The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-12-31
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hresnold of time. one finds ample
material for reflection. for RETROSPECT
ion and for prophecy. As TIE pc
Rod forms an epoch in inc, calendar
If time it also marks pivot in the
ife Of men and women and in The
age OF progress or decay of nations
M Of states. Those who are today
breathing the pure atmosphere Of
his dying day-this dying year. Viii
not prolong TIE lease of life sufficient
" 70 live in another wit'i more rad;-
ance. with more sunshine and with
more flowers to breath their fra
GRANGE No tenderer hands will min
lister to thy brow when anguish
wreaths it in her meTciless grasp
TIE birds viii not sing sweeter,
southern skies will not shine more
beautifully blue nor will holier inspi-
! rations come from whence all bene-
| dictions find their refining fires! In
this old year the dying embers of
which, are today in silent tread,
crossing into the fathomless past,
into whose boundess eXpanse are
! ti4i vi bht theNb iAf%
! ROO edcd r. Mothers have poured
OFT their rove rs divinely as they
/ VII lave done in all the years to
come. Fraternity as ! cen as loy3i
20 its nreceuts and friendship, tender
and trne. immeasmablc rs the sky,
as Blended itself il as beautiful
faa i'm into the very weop OF IS
MANY lives!
sad surely II Is net within the rift
Of he scnIgto~ TO carve from purest
.aarf'e 'rith Ell Of the insprationa
Of a poets helrt, sd@h women rs
have served to grace the year we bid
farewell, wEen IT, glorious sun Of
This day shall have plowed its way
THROUGH the azEe hues Of the west
err SKY. Could the lover find IS
many star-lit nights, as have been
gouc safed 70 Vim in the past snort
twelve months that have now winged
their flight to past, as trackless as
is the path OF those same stars? II
busy fancy blending with multiplied
years could work it's marvels, what
loftier degree of duty, the boast Ut
all good men and women, whose pa.
| triotism has lit the welkin dome
could be produced? Keeping pace
with all the gifts of the dead year
has been the one real light that
shines out from the very gates Of
I Bethlehem and the Sermon on the
| Mount has been given to the world
by deeply imbued emissaries whose
very lives have heen sacrificed upon
j this sacred and soul-refining altar o.
love-duty- Christianity
In short, it seems to us that the
old year has been all that SIC could
be-yielding, indulgent and tolerant
of L q frailties of nature. To the ar
eicted she has brought balm, ant
into dark places the light of her sun
shine has penetrated. Size will no
come this way again and in pawn:
: tonnage to her visitation we are II
! minded of those sweet lines Of Hol
en- Hunt Jackson:
IF u CAN LIVE.
. TO make some pale face brighter
vi and to give
y A second luster to some tear-dlmme
eye,
Or cen impart
q One thro0 of comfort to an acnin
l. heart,
Ii Or cheer some wayworn soul IN pas
9ri ing by.
If can lend
A strong hand to the fallen or defen
% The right against a single 'envio2
"a strain
il MY life, though ba.',
r Perhaps of much that seemeth dea
L and fair
70 us Of earth. will not have Ice
in vain.
a. The purest joy,
5 Most near TO heaven, far from earth
Z. alloy.
= Is bidding cloud sive way to sun az
) shine;
And twill be well,
II on that day of days the angel
= tell
t or me, she did her best for one o
:. Thine"
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