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Show Mi YEAR S SERMON BY P. J. E. CARVER In his Sunday evening sermon, Rev. John E. Carver said: "Happy New Year! Sometimes it is easier to say It than to live it ourselves. our-selves. The biography of Garrick tells of a celebrated doctor in London being visited by a care-worn man who sought relief from despondency and fatigue, fearing that some disease was the cause. The doctor after a careful examination told his patient that he was suffering only from melancholia and advised that he secure tickets for David Garrlck's theater and assured him that the actors' enthusiasm and mirth would be conducive, of a good night's rest, 'With a good night's sleep you will be better,' counseled the doctor. The man sadly shook his head as he muttered, 'No, no; for I am David Garrick.' It is one thing to wish your friend a Happy New Year. It is another thing to resolve, upon one for yourself. We find that the experiences and fallings of the year that is past casts a gloom over the optimistic promises of the one to come. It is ever the past that discourages and yet most everyone has had to forget the disappointments of yesterday to smile, today. In the old home of Carlylc they have gathered quite a number of quaint reminders of his checkered life Jbut none more expressive than two bits of his hand writing, the one the fragment of his 'Frederick ihe Great' that was saved from the fire and tho other the letter to his publisher telling tell-ing how he regretted the Incident but would have the rewritten manuscript ready in as few months as possible. After spending months on the manuscript," manu-script," the servant girl used it to build fires and he had to do all tho weary toll over agalp, but -with courage cour-age ho did it. Much of the toll and fret of your last years may have been caused by the deeds of those about you and it is this being the victim of others' error that lessens the Joy of the New Year, but all mankind has had that to meet as well as you. There are few if any of your problems prob-lems that are not common to the brotherhood of man. The better way of thinking is that there are few if any of the blessings and hopes of mankind man-kind that cannot bo yours if you will pay for them as others have done. Christian Joy and character are won at great price. They arc earth's greatest great-est boons. They do most to really make a Happy New Year not only possible pos-sible but a reality as well. You can have them as well as others. You can commence today. Happy New Year!" |