Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-04-19

| hbO S'dNCt anu IcIU 10 Heaven fhC
passionate invoca ion a'I
answer me, burning stars of right,
Where has tile spirit one. 90 t
Which passed the reach of mortal sioht
Een as a breeze hath howni
And the stars answer him, We roll
IN pomp and power on high,
bntof the t.ever.dying soul
-Aak things that cannot dep
'"Things that cannot die r. God can
only tell of the spirit-world. He as.
sures us. by his Son. that death is the
child of sin. lie tells what is the power
OF this king of tcrrors. He shows ne
that IN Adam all die" IL declares to
us that, sinful by nature and by p,uctice,
we a'e condemned to death; that we are
unfit for Heaven; TINT we are consigned
to wo; that the destiny of the soul which
remains thus condemned and unchanocd
Is TAR drearler and more dreadful beyond
than this side the gave. No wonder
that men shrink from the tlought Of
death. for all his messages are woful and
appalling.
But, thanks be to God! though dc,th
oeherc. so also is deaths Lord and Mas
ter, CAS- in Adam all die, even so in
Ch'lst shall all be made alive" That 81.
vlour, Christ, assures us that ali who re-
pcnt and for<akc ,heir sins, who believe
in Him and live to Him, sh,ll rise 10 y
llte glorious and eternal with Him and
His in Rear3n.3 lie tells us that if we
are His, those sharp shafts which death
railleS in our ear to-day shall but tran fix.
and but for season, the grrment of our
mortality: and that the emancipatrd spir
Its OF the righteous shall be horne on I'M.
gel wings to TINT peaceful Paradise
whore they shall enjoy perpetual re,
and felicity. Then it need not be voice
ot gloom which announces 10 us today.
"Ie shall die as men, and fall as one of the
princess for it tells us that the humblest,
ofmen may be made equal to the angels,
and that earth's princes mny become
kings and priests unto God"
In the presence of these simp'c I. vet
?randest truths; with these thoughts of
death and the conaucrr of DEATH and,
above all, with this splendid trophy of his
power. proudly held up TO our view by
death to-day, need utter to YOU no CON.
mon n-place on the vanity of life. the inevi-
fatleneSs OF death. and the solemnilies os
our afterbeing. Here. and now. OH this
theme, the silent dead is preaching to YOU
moe impscs,ivcly than could the most
eloquent ofthe living. You feel it now,
IN yourinmost lienrts, that that great up-
per range of things with which vop are
connected as immortals: that moral adj
mnistration of God which stretches over
the infinite fexiste ice; that magnificent
system of ordered governments, ia whose
lower range we n@ belong; which con
siSts of hcones. tlominions. princlpali. les.
and powers, which rise, o} 'eto9'a
"orbo'er orb, and height DER height g
to the enthroncd Supreme; you fe / that
this, your high relation to the Infinite and
Eternal, mikes poor and low The most
august "ad Imposing scenes and dign ties
ofearth, which flirt like shpd<t&s, through
yonr ihrec-sc0re years and ten. Oh! hap-
py it the vivid sentiment oftile hour shall
tecnme the actuating conviction of your
life! Happy if it take its place in the cen
tie of the soul, and inform all the thoughts
the feelings. and the aims of lfel Then
shall this lower system of human things
tie consciously linked 10, and b,comc
part of, and take glory from. tha, spirit
uni spheie which. all unseen, cncloses us,
! whose actors and her,es are angels and
nrchanges. and all the company Of Hsay.
en-. Then would thnt be permanently
felt by all. which WIS here and in the
other chlmber yesterday so eloauently
! expressed. that "yain are the personal
st'ifrs and party contests in which you
dnily engage, in view of the gre,lt ac-
count which you may SO soon be called
on to render" and that cit Is unbceon,.
ing md ptesumptuons in those who arc
the tonerty ofan hour in their earthly n.
hoGe, TO wrestle and struggle together
witha violence (which woull not be JUS
tlfiab!e ieIt were your pefre,ual lone ?
Then. as wcsaw to,dty, the sister tates.
by their representatives, linked hand and
band arounl the hier OF ono IN whose
fame they all claim share, we should
feel thit we saw you eng .ged in a sacra,
ment of religions patriotism, whose spon-
taneou> unpremedi ted oatb. splineing
consentient from your he,rts. aid rising