A “One-way Street”

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 81, 29 December 1934, Page 16

A “One-way Street”

’’Time is a ‘one-way street.’ It Is impossible to reverse one’s direction in it and go back to repeat the experiences of any ‘crossing.’ This situation raises any significant date, like a New Year, to the level of a ‘momentous event.’ The month is very appropriate--1 ly named ‘January’ after a heathen / divinity, who was gifted with power to look both ways. It is a very important trait. “The backward looker who burrows in the past like a Scribe and has no eyes for the creative epochs in front is a poor blind mole and. can pass the time-boundaries to no purpose. But the forward looker who jauntily chances his throw'of fortune without making any effort to accumulate the wisdorn of the past and without reaching back to discover the true curve of advance is no wiser and ho better off. “These yenrs behind us ought to help us to find the right curve for our forward movement and the momentous date itself ought to arouse us with a fervour of decision to go out with a forward look to a better year than any '■ that has yet been. “A mysterious future beyond the frontier of next New Year? Yes. A inomentous time-boundary with unique experiences ahead? Yes. But immense opportunities waiting there for all who are prepared. .Great service to be rendered with much giving and much loving for all who are ‘ready’’for it. The f stream goes forward into unknown vistas, but there can only be joy for those who sail on with God and who are ready for the voyage.”'—Professor Rufus Jones in “The Friend.”