The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-03-11
GRASP OPPORTUNITIES.
DR.. Ta!mage Says New Year VIII Re
One of the Greatest of
All Time.
The Worlds Normal Condition VIII Be
Reformed.


speaks words OF encouragement 20 all the
tlmld and doubling. The text Is Exodus
XII, 2, This month shall be unto you the
beginning of months; it shall be the FIRST
month of the year to you"
The last month OF the old year has
passed out OF sight, and the first month of
the new years has arrived. The midnight
gate last Wednesday opened and January
entered. She deserves better name, for
she is called after Janus, the heather
deity who, they supposed, presided over
doors, and so might be expected to preside
at the opening of the year. This month
was of old called the wolf month because
through the severity of its weather the
hungry wolves came down seeking food
and devouring human life. In the missals
of the middle ages January was represent
ed as attlred In white, suggestive of the
snow. and blowing the fingers. as though
suffering from the cold and having a bun
die OF wood under the arm, suggestive of
the warmth that must be kindled
Yes, January Is the open door of the
year, and through that door VIII come
whaC long professions, some of them bear
ing PAIN leaves and some myrtle others
with garlands of wheat and others with
cypress and mistletoe. They are coming
and nothing can keep them back-the
events OF twelvemonth. IL will, / think,
be one OF the greatest years of all time
II viii abound with blessing and disaster
National and international controversies
OF momentous import will be settled. Year
OF coronation and dethronement wear that
Will settle CUBAN and Porto Rican and
Phiipplne and South African and Chinese
destlnles. The tamest year for many
decade past has dug its millions of graves
and reared its millions of marriage affairs
we can expect greater events in this
year than ever before for the worlds pop.
ulation has so vastly increased there are
so many more than in any other year 20
laugh and weep and triumph and perish
The NH liter wheels of mechanism have
such wide sweep. The fires are kindled
IN furnaces not seven times but seventy
through the air and sailing the seas and
tunneling the mountains will make unpre.
cedented demonstration.
Would to God that before the now open.
ing year has closed the earth might cease
to tremble with the last caunonade and
the heavens cease to be lighted up with any
more conilagration of homesteads and the
toundrles that make swords be turned
into blacksmith shops for making pillow.
shares.
The front door of a stupendous wear has
opened. Before many of you there will be
twelve months of opportunity for making
the world better or worse, happier or more
miserable. Let us pray that it may be
year that will indicate the speedy redemp.
ton of the hemisphere. Would to God
that this might be the year in which the
three great instruments now chiefly used
Tor secular purposes might be put to their
mightiest use in the worlds evangelical.
ton - the telegraph. the telephone. the
monograph Electricity has such potent
tongue, such strong arm, such swift wing,
such lightning foot, that it occurs to me
that it may be the angel that st. John saw
and heard in apocalyptic vision when he
started back and cried out, 81 saw anoth.
er angel flying in the midst of heaven hav.
ing the everlasting gospel to preach unto
them that dwell on the earth and to every
nation and kindred and tongue and peo-
Pile"
They were tongues of fire that sat on
the heads of the disciples at the Pentecost.
and why not the world called to God by
tongue OF electric fire. Prepare your bat
teries and make ready to put upon the
wires the world wide message of "whoso.
ever will"
Furthermore, this month of January
has the greatest height and depth of cold.
Inc rivers are bound in crystal chains
The fountains that made highest leap in
the summer parks now toss not one Jet,
Tor every drop would be frozen tear.
The sleds craunch through the hard snow.
Warmest attire the wardrobe can afford
is put on that we may defend ourselves
against the fury of the elements Hardest
OF all the months for the poor, let it be
the season of greatest generosity on the
part OF the prosperous. How much a scut-
tie OF coal or a pair of shoes or a coat or a
shawl may do in assuagement of suffering
between the lat of January and the LIST of
PcoIudlN N'ou only KNOWS. seated by our
warm registers or wrapped in furs which
make us Independent Of the cutting Janu-
airy blast, let us not forget the freless
hearth and the thin garments and the
hacking cough and the rheumatic twinQe
OF those who through restitution find life
In winter an agony. Suppose each one OF
us take under charge one poverty stricken
household or one disabled man or one in
vallded woman. On our way home from
such charity, though the wind may be
moving and the night tempestuous, /
should not wonder If we could hear a voice
that was heard on Galilee and at the gates
OF Main and by the pool of Bethesda say
ing inaSmuch as we did it to them, We
Oh, the might Of the coldl The arctic
and antarctic invading the temperate zonel
The victories of the frOst-as when the
Thames IN 1908 became firm as any bridge
and the inhabitants crossed and recrossed
on the ice and booths and places of tenn
porary amusement were built on the hard
epcd surface; as when many wears ago
New \ ork Harbor was paved with ice so
that the people passed on foot to the adj
joining islands. But the fun story of tho
cold will never be known. The lips which
would have told 10 were frozen and che
fingers that would have written IT were
benumbed. Only here and there a fact an
pears. I'm 1901 the cold was So terrific that
the wolves entered Vienna. I'm i6S it was
so cold that wine was cut with hatchcts
..tl-. Ni"t. lllNNtA dIlHI8 tNt hNlOIeTr. IA
l23i whole forest was killed by the cold
at Ravcnun. In 763 the Blacl; Sen was
frozen over. As we go further Iack ihe
tTosts are mighticr but as Wc come fur.
ther down the frOsts lessen
The worst seventies have been halted
and the SHOWS have lost their dcpths. and
the thermometers announce less terrific
fails OF temperature and the time viii
come when the year VIII be- one long sun.
mcr of foliage and bloom While tho
world normal condition win be reformed
tine worst climates viii bc corrected You
could not have q millennium with a Jan
uary blast possible.
DO not read your almanac back ward
DO not go out and ask the trees hung with
iolcles by January storm whether thcv
will ever again blossom in May and leaf
IN June. We are moving toward the
world rs redemption. The frozen tears viii
melt. the river of gladncss will resume it's
How. The crocus viii come up al the edge
OF the suOwbauk, the morning star will
open The door for the day. and the armies
o. the world viii ground arms al around
The world
The january of frost win be abolished.
and tho balm and radiance off a divine at-
mosphoro will hl the nations. M you do
not sec 1t and hear 10 for yourself i think
at the utmost your grandchildren will see
and hear h. The heavens will take pare
nm the conflict between righteousness and
sin, and that win settle 1T. and settle 10
arlRht. and settle 81 forever
In This very month of January 1919 two