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REV. JOHN H. MORISON, D. D. Editor.

"THE CHURCH HEARETH NONE BUT CHRIST."—Martin Luther.

BOSTON:

LEONARD C. BOWLES, PROPRIETOR.

NO. 3. BEACON STREET,

Over Carter's Bookstore. Room No. 9.

DUP EXCH 18 APR 1908

MEADVILLE THEOL SEM

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BEAUTIFUL as we look forward to them in the future are the messengers of God, the hours which come over the eastern hills with the hopes and promises, which they unfold as golden banners of victory and joy before us. The happy new year greets young and old with gladness. The old year has been dismissed with saddened hearts, and we turn from its dim receding forms to the glowing prospects before us.

We see decidedly the predominance of hope over fear, and often its triumph over experience, in the feelings with which we look forward as compared with those which arise when we look back. Few persons, when their feelings are most alive, can look back thoughtfully and call before them memories of the past without some degree of sadness. There may be a grateful and upon the whole a prevailing and joyful sense of the divine goodness. But there is sorrow for what we have lost, regret, and sometimes remorse, for what we have neglected to do or have done amiss. Old Dr. Johnson,

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