The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-30

In feelings. not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs
He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, act:
the best.
The old year may hold our many
failures. many disappointments, many
bitter regrets. The New Year holds
out to US hope and promise. for my
times are in Thy hand, Q Lord. II
should comfort us when we think of
the brevity of our years. to realize
by contrast the length of Gods years.
We have but a short time to work
and it is well to remember that in
order that we may he dilligent. But
God has a whole eternity in which
TO work and il is well to remember
that also. so that we may cease from
f%retfulness and Impotence at the slow
progress of His kingdom among MS.
Jesus Christ has not ceased from His
redemption Of the world. nor has GOD
been defeated in His plans for III
manity, for he times Of men md
nations ~" ? W 'anF
For most of us the memory of the
past is a chamber of discontent. let
therefore the old year bury frtm
sight its story of sin and sorrow and
failure. Let there be sincere repelt-
ance for the follies of the past, and
then let a new man step forth to meet
with hope and determination the glad
New Year which God desires shall be
a blessed year for every child of
earth. When God forgives, He for
gives utterly. He casts mans sins
into the depths of the sea- Why
then should memory thrust its hooked
pole into the sea to dredge the bit
tom and bring up by the locks some
pale memory which God has plunged
into the ocean of f-orgetfulness? Mans
life Is not in the past, but in the
days TO come, for our times are in
His hand.
And how many of us are waiting
for the opportunities of the coming
year? With how many of US is it the
unuttered hope that tomorrow may
be free from the sins and the mis-
takes of yesterday? l pray God that
for you it may be so. Your times are
in His hand, and let your Father
shape the new year for you; let Him
rule it, and strive with the help Of
the Spirit to walk the way of His
commandments. Forgetting the
things that are behind, let US press on
for the prize of the high calling in
Christ Jesus
The passing yea also nus remind
us that there will come a last year for
each one Of us. Perhaps this coming
year is your last. Are you therefore
ready to see the curtain rise upon
eternity? Are you now ready to hear
the midnight cry, and TO enter into
the marriage supper of the Kings
Son? Our times are in Gods hand,
and no man knoweth what day or
hour he may be called from his labor.
Though we live to be counted among
the Oldest inhabitants we must depart
at last. Others have gone before us
and are going every day. and yet we
seem so eager to forget our own NOR
Nay, let us rather look for
dIu Win bSlleNlhS bhdl
God will then give us a New Year
which shall be without sin and tears
and sorrow and pain. where love shall
rule, and where happiness shall be
complete in the fullest service TO our
God.
The New Year bells will soon be
Do not fail to make some
personal preparations for its coming.
Make resolutions for the future on
the basis of your experience of the
past. Every heart knows its own
needs. and its own weaknesses. Be
not discouraged by past failures, but
pray TO God earnestly to help to fu-
lure successes. Take this New Year
rs a holy gift from a gracious Father
and begin to live it carefully and
Dr~ayerfullv. Do not strive 10 carry
he burdens of future months. but live
each day as if it were the last and
he best. In spite of all the ills which
We see in the world today, let us be-
ieHe that the New Year will be a
year to all mankind, and let
Zach one of us do our uttermost to
make it so. May God look upon us
Ill in mercy, and may He let this
New Year
Ring out old shapes of foul disease.
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old. :
Ring in the thousand years of peace.