The age-herald., 1902-01-19

and did half their work through the help Of those of whom we know little or notn- ing. Lord Herschel is known all tne world over and will be known through all time, but little is said of her who was born this first month of the year ana without whose help he never could nave been what he was-hs sister, Caroline Luoretia Augusta. She helped him hunt the worlds. She repaired and adjusted his telescopes She cyphered out his as- tronomical problems She was his aman- uensis. She planned for him his work She discovered seven comets and made "A Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Gus ters." The month of January introduced her to the observatories, but she has never been properly introduced to the world.
 Preparing for the Future.
 According to my text 'This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you" Through it make prep aration for the other eleven months. What you are in January you will prob able in all the other months of the year. Prepare for them neither by apprehension nor too sanguine anticipation. Apprehen- sion of misfortune will only deplete your body and gloom your soul and unfN you for any trouble that may come. On the other hand, if you expect too much, dis appointment will be yours. Cultivate faith in God and the feeling that he will do for you that which is best, and you will be ready for either sunshine or shadow. The other eleven months of the year 1902 will not all be made up of gladness or of grief. Tne cup that is all made up of sweetness Is insipid.
 5sYcf year and the closing of those gates there will be many times when you will want God. You will have questions to decide which will need supernatural impulse. There may be Illnesses of the body or per- plexities of mind or spiritual eXhaustions to be healed and comforted and strength ened. During the remaining twenty-six days of this month lay in supply of faith and hope and courage for all the days of the eleven months. Start right, and you will be apt to keep right. Before the ship captain gets out of the New York Narrows he makes up his mind what sea route he will take. While you are in the Narrows of this month make up your mind which way you will sail and enroll your chart and set your com pass and have the llfeboats well placed on the davits and be ready for smooth voy- age all the way across or the swoop of Caribbean WhirlW1nd.
 The Monster Abomination.
 Rev. Solomon spaulding was for some time in poor health, and to while away the time he wrote a preposterous relig- ious romance. One Joseph Smith some how got hold of that book before it was printed and published it as 8 revelation of heaven. calling it the Book of Mor- mon" and from that publication came Mormonism, the monster abomination of the earth. Rev Solomon Spaulding might have been better engaged than writing that book of falsehoods. However much time we have we never have time to do wrong. Harness January for usefulness, and it will take the following months in its train. Oh, how much you may do for God between now and the 31st of next December! The beautiful weeping will low tree was introduced by Alexander Pope into England from a twig which the poet found in Turkish basket of figs. He planted that twig and from it came all the weeping. willows of England and America; and your smallest planting of good may under God become an influence continental and international.
 Now that the train of months has start ed, let it pass January followed by Feb ruary, with long days and March, with its fierce winds; and April. with it's sud- Qen SnOWerS, ana May, With US DlOSSOm- ing orchards; and June. with its carnival of flowers; and July, with it's harvests; and August, with it's sweltering heats; and September, with it's drifting leaves; and October, with Its frosts; and Novem- Der, with it's Thanksgiving scenes and December, with it's Christian hilarities. March on, O battalion of the months, in the regiments of the years and the brig ades of the centuries! March on and join the months and years and centuries already passed until all the rivers of time have emptied in to the ocean of enterni- ty, but none of all the hosts ought to render higher thanks to God or take larger comfort or make more magnificent resolve than this the first month of the new year.
 But what fleet foot hath the months and yearsl People lightly talk about how they kill time. Alas, it dies soon enough without killing. And the longer we live the swifter it goes William c. Bryant said an old friend of his declared that the going of time is like the drumming of the partridge or muffled grouse in the woods. falling slow and distinct at first and then following each other more and more rapidly till the end at last in whiring sound. But Dr. Young, speaking of the value of time startingly exclaimed Ask deathbeds!''