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Show HAPPY NEW YEAR IS TRE SOBJECT Of A SERMON New Year's services In the first Presbyterian church were handicaped yesterday by the installation of a new Steam heating plant. The old hot air j furnaces, in service for the past twenty-seven years have been torn out I and a new large Kewanee boiler is being placed in a new concreip-lini d coal and furnace room. Other improvements such as the in : i stallation of a ventilation system, the fitting up of the entire basement for 1 Sunday school and social purposes will follow. For the present the services are being conducted in the older portion i of the building which is heated with gas. Speaking last evening upon the theme of ' Happy New Year" Rever- ' end Carver said in part: "Are you waiting to sa Happy New Year? You have said Merry Christmas. Christ-mas. The Christmas merriment was onlj for a while. The toys have perchance per-chance been defaced and the CI mas candy eaten But ou said .Mm Christmas and ou know the word ' Merry" does not have in it the ele-meni ele-meni of staying power. Joy lasts but merriment is fleeting. Merriment dies soon. Happiness on Ihe contrary may last throughout the entire year. Happiness. Our happiness depends very largely upon our real self One merriment Is largely caused bv oth- ! ers. Pleasure comes to us through j ' hp five sensps it is what wc see hear, taste and all that thai makes' pleasure and we may be too pool oi in too circumspect environment to) have much pleasure through our five senses. True our friends and knowl-edge knowl-edge give pleasure but none of these ! can compare with having within us the trends and character and desires and spirit that can yield happiness all ihe year. Our likes, the thing., in which we are interested, the work we do, the hopes and aims from which J we draw strength all these are part of the factors that make for truo happiness We have learned that few things happen without preparedness. We have como to realize that happiness happi-ness comes not by chance but by-character by-character and worth. "The great work of each life is to transform time into character and usefulness. That indeed, has been the entire problem and achievement. We know th;it the advances made by civilization have come as men have Invented and developed means and methods for changing time into force and knowledge. All the gTeat steps that mark progress tell this. Mechanical Mechan-ical powers like the lever the inclined inclin-ed plane, the wedge, the pulley and tli- wheel, these primitive steps that meant so much were only contrivances contriv-ances for the making of time into achievement by doing in a little time what would have taken hours unaided unaid-ed and to do by a number of efforts what he could not be able to do in one play of energy. Printing and in fact the alphabet were great steps which made time saved and what Is more to the point made time into knowledge. Dark has observed that when we wind our watch we are only-storing only-storing it with energy to be used by it through the day. There were many-plants many-plants civen as Christmas presents this year. They were able to be made po rich a profusion of blossom because some one had learned how to force them at the proper day so they J would be at their best on December 2u. The length usually given to their growth was overcome by making a little time mean much. If we knew the value of the year to come we would force many of it's days. For some of us it will be the last year and for others the last year of full powers. We know not what day we should be at our best and so let each day be the transformation of time into in-to real value. Some of the great men of our land have made the late y ears wonderful because they did not realize real-ize their powers till then and because each year we live we multiply our abilities not alone because we have more ability but because we better value time. John Quincy Adams was 61 when he entered congress and the next 17 years of his life were the best. P.enjamin Franklin was 70 when he Went as American Ambassador to France. He was 82 when he was a member of the constitutional convention conven-tion and was one of the best minds in the great meeting. Time must be made into worth if we are to either grow or enjy life." nn . |
