The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1915-01-01
A NEW YEAR Is BORN
What VIII 1t Bring Us?

A New Year is born!
Nineteen hundred and fifteen.
What will it bring us?
Will il be a year of plenty or o
want? n.
Will it be one of happiness2sar o
misery?
Will il be one of honor-or of obloqul
Whit be one of life-or OF death,
IF WE ONLY KNEW.
a New Year.
TO many Of us it will be year OF
plenty-if we do OUR part-if we but
use our brains, and our energy, and
our perSeverance-if we use them IL
/ the RIGHT way.
But will we do that!
viii the RIGHT way appeal to us:
Many of us have made the custom
ary New Years resolutions, with the
full intention TO live up to them.
But WILL WE SO live?
win the year be one in which we
place RIGHT above all other consid-
| erations?
Will it be one in which we place
! HONOR above GOLD. and CHARl-
! TY above GREED, and GENTLE
NESS above ARROGANCE?
Or will we plunge headlong into a
frantic and gasping rush for the gold
EN- end Of the rainbow?
viii it be a year in which our sim
pie WORD is as goOd-or even better
than our BOND?
Or will it be one in which we HAG
GLE, and TWIST, and SQUIRM,
and EVADE, and CONCEAL, and
DECEIVE?
1t may be the one or the other.
But which WILL it be.
We MEAN well-but will we DO
well?
ONLY TINE CAN TELL.
A New Year.
TO some it will bring sorrow, and
sadness, and tears.
1t will bring suffering, and agony,
and despair.
1t will bring want, and hunger, and
desperation.
to CRIME is often but step.
And CRIME is the pathway that
leads down to the depths OF hell-lnto
the arms Of the devil-to everlasting
torment and the eternal damnatlon
Of a soul.
But the sadness Of such an ending
might often be avoided II WE put
extended a helping hand IN TINE.
Just little help-a few KIND words
"a Slight effort to obtain FOOD and
employment for those who are un-
fortunate, yet worthy rwho are TOE
TERING UPON THE BRINK.
WE NIGHT extend that help-we
COULD give SOMETHlNG-lf we
WOULD!
BUT WILL WE?
A New Year,
And there is KING of KINGS,
who keeps a Great Book, and each
page of that book contains the life
record of human being-OF Us.
1t will contain our records for this
new wear that is just born. as it con-
tains our records for the years that
are gone.
And what WILL BE our recoru lol
this new year? w
will the Great Book record little
acts of kindness, OF good cheer, OF
assistance to the manned, and the
sightless and the aged, and the needy
and Of compassion for the lttle chllo
that knows no home?
Will OUR records for the new year
be such as will bring a loving smile
to kindly face Of the King OF klngSE
Or will it bow His gentle heart IN
grief and sorrow?
1t will be as we chose to make IL
BUT WHAT WILL WE CHOOSEY
A New Year.
will it bring gladness to ALL
homes?
Or will it find some who are yet
weary. and heavy laden, and in need
Of rest and spiritual cheer?
Not ALL of the good people have
their names inscribed in a church
Ihe world, is full OF good people
who seldom see the inside of house
Of God. to whom His teachings are
but a memory, whose pleasures on
earth are so few there must be some
great recompense for them in the life
beyond.
Some of these may be closer than
we think. may be low iii the depths
of poverty, may be hungering for the
voice of minister, yet fearful OF en-
tering church lest they be shamed
by their rags.
What will the new year bring to
them?
Will it cast but little sunshine into
their shadowed lives?
Will it send some brother or sister
to them TO invite them to a place OF
worship, where their soul hunger
may be appeased by the gentle words
of a Man of God?
We NIGHT be ''good brother or
''good sister, to these worthy un-
| fortunates.
BUT WILL WE?
1t NIGHT add cheer even to our
OWN hearts.
But do we WANT such cheer?
A New Year!
What will it bring to OUR
lCOUNTRY?-~
| Will it bring us continuation Of
that great PEACE which Providence
has thus far bestowed upon us?
Will it blaze for us a highwa,
|, through the network of entangle
ments which have drenched the sol
of half the world with the life bloot
of thousands upon thousands OF TIN
most intelligent and enlightene,
I,,oonlac 0f n n fimaS2