The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
BISHOP LlNES'S
NEW YEARS
At Trinity Church Tells
Hearers How They May
Make Gcod Records.

With the words of Pontius PLATE.
What I have written, 1 have written
as his text, Bishop Edwin S.. Lines de-
livered an eloquent exhortation for a
purer and better life during the new
year at the Trinity Episcopal Church
vest erday morning. In part, he said:
There seems something hopeless and
pitiful in this application of the text. SO
Few years are TO use; there are SO few in
which to work that the misuse of them,
their waste, is ~lrreparable. We feel help
less and hopeless as regards the lays
which come not back. They have gone
and we annot make them any better or
undo what was wrong in them. The
memory OF misuse or waste of time Is IN
t~olerable. And sometimes the feeling
comes hat because 80 much has cope 70
that there Is NJ use OF trying to make
up for what Is lost.
What Is written stands against us and
other page OF the same kind may as well
follow. That Is no Christian way of thinks
ing. The religion Of the Christ never
leaves one hopeless or despondent II re-
never dies. OF course. wasted days ana
years cannot be recalled; misconduct can
not be treated as il 1t had not been. The
harvest of evil living must be reaped.,
"But there is no part of a mans record so
bad but 1t may. by repentance and amend
ment, be made to stand RIO more agalnst
u man IL lS GhG BhOlJ "
that it never leaves a man IN despair.
that 1t always has a message OF hope 1or
him; that the way TO make up Tor the
sThe Judgment of God upon you Is not
arbitrary, but according to laW ana by
principles which you can well understand.
What you have written against yourself,
not what another person has written, Will
make the ground of the Judgment upon
you. 1t becomes you to see TO ~ tnat
you make up a record wnbch you dGaauu
When all actions shall be known and the
thoughts of all hearts shall be revealed;
This, then, is the rule by when a gooo
life is to be made out Of good days-let a
man begin each day by asking Gods bless
ing upon himself and those bound to him.
Let him pray to be kept from evil. Let
him ask grace to do his Work, TO act anu
to think as in Gods sight.
'"rhen let a man try to live as in the
presence of the great God, just, mercitui,
pure, faithful in his place.
when the day is gone and the time
10 rest comes, let a man think over the
day asking himself what wrong or mean
words he has spoken, what unworthy
thoughts or purposes he has cherished,
and then let him ask God to pardon what
was amiss and to give strength to correct
TITS a very simple rule for a good life,
and no man who~folows it is likely to
come short of a good life. No man who
so begins, spends and ends the days, need
have fear Of being ashamed to say when
he hands In his final account: What 1
have written I have written
What we have written, we have writ
ten. But the time of writing Is not past
and what is written that is III may be fol-
owe by writing that is good, I And so I
turn towards the future and ask you wiat
you are going to write upon the new pages
which ale turned with the days of the
new year.
IT wish for all Of you a Happy New
Year and the grace to write nothing In
the year 1903 that you wish plotted out.
was partaken OF by nearly 200
people. 1t was administered by the, Rev.
Louis Shreve Osborne, rector Of the
church, ard the Rev. William T. Upton,
assistant rector.