Of itself the New Year will make us no better than did the Old Year. The benefit of 1888 depends upon ourselves,—the thoughts which lead to deeds. If we take ourselves well in hand, another January will find us wiser, truer, nobler human beings; yet not perfect, for slow is the progress, even at the best. If Newton could say, with his vast acquirements, that he felt like a child picking up a pebble, while the ocean of knowledge lay untraversed before him, and if Jesus could repel the epithet good, as not his by moral right, surely it becomes us to be modest in our hopes and claims.
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