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"Some great cause, God's new Messiah"

MESSIAH PULPIT

NEW YORK

84352

(Being a continuation of Unity Pulpit, Boston)

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Entered at the Post-office. Boston, Mass., as second-class mail-matter

WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE

COMING YEAR?

My theme this morning is in the question, What shall we do with the coming year? And, as the text, I take those very familiar words from the ninetieth Psalm and the twelfth

verse:

"So teach us to number our days, that we may get us an heart of wisdom."

From the tiniest atom of which science can take any account to the grandest bodies in the skies about us, the movements of the universe are rhythmic. The earth sweeps away from the sun, and then turns back on its course again. Day alternates with night, heat with cold, summer with winter. And it seems to me altogether fitting and well that, so far as we can, we should make our lives chime in with this rhythmic, alternating movement of things; just as, for example, that man is the best sailor who does not resist the movements of the ship, but conforms himself perfectly to them.

So I heartily believe that it is a good and profitable thing that our human lives should alternate, not only in those matters over which we have no control,— as weariness and rest, as sleep and waking,— but in matters like our summer vacation,— our getting away for a while, it may be, from the competition, the struggle, the toil, the worry, and finding recreation and peace by looking on the larger and the eternal things of the world.

I congratulate those of you who have been able to be away for at least a part of the summer. I extend to such of you as have not been able to be away my sincerest sympathy. I hope the time may come when all human life shall be so far released from compulsory drudgery that we shall

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