Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1912-01-25
TRYsTIEG PLACE OF TINE.
Baltimore American:

= Baltimore American:
Il When God gavecommand,nen
! to make the ark he directed tha
0 it should have a mercy seat, Gov
9 cred with the spreading wings Q
cherubim. and declared. "Ther
= will meet thee" What coult
. better symbolic the poiut al
b which the years meet, where th,
old year, bent with the weigh,
> OF sins and the burden of it's sor
: rows, and bringing along with
it the shraves of it's SUCCESSES and
the fruits Of its labors, bows be.
fore the Ancient of Days, while
; the tender New Year fashions
: forth in the first hours of a re.
turning January, with it's hamp.
er upon it's back ready to garner
where the ages Of the past have
sowed. The passing year and
the incoming year await the
blessing of Almighty God. One
calls for ahsolution from errors
and wrongs and yet it is not re-
sponsible for thesa. Time is it.
self holy, and the sins OF the year
are those that that have been
brought into it by man, Yet
the. old year does expiratory
sacrifice in terms OF repentance
and fresh resolutions with which
the New Year is ushered in.
"There will l meet with thee" is
the covenant promise of God.
The trysting place of time is at
the junction of the years. 1t is
then the heart is mrllowed by re
Fiction and the life chas tened by
regrets. Resolutions spring
forth and despite the lightDpss
with which They are oftimes t~at
ed, enduring pledges to the fu.
ture nrp made that that mark
eporhs in the lives ofindlviduals,
The trysting pla"e OF time isalso
the trystine place OF the devine.
The mercy seat il shadowed by
the wings of angles when the old
year bows before the Eternal and
the New Year steps forth to en-.
ter upon its untried labors.
So it is witt, all life. Time gar.
ners in lie field OF 1 he years. Who
,an say what are it's sheayes. ,
Bread sown upon the waters t
comes back after many years. G
He whogoeth forth to SOW with {
weeping returns again rejoicing. /
Life, the conscious appropriation
II the gifts oftime, is made up of
rinmphs and disappointments, v
II losses and gains. Born upon a
he swift fiood.tide OF the years, :
nan g"eth to his long home. "
The years come and go. Some K
axe thought of their past hours n
o ask them what report they "
'ore to heaven. Others do not. h
'ome so number their days as to t'
pply their hearts unto wisdom. /
|thers are like the foolish, who b
o "llndly on and are punished. NJ
What could the world do, what NJ
'ould the lives of men be with. di
ut pauses for contemplation 1
nd reflection, for the humilia- e
ion ol the soul before lts Maker d
nd the assertion OF the eternal
rinciple of new life and love that a
suggested by the incoming of fl,
new year. The mercy seat of b,
cd is established at every point 1,
time where there il q fresh ex.
erience. and, those who have
armed to cast their cares upon
i'm find in Him a present help l,e
time of trouble. Time become >,
lightly evangel when the years ~
Re meeting at the mystical tick hs
the clock ut midnight. The x
'ul OF all serlons persons are 60
owed with reflection upon the ~,
rnity OF time and the insignif- 80,
nee OF mortality. At such a mo -,
ent one finds surging through of
3 sOul the tide of the years.