The Washington weekly post., 1900-12-25

NO. Are you expecting the millennium.
this year, NO Why, then. say -
about the coming year,
For TIE simple reason that 7 find az
the years go by they become more and
more eventful. Compare this nineteent h
century with the eighteenth century. Com
pare the first half of this century With
the last half. The surges OF this ocean
OF time are rolling higher and higher Tbs
forces OF right and wrong are rapidly
multiplying, and their struggles must be
Intensified. II IS a chronological fact that
we are all the time coming nearer to the
worlds Edenization first, and then 90 It's
incineratiOn. TO its redemption. and It's
demolition. And so | expect that 1901 will
be greater year than 1900. It's wedding
bells will be merrier It's obsequies Will
be sadder. Its scientific discoveries mors
brilliant. It's properties more signidcanS
Its opening more grand. Its terninatlo.
more stupendouS. i
Make the Most Of the Holidays. /
Let the conservatories have profusloA
Of flowers that can be twisted into garf
lands. Let churches have plenty Of roonl
for increased assembIages. Let men and
women have more religion to meet tht
vacillations and the eXigencies and thf
demands and the raptures and the woesI
OF this coming 1901. In what mood shall
we open the door Of the New Year? Vital
faith, strong faith buoyant faith tri- i
umphant faith. God will see you through
His grace will be sufficient II you trustI
Him. You can 20 TO Him at any time and
find sympathy. My little child got hurIj
one morning during her mothers ab1
sence. We looked after the case as vel
as We could. Toward night her motherI
returned, and for the first time the chill
cried and cried vociierously Some onel
said to her, What do you cry for? YauI
did not cry all day Her reply was
There was no one to cry to- And so yOuI
sometimes suppress your trouble becaustt I
there is no full resource of earthly sym1
pathy. But / rejoice TO tell you that I'D
God you always have some one 10 cry tOI
He will condole and help In every cris
Come, now, let US unstrap that knapsacS ]
of care from your shoulders. Come pros,
perity or adversely, come wedding &
burial, come health or sickness, come ND
or death, come time or eternity. All
well! AlPs well!
Thus in three chapters I have counseiI
ed that all the ten holidays be grouped.
May nothing interfere with their felci1
ties. May they be SO spent that they wilt
be food for pleasant "reminiscences farther
on. You know that after a while the oil.
homestead will be broken up. For yeari
and years the children come home "a
spend the holidays and the house Is rum
aged from garnet 10 cellar and the scebel
OF childhood are rehearsed, and we laugh
till the tears come as we talk over sOms
boyish or sirlish freak, or cry over somq
old troubled ended, but the heart swingl
back again to mirth, for it does not tax ]
nall second for a tear OF the eye 4
strike the smile OF the lip.
In Eysriasting Festival.
For a few years the grandchlldret'
make the holidays merry. One Of liz!
many uses of grandchildren IS to keep ols 4
folks young. Then after a few yearf
the annual gathering at the old honot
stead is half broken up, for father d
mother Is gone. About two years aftet
the other half Of the season is broke
up. Then the old house goes INTO the pos
session OF strangers, and the sons AM
daughters by that time. have homes 4
their own. They plant their Christmat
trees. and hang up their own childrent
stockings, and twine their own holly aht
mistletoe. and have their own good timsi
They viii perhaps be riding out on somt
OF those holidays either in sleigh or earl
rlage twenty or thirty years from no1
along the places where We slumber thf
last sleep. and may we have been so eohI
siderate and sympathetic in our demeanI
or toward them now that they will thef
say one TO another. as they pass the 81
lent mounds OF the village graveyard 4
city cemetery: There rest as kind ~
ther and as kind a mother al ever WIsit
ed their children Merry Christmas or 4
Happy New Year
Meanwhile, We their parents am
grandparents will, I hope. through q
atOnement Of our blessed Lord, be keeiS
ing holidays Iiveller and higher up,
the presence OF the Christ, whose Dirtz
the earthly Christmas ejmmemoratas, ar
az the Ancient Of Days who saw the m
,,ear ooen and will see the last ye
close In cOmpanl0nsnip with the eve
o5ide1ina circle OF heavenly kindred, usai
already there and many soon 10 CON
ana me tables Of that festivity VIII puiE
ne .Ifh the grapes Of EschOl. and Tedd s
pp,ith .tbe new vine OF the Kingdom 90
gIovy with twelve manner Of fruits 70
the trees OF life. and the gifts OF mo
holIAavg will be- mansions anf thf"Hs
and crowns Of glory that never iddt a." ~
on that these delightful holidays OF ear
NAV M % for those more deilghltIl h'.
daYg Of heaven May VS. al be theIt a4f
"a and blest through the birth anu ace,
OF Him who was the son OF May O."
the Son OF Cod"