The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-01-20
How to Oct n fresh Start.

The closing year breaches its own ser.
mon. Many texts from the pages OF the
last twelvemonth memoir offers. and con
science applies them with pointedness. a
power and particularly that no human
pulpit ever equals. As memory turns the
leaves, pausing now with smile to re.read
this, or lingering over that page stained
with tears, how strange 1t all seems that
this atmosphere which we so lately
breathed has now become a part OF the
irrevocable past! We look back, and the
point where memory seems to touch the
quick as we look is that we shall never pass
that way again All. says conscience. how
much OF good that YOU might have done as
you passed rsrough that year has been left
nndone; how many kind and cheering
words might have been said that '.ere not
the thirsty child. that cried. how easy to
have gwen 1t cup OF cold water. and it
went sobbing away: the old man who fell
away back there. after staggering along in
the heat under his heavy load, how little it
would have been for YOU to have carried
1t awhile for him, and YOU did not per-
haps he might not have fallen, and hard
est OF all, that dear one of your own who
lay down to rest so suddenly; oh, how
many. many things you would have done
Tor him IT You had only known he was so
soon to die All these and many more
memory leads By in review. The lesson
from them all is. let the new year be bet
ter than the old brighter, happier, holier
for all around me and for myself; for /
pass this way but once.
And so we have fallen into the habit at
these mile posts of the years of putting on
record set of new resolutions-poor fee
bie things, many of them, that lie broken
behind us as we make our way through
them to the next years account.
What is the fault with all our resolves
and why are the leaves that we turn over
invariably as soied and blotted. while the
still tbn hot
The majority of us have tried honestly
every year since we have taken Christ az
our guide to put off the old man. This
odd man." with his lying tongue. with his
corruption and deceit and thevery, his an.
ger and his laziness, is not pleasant char
long to be free from it. And vet our at.
tempts to do away with him are so often
vain. Why?
Is it not because in putting off the old
man we have forgotten to put on the new?
We are to put on Christ Jesus, and that we
have forgotten to do. We are to let Him
live in us, Just as if He came to earth again
and grew to years in our body :Istead of
His own. When we go about the house we
are to remember that it is Jesus Christ
that is to do the work this morning, and
u we remember that, now thoroughly will
It be done, and how will the humble work
be glorItied! And when we meet the
neighbor upon the street who is thinking
OF buying our old horse we will tell him
plainly about that limp he has and not
seek to hide it. as we had intended, because
that is what Jesus would do. For we are
members Of one another. and lying to an.
other is lying to ourselves. And as we
come ont of church next Sabbath and meet
upon the steps the man who mas spoken
shghtingly OF us, we shall not turn away
and pretend not to see him, for we shall
have to remember that we have put on
Christ Jesus. and we must be tender heart
ed, torgiving one another. "even as God
for Christs sake hath forgiven you"
There. is something wistful and pleading
about these words of Scripture. recopniz.
ing all the evil that is in US and appealing
to the possibilities of good. Yet Paul has
put his FINGER boldly upon the source OF all
our trouble, and tries to show that there
is only one way in which we may take a
fresh start with any hope of keeping on
that way, and that is by putting on ''the
new man"-Christ Jesus.-Grace Living.
ston Hill, in the New York Mail and Ex.
press.