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Show A PEACEFUL NEW YEAR. KmKu:.:0 lninlrel ami acvixty-tiircu c.,nna':nr:.;ii und:r ui't favoraLlo aurt-jM.-u.-u onty b hukI to rcijn tl(n(i(li'Hit. (.'hrirtteo'lom, for Willi tin; en:i)t0n tljf? ii-itiil chronic trnuLlc iij il xi:'i aii'l the wn.inuin.c tf the CulriN in-mn'i'.n, th't natiunn jf" Fl'i-rni-r ami America arn at iiranc. Jn an.iii hi. Run') iho .annnin cl'i hy the F'.rum, mi lti! r-;i'l viirn:rAit,K tim uirin:tl wiili ll.o I'alttLinc, , wa (Wii':ili:'i i an-iH lrr,rn wliicli tha name of our moiilli of Jautury itt dr.rivrA, aii'i tlii-t V-W- K-iicway, wart 'M'-:" in H 'jf' Wiirt cluni:l in tim.trt if iieuM. Twi'MJ only, from th reicn of Numa until the niiiiiiii:n':mftnt 'if tlio Chrintian era, over rt'D y:ar.i, wart tliid gateway ohm.:. I, fur twicfl Only wan ii imo at rt:a.:o 'luring all that period. Now arc wo. in tl'O onditioo of Home when tliu gateway t tha ut-aiuu nf Janus wai al tha ia.it year ha wuueMncu thci iautaalrt of two nrv.nl powcrtt Auicrii: anil Kiisland W3Ltlin a com-plicatal com-plicatal liliiimlty ly miann of peaceful arhitrati'jri. Wore tha prcocdout thiw given tu ha aJutMl by other nation, thim would tha year just ended mark the uoiniueoecuieiit of a millennium of peace; hut that in almost too Utopian a a pro 1 peat to he hoped for. Still, the year now common. iiif( opeiiH aunpic-iouttly, aunpic-iouttly, and wo tthnuld "take tho good mil K-J.ia niv, ..Li.iifs u. .ua .... But wa livn iii a rapid anu. Tho world truveU iuiekly towards a goal yet hidden hid-den from tliu nations And whilo tho pa.tt year has been, in many rOHpccttt, an uvenii'ul eno, all tho oviJencoa in-dicato in-dicato that the pre.ient ono will bo do lend ho. Vut while there 'm poaco around us on every hand ; and while prosperity Tcigin triumphant over numerous dia-aHter.i, dia-aHter.i, lufc uh onjoy tho pronent like nentiont buinjrH ; and to all wo wish "a happy New Ifimr, with many joyous joy-ous roturnn nf l ho Hnafion." |
