| Show the time has come for good reso intsons Int ions the turning over of a new leaf the breaking off of bad habits and it has come about that the majority think of the new year as something different from the old as if the old had been separated from the new by a line or wall bat it is misleading the old year is still with us with its memories its jesuits and its influences there is no separating line or wall and the division of time into days months and years is purely arbitrary the man who is always waiting for the now year as the time when this or that change of habit ahall be made generally continues in the old path and the minister who exhorts his hearers to do better because the new year is baic ning Is of course well intentioned but is speaking from a wrong point of view it has been the fashion to take the pledge or to resolve not to smoke any more beginning with the first day and this is still the fashion and will be indulged in this holiday time as before and whilo the many will fall back again into their old habits a few may keep their resolves therefore as a real solution of the difficulty and a positive aid to those who are fend of making good resolutions it would bo an excellent idea to have a weekly now years which would keep them up to the mark the twelve months |
