3 & 7 be ag she — Raval Neighbor Entered as second-class matter, September 21, 1911, at the postoffice at Rock Island, Ill, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879 | THE PAST YEAR | LEETLY hath passed the year. The seasons came Duly as they are wont—the gentle Spring, And the delicious Summer, and the cool, Rich Autumn, with the nodding of the grain, And Winter, like an old and hoary man, Frosty ‘and stiff—and so are chronicled. We have read gladness in the new green leaf, And in the first blown violets, we have drunk | i Cool water from the rock, and in the shade; Sunk to the noontide slumber, we have plucked % | The mellow fruitage of the bending tree, And girded to our pleasant wanderings ( When the cool wind came freshly from the hills; And when the tinting of the Autumn leaves “—\ _. Had faded from its glory, we have sat - By the good fires of Winter, and rejoiced Over the fullness of the gather’d sheaf. “God hath been very good.” ’*Tis He whose hand } Molded the sunny hills, and hollow’d out ") ] The shelter of the valleys, and doth keep The fountains in their secret places cool, yn And itis He who leadeth up the sun, ‘And ‘warmeth the starry influences, And tempéreth the keenness of the frost, And therefore, in the plenty of the feast, And in the lifting of the cup, let Him - Have praises for the well-completed year. —N. P. Willis. Volume XX. JANUARY, 1919. Number RUE nen i