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Show A NEW YEAR'S PRAYER. In the new year may we keep our reverence unimpaired for the humble-minded, and those who have suffered suf-fered much; our humor alert for our own mistakes and our self-sufficiency, and not at any time wreak it upon the aged, the crippled, the obscure, May we guard childhood and honor age, however infirm and petulant, because be-cause it has gone a long way on the same road that bruises our feet; and ever seek to prolong the brief moment of joy as it visits children and lovers. May we have the grace to rejoice in the flow of life as it moves through from generation to generation, and to be purified by the mystery in which we dwell the night silences and the wonder of our inner life. May we know that humanity is vaster than any creed of its devising, any church of its building, any religion of its shaping. May we look upon the widespread wide-spread spectacle of human suffering and, having endured to look upon it, learn to kuow our single life seem-t seem-t ingly so unique as a drop of that infinite in-finite sea. When it comes our time to realize that in this earthly progress we shall not long dwell with happiness or with success, may we clear our spirit of bitterness, and in calm strength continue at the work. Collier's Col-lier's Weekly. |