The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1900-01-05
THE new YEAR, 1900.

In time there are no rests as in
music. Time was in The withouta-
beginning, and time will be ever and
forever On and On and on it goes in
harmonious perfectness, knowing no
aye and making no record of days.
"Natura non Saltath-nature never
made a break or pause. 1t shows
no chasms anywhere in its majestic
course.
Man, though, for his convenience or
pleasure. or profit, establishes times
and Seasons. Thus he says the first
day Of January shall be termed the
beginning OF New Year, The Ro-
mans. with an acute poetic sense that
pervaded all their work, elected To
have the dawn Of the year show in
March--the first spring month, when
nature kisses new life into everything
and robes the earth in garments OF
many culors.
Man must have his pauses and start.
ing points. IT. is not so much ques-
tion Of sentiment as of necessity that
dates and seasons he fixed. The sue
cess OF business life depends upon it.
and a nation without a chronology Is
people without history. Each
year must hold It's own events, nor
may one trench upon the other.
Leaving this line OF suggestion. one
is led to the thought that these year
posts Of mans time offer opportunity
for reflection upon what has been and
what may be. Each New Year day
tells not only Of the new birth. but
also Of the year that is sepultured.
Here arc presented in brave contrast
life and death. AS the did passes out,
the new comes in. So with man and
all other animate things. The king
is dead, live the king"
So one lesson after another mag be
learned IL one be but a willing pupil.
What the memories Of the just dead
year? What the sins, the errors, the
follies? What the good one did, and
what progress IN the knowledge that
is lasting? All. the year is gone, gone
to one and all Of us; hut the impress
sion remains. These years one by one
are character builders, each adding to
the other until the mortal changes to
the immortal!
Looking backward, what is the rack-
oning? Whatever most OF good, or of
i'll, the New Year is at hand. Let the
accounting be just. that one may be
ADLER to meet justly and righteously
the things that are before. One should
recall the errors Of the past, not that
he may mourn over them. hut that he
may gain strength for future strug-
giles.
One need not give the whole of New
Years day tn the forming Of good res
0uti0ns. Alas! there be many who
do vow uvermuch at such times. The
hallway Of the New Year, like that OF
hell, is paved with good intentions.
One may resolve and resolve again,
and swear Justify in confirmation OF
such purpose: yet all unavailing, be-
cause of the frailty Of his being. Hc
acts the better part who reflects, and
Is not rash In promises.
Not the same to all is The history
0f the past year; aud not two shall
find the New Year the same in expert.
ence But each year is for all. and
has in abundance riches of good foT
every one They year just closed was
lavish in gifts; the new offers plenty
as great. 1t Is but TO look for it fear
lcssly and the searcher will be re-
warded.
The old was and is not. The new Il
here with It's pOrtcnts. A warm heart
for the year Just dead, and a glad
hand for the une that Is newly born.