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Happy New Year!, January 1
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom.
Psalm 90:12
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Another year of life is now in the past. A new year is opening before
us. What will be its record? What will we each inscribe upon its spotless
pages? The manner in which we spend each passing day will decide this
question....
Let us enter upon the new year with our hearts cleansed from the de-
filement of selfishness and pride. Let us put away every sinful indulgence,
and seek to become faithful, diligent learners in the school of Christ. A
new year opens its unsullied pages before us. What shall we write upon
them? ...
Seek to begin this year with right purposes and pure motives, as beings
who are accountable to God. Ever bear in mind that your acts are daily
passing into history by the pen of the recording angel. You must meet
them again when the Judgment shall sit and the books shall be opened....
If we connect with God, the source of peace, and light, and truth, His
Spirit will flow through us as a channel, to refresh and bless all around
us. This may be the last year of life to us. Shall we not enter upon it with
thoughtful consideration? Shall not sincerity, respect, benevolence, mark
our deportment toward all?
Let us withhold nothing from Him who gave His precious life for us....
Let us all consecrate to God the property He has entrusted to us. Above
all, let us give Him ourselves, a freewill offering.
May the beginning of this year be a time that shall never be forgotten—
a time when Christ shall come in among us, and say, “Peace be unto you.”
John 20:19
. Brethren and sisters, I wish you, one and all, a happy new
year.
“We live in deeds, not years;
In thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs.
He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the
best.”
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