Show t 1 J i S j lF r 1 7 S 'S r 9 C r rn f In n turning over a anew f 5 new leaf ea be e sure I tir 1 to I lay a ay a 1 1000 0 0 0 1 t pound weight t on onit St i-i i i it so it won wont won't t fl fly y ir I b back ac k J Er i YEARS MERELY LIFES LIFE'S CHAPTERS Offer Opportunity for Each EachUs Of ofUs ofUs Us to Write Therein a Record Better Than the Pre Preceding eding HE coming year lies spread THE like the white plain that sweeps from the roadside to the distant forest where the gray squirrels are making tracks In the light snow On this white sheet a n little little little lit lit- tle record may be written not a n full life story but merely a brief chapter or two like the chapters of squirrel life that may be read by one who today today today to to- day ventures Into the white forest It Is a great mystery that lies Hes ahead a treasure house of endless ties The span of a n mans man's life is short shorter In absolute measurement measurement measurement measure measure- ment than the span of a year For each year ear when October fades Into November has wrought completeness No human life can bring completeness It cannot bring completeness of knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge or completeness of happiness or completeness of good works The best bestman bestman bestman man can do In his poor limited way Is to glean as ns m much ch wisdom and win as much happiness and do as much good as the number of his da days s 's per per- mits When the human October fades It may thus be rich and peaceful and without the scars of stormy days or orthe orthe orthe the blight of wasted days and without undue regret that what should have been seen an and known and done has not been seen and known and done A YEARS YEAR'S completeness Is but a twelvemonth Our human Incompleteness incompleteness covers many twelvemonths How fortunate that each dawning year means a new opportunity to live and learn Again and again we may take up the thread and a advance vance toward towar the goal of apprehension We ma may s study tudy Gods God's works and year by year ear come ome nearer to an appreciation of them We Ve can never fully appreciate them for our minds are finite and they are in in- S 'S S NI 1 M l w i JS r r t I J fr f fe TL The Th e new reso I u t 11 fi 1 tion will Ml I be simply t. t r the same o old rev re re- f s v 1 gt solve broken with t Fl S L r such frequency Sr 1 1 Se Jo j j- j J f j r. r jS t S I oJ 1 0 x oJ 1 finite But each succeeding year rear Is a anew anew anew new opportunity It offers the perfection perfection perfection tion of completeness and by even a n partial comprehension of Its fullness we may move toward fulfillment of the measure of our lives I am not afraid said Thoreau that I shall exaggerate the value an and significance of life but that I shall not be up to the occasion which Jt it Is I Ishall Ishall Ishall shall be sorry to remember that I was there but noticed nothing remarkable not not so much as a prince In la disguise lived in the golden age a hired man j visited Olympus even and fell asleep after dinner and did not hear the conversation conversation conversation con con- of the gods NE AE who loves only artificiality O who does not note the excellence of the world he has been set to rule proves himself unworthy of his heritage heritage herit herit- age and Is punished by bitter unrest His life lacks the boon of contentment which includes all boons There are or course the few whose mental scope is too narrow for self They do not even know that they are discontented and may enjoy life as the ox enjo enjoys s 's life They are fortunate The unfortunate man Is the one who has even en dimly an understanding ing that the world Is good and beautiful an and that he be Is failing to reap the richness that Is rightly his The coming year is Indeed a great mystery full of possibilities Whoever Whoever Who Who- ever has not watched and studied the A I b. b JU L. L t 01 O W many of us are waiting wait- wait in ins ing for the opportunities now E 1 With how many of us is it the unuttered hope that tomorrow next the next be as today in its privileges privileges more abundant We are told that the first day of othe the N New ewY Year earis is an appropriate time Ume to form good resolutions But the N New ew Year is tomorrow and there is a better time for such a tasK and that hat time is to to- day For now is the accepted Ume time Bishop H. H C. C Potter r. r passing years may begin toda today it Is never too late Whoever has lon long watched and loved the years will know that to his knowle knowledge ge however ripe much will be added He will advance advance advance ad ad- vance a step nearer to the goal of contentment contentment contentment con con- and In so advancing will Increase increase In In- crease his human usefulness his help help- T TilE THE HE year dawns on an nn earth red with blood an earth torn with strife It will be for most of the people people people peo peo- of the earth a year ear of sorrow and of sacrifice But for all this it will not be a bad year ear Not half of civilized civilized civil civil- mankind but all mankind that has not forgotten the meaning of civilization civilization civilization tion has been unselfishly heroically engaged In the needful work of ridding ridding ridding rid rid- ding the world of a noxious s parasitic growth the poisonous fungus of mili mill For those who gave themselves themselves them them- selves to this essential work worl It will viii be bea a good year car For all nIl who are suffering suffer sutTer- suffering ing that the years to come may be happier and healthier r the year will be bea ben a n hood oo year ear February will bring Its crystal 11 f 1 N. N 11 Lr M J IN N j i 1 f r f Li Little it tle e o old last year 5 aci J f jg J reso resolution I. I u n is IS as i Jg i l goo good as any an and E r. r t s pro probably a will wear i J it c. c jJ fully u as long as a 1 y ong c g gC C k new one 8 i t S 11 S r a frt 1 t I 1 N J r 1 brightness April will spread her feast of flowers June will display her green perfection of beauty August will offer otTer the ripening grains j October the laden orchards The year will take no heed of the crime that has been done by y man or of the vengeance that marched inexorably GETS died in the trenches of Gallipoli Gal Gal- P POETS and France watching Gods God's sunrise or the wispy clou clouds s In the blue British gentlemen caked with the mud of Flanders wrote detailed reports reports reports re re- re- re ports of their observations of migratory migratory migratory migra migra- tory birds and of the effect of drumfire drumfire drum drum- fire on bird life French students and scholars bearded and dirty made careful notes of the flora of the Meuse and the Somme These men visited Olympus and did not fall asleep while the gods con con- versed Neither did they perm permit t the roar of mans man's fury to drown out the divine voices So It must be a good year that Is ahead There can be no bad years ears The years are measured by God and not by the evil that men do dot |