Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-10-09
" nv not TODAY?

AUujliun.
Why not To-Day?
Reader, you hope, very likely, to be
real Christian some time, and lit to 60 to
heaven. You hope to repent and believe
on Christ, and have good hope before you
die. But Why not to day?
What is to prevent you? Why should
you wait any longer? Why not this day
awake and call upon your God, and resolve
that you will sleep no longer? set before
you Jesus Christ the Saviour, who died to
make atonement for sinners Jesus who is
able to save to the uttermost, Jesus who is
willing to receive. The hand that was
nailed to the cross is held out to you in
mercy. The eye thar wcpt over Jerusalem
is looking on you with pity. The voice
that has said to many wanderer, "Thy
sins are forgiven" is saying to you, "Come
unto me-" Go to Jesus first and foremost,
if you would know what step to take
Think not to wait for repentance and faith
and new heart, but so to Him just as you
are. o, awake thou that slcepcst, and
Christ will give thee light Why not to-
day T?
Sun, moon and stars, are all witnessing
against you; they continue according to
Gods ordinances, and you are ever trans
crossing them. The grass, the birds, the
very worms of the earth, are all witnessing
against you; they fill their places in crca-
ton, and you do not. Sabbaths and ordi-
nances arc continually witnessing against
you; they are ever proclaiming that there
is a God and Judgment, and you are liv-
inn "A
prayers of godly relations are witnessing
against you; others are sorrowfuly think
ing you have soul, though you seem to
forget it. The very grNcstoncs you see
every week are witnessing against you
they arc silently witnessing that life is
uncertain, time is short, the rcsurrcc-
tion is yet to come, the Lord is at hand"
All, all are saying, awake, awake, awake
y, reader, the time past may surely suffice
you to have slept. Awake to be wise.
Awake to be safe. Awake to be happy
And why not to day?-RyIe.
He DRINKs.-IIow omnous that sentence
falls. How we pause in conversation and
calculate, cts pity?' How his mother
hopes he will not when he grows older: how
his sisters persuade themselves it is only n
men shake their headsand feel gloomlt when
they think about it. Young man Just com
mencing life h2uyant Nth hope. dnnt ,lrmk
You are freighted with precious cargo. The
hopes OF your old parents. of your sisters of
your wife, of your childrcu-al are laid
down upon you. In you the aged live over
again their young days; through YOU only
can that weary one you love obtain posi-
ton in society; and from the level in which
you place them must your children 90 into
the great struggle Of life.
CURE FOR THE BITE OF A MAD Doc
A writer in the National Inteligenccr, says
that spirits of hartshorn is a certain remedy
for the bite of Il mad dog. The wound, he
adds, should be constantly bathed with it,
and three or four doses, diluted, taken in
wardly during the day. The hartshorn
dccomposes chemically the virus insinuatcd
into the wound, and Immediately alters and
destroys its Righteousness. The writer
who resided in Brazil for some time, first
tried it for the bite of scorpion and found
that it removed pain and inflammation al
most instantly. Subsequently, he tried it
for tic bite of the rattlesnake, with similar
success. At the suggestion of the writer
an old friend and physician tried it in ca
ses of hydrophobia, and always with sue
cess.
A POOR som of the Emerald Isle applied
for employment to an avaricious hunks,
who told him he employed no Irshman :
For the last one died on my hands, and i
was forced to bury him at my own charge"
"Ah, your honor" said Pat, Frightening
up, "an' is that all Then you'd give me
the place: for sure can get certificate
chat never died in the employ of any mas
ter iver served"
YOUNG wife demonstrated with her hus-
band, dissipatcd spendthrift. on his con-
duct My love-" said he, II am only like
the prodigal son--I shall reform by and by."
And will be like the prodigal son, too" she
replied, 'for will arise and go to my faith
err and accordingly OFF she went.
THE LANGUAGE or FLowERs.---If you wish
for (" HeNrts-ease," never look to Marry
gold"