| Show THE DEPARTING YEAR tear EIGHTEEN elgen HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TWO Is drifting out with the tide in a few hours it will be gone into the great eternal sea but it will not be bd lost nor washed into oblivion every moment of its eventful life is marked upon the dial of the upper world and all the acts of earths inhabitants during its career are eire recorded in the heavenly archives the globe and its people are creatures of time but they are also beings of eternity each passing pasting year bears millions of mortals to the tomb and carries the rest closer to t 0 their great change and at the same time brings the world Itsel itself fever ever and ever nearer to its own decease yet all possess an inner life that will survive the inevitable of the visible and grosser parts and in the process of evolution and advancement van cement shall be rehabilitated to partake of the physical as well ss as the spiritual according to merit and capacity apa city in those conditions which are beyond the reach of death the earth has hass so 0 o far filled the measure of olita its creation it abides the law of its being it accod the design of ita its creator the tho filth upon its face darkness which rests upon it are the he of mans mane not its own trans gres it has been baptized with water it will yet bo be baptized with the holy roly ghost and with fire and though it shall die it shall bhail be quickened again and be clothed with the celestial glory that beings quickened with the same light and life may dwell upon it in the full presence of the sun of righteousness nessy subject only to the laws jaws of perpetuity and exaltation exaltations which dring loring pleasure and progress for evermore when the closing year drops into the everlasting ocean it will mark one step more on the earths road to its glorious destiny 3 one movement move menu meno nearer to the point where the voice will proclaim that time shallie shall be no longer and the secret acta of men during the several epochs of if eart earths hlis history shall be sounded in the eais of all living at that period of un covering the doings of the year eighteen hundred and eighty t two pro fro will not bo be uninteresting some of them will cause shame and trembling and others the satisfaction that comes from good deeds recognized and appreciated among the former will be the wrongs sought to ta be inflicted upon the tae people of utah the plot piot tings and scheming the bargains and wire the cowardice and treachery the pandering to clam orthe yielding to the thrusting away of principle the trampling upon right the intention to do injustice will wiil ail alj be proclaimed as asit it were whereupon upon the housetop housetops the overruling hand of providence guiding the result will also be made manifest and it will be been how it was that the plans of wicked men failed against the people of the most high god looking back upon the past year we find too many things to be thankful for to make record of in a newspaper article but we perceive through it all the mercy and watchful care of the almighty the progress of his work the revelations of his will the improvement of his I 1 saints the mistakes of their enem fee lee the advancement of his kingdom and the fulfillment fulfilment of many of his great purposes and this gives us encouragement to meet the coming year with the trials and tests testa I 1 the dark hours and the gloomy mo mente as well as the light and joy and blessings and pleasures that it w will ill bring for this is a world of opposites and mixtures and the good and the evily evils evil the F orrow sorrow and the delight the life and the death are all before us and are needful for the training framing of earths sons tons and daughters A pleasant farewell then to eighty two and a cordial greeting to eighty three and may improve ifju ove to our readers and friends and all people who desire the night right the world over and happy new year |
