2014 Circumstances
Given the webs of circumstance this December, it is just to
quote the final paragraph of Charles Chesnutt’s “The Web of Circumstance.”
Some time, we are told, when the cycle of years has rolled around,
there is to be another golden age, when all men will dwell together in love and
harmony, and when peace and righteousness shall prevail for a thousand
years. God speed the day, and let not
the shining thread of hope become so enmeshed in the web of circumstance that
we lose sight of it; but give us here and there, and now and then, some little
foretaste of this golden age, that we may the more patiently and hopefully
await its coming!
Given the web of 2014 circumstances, the final paragraph of
Charles Chesnutt’s “The Web of Circumstance” has just been quoted.
