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New Year Thoughts.
New Year Thoughts .
" \ S 7 E cannot alloAv our Magazine to confront the tide of public approval and criticism in 1879 without a feAV Avords of seasonable introduction . No one , Ave think , can Avitness the departure of an old year , or the beginning of a new year , altogether unmoved . He may be cold or callous , a Sybarite or a Stoic , but he must have , Ave venture
to believe , the innate feelings of our common humanity ! " Time was , Time is , Time Avill he , " AA'as said to be a Triad of mystic import of old , ancl so no doubt it was , ancl the realization of the flight of Time has ever had deep influence on all right-thinking minds .
Another civil year has passed aAvay , and here Ave are begmmng Avith New Tear s Day another spell of earthly existence . What has it in store for us all ? Who of us c an say ! Behind its dark veil no mental eye can penetrate AA'ith light or knoAA'ledge . Prom its deep abj'ss no oracle as of old proclaims the dubious enigma of futurity . No—we have to wait in patience , as Time unfolds its roll , ancl Avhat 1879 may bring to
any of us , to old or young , to readers or scribe , Avhat pseudo-prophet is there among us Avho can dare to seek to predict ? Let us leave then , contentedly and resignedly , the future to the future , trusting in the good ProA'idence of T . G . A . 0 . T . U . We leave 1878 no doubt with grieving minds and halting steps . We deplore
much personal affliction ( many of us ) , ancl not a few serious trials ; and a grieving land and a sympathetic Order part from 1878 AA'ith deep sympathy for a sorroAving Sovereign , And so all seems dark and desolate enough in good truth / But still , Avith 1879 , let us look on in faith ancl in hope , as loyal soldiers , and trusting pilgrims on our march oiiAA'ards ancl homeAvards . May 1879 bring peace , ancl rest , and happiness , and
consolation to all sorrowing hearts and troubled Brethren amongst us , and may 1879 alike Avitness the maintenance of our national reputation , the restoration of commerce and trade , and the healing , as far as may be , of all those wounds AA'hich time or separation has cast over the mourners , the lonely , the suffering , the stricken , the AvicloAved , the orphans , the destitute amongst us ! 19
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
New Year Thoughts.
New Year Thoughts .
" \ S 7 E cannot alloAv our Magazine to confront the tide of public approval and criticism in 1879 without a feAV Avords of seasonable introduction . No one , Ave think , can Avitness the departure of an old year , or the beginning of a new year , altogether unmoved . He may be cold or callous , a Sybarite or a Stoic , but he must have , Ave venture
to believe , the innate feelings of our common humanity ! " Time was , Time is , Time Avill he , " AA'as said to be a Triad of mystic import of old , ancl so no doubt it was , ancl the realization of the flight of Time has ever had deep influence on all right-thinking minds .
Another civil year has passed aAvay , and here Ave are begmmng Avith New Tear s Day another spell of earthly existence . What has it in store for us all ? Who of us c an say ! Behind its dark veil no mental eye can penetrate AA'ith light or knoAA'ledge . Prom its deep abj'ss no oracle as of old proclaims the dubious enigma of futurity . No—we have to wait in patience , as Time unfolds its roll , ancl Avhat 1879 may bring to
any of us , to old or young , to readers or scribe , Avhat pseudo-prophet is there among us Avho can dare to seek to predict ? Let us leave then , contentedly and resignedly , the future to the future , trusting in the good ProA'idence of T . G . A . 0 . T . U . We leave 1878 no doubt with grieving minds and halting steps . We deplore
much personal affliction ( many of us ) , ancl not a few serious trials ; and a grieving land and a sympathetic Order part from 1878 AA'ith deep sympathy for a sorroAving Sovereign , And so all seems dark and desolate enough in good truth / But still , Avith 1879 , let us look on in faith ancl in hope , as loyal soldiers , and trusting pilgrims on our march oiiAA'ards ancl homeAvards . May 1879 bring peace , ancl rest , and happiness , and
consolation to all sorrowing hearts and troubled Brethren amongst us , and may 1879 alike Avitness the maintenance of our national reputation , the restoration of commerce and trade , and the healing , as far as may be , of all those wounds AA'hich time or separation has cast over the mourners , the lonely , the suffering , the stricken , the AvicloAved , the orphans , the destitute amongst us ! 19