Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-08-15
For the Camden Journal.

think OF thee Wnen morning Springs
From sleep, with plumage bathed in dew,
And like young bird lifts her wings
OF gadncss on the welkin blue.
| And when at noon the breath of love
| Ger flowers and streams is strayng free,
And sent in music from the grove,
RI think Of tElee-1 think ofthcc.
| think Of thee when soft and wide
The evening spreads her robes Of light,
And like young and timid bride
Sits bushing in the arms of night.
And when the moons sweet crescent springs
In light Ser Heavens deep, waveless sea;
And stars are forth like blessed things,
think of thce-I think OF thee.
think Of thee that eye Of fame,
Those tresses, falling light and free,
That brow where Beauty writes her name,"
think ofthee-I think of thee.
Camden, August IL, 1851. ADMIRAToR.
CHARITY. OR LOVE OF THE NEIGHBoR.-
To love our neighbor is not only to will and
do good to a relation, a friend and a good man,
but also to stranger, an enemy, and a bad
man. Charity however is exercised after diff
ferent ways towards the former objects and the
latter; towards relation and friend it is ex-
pressed by direct acts of kindness but towards
an enemy and wicked person, by indirect
acts OF kindness, as by exhortation, by correc-
ton, and by punishment for their amendment.
Thus judge, who according TO law and JUS
tee Furnishes a criminal, is in the exercise of
love towards his ncghbor, since he thus takes
the most efectual method to reclaim and amend
the criminal, and to provide at the same time
for the good of his fellow citizens, by securing
them against his future fraud and violence. It
in like manneris plain to every one, that father
expresses his love towards his children by cor
recting them when they do amiss; and on the
other hand, that is he does not correct them
when they deserve correction, he then loves
their vices, and such love cannot be called
charity. So again where person resists the
assaults of an enemy, and either beats him in
his own defence, or commits him to prison for
his future security, yet tillretaining such dis
position of mind as to be WILING to become
is friend he acts from principle of charity.
In like manner wars, which have for their end
the protection of our country and the church,
are not inconsistent with charity; the end for
which they are undertaken will shcw whether
they are attended with charity or not
Since then charity, with respect to its origin,
consist in goodwill, and goodwill has its resi-
dence in the internal man, it is plain that when
man possessed Of charity resist an enemy,
Furnishes the guilty, and chastises the evil, he
effects this by means Of the external man, and
of consequence, when he has effected it, he re-
turns into the charity which is in the internal
man, and then rs G,r as he is able, or as far as
it is cxpcdiant, wishes well to him whom, he
has punished or chastised, and from princi-
pie of goodwill does him good Charity,
where it is genuine, is always attended with
zeal for what is good, which zeal in the exter-
nal man may look like anger and flaming fire,
yet on the repentance of its adversary, it is in
stantly cxtinguishcd and appeased: but the
case is quite different with those who have no
charity; their zeal is anger and hatred, for their
internal man is on fire with these evil passions.
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