The Carlisle independent., 1907-12-26

w Iln dil ulS ldutbS WS hlOW Dlli EOI what he was and the new year is as yet a stranger to us.
 We can hope and believe that all good things will come with him, but let us avoid the hackneyed congratu- lation on the passing of a twelve month that probably treated us better than we deserved.
 The dawning of another January is invariably the time for what are called good resolutions" which translate themselves into rash promises, usually broken before the new year is we'll un- der way.
 That was the old-fashioned way of expressing an inclination to reform ones bad habits and people kept on from youth to old age making these good resolutions every 31st of Decem- Der, finding themselves each year fur ther from perfection than ever.
 Good resolutions are not so preva- lent, or at least not so noisy as they used to be at this time.
 They have become popular material for the comic papers and everybody knows what a joke they are.
 Nevertheless, the close of year is a capital time for look back, retro spect in which we can see the faults that are on the mend with us, or the ones that have persevered and grown stronger.
 Maybe some new tendency has
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 At all events if we are able to get a new view of our characters as though searchlight had been thrown in on our souls, we are in a fair way to improve.
 It is only when we blindly consider ourselves as right in everything that we are all wrong.
 It is only when we blindly consider ourselves as right in everything that we are all wrong.
 So if your look back shows you mis- takes and errors and misbeliefs, be glad that the New Year gives you a clean slate to try for the right road and the true goal.
 Be thankful for the mental perspec- tive when you see it with clear sight with new true eyes.
 There is no need of making resolu- tions, for right seeing means right thinking and right thinking is the path to right living.
 Perhaps your faults are those mean little ones which you would like to exchange in bunch for one noble sin, but there are no exchanges of that sort or we should all be noble sinners.
 The petty faults are the thorns that cluster round some of the finest roses in life's big garden, crowding, jarring, overlapping one another in their eager ness to get to the light.
 Maybe the old year has been a good friend in some special instances that you can recall.
 Perhaps it brought you back with a short, sharp shock from a too arro- gant happiness or an oyerconfident sue cess.
 Be glad of that jar, even though it kept you stirred mp for awhile.
 Perhaps the past 12 months have healed some breach or brought some ship home, the white sails of which you have been watching wistfully for months or years far out at sea.
 Be glad of that.
 Perhaps some millstone has fallen from you and you stand free at last on the great highway with long, manacled arms reached out to the sky.
 Be glad!
 Or peace has settled on a troubled ocean and you can greet the sunrise with a smile and prayer of thankful ness for another day.
 Maybe there is a cradle in one cor ner of your home this New Years eve with a most important guest cuddled in down blankets and rose-leaf palms upturned for your kisses.
 No need to tell you to be glad
 Or success has come to crown some effort at which you have toiled rather wearily, hardly daring to hope.
 Or if it has been withheld, be glad that you have nevertheless tried. It will all come to you some day
 The old year has taught us lessons.
 Let us profit by them and enter into the new armed with experience rather