The Carbon County news., 1925-12-31
The NEW YEAR
BY E. P. conwelI


There is something soiepsns s5sd. In
pressive about the passing Of the old
year. 1t seems like giving up an old
friend or companion who has been with
you and whose comradeship you have
enjoyed, but from whom you must
now part to look upon his face no
more
The mind naturally delights in the
reflective. 1t feels like going out into
ssme vast solitude and communing
with nature and with natures God.
1t wants to get away from the busy
haunts of men, the seething mass of
restless humanity, to some quiet re-
treat and there commune with itself.
But life is too busy for that. We have
scarcely time to think upon the great
movements in the midst of which we
find ourselves placed and without the
power to withdraw.
Never before in the history of the
world was there so much packed into
the brief space of single year. Never
was there so much alacrity, so much
push and enterprise as during the
year that is just drawing to a close,
and it would be impossible to recount
the blessings that have crowned the
lives of all of us. 1t ought to be
counted a pleasure to live in world
30 full of the richest treasures of all
ages.
But what about the new year? Is
lis to be better year than the last?
The solemn bell that will toll the knell
of the departing year will also an
nounce the arrival of the new. The
same heart throbs that gave life and
animation to the old must pulsate in
the new. The same hands that lab
ored to crown the old with success
must in great part shape the destinies
of the new.
Not all the vexed questions and
problems Of our complex civilization
have been answered or solved by any
means. Records will be made that
will go down the aisles Of time as the
most memorable in the worlds history.
No one man nor dozen men can per-
form all the tasks before us but all
upf us will be needed to do the work
:. The dawn of new year though
celebrated with festival, music and
song, is, yet, a striking and solemn
memento; and he must be dull, indeed,
who can write for the first time, the
number that designates it without a
passing touch, at least, of serious
emotion.
1t should prompt all of us to be
better, live better and do better dur
ing the new year than we did during
1925, and surely there is ample room
for improvement both as to our rela-
tions to Earthly and Heavenly affairs
We should strive not only to reach 8
higher plane of Christian citizenship
but we should take note too of the
people among whom we live. Let us
at least be Hberal--in our sociology
and our theology. Let us not frowr
on our neighbor's pleasures or sue,
cesses nor judge his fitness fol
Heaven.
OF course there are those who thinl
that times are hard and conditions ar,
bad. Well, they might be better
Times are always hard, you know
with those who are prone to take tina
view, but at the risk of being accuses
sf sermonixing let me say that ever,
one has his cross TO bear in this world
1t seems to be the Divine order ant
yet. Are not the victories of lif
worth its struggiesf Are not it.
pleasures worth its sacrifices? VIII
would not cross swords with adversit,
10 win the jeweled hand Of Success
What real soldier ever hesitated +
dare the desert wastes of death t
taste the sweets of victory and o
glory?
Success is relative term after a
and depends in great measure on tn
point Of view, but, think that th
greatest blessing Of life is the blessin
Of contentment. Wealth cannot bu
sontentment~-it is never for sale
seldom dwells in palaces-somehov
it seems to be Gods gift to the hun
bic and the poor. And riches; lister
the discontented man is never rich