The New Beginning - a New Year Message to Youth  (and the young in heart) -

TEXT: “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it

shall be the first month of the year to you.” Ex. 12: 2.

    The old year now is past and gone, the unknown one is here, and I

am wondering how many boys and girls are starting out on the threshold of the new year fairly and squarely in a manner that will give them a chance to achieve a true and worthy character. What are your thoughts, your ideas and your ideals about the future? What plans and purposes have you in your heads? Are they high or low, big or little, good or bad? Then, again, do you have any rule of life or any great principle which you intend to follow? You cannot go through life successfully unless you have some definite aim or goal in view. A definite aim in lifé is a very important thing.

    A bright little fellow was on the scales and he was very anxious to outweigh his playmate, so he puffed out his cheeks and swelled up like a frog. But the playmate was the wiser boy. “Hey!” he said in scorn, “that doesn’t do any good, you can only weigh what you are.” That is all very true. And now in the beginning of this New Year take a good look at yourself and see just what you are. Are you a Christian boy or a Christian girl? If you are going to be something then be something that is worth while. Be a Christian. Be unleavened in soul and spirit - not puffed up with the leaven of the world.