0, tender Christ, bless Thou this year! Bless Thou its dawn, and bless Its noontide and its evening, Lord; And let each heart confess, As days and weeks and months go by To help the year grow old, That of Thy glory, King of kings, The half not yet is told.
. —Mary D. Brme. HROW away the old calendar and hang up the new! The dead and its deeds are recorded. No power of earth can them,—written in indelible ink; chiseled on the tablets eternal ages. A year of untold wrongs and crimes against God and man. A year of famine and suffering and sorrow for nations. A year of testing and trial for men and women. A story of broken vows, broken hearts, broken homes. Will there ever be another like it? Yes, and worse if the Book is true —the prophetic Book that never fails to tell the truth. The old world staggers on like a drunken man to its destined doom. Will there be no light? No cheer? No surcease of sorrow? Yes, oh, yes! The darker the night for the world, the brighter the rays of the ineffable Sun of righteousness for the people of God. Can we not change God’s plan? No, it is fixed. What can we do? Do what He has given us to do. Do His holy will. Bring some of the shipwrecked souls to the eternal shore. Break the news of God’s love for men, of Christ’s sacrifice for men.: Tell the story of the sheltering blood that shields for ever the sins of men. Tell the story of redeeming love. Heal the broken hearted. Give sight to the blind. Set at liberty those who are Satan-bound. Live out the wonderful life of Christ that is within us. Set the joy bells ringing in the hearts of the sin-oppressed. Do this, as Jesus did, and you will have fulfilled your mission, and in the midst of a ruined world you will be a light-bearer, a, joy-bringer, a soul- saver. And when the books are opened you will have ho reason to sorrow over a misspent year. Do your best. The night cometh. ' Make it a year of blessing to others and you will have no lack of joy. —T.C. H. IDEALIZING CHRIST IN INDUSTRY The Chicago Evening Post recently contained a most interesting ar ticle concerning a conference of business men in England, for the purpose year is change of the
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