Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-04-30
A Short Patent Sermon.
BY DOW, in.

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: j shall this morning, give you assessor
able discourse from these words !. "a
Sweet Spring! | love to stand hear
Thy music echoed far and near;
And, OH. l love to scent the gale
That bears sweet odors from the yale"
, My Hearers: While winter has spread
his white mantle upon the new made graves
of thousands ofourfellow beings, how lucky
it is that you and | are mercilully permit
ted to remainabove ground, scrabble about,
and rejoice at the cheering dawn of anoth-
CT Spring? Old Sol has just now entered
the Rams pasture; and, as two are putting
their heads together, you may rest assured
that ways and means are about being con
triycd to provide Dame Nature with 4 new
frock, and bonnet rs fowcry as the field
ofrhetoric husbanded by a yeuhg collcgian
affected by Il touch of" the tender" p
Yes, my brethren, gciicral renovation
of the outward world is about to take place.
All damages done by Boreas and his iours
are soon to be repaired; and in few days
will this big pile of dirt, from which we
draw our Sustennncc, look us fresh green
and fair us did Eden when the first vernal
sun called forth its emerald glories, and
Zephyr, the first born, scented his Young
pinons with newly distilled perfume till
they. smetstrongcrth than q wounded sliunk's
cabbage ON dewy morning.
Verify, my brethren, as childhood is the
morning of life--as the rising of the sun is
the morning of the day-so is Spring the
morning of the year. Being now awaken
cd from the dormancy ofWintcr, we feel n
renovating, renewing change in our systems,
without looking to outward aspects, as much
as We do the happy influences Of albright
morning after arcfreshing nights Sleep
How peculiarly, unaccomtably different is
the influence of che morning rising beams
from the evenings declining rays? With
the first, wo have an aintuitive knowleds G
that day is being born--you may readily
recognize it even with your eyes shut, with
the latter, we have mysterious present.
mcut that a day is about to die, Every
heart blossom seems to be closing its bright
pctals-an atmosphere of sobcrness gath /,
crs round the soul as the shadows lengthcn
along the landscapc-Nnd all but obscene
"night birds are admonished; with the
innocent chickens, of comfortable roo$t.
The electrical power of sun in the cast
upon 9TH body and mind is, by no means
the same as that texcrted by sun IN the
west, Isn't that astonishing to you, we
listless alligators, who neither know nor
care anything about the quality ofsunshiuc,
$50 long as you can get enough Of it and have
a good log to lie upon. Well, so it is with
the annual sun When that interesting
and important body as in a certain part Of
the heavens, in autumn, its power for sus-
tanning vegctation,, or calling it anew into
life, Is as weak as goose manure; but when
it returns to the same poiut in Spring, on
its homcward journey from Capricorn, its
reviviying powers are felt and acknowledge
ed BY every plant, bug insect and living
creature. Can you account for this, YOU
mud groycing hyppopottommpsse. 1ors =
Chow do you spell all that y No, nor I
either, unless old Sol, after distributing all
bis fertilizing powders at the North, is re-
supplied at the antarctic upon his annual
visit. W. =.
Now, my friends, this mysterious reno
waiting Influence of the vernal sun you and
all this part of creation are beginning to
feel. As all nature is springing anew into
life, yon experience a rcjuvcnescence-- feel
as it new year were actually before YOU,
and that still brighter days are yet to come,
in all their lovolincss of bloom and fullness
of frnitage. SO wonderful are, the renew.
ing powers of Spring npon cvcrYthing that
grows, I don3 see why you, my brethren,
who have become preinaturely bald, may
not reasonably hope for luXuriamt crop. of
han. toyet start from your eaputs. Take
OFF yopf. wigs, ye barren-polls-- sponge your
heads stand. FOR a couple of hours each
day, in the Sprips sunshine and if that
don't coax the ddYn, perhaps, Brother
Bogg's Harsutc Encouragcr may fetch IT,
with the assistance of large quantity of
faith md a few dollars. ] once spilled q
little of the article in some. bushes, and
quite number ofharcs Immediately sprung
up, where even so much as lousy gray
rabbit was ever seen before. This Il no
pulpit puff, but gospel truth, you wicked
unbclicvers.
As yet, MY bretbrcr we have Spring in
its incipcncY We obsSrve its SYMPTOMS
and witness itsfscmi7iugis,blcs manifesto
tionsj ,butiit will not be tiIlmhen e
Tho Bull butts down the hebarrieEscf cftlipN1nr9
That we shall see Madam Flora n,arching
in, iufull foather, with the whole ilools Of
little F'loraaat her heels, scattcSalg wyeatls,
gaflands and chapIcts upon every side,
With enough yiolets, piuks, butter cupsand
hopcS.saob Hes. in their hairto attmct all the'
bumbierbees in the surrounding neighbers
hood. ~ - "a,
Whqt IN glorious, time, my brethren, is
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