Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-31
Sunday Morning Talk.
The Tag End of the Year.

The year is running emptings," as New
England farmers sometimes say. Only a
fragment of the precious 365 days remains.
They seemed SO many and fraught with
such delicious possibilities when we entered
upon them twelve months ago, but 10,
they are not and now come the sermons on
the swift fight of time, and the editorial
summaries of what has made 1905 notable
year.
And yet how some of us do hold on even
to this fag end of the yeari How loath we
are to let it go! 1t is partly because we are
so uncertain of the future and dislike to see
the years piling up. and our lives so largely
spent. And some of us dislike TO let go be-
cause 1905 Will be forever associated in our
minds with peculiar joys. 1t has marked
the entrance upon a new relationship which
has opened the doors of paradise to U.S. 1t
has been our most prosperous year thus far
1t has afforded us some pleasures UNI
dreamed of at the opening of the year,
Dear 1905, how we hate to part with 1t
this blessed year, There will never be an
other quite like 1t.
Quite different is the mood of others of
us, who can hardly wait for the sands in
the hour-glass to slip. out, for the sandle
to burn to the socket. The sooner 1905 goes
the better alas. 1t has been year of sor-
row and trouble. of hard experiences which
we never anticipated twelve months ago.
We look back upon long: prostrating III,
ness. an unexpected blow from a supposed
friend a sudden reversal of business, a
disastrous business connection, the loss OF
property and social standing. the estrange-
ment of those once loved and trusted and
other evils and crosses, the memory of
which embitters and Anglers us as we think
them over. Hurry along 1905, We say,
thou canst not go q moment too soon we
wish to be forever rid of thee and all thy
associations. Would that we had the power
to speed the flight of the few hours that
are left"
But is this hardly just to the present
moment? Ought ignore despiSe
even the remnants of disagreeable year?
Is 1t not possible to bring the year to a
glorious conclusion, instead of letting Its
later moments be frittered or mourned
able than time, even the flag end of year.
It Is sufficiently ample period for profit
able determination. for frank facing of
personal mistakes and shortcomings. for
self dedication to the good, the true and
the beautiful.
Even IL the year has been a tough one,
why not think down to the meaning of the
troubles. and count up the causes for thank
wrecks of hope that which will enable you
to build more wisely in the future. You
have had much sunshine as well as cloud,
health as well as sickness, satisfactions as
well as irrftations. Above all. your life still
renal to you, life with which God still
intends to do something II you will only
let Him. and the hard things against which
you rebel today may be the tokens of His
gracious intentions. Jerry McCauley, the
fan Gus slum convert in New York city, who
himself rescued SO many men from lives OF
Lord long while to trust Jerry. but now
he gives him everything he wants. 1t may
be that you have not yet reached that attt-
tude of heart and mind which permits the
So, standing at the place where the years
meet we saw goodbye to 1905. this won
derful year in the worlds life. this year Of
concluded peace between warning nations