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Show NEW YEAR SOON GROWS OLD Fades and Passes Just as All Things Earthly Only the Spiritual Endures and Satisfies. The heart-breaking thing about the New Year is that he becomes old. We run out to meet him today as he arrives ar-rives rosy-cheeked, and ruddy, stamping stamp-ing his feet, drawing off his gloves, unbuttoning his great coat and shaking shak-ing off the snowflakes. How buoyant and hopeful he is ! He has his pockets full of good things for us, we are sure. How he wins us ! How he Inspires us ! We can do great things with him. He is so different from the old fellow who is gone. Poor Old Year! He got pretty pret-ty stale toward the last. And then, too, we got so we didn't feel just comfortable com-fortable with him. He had seen so many of our mistakes and failures. It will be easier to make a new start with him out of the way. And now for this youngster! We shall keep the past from him. He shall not know a word of it. All his things are new. Ours shall be also, new words, new thoughts, new ways. Good-by, Good-by, old things. But even before our New Year's resolutions are nil made, the New Year's clay grows old. Light the candles; can-dles; the day is dying." The shadows deepen. Our new New Year already Is taking on age. We cannot keep him new; can we keep the new that he brought to us? In the first gloom of the new year we know that we cannot. The guests of the day are gone. The flowers we chose with'such care are withering. The tempting feast fragments. Is there no abiding thing? The. old year was like this. The old yenr was like it; the new year will be and years and years all alike. Time Is their body; their soul is eternity. And as they come one after the other they bring to us the gifts of their body and the gifts of their soul. The one waxes old and passes ; the other endures and satisfies. satis-fies. Welcome, New Year. Show vis your good gifts nnd help us to choose among them such as you nnd the other years that come an'd go can leave with us until the perfect and unending day. |