The Colorado statesman., 1908-12-26

into the life of things" How many
rose of morning and ripe fruit of the
golden noon shall then return to him
the science of life, which permits no
lost good, nor wasted atom even, in all
creations bounds, may gloriously de-
clare. Where are the SHOWS of yes
teryear?" whispers the tender poet,
but the green of spring and the bloom
of summer are natures answer to his
yearning cry.
And shall man be less blessed than
nature in garnering the treasures of
the year? Is that evil genius, that the.
ancients beheld standing at the door
of the new year, forever to give lethe
to drink that he may wander blindly
into the unknown way, shorn of the
best boons and talismans of the past?
All, the poets who try life and love
know better.
Each new year is leaf of our loves
rose;
1t falls, but quick another rose leaf
grows
So is the flower from year to year the
same,
But riches, for the dead leaves feed the
flame.
Thus they read the riddle and the
"million-centuried" sweetness that
goes with it to-day. Neither is man
drugged by any god or genius but the
one within him, that he may tell no
tales" and carry no tokens from the
departing year. What he tells to
cheer or depress his comrades, what
he carries to help or hinder both them
and himself, is in the power of his
own open-eyed choice. Perhaps the
best hint that was ever offered to
guide him is the brief and pointed one
given by the sage, when he writes:
"A man should make life and nature
happier to us, or he had better never
been born" 1t is the one pre-eminent-
ly in the air at the present moment.
1t would fill all the newspapers in the
land and drive the quotation a bhorring
editors mad if one-quarter of the stout
maxims of this nature which the times
offer should demand place in their col
umns. Already their humorous writ
ers are trying to demoralize them and
send some of the cheerful and cheer
ing-up people over to his Satanic
majesty, where no doubt they are
needed since the dry season set in.
Life's Logic Quaint.
If there be such a Satanic monarch,
probably he loves the cheerful sinner
just as heaven must love the cheerful
saint. Yet the logic of life is against
him. The smile is not legitimately the
devils sign. 1t is the pessimist who
is playing into his hands, treating his
sovereignty as if it could overthrow
heavens and all the power of the
Eternal Goodness. To act as If they
had faith worth smiling over would
seem to be the altitude of men who
believed in a sovereign of love and
omnipotence rather than one of NAL
evidence and black arts, and 1t may
be that the Christian world is at last
finding it out. Certainly the Gospel
evangel Rejoice, rejoice!" is sound
ing anew through all the realms of
Christendom and becoming a part of
culture and philosophy every
where. Fuller's counsel: BE
happy in the present moment
and put not off being SO to
time to come,
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