Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-05-02
From the Nev England Farmer.
HFEaR N0T;I WILL HELP THEE,n

vicssitudes of life, we need and we receive
the help Of God. He gives the new. born
spirit into angels care, and spreads around
it an atmosphere of love, fostering the sweet.
est flowers that blossom in human hearts
Its young hickerins life becomes torch to
light the feet heavenward. Its glowing af.
fections, It's radiant smiles, its unconscious
innocence, are all aids from God in the
cause of virtue and holiness; and as the in
faut emerges into youth, others supply his
place, and become to him in turn messen-
gers of grace and links to purity and peace.
When in middle life the burdens of care
press most heavily, man is never forsaken
unless voluntarily he puts help far from him.
The same yearuing and embracing love is
offered unto his acceptance, the same help.
ing hand is stretched out; but neither is i'll
truded upon him, he can accept or reject,
and the responsibility rests upon himself
And when age creeps on and the Light of
the eye is dmmed, and the ear is slow to
catch even the accents of the dearest voice,
and the once elastic stcpis feeble and uncer-
tain, when the hand rs tremulous and weak,
and the heart is bereft and desolate, then
there is but one solace left, the love and help
of God; and through the gathering twilight
and along the shadowy way, His voice,
more precious than the sweetes. music, is
heard saying to faltering faith, :" fear not, |
will help thee"
Always and ever when pursuing the path
Of duty we may be sure of Gods help. 1t
comes in innumerable ways that we cannot
always trace directly to Him; but faith will
never doubt, nor fail to render unto Him
the thanks and the praise.
We cannot tell 10 what way this help
may come; perchance in the destruction of
some cherished hope, some fond desire.
His ways are not as our ways, hence the
necessity of that chld.like trust incuicated
in the Scriptures. The blessing that we
most covet, if granted, may prove fearful
snare to our virtue and the trial from which
we most shrink may prove the cross from
which we shall ascend into Heaven. We
will trust, then, in the promise of His help,
nor presutuv ~ s.Iy tiifoGsn "iA"' . e""s'
t shall approach our needs.
This promise comes to us with added ern-
phasis when Spring, with its awakening
breath, redeems the streams from their long
captivity and unlocks the frost bound earth.
When the sower goes forth with his seed, in
every blade Of grass, in each warm breeze
that seems to have strayed with its perfume
from the gates of Paradise, he has renewed
assurance of the divine assistance.
All these speak with the voice of Sod,
and he knows that the warm rains will come
and thssbright sunshine, that night will give
her cooling airs and plenteous dews, and
that these are Gods help to his feeble en-
deavors. He must toll and hope, and leave
the increase with the Universal Father.
And they whose lot has fallen in crowded
cities, to whom the rolling hills and broad
meadows are a rare and coveted sight, they
have their compensations in some mysterl-
GUS ordering of Gods Providence. Duty is
to all word of solemn import Its re.
quirements are not to be avoided without
sin, or fulfilled without the appreciation OF
conscience, which is the divine law in the
heart. However distastefui in prospect, in
performance it carries its own exceeding
great reward.
"Fear not; will help thee' With that
help all fear vanishes, aud the future path
way, though rough, becomes clear 10 the
spiritual vision. With it, life has new charms,
since its perils are less to be dreaded, and
death loses its terror, for the once dark val
ley is rejoicing in the beams of the Sun of
Righteousness.
Let us take the sacred truth into our in
most hearts, and it will aid us to attain that
holiness which should be the SOULS warmest
desire. We must pray for it, and it will not
elude us. Earthly treasures vanish even in
our grasp, but holiness is sure possession,
guarded by God himself, and only changing
that it may increase unto perfection.
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