Newport weekly independent., 1902-01-10
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Do not read your almanac backward Do not go out and ask the trees hung with icicles by January storm whether they will ever again blossom in May and leaf in June. We are moving to- ward the worlds redemption. The frozen tears will melt, the river of gladness will resume it's flow, the cro- GUS will come up at the edge of the snowbank, the morning star will open the door for the day, and the armies of the world will ground arms" all around the world. The January of frost will be abolished, and the balm and radiance of divine atmosphere will fill the nations. If you do not see it and hear it for yourself, think at the utmost your grandchildren will see and hear it. The heavens will take part in the conflict between righteous ness and sin, and that will settle it, ever.
 But January, like all the other months of the year, has had it's sad nesses and it's disasters. During the month died Linnaeus, the botanist of Sweden and the world, who called the roll of the flowers and shrubs and trees, putting them into companies and call- ing them by their names, his beautiful statue standing in park at Stockholm, a rose in bronze held in his right hand. During this month expired Francis Ba- con, and Garrick and Galilei, and Louis VI, and William Pitt, and Francis Jef- frey of the immortal pen, and Disraeli the first, and Edward Everett, and Bruce, and Catiline. In this month died Peter the Great, the man of whom it was written: He gave polish to his people and was himself a savage. He taught them the art of warfare, of which he himself was ignorant. From the sight of a small boat on the river Moskwa he erected powerful fleet, making himself an expert and active shlpwright, sailor, pilot and command CT. He changed the manners, customs and laws of the Russians and lives in their memory as the father of his coun- try
 But cannot read the epitaphs of one out of hundred illustrious graves in this first month of the year. Many of those well known gained half their re- nown and did half their work through the help of those of whom we know little or nothing. Lord Herschel is known all the world over and will be known through all time, but little is said of her who was born this first month of the year and without whose help he never could have been what he was-his sister, Caroline Lucretia Au- gusta. She helped him hunt the worlds. scopes. She ciphered out his astronom- ical problems. She was his amanuen- sis. She planned for him his work She discovered seven comets and made "A Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters" The month of January in- troduced her to the observatories but she has never been properly introduced to the world.
 According 10 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 preparation for the other Il months. What you are in January you will probably be in all the other months of the year. Prepare for them neither by the apprehension nor too sanguine anticipation. Apprehension of mis- fortune will only deplete your body and gloom your soul and unfit 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 Il months of the year 1902 will not all be made up of giadness or of grief The cup that is all made up of sweetness is insipid.
 Between these just opened gates of the 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 perplexities of mind or spir- itual exhaustions to be healed and comforted and strengthened. During the remaining 26 days of this month lay in a supply of faith and hope and courage for all the days of the Il months. Start right and you will be apt to keep right. Before the ship cap tain gets out of the New York Narrows he will make up his mind what sea the Narrows of this month make up