Evening journal., 1918-01-04

There is only one way to have a
Happy New Year. and that is to walk
all the way and every day with Christ
That means first OF all we must be
a Christian.
How TO become a Christian and TO
stay a Christian the Bible makes very
clear TO us
IN a word. TO become q Christian
Is to be like Christ. There are six es-
scntlal steps
'l7irst--We must believe in and ac-
cept Jesus Christ as our personal
Saviour and be baptised Read Acts
1881; Romans 1919; John ,3d6; Mark
iG &c.
Second-We are to become disciples
OF Christ Read John 8 "a
Third We must follow Christ Read
Matthew 90; ist Peter 22i
Fourth.-We must be witnesses. Read
Isaiah 1910; Acts 22i5
Ffth.-We are TO be servants OF
Christ Read ist Corinthians %
Sixth.--We are to be friends OF
Christ and in fellowship with Him
Read John i5dl-i5.
But all Of this can be put In the
following brief 70 m as the Bible in
dicates the way for us TO be a Chris
tan:
Believe-Acts 1851
Receiye-John 1912
Fo~sake-lsaiah 557
Confess-Romans 10 $40
Follow Peter 2:2i.
The Pastoral Counselor extends his
best wishes for a happy and prosper
Gus New Year for every Christian En-
deaN orer
May 1918 have rich blessings, both
material and spiritual; that you may
have strength for every duty; wisdom
fo- every problem; help for every
need; grace for every service; comfort
for every sorrow: Christ's companion
ship for every hour; and that Joy,
peace and love may attend your way.
May this be prosperous year for
our Christian EndeaNO or Union 1917
was ilne. Let us make 1918 even bet
ter The fact that many Of our young
men have gone into service for our
country VIII compel us who are at
home TO work all the harder.
4 Happy New Year
| asked the New Year for some motto
sweet,
Some rule Of life with which to guide
lay feet
l asked and paused; He answered, soft
and low.
Gods viii 10 KNOW"
win knowledge. then. suflce, Now
Year," ! cried,
And ere tho question into silence died,
The answer came, Nay; but remem-
ber too,
Gods win to DO"
Once more / asked, rs there no more
TO tell?"
And once again the answer softly fell
Yes; this one thing, all other things
above;
Gods will to LOVE"
We surely did make good use Of the
last three hours of 1917 and the time
PASSED very quickly Our business
meeting was held first, which was just
la little slow However, Mr. Foulkes
talk on the a. +. Mission work was
not In vain because the City Union
/ has pied red 500 10 this work Miss
Wilson also tried 10 interest our peo-
/ pie in The Pennsylvania State c.. E.
/ Paper, and asked that our members
subscribe TO same, as Il contains many
very hclTful items. There Is a possible
chance that If we have number of
persons who will subscribe TO this
narer we may have some Of our news
items published in IT,
+ A very. nice social hour was spent,
following the business meeting Our
/ Westminster friends had quite an H.
( teresting program. One OF the impOr-
| tant features being a drum selection
/ by Master Beck lie certainly can play
and some day we will hear more of
him. The program was enjoyed by ALL
and following this we'had our regular
Watchnight Service. which was In
charge OF Or Gillnlan Dr. Gillnlan
took charge due 10 the absence ofRev
/ Smith, Of Elsmere. who was called