Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-27
OUR HOUSEHOLD

Twenty-One Years Together

Twenty-One Years Together
"Once more Time winds the ex-
hausted chain
And starts the twelve months length
again"
I wonder how many Of the read.
ers of this Atlanta Tri-Weekly Jour
nal have kept up with. these col
umns through the years that have
past?
This makes the twenty first time
that L have waited you New Years
greetings. Those early years were
great times for many of us. Youth,
hope, health and the vitality that
make things move.
Twenty-one years we have been
together working for the better
ment of this world and the saliva
ton of the souls Of all within our
spheres of influence.
All of us have made mistakes, sOr-
rows and disappointments have been
ours, but God has been in the heaV-
ems and, in the end, all will be we'll
for us. I have had some especially
cheering letters this year, from
women who began Our Household
with me and have kept up with it all
through these twenty-one years.
Some Of you remember a post card
that [ sent you, it was issued by
the Japanese government to cele-
brate their twenty-fifth anniversary
into the Postal union. [ have had
two letters from women who still
have those little souvenirs of that
time. To say that I appreciate these
letters but feebly expresses my feel
ings, as we grow older we do not
take affection so much as a matter
Of the moment, it means more than
even silver and gold.
Twenty-one years ago there were
babies that looked with loving eyes
on mothers that wrote me that some
word Of mine had cleared away
some error of judgment or even SUI
perstition, and I am sure those lit
tie ones today are trying to carry on
the good works that their parents
were interested in, and in fact some
of them, now in homes of their
own write me of the dear old Jour
nal' and that they can't feel at
home when it is not coming to their
homes.
Twenty-one years. Think OF the
changes in that time. Think of the
growth the years have wrought in
US. [ heard a woman say that
her boy has the awful habit of pro-
family that she can do nothing about
it as he had been with his GRANDPA
Their too much for her to break him,
when she scolded he would say,
you just ought to hear grandpa"
Think of what that old man has
done to mar the souls Of more than
that boy. Let's all of us talk with
our past and see what chains of bad
habits, what unhappy influences we
have streWn with the passing years.
We cannot go back and erase
those dirty spots on the characters
of others, but we can be brave
enough to say that we were instru-
ments Of Satan, and that we are sOr-
~ for it, We cannon Bonded knees
ask God to forgive US and to help us
to atone for our folly, and our vile
tempers.
Before this year is over many Of
us may be called to our final judg.
ment. Let's remember that He
! whose birth we have just celebrated
is waiting to say Welcome to our
Fathers mansions" and right now
determine with His aid to live the
sort of life that will entitle us to that
greeting.
May this year, nineteen twenty,
four, bring to each Of You blessings
spiritual, physical and material, and
| when it is passed may each OF us
|. say : Eather+I have tried to make