Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

to mingle with the joys We know that at this very moment hundreds of hearts near us, and thousands in lands remote. are crushed by sadness and misfortunes and losses.
 But. somehow. although the very day of the New Years birth may bring to us tidings of deaths and calamities and hardships, there is that hope which springs eternal in the soul; and we conf1dlngly assure ourselves,
 Things will be brighter for us with the coming of this glad New Yearl"
 And what better philosophy could we have7 Emerson states in one of his essays that it is the belief of the South Sea chief that the soul of every enemy he conquers enters into his own. making him grow stronger, braver, more formidable to his adversaries.
 The very fact that the Old Year has dealt us some near-deadly blows, has done his best to crush and intimidate and discourage us. to drag us down to the level of hopelessness, has but served 10 fmbue us with new strength, new resolve, new realization of our own resources; the consciousness that what we have battled with, and en- dured. and risen above during the past twelvemonth has entered into our soul as the Emerson savage believes, and for the weakness which beset us at the beginning of the Old Year now dead
  caimness in the face of sorrow, a new resourcefulness to meet emergencies, which cannot fail to stand us in good stead during the year to come.
 Man needs this renewing of the New Year spiriti There is salvation in this trait of human nature which causes us to forget the partings, the losses, the separations of the past months, while, like the children which Saint Paul re- minds us that we are in the really big things of existence we are diverted by i the glitter. the gay melodies of what Is now.
 Then it should be ours to remember the rich heritage which has come to us with the year so recently dead.
 We have had the inspiration of the l lives of heroes, of men and women whose self-sacrifice has uplifted all mankind. The Creator has worked {, through the minds of His creatures to find expression in marvellous inyen- tions, perhaps; in words of wisdom, in rare harmonies, in books and sermons which have brought us nearer to that plane where, we are told, man some times stand when he is but little | lower than the angels"
 Even out of the deadly conflict which | has racked and rent so much of the world, which has resulted in rivers of | blood and rivers of tears, there has arisen a new spirit of fraternal charity which has welded men and women and ' races and creeds and colors, differing markedly before, into one great fam 1 fly: suffering in anguish that a DOT ton of it should revert to the sav- agery of war. yet, in the very throes of it's pain and woe gaining strength
 please God. for a New Year not far distant, when the entire world shall | have put off the habits and the sell fshness and the cruelty of barbarism and narrowness. to stand as one in its hatred of strife, and to look back al | the things that have been with shud- | dering and with repentance and sor- row; while there shall be true brother l hood- full unselfishness, born of the | tribulations of those who have died 8 martyr death that we might learni
 And that will be Indeed the Glad THE DICTAGRAPH.