Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-06-12
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Men OF immense wealth have been. known
to enter gambling houses, and in few
short hours to be reduced to beggary
The young should be warned never to
enter this dreadful road Shun it as YOU
would the road to eternal destruction. Fly
the temptation as you would the bite of an
asp or scorpion. Take not the first step;
ifyou do, all may be lost. Say not that
you can command yourself when you ap-
proach the confines of danger SO thou
sands have already thought as sincerely as
yourselves, and yet they fell. The proba-
bllitics that we shall fall where so many
have fallen, arc as millions to one; and the
contrary is only the dream of lunacy.--
When you arc inclined to think yourself
safe, consider those who once felt them
selves equally so, have been corrupted, dis
trcsscd, ruined by gaming, for this world
and that which is to come. Think how
many families have been plunged by it into
beggary, and overwhelmed by it in vice.
How many men have become liars at the
gaming-table, who many poriured, how
many drunkards, how many blasplIemers.
Europe, says Montcsquieu, is to ruined, it
Will be by gaming Burgh, in his Dignity
of Human Nature, sums up the evils of ga
ming as follows
" 1t is the cause of infinite loss of time,
OF enormous destruction of money, of irrta-
ting the passions, and stirring up avarico;
OF lnnumcrable sncaking tricks and frauds
OF encouragement ofidleness; of fdisgustinc
people against their proper cmploymcnts,
and OF dcbasing all that is truly noble and
valuable in the human soul
IN Y. Obscrvor.
HOME AND WoMEN.--If there has ever
been more touching and eloquent culogi-
um upon the charms of home, and it's dear
est treasure, woman, than is contained in
tho following extract from the Christian
Enquirer 1T has not been our good fortune
to meet it:
Our homes, Of what is their corner
stone but the virtue ofwoman, and on what
docs social wcl-bcing rest but our homes?
Must VIC not trace all other blessings ofoiv
ilizcd life to the doors of our private dwell
lngs Are not our hearth stones guarded
by the holy forms of conjugal, flial, and
patcrnal love, the cornerstone of church
and state; more sacred than either moro
necessary than both Let our temples
crumble, and our academies decay let cv
cry public ediico, our halls of Justice and
our capitals of state, be elevcllcd with dust
but spare our homes Let no socialist in
wade them with his wild plans of communi-
ty. Man did not invent, and he cannot
improve or abrogate A private shelter to
cover In two hearts dearcr to each other
than all in the world high walls to exclude
the protane eyes of every human being Sc
clusion enough for children to feel that mo-
ther is holy and peculiar namc--this is
home; and here is the birth place of every
ylrtuous impulse, of every sacred thought.
Hero the church and state must come for
their origin and their support. Oh, spare
our homes The love we experience there
give us our faith in au infinite goodness; the
purity and disintercstedness, tenderness of
home is our foretastc and our earnest of a
better world
In the relations there established and fos
tered do VIC find through life the chief go
lace and joy Of existence. What friends.
deserve the name, compared with those
whom birth-right gave us? One moth
or IS worth thousand friends, one sister
trucr and dearer than twenty companions.
We who have played on the same hearth,
under the lights of the same scene and sea-
son of innocence and hope, in whose veins
run the same blood; do we not find that
years only make more sacred and important
the tie that binds us? Goodness may spring
up, distance may separate, different spheres
may divide; but those who can love any-
thing-who continue to love at all--must
find that the friends whom God himself
gave, are wholly unlike any we can choose
for ourselves, and that the yearning for
these is the strongest spark in our expiring
affection"
The VALUE OF PRAYER PRAYER is a
heaven to the shipwrcckcd man, an anchor
to them that are sinking in the waves, a