Show the new year vigil DY BY DENJAMIN BENJAMIN R if A i OW many confess to it a feeling of marked though sarno aliat indefinable lin linares pres sl si veness in the passing train rora tile the old to the new year arbitrary in a sense though the time Is we all know that the change of date from one olle year to the next gives us it jog for a few days if on only 1 y to sh w us is how easy it la Is to open liea a let ter with last years date it may be ba there la Is a short lived resolution not to make such a mistake and then there goes the but how luany treasure the midnight hour when the year 18 and would not for any demand that la Is ever made by sleep or anything else let t that it a t point of time pass unconsciously on their part no one can furnish fur jojn us statistics let us ua assume and yet v who ho would care so much Is it an individual matter this sit ting out of the old year that one might well say that there tire are two classes of people ns as in BO ninny many other regards regard a those who cure care and those who dont in fact those who dont may wonder what good there can be in staying out of bed so late unless other matters besides arbitrary time have our interest just to say goodby good by to the old year and some kind of welcome to the tha new to such it makes no difre difference rence that poets have marked the time in well remembered verse such of at course when perchance poi chance they may be ba awake at the special pointed moment which separates the years do not on ca gerly turn to the familiar verse alnar out wild bells to the wild sky eky the flying cloud the treaty frosty light the th year la is dying in tha night riep out wild bells bella and let him die tills this we say because there arc two types of people both having virtues of 0 their kind hind and one needs needa not to judge tile the other and to one there Is no special appeal in what moves the tha other in the spell of the passing year people of the other class welcome tile tha words which emphasize the moments grouped about tile tho nick of time which points the passing year and recall again and again with each recurring opportunity some impressive word picture as TIB midnights holy hour and silence hence now la Is brooding like a bentin spirit oer the still and pulse leaa world stirred by these written the better part of a century ago one sees the white landscape held in tile the vigorous embrace of winter and la is not slow to fand a holy hour in tile the vigil of the new year tile the nineteenth century was not complete of course until it had its full 1900 1000 years the ilia first of january annu 1900 1000 wits was the beginning of the last year of the old century but such a ume time is of course so cf exceptional t that it a t one cannot infer any an y widespread interest in the passing year saying saving to allow that a goodly number in churches share annually in such services ilow how tar f a r individuals treasure the privilege of the new year vigil one could not well make confident assertion it came to notice recently that hawthorne its as recorded in the memories by tits daughter rose hose hawthorne la wits was impressed by the el choice oleo moments odthe of the passing passin 5 year and poet soul that lie he had though not given to making verse veree yielded a very sensitive response to tho th midnight tip appeal peal for site says 11 my father used to treat tile the old anti anil tile the new year with the dee deepest pesi respect I 1 never kenw the moments to be so immense ds aa when with pitying gentle ness we silently attended tato old year across the ghostly threshold of midnight and my father at last rose reverently from tits his chair to open the window through which nt at that breath tile the first penis peals would float with new promise and remembering toll apart from the more somber and sentimental individual considerations we know that in the newspaper treatment of the time the pst it year will be summed up in various ways in general or in detail the indications for the year to come will be set forth with such wisdom as an the writer may command anti and each one in his way come into some touch with a wiser regard for the past and the future yta yea from faoro iny myriads rinds will come response to tenny sons words of long no ago ring in the th valiant man and nd free the larger heart the th kindlier handl hand ning out th darkness of the th land was lung la in the tb christ ebat Is to b |