Show HENRY WARD BEECHERS New I Years sermon was one of the most eloquent and profitable of the many discourses delivered on the occasion It was crowded with happy illustrations illustra-tions and good advice If heeded by men generally this would be a brighter and pleasanter world A paragraph will give an insight into the whole sermon What were they to take into the new year and what should they leave to perish with the old Could they not leave many sorrows now unnecessary many evil habits many spites and quarrels quar-rels could they not leave the spirit which found satisfaction in the misfortune of enemies No one ought to walk out of this year and into the other and take everything with him If you were moving mov-ing from a log cabin to a new frame house you would not care to take the rats along with you You woulJ not take the old table in the kitchen made on sticks driven into the ground with aboard a-board laid across You might take the rough cradle with its memories of the sleep and merry laugh of childhood but to all that is sordid and worthless yon would like to apply a torch The new year is undefiled It is holy ground See how much that is good you cm take with you into it |