14 OPENING ADDRESS. 



There are higher heights to attain, and deeper depths to fathom. 

 All the secrets of the Almighty have not been brought to light 

 and all the forces of nature have not been discovered. We have 

 to "tread i:)aths that are still untrod" and "read what is still 

 unread in the manuscripts of God." It is the desire of all that 

 this country should progress and prosper, and to give effect to 

 that desire, we should take every means in our power to accom- 

 plish that along proper lines, and .in expressing a wish for 

 prosperity and hai)piness to you all for this present New Year I 

 cannot do better than close these remarks in the language of the 

 late poet laureate when he said : — 



Ring out wild bells to the wild sky, 



The flying cloud, the frosty light : 



The year is dying in the night ; 

 Ring out wild bells, and let him die. 



Ring out the old, ring in the new. 

 Ring happy bells, across the snow : 

 The year is going, let him go : 



Ring out the false, ring in the true. 



Ring out the grief that saps the mind, 

 For those that here we see no more ; 

 Ring out the feud of rich and poor. 



Ring in redress to all mankind. 



Ring out a slowly dying cause. 



And ancient forms of party strife : 

 i Ring in the nobler modes of life. 



With sweeter manners, purer laws. 



Ring out the want, the care, the sin. 

 The faithless coldness of the times. 

 Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, 



But ring the fuller minstre in. 



Ring out false pride in place and blood, 



The civic slander and the spite ; 



Ring in the love of truth and right. 

 Ring in the common love of good. 



