Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-06-11
Catch the Sunshine.

lherc ~ yet brighter day.
Catch the sunshine! though tits only
Ono pale hickcring beam of light;
There is joy within its glmmering,
Whispering Ills not always pght
Don't be moping signing, weeping,
Look up. look up like II man.
There's no time to gropc in darkness,
Catch the sunshine when you can.
Catch the sunshine though liec's tempest
May unf',rl its chilling blast,
Catch the little hopeful straggler!
Storms will not forever last.
Don't give up, and say " forsaken."
Don't begin to say " I'm sad ~
Look there camcsa CLEAN of sunsinc -
Catch il OH it seems so gladi
Catch the sunshine don't be grieving
Ger that darksome billow there
Lites u sea of stormy pillows,
We must meet them every where
Pass right through them do not tarry
Overcome the hcavng tide,
There's sparkling gleam of sunshine
Waiting OH the other side
Catch tho sunshine. catch it gladly!
Messenger in Hopes employ, flows.
Sent through clouds, through storm and bill
I'ringing you a cup of JOY.
Oh. then don't be sghing, weeping,
Life, you know, it is but span,
There's no time TO sigh and sorrow,
Catch the sunshine when you can.
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TIE ANGELS VIsIr.--On beautiful
Spring morning, as young mother COM
pctcd her toilet, and was about to leave the
room, she turned, as was her wont, to look
at two lovely sleeping infants, with that
fond affection, and holy love, and bcaming
Joy which mothers only know. AS she
turned from the cradle of the Youngest
(now with the angcls,) the eldest, little
more than two years old, suddenly raised
herself, and gazing upward, fixed her clear
blue eyes OH the mantle, whilst her face
wore an expression of JOY, such, am sure,
as angels only wear, she exclaimed, ooh,
they arc gone, mamma, they arc gone p
"W hat are gomez? said the mother gent
ly-afraid that the tones of her voice would
break the illusion. ooh, the little babies
with wings-so many of them-and the
booful (beautifuD flowers oh, all around
so pretty; they are gone, mamma y and
her mother continued to question, the angel
expression faded, and look of disappont
mcnt settled on her countcnancc, and dis
pcrscd the radiance that shone there a mo-
mcnt before
The child had been told of the beauties
of heavenly home-of the JOY that awaits
the redeemed. The opening leaf, the
swelling bud, had been placed in those tiny
hands, their beauties pointed out-daily
had she been told and taught to admire the
skill of the great Artist She had been
taught to love her little knccling- place, and
at twilight to clasp her infant hands in
prayer, before her couch was pressed by
that gentle form. Was it wonder, then,
that her infant slumbcrs should be sweet
that visions of heaven should open to her
view that angel forms should throng her
bed that flowers, such as bloom only i'm
the paradise of God, should be scattered
thlckly around her? Oh, was twas it,
any wonder, that when that glorious vision
vanished, the pleased expression lasted un-
sleep, Christ, the Saviour of sinners, had
woocd her spirit to the realms of bliss, and
that, in her waking, she was only with
mamma that the flowers had faded, that
the angel forms were invisible
May the Angel of the Covenant ever be
around her pathway may her heart, in
early life, respond to the Spirits call may
the Saviour be her best friend may she
be kept unspotted from the world, SO that
when lifc's silver chord is loosed she NAV
dwell where flowers never fade-a gem in
the diadem of God, whose lustrc shall nov
ergrow din.IM Y E0@nge1ist
TIE BRAvB MAN.-Thcrc is nothing
which bravo and pnrsevering man may
notaccomplish. Heat and cold, mountains
and seas, and sunshine, arc alike to him
when nc is bent upon hisobjcct. He push
cs ahead, never tirng or fainting until his
proud design is achieved. Whether it be
riches or honors, hespcrmits no obstacles to
impede his progress The histories of all
distinguished men, from Alexander to Ma
polcon, show that it was perseverance, that
made them distinguished above theiN fol-
low-nlen And you, young man, If deter
mined in your course, whatever end you
have in view, shall be respected and hon
ored Never permit your energies to slum-
Der, but be ever activein whatever field YOU
choose to labor. TO lag, to stop, to doubt
to hang your head in fear, will prove dis
astrous to your best interests.
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IMMENSE SIZE OF THE PYRAMtDs.-A Uni
ted States naval chaplain who has recently
visited the grand pyramid of Cheops in Ecynt
wadinG in che deep sand fourteen hundred
feet before he had passed. one of it's sides,
and between five and six thousand feet be-
fore he had made the circuit, says that. tax
ing hundred n. Y. churches of the ordina-
ry width, and arranging them in a hollow
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