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Show Inventory Time What doth it. profit a man if he gains the whole world (not just Sugar House) and loseth his soul? We heard the story of a man of good and kindly deeds. The man preached good and kindly deeds. He talked good and kindly kind-ly deeds but we heard the story that in the hands of this man the pen was mightier than a lethal weapon. He used it to rob. Of course when a man holds up a fellowman with a gun he is apprehended and is given punishment accordingly. But wrhen a man uses the perfect hold-up weapon a pen he can committ the perfect crime. The criminal is most unlikely to be caught. There was a man traveling along a road to Samaria and was way laid and beaten and left by the road to die. There was a man who traveled a shorter distance in Zion to collect col-lect a bill and was way laid by the debtor . . . the man with the pen . . and was beaten (in a different fashion). "I'll only pay this" and paid half the debt and put his hold-up weapon back in his pocket. That ended the week-end of the old year. What of the New Year? He is a man of high esteem to his fellow parishers, his fellow fel-low business men, his fellow community neighbors, who hear him on Sunday and do not collect col-lect from him on Monday. He is in the high income bracket not only tax wise in the state but tithes wise in his church. We look back into the crowded days of the old year, a last glance before the door is slammed in our face, back at the happiness, the expectations expecta-tions of what last year was to be, the sorrow, the joys and the achievement along with the failures. Looking back, we realize real-ize that it can never be lived again for the moving finger does write and move on, never to return. We have no need to look back to yesterday for yesterday has been spent. But there is a whole new year ahead, 365 days new and bright. What is their promise pro-mise What doth it profit a man to be so blest? |