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<h2><SPAN name="HAPPY_NEW_YEAR" id="HAPPY_NEW_YEAR" /><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_12" id="Page_12"></SPAN>[12]</span>HAPPY NEW YEAR</h2> <p>Happy New Year, Juniors!</p> <p>The morning of the first day of every year we enter into a contest. We see who will be the first to give that day's greeting. Before I was awake this morning my boy ran into my room shouting, "Happy New Year! Happy New Year!" He won in the contest.</p> <p>Now, however, you are in Church and it is not proper for you to speak out loud, so I am able to get ahead of you. A Happy New Year to you, every one.</p> <p>Well, what will make this year a happy year for you? I will tell you. Let us take this word Happy, and instead of writing it across the page let us write it straight up and down.</p> <p>H stands for Helpful. You cannot have a happy year unless you are helpful. He who does not try to be helpful is never very happy.</p> <p>A for Active. I want your year to be full of activity. I hope you will be able to skate and slide down hill many days this winter, and that <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_13" id="Page_13"></SPAN>[13]</span>you will enter into all the spring and summer sports with zest and joy.</p> <p>P for Playful. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. You will want to do something other than play, of course. You will have some home responsibilities, but sandwiched in with the work may there be a good measure of play.</p> <p>P for Purposeful. Yes, early hi life you should form a purpose. Two questions will help you gain that purpose. 1st—What is it that I want to do? 2nd—What is it that God wants me to do?</p> <p>Y for Youth.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span>Helpful<br/></span> <span>Active<br/></span> <span>Playful<br/></span> <span>Purposeful<br/></span> <span>Youth.<br/></span></div> </div> <p>MEMORY VERSE, <i>Psalm</i> 19: 14</p> <div class="blockquot"><p>"Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer."</p> </div> <p>MEMORY HYMN, [572]</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span><i>"Break, newborn year, on glad eyes break."</i><br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />

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