The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1915. THE NEW YEAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 22, 31 December 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1915. THE NEW YEAR.

A memorable year is fast leaving us, a year fraught with great things in the history of our Empire and of the human race. Grim and terrible the dark shadows of the world’s greatest war have hung over us all through the year 1915 which dies to-day. In common with the other daughters of Britain, New Zealand has given freely and with loyal heart, her fsons and her treasure, to help the Motherland in her terrible task. Sacrifice has been demanded and yet greater sacrifice may be called for in the coming year. But we have ho cause to be despondent: victory for the Allied arms is ultimately assured, while Britain’s Fleet still guards the gateways of the world. What the coming year may have in store for us none may tell, but we dare hope for the ending of the war by the triumph of a righteous cause. On the threshold of the year 1916 some anonymous lines may be recalled. In their diiectness and simplicity they say all that need be said: “We are standing on the threshold, wc are in the opened door, Wo arc treading on a borderland we have, never trod before; Another year is opening and another

year is gone. Wp have passed the darkness of the night, we are in the early morn; Wo have left the fields behind us o’er which we scattered seed. We pass into the future which none of ns can read. The corn among the weeds, the stones, tlie surface mold. Way yield a partial harvest : we hope for sixtyfold. Then hasten to fresh labour, to thresh and reap and sow. Then bid the New Year welcome and let the old year go; Then.gather all your vigour, press forward in the fight; And. let this he your motto; ‘For Mod and for the Right.’ ”