South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-31

grudges. regrets and petty gr!efs is,
necessary II We are to experience
the exhllaratlon which a new hap
ts=a of life gives to US with the
birth Of another year.
No time better expresses the idea
OF continuous human growth and
human progress as does the first of
January. no matter how dark the
way has been, no matter how utter
our failures were. one may wake
on the dawn or a New Year with a
sense OF a moral bath and feel
wholly clean. refreshed, vigorous,
determined TO keep faith with the
kesoive OF keeping soiless its white
Rightly directed. one year may IN
varied measure. overcome lost re
spect. lost happiness. lost fortune
Idle regret has no place in the
schedule People who sit down and
regret past mistakes and follies ac-
c0mplish nothing for themselves or
anyone else. Everyone makes mis-
takes but. only those who are wise
make or their errors warning for
the future in their climb to useful
ness and success.
This year as every year. one hears
a great deal about New Years reso-
Iutions and while / have no quarrel
with any one making them, let me
make the simple statement that one
seriously made and enforced is
worth a haif-dozen lightly made and
more lightly kept. 1t is frankly sur
prising how many supposedly intel
ligent people make resolutions and
forget them by the end of the week
Then when a new year rolls around
again they proceed TO make some
more. Far more Important is the
necessity for banishing mental mall
aides which afhict US All at inter
walls from the New Year into which
they often creep.
Probably the most common OF hu-
man weaknesses is the one which
prompts Us 90 right "a wrong which
has been done TO us The mud OF
more Old grudSes has been loaded
upon the baby shoulders Of new
years than any other burden they
have TO carry When will we learn
that Providence IS no respector of
.ersons and His law operates for
~? Whenever one avenges a
wrong. one has cause TO regret and
many times the future has shown
how successfully the matter would
have been taken care Of without our
interference II is human to resent
an injury or an injustice, but Ger
taiuly we should curb this tendency
ont
when the new year is just beginning.
Surrounding ua even amid our
own iutimates are those whose days
this passing year, have been filled
with sorrow. sickness, failure. de-
preston, sin. Not a few of these
welcome the New Year at hand as
a symbol OF some sort OF change
from the old order or things. To
kpthers.~ the past depression has be-
ZONE permanent. a New Year
What OF it.? the question voices a
wonder IL the one coming might
4 prove worse than the one just pass
Ing. In spite Of every obstacle and
sorrow the past may hold up TO
view. the New Year holds a glorious
promise TO each and every one of
Gods children. and we should view
it as another opportunity offered 90
US by Him 20 prove our own worth
and add 10 the happiness Of others.
Our missions. great or small. will he
accorded honor in the same meas
ere We grant honor in our accom-
plishmeut OF them. Each one Of US,
II only we realized IT,. have within
ourselves the fulhumCnt OF true
-.greatneSs. not that which il herald
IL by fame or newspaper notoriety.
Sut that which finds its lasting re
ward in The satisfaction OF some