Year: 1878

Farewell old Year, welcome new


Year.


Ere another issue Of the REPUBLICAN,
will greet our readers, the old year
will have passed away, and new year
will have been ushered in. Upon tn"
threshold of the dying year is good
time and place for contemplation
Resolutions Of reform made year ago
will loom up before many, and the
question will arise, how have hey been
ksptf Too many they have snapped
asunder and they lie stranded alonr
through the whole length Of the year,
while a few have not only kept their
resolutions but are prepared az
strengthened to take upon themselves
additional and stronger moral obliga
tions. As we glance our eyes backward
npon the past we see many neglected
opportunities for doing good, many in
stances when like the Levite we passed
by on the other side, instances wheL
the cup of water or the crust of bread
may have been withheld. Now is the
ime to sum up the debit and credit
columns of the ledger of 1878 and see
where the balance is; the time to take
an account of stock, so that the lew
year may be commenced nteligently
and the weak spots of the past year
strengthened. There is one thing Ger
tain to all of Us this New Years eve,
and that is, we are all one year nearer
the grave. The old year is about to
pass away ard though that is generally
a season of Joy and festivity, there is a
solsmnirv about it that We cannot di-
vest ourselves of. As We await the
tone of the midnight bell, there is
something indescrihably impressive in
the thought that a funeral and birth
are 80 blended together that We cannot
discern the separating point. At this
point. as we think of the flight of time
and of misspent hours that are carried
away with it how gladly would we if ".
could, turn back the old rusty wheels
of the dying year and start anew again
bnt this cannot be done, time once pas
never returns, and 50 We bid farewell
to the year eighteen hundred and sev
enty- eight and with buoyant anticipa
tons of better year we welcome il
eighteen hundred and seventy-nine
As the notes Of the funeral anthem o
the dead year dies away on the mid
night atmosphere, let them be sue, erd
ei with the gladSome ringing in of t.


new year. AS we bury the old out q
sight let US bury with it all anilnosi
ties, and all the short comings of Il
past, and az the swaddling bands o
the new born year, open to let the beaut


ful stranger step into beautiful lif. IL
us also commence anew again with a
resolution which We will not allow {,
be broken, to live better life. III he
while improving upon the lessons o
the past. Then let our grumblin!
cease and rather let US be Thankful
over the many blessings which daily
come pouring down upon us like tn,
gentle showers Of rain that fall up0r
tn" Just and unjust. If our hearts ar
kept mellow by acts of human kind
ness, we will find the brightest rose
even in the wintry desert, and if W,
will we can stOOp any where and pluck
the sweetest vioIrts from under snow
clad surface. let ~ keep our hnmp
cheerful by acts ofkindness and CHART,
and then the rough th0rns which ma,
have beset our pathway during tn
past year will disappear, and the patl
through the coming year will becom,
more pleasant and easv to travel. Will
these reflections and resolutions in on
minds, we fac" the future we trust, wit
strengthened resolutions for doing goo,
and to our thousands of patrons am
readers, we wish HApPY New YEAR.