Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-01-03

For when the heart takes courage. lsse
And trust is joined to prayer. gsys
Then life itself is beautiful. =sfs ssssss- !
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New Year Reveries. 'H sf7
The days, weeks and years slip a.
way like water in q running stream.
Times great clock never loses mo
ment. Relentlessly, surely the mo
ments pass, and our eager hands are
not able to detain them. We cannot
keep back the flying years, but we
can and should keep the blessings
they bring. Hold fast 10 the lessons
they have taught. Keep the memory
of their joys. Enrich every day of life
with the garncred wealth of the days
behind. The years pass, but they
leave their treasure with US, il our.
hands and heart are open to receive
them, so as with one hand we shake
farewell to 1907 letus stretch out the
other hand to warmly greet and well
come 1908
May every dav be royal possession
To high born purpose and steadfast aim
And every hour in It's swift progression
Make life more worthy than when 1t came
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Renewed feelings of ambition are
synonymous with the opening of the
New Year. More resolutions are
made than at any other time, and as
often are they alas! broken. But with
some the resolutions made with the
dawn of a new year have been carried
through to it's close. Numerous lives
of honor and achievement can. be
traced to some determination of pur-
pose made upon an occasion such as
the first day of the year affords for a
fresh start in the journey of life. We
all desire success; the problem of life
is its winning. Every person carries
in his or her own hand the key that
unlocks either the door of success or
| failure. The true key of success is la
Dor, and it requires strong, reso-
lutte will to turn It, 1t is hard. earn
est work, step by step, that insures
success, and never was this truth
more potent than at the present
time. Positions of trust and eminence
are no longer secured at a single
leap. Man and women have ceased to
succeed in hurry. The secret of
many successful careers is the thor
ough performance of whatever has
been undertaken.
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At tire beginning of a glad New
Year it is we'll to remember that
some of the best things in life can be
stored up only by the generosity
which gives, asking for nothing a.
gain. Such are warm affection, kind
feelings, benevolent dispositions. Ev-
cry service willingly rendered, every
help gladly given, every effort to en-
courage the disheartened, to teach
the ignorant, to lift the fallen, not
only perform their intended work but.
even more surely react upon the doer
they may or may not bring him the
love, respect and gratitude OF those
he befriends, but they win infallibley
bring brightness and sweetness into
his own heart. increasing his desire
and strengthening his power odo
good, and storing upaswithin him
those dispositions which cannot fail
to bless him while enabling him to
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We would have power In 1908 to brighten
| Each lot less blessed and fair than ours;
The woe to heal and the load to tighten.
The waste soul garden to plant with flowers.
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In theory, the exchange of New
Year calls and Christmas gifts is
beautiful custom. The holidays is a
time when kindly feelings and un1ver-
sal good prompt a general mani
festation of regard in the exchange of
calls and presents. It's the friendship
expressed in the act that is valued
The cause and not the effect occasions
the pleasure. All look forward to the
happy holiday times when each is
gladdened, and in turn, makes 9TH
ers glad by tokens of honest regard
and friendly feeling. The world fairly
beams with good cheer. sH ve-sse
New hope for the souls long clouded over
With possible sorrow and actual pain;
New joys for comrade. and friend and lover
The year is bringing them oil again.
In starting out upon the journey
of new year an excellent maxim is
that which couHsels US never to put
our hands to anything into which we
can not throw our whole energies
hsrnessed with the very best Of our
endeavor-. Perseverance, is essential
tosnccess, since 1T is often achieved
only through succession of failures.
In spite of our best efforts, failures