Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1916 — The Old Year’s Happiness. [ARTICLE]

The Old Year’s Happiness.

Our past ia sufficient assurance of a happy New Year. Writing a New Year’s greeting to a friend, a Christian man well on in life said: “When I think about it, it seems to me that all our years are happy- Surely the dark days are few and the whole of each year is full of showers of grace, so full that we ought not to notice what only seems, but is not, dark. Sometimes it takes steadfast trust and confidence in our Lord to say that; and in many lives never more so than at the close of this war-dark-ened year. But it is true even of this year. God is reigning; his steady grace is greater than all that opposes it. May we gratefully remember the happiness that is past, and confidently count upon our Lord for infinitely mote to come.