THE KING’S BUSINESS [§ ~ I Vol. 8 JANUARY, 1917 No. 1 H m 0 E D I T O R I A L This is the time of the year when many men will make New Starts a “fresh start” in life. Such action is commendable, ¡n Life. There is an exhilaration in a new start. While life is one great continued whole, it nevertheless is made up of many “new beginnings” and “fresh starts.” The advantage of such “fresh starts” is that each recalls and freshens the fundamental principles and motives under which the life-work is to be done, and keeps one from degenerating into mechanical routine. Among such new beginnings may be mentioned that of youth, or the new start in the physical life; that of the choice of an occupation, or the deliberate selection of one’s work; and the new start in religious conse cration, or the entrance of the soul into its deeper life with God. It was Phillips Brooks who said that no man lives completely who does not at least start in each of these- three roads. Surely no man can lead a complete life who does not make a new start in the elerhent of his religious experience. Make a new start by all means, but whatever else you do, do not forget to make that new start in the name of God and with the help of the Lord Jesus Christ. All efforts of the flesh will fail; the power of the Spirit will bring success. year has ever opened with so much of uncertainty as this. But God reigns. Sometimes during the past year it has looked--as if the devil reigned in our own land as well as in-lands across the sea. Suspicion, hatred, falsehood, cruelty, murder, impurity, have been holding such a carnival as has not been witnessed for centuries. - But God is over all, and back of the jar and the jangle of the conflicting ambitions and passions of men He is guiding the world on toward the destiny that He has purposed from all eternity. Whether this most unneces sary and appalling war of all history will come to an end during the current year no one can tell. What catastrophies in commercial and political life in our own and other lands may come, none of us can predict, but whatever does come it can be a joyous year, a year free from all anxiety and worry, to each of us, if we put our trust in God and in His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, and put the entire control and government of our life into His hands, with the calm assurance “that all things work together for good to them that love God.” Doubtless many of the readers of T h e K ing ’ s B usiness will be called, during the present year, to places of peril and hardship, either in missionary work or in the service of their country, or in other ways, but if our joy is in the Lord We begin today a. new year. We have never entered upon a year so big with peril on the one hand, and so big with opportunity on the other, as this. As far as man, and what man can do, is concerned, no other A Happy New Year.
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