The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-03-15

the machine was so nearly completed is to
leave no doubt of its success.
Mrs. Greene invited to her house gentlemen
from different parts of the State and on the
first day after they had assembled, she conduc-
ted them to a temporary building, which had
been erected for the machine, and they saw
with astonishmcnt and delight, that more cot
ton could be separated from the seed in one
day, by the labor Of a single hand, than could
be done in the usual way in the space of many
| months.
The first cotton gin made by Whitney we
| are Informed, Is in possession of the Rev. Ben
jamin Burroughs, of White Bluff near Savan-
| nah.-SacdAnah Courier.
TIE PRESENT MoMENT-A celebrated mod
crn writer says" Take care of the minutes
and the hoWS will take care Of themselves"
This is an admirable remark, and might be
very seasonably recollected when we begin to
be /" weary in well doing" from the thought of
having much to do. The present moment is
all we have to do with, in any sense; the past
is irrecovcrable, the future is uncertain; nor is
| it fair to burden one moment with the weight
of the next Sufficient unto the moment is the
trouble thereof If we had to walk a hundred
miles. we should still have to set but one step
at time, and this process continued, would in
iallibly bring us to our journeys end. Fa-
tigue generally begins, and is always increased,
by calculating in minute the excrton of
| hours.
Thus, in looking forward to future life, let
us recollect that we have not to sustain all its
toll, to endure all its suffering, or encounter all
its crossessH once. One moment comes la
den with its own lille burdens, then flies, and
is succeeded by another no heavier than the last.
If one can be borne, so can another and anoth-
cr.
Even looking forward to a single day, the
spirit may sometimes faint from an anticipa-
ton Of the duties, the labors, the trials to tenn
per and patience, that may be expected. Now
this is unjustly laying the burden Of many mo-
ments upon one. Let any one resolve always
to do ght n0ac leaving Men to DO as it can
and if he were to live to the age Of Mcthusc-
lab, he would never do wrong. But the CON-
mon error is to act right after breakfast, or
after dinner or tomorrow morning, or meat
time but now, just now, this oncc, we must go
on the same as ever.
1t is easy, for instance, for the most ll.tcm-
percd person to resolve that the next time he is
provoked, he will not LET his temper overcome
him; but the victory would be to subdue tcnl-
per OH the present provocation. Ii, without
taking up the burden Of the future, we would
always make the single effort at the present
moment; while there would, at any one time,
be very little to do, yet, by this simple process
continued, every thing would at last be done.
1t seems easier to Go right tomorrow than
tr'-euy nTv'r :oransn ~ r~.srr INIT wHe'i TO-
morrow comes hcn will he nor. Thus life
passes with many, i'll resolutions for the future
which the present never l'nlGs.
1t is not thus with those who, by "patient
continva.tce in wcN doiag" seek for glory,
honor, and Immortality. Day by day, minute
by minute, they execute the appointed task, to
which the requisite measure Of time and
strength is proportiored; and thus, having
worked Willie it is called day, they at length
rest from their labors, and their works "follow
| them"
Let us then, "whatevcr our hands find to
| do, do it with all our mi ght, recolecting that
nor is the proper and accepted time"