With the dawning of a new calendar year, thought instinctively reviews the panorama of human experience in the months just past—rejoicing in the triumphs, but possibly dwelling too long upon the sadnesses, the defeats. Would that mortals might heed the wise counsel of Shakespeare,
Let us not burden our remembrance with
A heaviness that's gone.
The turning of the page of a new day. or a new year, should beget in the human heart fresh hope, fresh expectation of good. Paul, that rugged warrior who could rejoice even intribulation, declared his Christian policy to be "forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before." ever striving for "the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 3:13,14).
