by heaven:
10 train its every possibility
As ever in the Great Taskmaster.s eye''
10 work and strive that others, sore dis
tresSed,
May, Dy your living, be forever blessed:
To shun no toll, nor yield to adverse fate
But willing be to labor and to walt:
To keep your motives pure as sleeping
lake,
Doing each duty for dear duty's sake.
Such is the ideal God Himself will bless
Slch are the attributes of true success.