Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1918. A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1921, 31 December 1918, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1918. A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

.HKKOh’M nni >1 Iht issue of the ‘"Herald" reaehes our readers, Hie old rear, one of (he most remark - ;ihie in the world's history, will have passed, On hHiking baek over the past (we!vc months, it is almost impossible to Inkf in more than the fringe of the stupendous happenings of the {>veat crisis through which tvi have passed. The new year is thc» dawning of a brighter era for all people. Old things will pass away with tin- closing year. The great men ol' the earth will plan a new standard of life which will make for (ho uplift of humanity. The terrible happenings have been the world s labour pains and part of the great, scheme of the Almighty Creator., in (he future we shall get a fairer glimpse of Truth, Eouity and .Justice, and our children will be taught in a wider school of thought. We can look forward with joy and gladness to the New Year, which is to bring a lasting peace to the world. * * fc

A DDK ESS TO THE DYING YEAR

“IF we might for a moment personify the year in his last days, we should picture him a little shrivelled old man —shrivelled as one of his grandsire’s winter pipe pins—piping in the shrill treble of extreme age, and uttering an experience strongly resembling that of human life. ‘Listen to me, mortals,’ he might say, with the same emphasis with which the old, wise by experience, say the like to young who will never be wise without it: — “Listen to me, ye mortals! fur I. am of the race of the ephemeral*; I had my sturdy youth, when it seemed that my life would never end; and I dug, and ploughed, and planted, and enjoyed my jocund prime and my golden summer; and I

decked myself'in tlic garlands of May, and reaped the yellow harvest, and gathered the purple vintage of autumn; hut scarcely- had.l attained the'object of my desires, and secured the plenty for which I laboured, than I found the shadows lengthening, and the days shortening, and my breath growing short with them, and decrepitude coining upon me, and the days at hand of which 1 said —“I have no pleasure in them." I have laid up riches and know not who shall gather them; have planted trees which must shade far distant years, and stored the vintage of which other years must drink,' " —Professor Rogers. • ■ s; « Si THE NEW-BORN YEAR. “THE new-horn year is hailed alike by rich and poor, old and young. Friendly greetings, sunny smiles, ’’ and generous wishes are plentiful a< stars. Even foes relax their enmity, and forget (heir quarrels; and vows, involving a higher and heller life, arc earnestly made on earth and carefully registered in heaven. Happy, thrice happy, would it he if each year continued and ended as pleasantly and satisfactorily as it began!” —E. Davies.