Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-02
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
May the New Year Introduce a New

May the New Year Introduce New Era.
 NIT. Editor: Another year rolled into eternity The old year is gone. Pause we here on the threshold Of the new. Look away back into the past--baek into the beginningl Until Creation time was not. The planets called into being by the great First Cause was the beginning of time. The pendulum Of time swings to and fro in eternity . and measures ali finite things. Time 1 itself being finite, is also measured. The measurement is natutal and ar tifcial. The natural divisions Of time are day and night. the Lunar month, the four seasons, and, finally, the round year. It is the working of na- ture. This brings us light and dark ness, heat and cold, seed time and harvest time. The artificial divisions are seconds, minutes, hours, weeks. Solar months and the round year. This
 is cfockwork. All this for business | purposes.
 l We mark time also by Sabbaths, ] festivals. decades and centuries This tfor social, religious, political and his l torical purposes. From things finite we look up to God the IHfnite. He alone is immeasurable. Search in the 1 eutermost verge of this lower life-.-He is there. Ascend up into the highest He is there, too. Wander back into | the past-back to the dawn of Crea- tion. There you find Him. He alone is Infinite! All things else change. All things else wear the freshness of youth and the wrinkles of age. God is- the
 first and the last of all things. All things know and obey Him. This | tY,Go nf ', 1e
 hurled through space from His al- Innighty hand. has kept it's course, ir
 the circle outlined for it without the
 slightest deviation. Those shining
 lworlds of radiance that roll above oui
 heads revolye round Him as their cen.
 ter. His word gave them birth. His
 will harpors their existence. In the
 darkness. and the gloom of the nigh
 they. come forth in countless numbers
 to illurnine His footstool and parade His glory to us below: and then. wher they have sung His praises in chorus : they all--each in it's own, celestia !. faitl-Inove onward to the fulfilnnen of it's destiny. Creation evidently ha. a purpose, and everything in Creation has a significance and destiny. Wha is mans business in Creation? Why il he here? What is his destiny? Ar, i. they not the bottom questions of al philosophy and all theology? Man i , Gods image and likeness. Man shouft ever seek to conform himself to tn Great Original. The world was ere ' ated for mans use and benefit, Man duty here is to glorify God-his Crea ,, tor-his all-and to use the world d reason and religion bid him. What 0 our brothers and sisters? Every one 0 them God-like being. All are enti tied to share in Gods inheritance. S God has willed. Is His, twill done oi about you. Human life perishes i : the midst of abundance. What 3 wrong? Not Christianity. That heave : descended religion denounces tn I mamrnon Of ir1iuuity and teaches ma.
 | to love his neighhor as himself Mean while the pendulum seems to swim
 between an early peace and a lon and ghastiy war Its crepuscula
 shadows are falling heavily about us II And mankind shuts it's eyes to the ev ] elements in life-pride. selhshnesi
 pharisiasrn-and parrot out "Happ : New Year" A new year is the turn
 ing over of new leaf in the book ( e life. The time for reflection. Ho1 : are we to repay religion, humanity, ar, h the common veal? These question f concern one and all. We all are part
 of one great whole. Society is com n posed of individuals; and society," = with the rule of society--is just whs l, we, individually, make it. Of what sic l, I niflcance is our existence? These ne s years-these revolutions of the plAns
 i-are but many whirls in dizz : dance. If you, who are unable or ur a willing to draw lesson from the sue l. gestieeness of this season-7if you, wi @ look not into eternity-this preser d is but dream and your ewn every
 l-day life is but lie that deceives ye
 | and those about you. To effect. the
 any solid reform in society, go the;
 to the bottom of your moral, socis 'f domestic. religious and political If