Year: 1871


have not done all the good we
might have done, and would have
the charge of omission erased.


But this canno: be! So we win
strive the more earnestly to do
better the year to come, the better
to be ready for the year Of the
eternal, when our real life-our
real happiness will begin. never
to end.


just before nightfall q bright,
faced young man called at our pri-
vate room, where none can enter
except invited. He was a stran-
ger. We never had seen him be-
fore. He warmed by the cheerful
fire and said:


Pardon this intrusion. They
told me at your business office
that I might find you here, so 1
came. Will you please accept this
little present-a plain gold pen, as
New Years gift, from one who
has read one of your Saturday
Night chapters, till every line and
word is committed to memory, and
which chapter is my faith, my hope
and my guide


Thank you, my young friend.
If the present is one you can af
ford to make, we will accept it as
a memento, and to use in writing
other chapters. Where do you re-
side?'


| In Paterson


What business are you engaged
imp


4 but yesterday finished my ap-
premiership in q machine-shop,
where railroad locomotives are
made.


Just finished your schooling7'
Yes, sir


And are going to work with the
New Year7'


Yes. sir-to work - journey
man.


DO you feel glad3'


Yes, sir


Did the time seem long while
you were learning the trader


Not very-I had 90 much to
learn and wanted to be q good
workman


What will you do in the future2'


Work in the shop till I can OBJ
tain better situation, or work up
to q foremanship. And I will try
real hard to do well-will save
what / earn, and in q few years
have nice little nome. perhaps,
or will have enough ahead to 60 in
with somebody in q new shop


You will succeed if you wish to.
The future rests with yourself.-
You can be a man or a loafer "a
success or . failure. And what
you are here, you will be in the
Eternal; a worker, planner and
suggestor as you strive on earth.
so l believe, aud my life will
attest my earnestness. Good even
ing


Good evening and good for.
tune!'


; He went his way. Hours since
Before us is the pen he left us. A
plain, pure gold pen. When comes
the New Year we may write will
it, but not till this one, which &c
long has been q willing servant
shall be used up. But it has it.
history-as every little article ",
can rest the eye upon has-as ",
all have.


o! The histories! Who but Coz
. knows them alp
The pen with which We nov
write-the little gold band on oul
: finger-the clean glass inkstant
: before us-that beautiful papeI
e weight-those beautiful bronze or
( naments on our desk-that littl,
+ crooked pin on the floor-every.
;, thing has its history, in itself ant
o in connection with something else
e Some day we will write our his
e tory for few friends to read. No
e for oil, for not all can appreciat,
r motives. Not all care to know
n when they have histories of thei
Y own


!, Thinking! The week has gone
u A new morn has come. Our youn,
!, friend who called is not here. Th
e pen he left is before US, ready 70
work, as he is ready.
d He said he was ready to begi
g life. Then he will succeed. An
p we, too, are ready.
t. The New Year is upon u.s.
It There is work to do. We ente
If upon 1t earnestly, with no. fear q
d to results or Of the future, Joy