We are on the eve of another calendar year. According to the human estimate of time, we are about to enter upon a new year, the year 1894.
Do we bear in mind when we pen this symbol of time that we are recording the fact that eighteen hundred and ninety-four years ago Jesus of Nazareth was born; that his birth so impressed itself upon the thought of the age that it established a new calendar and changed the long established method of computing time?
What an event was this even from the secular standpoint, and how it should inspire all to a high conception and just recognition of the deep import of his coming! If his coming wrought so great a change and meant so much in a secular sense, what shall be said of its ineffable purport in the spiritual sense?
