Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1855-10-25
SUMMER IS ENDED.

Summer is ended the sun in his annu"
pathway has crossed the equatorial line on
more, and left our Northern Pole in anotb'
six months night. His moontide rays ia
more and more aslant across our own field
and grow weaker and weaker in their powe
to warm and enlighten. The shadows lengt
en- even at midday, and point in the directi'
whence comes chillness and frost The ener
of vegetable life has scarcely yet touched
or flower with his destroying finger, but II
evident to the observant eye, that the peri.
of vigorous growth has passed away, and iia
the season is about to fall into the oscar an,
yellow leaf" As the grey of approaching ag'
manifests itself here and there amid the raver
locks of manhood even in its prime, as ting
Of brighter color lights up the youthful chee}
Of the consumptive with premouitory synlp-
tom of impending doom, so does the changin;
green of the summer foliage indicate its ap.
preaching fall.
But amid these indications of comm,
change, there is mingled an infinite amount
present enjoyment and future hope; the gat
cred harvest, the mellowing fruit, the ripcnr
nut, the prospect of respite from summer toi:
and the approach of winter enjoyments, II
scattering of epidemic diseases before {
health bearing breath of polar atmospher
the new lease Of existence which will be civ
to thousands ofour suffering fellow men, wh~
only hope is in a return Of cooler and pun
air, the quicker pulsations of young and lu.'
lie, which bounds responsive to the breath -
winter, and drives back his icy approaches b
a more vigorous activity of the vital powers
all unite to render the prospect of the coming
dcath-like sleep of all vegetable life, pleasing
as we'll as melancholy.
Seed time and harvest has come and gone
it has been seed time of evils and harvest
Of death in many respects, as well as one Of
good, and harvest of life. Seed time ard
harvest will come and go again and again &C
the end Of time. 1t has been promised by One
potent to redeem the pledge, and who never
changes his purposes; but they not alway.
come and 60 to us, for each succeeding season
finds the ranks of the sewers and reapers grad,
udiiy ulduC up VI uCW lcClultS. ilOM sccuilN
does an entire change take place in all the IL
borers in life's great field. Here veteran
retires and one of middle age fills his place,
to grow old in turn; there middle aged reap
er faints and falls out of the ranks, but the
gap is suddenly closed up by new conner in
another part of the field a youthful laborer, full
of activity and hope, is stricken down, but his
place is speedily made good, and the work ot
time goes bravely on.
And yet, we have each an indvid aal desti-
ny to fulfill, and an individual duty to perform
whether we SOW with broader or narrower
cast; whether we cut the harvest with wide
sweeping and lusty stroke or fill the place Of
humble cleaners in the great field; it is the
manner in which we perform our part, that
will tell upon our future well being 1t is not
the man of the greatest intellect, nor he WIZ
the highest place, that will recev,
the greatest reward at the Harvest Home bu
he who does his whole duty to the best of hi.
ability, whether his station be lofty or low |,
becomes us then to strive in the summer .,
life to garner up harvest of good Deeds sucl
as will support us in our wintry years, in time
and tell in our behalf in the unchanging dura
tion of eternity.