1915.
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Another year has been added to age-a
year has been subtracted from time, and
now swells the illimitable ocean of eter-
nifty. II is good for man to rehect--to take
retrospective view Of the past-compare
it with the present, and, in view of the flu
ture, improve the present, SO that prospec-
tive retrospection may bring increased graf
ifcation and soothing recollections to the
mind. Happy, indeed, would be the state
Of society, did its members pay the same
attention to their moral that they pay to
their physical comforts. Were men as anx-
ious to lay up treasure in heaven as they
are to accumulate the dross of earth-were
they half as solicitous to store their minds
with useful knowledge as they are to fill
their granaries with the products Of the soil,
how changed would be their condition


how pleasurable their recollections-how
full Of hope their anticipations cf the future


The year that has just expired--can any
look back upon the time that acas and call
to mind the incidents which chequered their
existence, without discovering multitudin-
GUS lapses from that imperfect perfection
which characterizes the best and holiest as
pirations of our natures Not one, We
have all fallen short Of the happiness to
which we might have attained. Much good
that might have been accomplished much
distress that might have been alleviated-
much sorrow that might have been sooth-
ed-much that might have been done by
precept and more by example-we discover
to have been undone, which, if done, would
nou be a source of consolation instead of
regret. Regret did we say! DO we re-
gret the opportunity unimproved'. ]. Are we
sincerely sorry for what we discover amiss
in the past3 Come, come, there is hope
for us yet Resolve noD to improve the
present-to live for the future-that we may
not regret in the future, the past


Sons and BROTHERS Of Temperance, and
temperance men, generally, how much good
have you done during the year that is. past
How much more can you accomplish during
that which is just commenced' How much J
This is the question. Let the future an
swer. As the present becomes merged in
the past, may each one Of us be able to
point to living witnesses Of the triumph OF
temperance principles over vice, ignorance
and depravity, and may we each and all en-
joy the deep, calm, holy, permanent de-
light which flows from consciousness of
doing good