p. 52 | THE NEW YEAR by Editor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 1, 1861

THE NEW YEAR.

By Editor

ERE this paper reaches a majority of its readers, a new year will have dawned upon us. The old year will have completed its circuit and finished its record. The time will have come for new determinations and fresh resolves. Twelve months ago we no doubt, many of us, formed many purposes aud resolves of this nature. How have they been carried out ? Let us review the past and from it learn wisdom for the future. The past year has brought us its fifty-two Sabbaths radiant from the throne of heaven. How have we kept them ? Can we look back upon them as so many bright gems in our pathway unsullied by our own words, or our own ways? Another year is before us. Years, in these last days when the events of months are crowded into days, are important eras. What new revolutions it will witness, what new signs of the times it will develop, we canuot tell. Let us commence it aright, and if we are permitted to see its close, live through and end it aright, that it may be to us a profitable year's journey on the road to translation.