Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1915-12-24
TO-DAY AND THE NEW YEAR,
AN INSPIRING EDITORIAL BY DR..
FRANK CRANE.

AN INSPIRING EDITORIAL BY DR..
FRANK CRANE.
Quoted from PICTORIAL
REVIEW, January 1850
The best thing you have in
t this world is TODAY. Here 1t is,
a wonderful treasure, a marvel
Gus jewel. It's yours, all yours.
It's in your llaads. What are
you going to do with it ?
To-day is your savior; it is
o;ten crucified between tw.
thieves, Yesterday and To-mor-
row.
To-day you can be happy, net
esterday nor tomorrow. Thert
is no happiness except To-day's
Most of our misery is left over
from yesterday or borrowed from
tomorrow. Keep to day clean.
Make up your mind to enjoy
your food, your work, your play,
To-day nyhow.
Time is not divided into three
parts, past, present, and future.
T iere is only one real time it
is Now.
You can Go anything, if you |
only go at it a day at a time.
If you're bereaved, betrayed,
i,eart-broken, take a day off.
OIe day will not matter. To-
day put away your fostering
thoughts. To-day take some
simple joys. To-day be a little
happy in the sunshine. You car
do it. It's the burden of the
coming days, weeks, years, that
brushes US. The present is al
ways tolerable.
Whoever planned this life of
ours did we'll in giving it to us
one day at a time. We don't
have to live it all at once, thanks
be +! We've only got to ge;
through till bedtime.
And at the end of every day
we are bathed in death. In sleep
We go back to our original
notllingness. Every morning
We are born again.
Why let life Cypress you? You
don't have to live your life, only
a day of it. Come, let's finish
our small task manfully. It's
not long.
Don't let life mass agains. you.
Attack it in detail and you can
easily triumph.
"Ol, but can't help thinking
f the Past. And one must plar
Tor the Future"
To be sure. Only forget not
that it is not the Past that de-
termines the Present it is the
Present that determines the
Past.
The Past is what we make Of
it. 1t is the temper of the Pres
eut that qualities it. It all de
ponds upon how you now con-
slider it. whether it bring you de-
spair or encouragement.
Suck out its wisdom, keep its
lessons. utilize its experience
make of all those things element.
OF present power. But forgetif>
septic qualities. Don't let tn,
Past unman you, benumb you
with remorse, weaken you with
self-eontempt.
The poet says we rise by STEP
ping on our dead selves. And
as for the Future, the best prep
aration for it is an unafraid To-
day.
Whatever hills you have to
climb, whatever bridges you have
to cross, whatever enemies are
lying in wait for you, whatever
crises are to be met. you can be
no better equipped for them TIL n
by living this day soundly, cheer.
fully, and free from fear.
Apprehensions, premonitions,
worries, these are the poison
gases of our foe, the Future,
If you are to die Tomorrow.
the best way to be ready is toI
discharge faithlly To-day's du-
ties, and to enjoy heartily To.
days simple pleasures.
To-day is yours. God has
given it to you. All your Yes
terdays He has taken back. ALL
your To-morrows are still in His
hands.
To-day is yours. Take its
pleasures and be glad. Take its
pains and play the man.
To-day is yours, just a little
strip of ligh. between two dark
nesses, just bit OF life between
two sleep-deaths.
To-day is yours. Use it SO
hat at its close you can say:
Il have lived, and loved, To-
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