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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1920
Page
10
A New Year sermon urges reflection on time and life, urging repentance for past sins and hopeful resolve. It stresses that times are in God's hand, urges personal preparation, and prays for a blessed year free of sin and sorrow. It ends with a prayer for peace and moral renewal.
The article surveys diverse New Year traditions from ancient Egypt to Switzerland and Norway, noting charms, rituals, and beliefs about luck. It recounts Bible readings for fate, ring tapping in marriage timing, fish fortunes in Norway, Chinese card customs, and gifts varying by country, highlighting global folklore on the year's start.
Bruce Telford, haunted by past unspoken love, returns to Marcia Burton at New Year. He finds letters from a long ago exchange hidden in a book and reunites with Marcia as ice glides on the river. The delayed correspondence ends in renewed hope and a shared future.
Poetic reflection on New Year dawn and old year fading. It urges kindness duty and peace, laments ignorance and violence, and calls Christians to ring out the old and ring in the new with hopeful deeds. Attributions: George W. Armstrong.
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