The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-04
AN Oil LAW FOR THE NEW YEAR
Terse Comments Upon the Christian
Endeaycr Topic for JANUARY =.
Through This G With God.
Mum. s. 1910.
by WILLIAM Z. ELLIS,

Through This Year with Goa.
Mum. 9:15-23; 1910.
BY WILLIAM I. ELLIS.
Beneath the moonlight and the snow
Lies dead my latest year;
The winter winds are WallinS low
It's dirges in my ear.
| grieye not with the VIM,
AS though a loss befell;
Before me, even as be AND,
God is, and all is we'll
Whittier.
The old year was full OF unexpected
nesses. 1t did not develop as we mao
planned. Somehow, the failures and
~unrealized hopes loom large In grim
ugliness. There are ghosts OF dlsap-
pointments stalking through those
echoing days Of 1909. AS we contain
plate the past, we realize that our
failures were our failures, and not
Gou's. Wherein we did not keep IN
harmony with him, and do the what
soever he would like to have US do
we have come short. We see 1t pIt'nlv
now: if we had let God share more
largely in our lives they Woul have
been more satisfactory to ourselves
and to the world, and sweoter i'll re-
Prospect.
All days are good days if they are
days lived with God.
Time is merely rs much Of eternity
as mortal mind can comprehend.
New Year resolutions are good only
so far as they work revolutions in the
new year.
A sense of The conV gence Of SO
cial problems Expresses the serious
lninded men and women OF today.
They know that the times are growing
more unsettled and critical. The cen
ter of human interest has shifted from
political to social questions. Socialism
itself, in one form or another. is up
and will not be doWned. The old
order changeth" is II of the truest
observations that may be penned con-
corning the present day. Universal
suffrage has leaped forward by prodi-
giouS bounds as an issue to be faced
and dealt with: the twentieth CEN
fury woman Will not permit it to be
ignored. The industrial question has
come to be less one of strikes and ViO-
lence, and more a matter Of socia! II
economic and political reform. No
body with eye to see can deny that
the labor issue is a critical one in our
time. The magnitude OF these prob
lens is Overwhelming. What is the
SOllllO1 HOW are Iney 10 De met F..
Who has the answer? In careful sober
ness it is to be written that our great
est fundamental need is implied in
this present Christian endeaVor topic:
more Of God in our life. A deeper and
more reverent sense of God as q living
reality; a tumble practice of his SOW
ereignty; a realization Of all mems
sonship to him, and their consequent
brotherhood; a loyal recognition Of the
CO crnInacC nf 6iNina l. UT base NO
the answers to the days riddle. Our
need is sinply-God.
They who keep company with God
find themselves in fellowship with all
his other children.
The fear of the Lord will drive all
other fears out Of ones life in the
new year.
AS the dead year is clasped by a
dead December,
So let our dead sins with your dead
days lie.
A new life is yours, and a new hope,
Remember
We build our own ladders to climb to
the Sky.
Stand out in h sunlight Of promise,
forgetting
Whatever your past held Of sorrow
or wrong:
We waste half our strength in a use
less Tegretting,
We sit by the tombs in the dark too
long.
Have o missed in your aim? Well,
the mark is still shining:
Did OF faint in the race? Well. take
breath for the next;
Did the clouds drive you back? But
see yonder their lining:
Were you tempted and faIin Let it
serve for a text.
AS each year hurries by, let it join
that procession
Or skeleton shapes that march down
to the past,
Seven Sentence Sermons.
Live with wolves and YOU will learn
70 howl.-Spanish Proverb.