Show the old settler written from salt lake city 0 my dear san Jua ners it is new years day our na nature is to associate with this day all the happy occasions it has brought in the calm and peaceful years of the past but today we reflect with sickening thought that the world is convulsed in the most deadly death grapple ever known since the dawn of time it has a tendency to paralyze every good resolution and every bright hope that we might entertain with ithe the opening of the new season but this more than any new year we have ever looked fo forward r to in the past is a clial challenge leng re ito to our most splendid courage our imort most concentrated initiative and lall all the powers of resourcefulness with which the creator has endowed us 1 the of this year is is a challenge to all the love that liberty berty has inspired within us from our infancy it is a call to the potency and the manhood on which our liberty must be sustained if it is to continue this new years day is bitter with the cry of the oppressed in all nations exiles ou outcast refugees homeless the story of their injustice is terrible to contemplate I 1 still have unfaltering faith in the matchless destiny that has preserved our fathers through all ithe the perilous times beginning before the deluge but it is no doubt the program of things that the sanest and most resolute of men land and women must come to the rescue and save this the great greatest est of lall all causes since the time we awakened from the stupor of infancy and discovered the extent and object of this supreme drama and the part we are taking in it we can appreciate more and more mor e howe we owe to it all that w we e have to give we contemplate its death struggle and forget self we want to engage in the conflict let it cost what it will we contemplate don template it and feel with the poet humanity with all its fears with all the hopes of future years is hanging breathless on thy fate our hearts our hopes are all with thee our hearts our hopes our prayers our tears our faith triumphant oer our fears are all with thee are all with thee i ALBERT R LYMAN |