Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-01-08


We have not done"
ear nineteen eight IS almost gone,
lore day and another book will be
to make or mar. When you read
rs the first week OF the first month of
nineteen nine viii be gone and the ret
-ospection and introspection OF some o.
us viii be laid away until the next year.
IL is not only the last days OF the year
that AFFECT US there is q sacredness, an
awe about last things. This morning 1
told a friend good bye, so far as we know
1t was the last time that we shall look
into each others face. the last time we
shall hear each others voice or clasp
the hand in friendly greeting. There Is
work for both OF US and the primrose
path OF daIliance" is for neither. And we
must be about the kings business
As / said. we are ever coming TO the
last though We NAV not know IL as well
as We know that this is the last day OF
the year except one. Therefore we should
always have our house in order and our
affairs ready for the summons
SO often I hear OF people going who
have not set their business in order, so
often I look on the folded hands and
marble forehead and regret that more
time had not been spent in so ordering
their affairs that strangers would not
have 10 do ii. II need not be a sad duty,
this setting ones house I'm order II an ac-
eident should befan me the people 1 am
most associated with know just what hos
pital I want to receive me, who TO call
10 minister to my estate il 1 no more can
do 50 and the knowledge that this will
be no haphazard affair. so far as / can
plan for il makes my mind easy. In ia
pan the foreigners. as We were called, had
10 make wills and appoint executors or
everything we had was put up and sold
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there The money was then turned over
10 the nearest relative. but the property
< had to be sold. even ones wearing APP
parel II seemed very foolish. but we
made our wills and that ended it.
Do you remember what st. Paul says
about letting the sun go e1%n on our
= wrath? How about letting this year die
With anger. or scoTn or envy in our hearts
for some OF our fellow men or women?
''Oh. Miss Thomas" said woman TO
me. There is nothing can make me for
give her. She was such disappointment
to me. i trusted her, and she proved so
false"
Dir you ever think what a disappoint-
nnent the best OF us are to God? He
forgives US seventy times seven. Our Sa-
viour sent especially for Peter though
Peter had denied him most vehemently.
Sin hurts the sinner more than the one
sinned against.
There win be sins and faults in the best
days record. but God sees the heart, and
II We have not harbOred evil. IL for all
our enemies as well as our friends there
is good will and a desire TO help them. He
lvvin blot them from his Book of Remem-
arance- God doesn't only forgive but He
blots out the memory. 1 hear some say.
Il can never forget that" Then you
have not entirely forgiven. It's hard. 1
did not say the Lords Prayer for two
weeks. because I did not want my sins
forgiven ''as / fOrgave another" for
was not ready to forgive the injury. the
injustice But strength was given me at
last, and IL win be given you.
IN conclusion. am going to give you
little verse to learn. II a woman who
Is deaf dumb and blind can live such
iife. and she truly does. can not you with
ears for the songs OF the birds. the voices
OF your loved one; eyes to behold the
splendor OF Nature and the faces OF your
loved ones and 10 guide your feet in the
ways you seek as well as store your
minds with the literature of the world;
to say nothing OF speech. that gift, that
blessing bestowed on none other Of his
creatures. Can you not quit complaining?
- CREED OF THE oPTIMIST.
-ss.I believe in God, I believe in man.
believe I'm the power OF the spirit. I be-
lieve il Is a Sacred duty to encourage
QUE Ives and others; TO hold the tongue
from any unhappy word against Gods
world. because no man has any right
to complain OF a universe which God
made good. and which thousands of men
|. have striven TO keep good 1 believe we
I should so act that we may grow nearer
mand more near the age when no man shall
I've at his ease while another suffers. -
Helen Keller
mSsss is a longer Chat than I meant to
Mrs. Crosby. in fact all the
forth special attention. From
rida Is a long way. yet both
II IN this issue. and hope
ember OF the Household
the winter is over.
the peace that passeth
ay be yours through all
Nineteen Hundred and