To preserve a long course of years still and uniform, amid the uniform darkness of storm and cloud and tempest, requires strength from above, --deep draughts from the fount of divine Love.
Preface to "Miscellaneous Writings," by Mary Baker G. Eddy.
AS the New Year approaches we are wont to give it welcome, but the rapidly accumulating New Years! --that vista of milestones past --how uncomfortably suggestive are they to human thought. The Hebrew poet expressed a universal judgment in pronouncing the days "evil" wherein "the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, . . . . . . when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way."
