The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-01-04
New Year Reveries.

New Year Reveries.
The days, weeks and years slip
away like water in a running stream.
Times great clocN never loses a mo-
ment. RelentleSSiy, surely the mo-
ments pass, and our eagSr 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 to the lesson
they have taught. Keep the memory
of their joys. Enrich every day of
life with the ~garnered wealth of the
days behind. The years pass, but
they leave their treasure with US, il
our hands and heart are open to re-
ceive them, so as with n hand We
shake farewell to 1907 let us stretch
out the other hand to warmly greet
and welcome 1908.
May every day be royal possession
To high-born purpose and ~steadfast aim,
And every hour in it's swift progression
Make life more worthy than when it came.
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 its close. Numer-
Gus lives or honor ano achievement
can be traced to some determination
of purpose 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 unlccks either the door OF success
or failure. The true key of success
is labor, and it requires a 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.
Men and women have ceased to sue
coed in a hurry. The secret of many
successful careers is the thorough
performance OF whatever has been
undertaken.
At the 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 again. Such are
warm affections, kind feelings, benev-
olent dispositions. Every service
willingly rendered, every help gladly
given, every effort to encourage the
disheartened. to teach the ignorant,
to lift the fallen, not only perform
their intended work but even more
surely react uponIthe doer; they may
or may not bring him the love, 1e-
Spect and gratitude Of thoSe'he be-
friends, but they will infallibiy bring
brightness and sweetness into his
own heart, increasing his desire and
strengthening his power to do good,
and storing up within hin those dis
positions which cannot fail to bless
him while enabling him to bless
Others.
We would have power in 1908 to brighten
Edcn lot less D1eSSeu auu 1alf IMAM OurSs
The woe to heal and the load to tighten,
The waste soul garden to plant with flow
ers,
In theory, the exchange of New
Year calls and Christmas gifts is a
beautiful custom. The holiday is
time when kindly feelings and unver-
sal goodwill prompt a general mani
feStation Of regard in the exchange Of
calls and presents. 1t is the friend
ship expressed in the act that is val
ued. The cause and not the effect
occasions the pleasure. All look for
ward to the happy holiday times when
each is gladdened, and, in turn,
makes others glad by tokens of honest
regard and friendly feeling. The!
world fairly beams with good cheer!
New hope for the souls long clouded over :,
Wit possible sorrows and actual pain;
New joys for comrade, aud friend, and n
lover +
The year Is bringing them all again.
IL ot0iuihS Ohu uPOn UlC JOuluSy
of a new year an excellent maxim is
that which counSels us never to put
our hands to any thing into which we
cannot throw u whole energies har-
messed with the very best of our en-
beavers. Perseverance is essential to
success, since it is often achieved only
through a succession Of failures. In
spite of our best efforts, failures are
In store for the majority OF the race.
It remains, then, for us all to do the J
best we can under all circumstances, !
bearing in mind that races are not al
Ways won by the sTiftest feet nor
triumph in battle secured by the
,trongest arms. 1t is not SO much
he possession Of swiftneSS or strength s.
S it is the right application Of them
y which success is insured: