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The New Year and the Old

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 31, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 55.

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The New Year and the Old

By Editor

WE have come to another milestone on time’s great highway. It seems but a few short months since the beginning of the twentieth century, but we have already passed fourteen of the milestones on the hundred-mile highway. With many the closing year has been the most eventful of them all. It has brought to the majority of the readers of the REVIEW its full measure of blessing and happiness, of trial and sorrow.
But while we can look over the last twelve months with some degree of satisfaction, and with praise to God for his mercies, our highest joy is tinged with regret for the things that might have been. Let us make right, as far as lies in our power, the wrongs that have been committed. Let us close the old year without personal grievance against a soul in the world. Let us seek God to blot out from the heavenly record every mistake that has been made, and then resolutely enter the portals of the new year, determined, under God, to make it a grand success. Forgetting the things which are behind, we must reach forward unto those things which are before. The standard of yesterday must not become our gauge for today. Higher and still higher must be our aim.
Have we gained ground in the year that is closing? Let us determine by God’s help to make still greater gains in the year to come. Let us form, beginning with the new year, the habit of frequent daily prayer. Let us form the habit of systematic daily Bible study. Let us resolve that we will permit no day to pass without definite labor for some soul. Holding ourselves to this program faithfully every day during 1915 will unconsciously affect and mold our lives throughout the year. The quickening of personal missionary effort in our churches has brought thousands to a knowledge of the truth during 1914. Let this spirit of quickening so take possession of our church members that the fruitage of 1914 shall be doubled and trebled during the year to come.
We wish for all our readers a happy and prosperous new year, physically, temporally, and above all, spiritually. Let us remember that in Christ Jesus we may enjoy all that is necessary in God’s wisdom in this world, and eternal life in the world to come.