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Show M SETS GOOD EXAMPLE )s That Hinder and Re-Discard Re-Discard Thin whch s Hepfu tarn Only fR New Year at Dawn c. '-ar opens its Once again tne New yenr door for us to enter In. Thc1" Is leaving us, and if we are wiser-. will tot- him tnlro with him nil the 1 it pedimenta that has handicapped us during his reign. We will dismiss the old mistakes nod troubles and grudges, and entering blithely into the New Year, we will begin all over again. Mother nature has set us an example exam-ple which we will do well to follow. AU the good golden grain, the ripe fruit and all other precious gifts she has permitted us to garner and retain. And then she proceeded to do away with the rubbish. She put her spell upon it and it withered and died, was plowed under, and became the needful fertilizer for another yenr. And so all the good and sweet nnd beautiful things that the old year has given us we are permitted to keep. We may hold onto our successes, our helpful experiences, our beautiful memories mem-ories and the new friendships which have come to us as the gift of the old year, and let go of all Ihe rubbish that might hinder our endeavor in the year that is just opening its door into new and untried ways. Let us cast off our old garments of doubt and disappointment and failure, and put on the shining garments of hope and faith and courage. Let us draw on all the undreamed of sources within us for a broader outlook, a more determined endeavor and greater great-er accomplishment. Lot us possess ourselves of higher ideals of life anL Us privileges and responsibilities, uiB a determination to live up to the bfl there is In us during the days of Bj coming year. And above all, letfl hold fast to our faith in the goodB of God, for so shall we be enabltB go forward, hopeful and unafralB the unknown and untried waysB New Year. |