Thanks be to God that His race has preserved us, “kept us from falling,” through another year; that so many of us are still of one heart and of one in respect to His Word and its service! When we remember that the Adversary is to be permitted to bring “strong delusions” upon the Lord’s people for the very purpose of sifting out all not truly His (2 Thes. 2:10-12), it should surely call forth our thanks to God that the opening of another year finds us still standing fast, appreciating the Truth, and in full accord with all the Divine appointments by which He has kept us from falling.