The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1860-10-18
Beautiful, and as True as Beautiful.

Paul Denton, celebrated itineraut
Methodist preacher and missionary, in |
the early days Of Texas, when that
State, then a Mexican province, was the
outlaws home, collected a large crowd
at a barbecue he had promised, and
where the pledge was given that there
should be plenty to drink Of the best of
liquors. Denton did Ills to collect
crowd that lie might preach 10 them.
After tho barbecue was over, one Of
the boldest told Paul that he had lied
where is your liquor9 Drawing him 1
self up 10 his full height, his ewes fash.
ing with q strange and uneurthlY elo.
qnence, and pointing with his long fin.
ger at the double spring which burst
up at his feet, he thus broke forth in
strain THAT remained unsurpassed
y" There.-there is the liquor which
God the Etcrra, brews for all his chill.
dren. -r.
Not in the simmering still, over
smoking fires, cooked with poisonous
gases and surrounded with the stencil.
sickening odors and rank corruption.
that precious essence Of hie-pure cold
water. But in the green shades ard
grassy dell, where the rel deer wanders,
the child loves TO play, there God him.
self brews it, and down low, down in
the deepest valleys where the fountains
murmnr, and The rills, and high upon
the mountain tops where tho naked
granite glitters like gold in the sun,
where hurricanes howl music, where big
waves roar chorus, sweeping the marck
Of God-lhere he brews il, beverage Of
life-health giving water.
And everywhere it is thing Of
beauty, cleaning in dew drop, sing
ing in the summer rain, shining in the
ice: gem till the trees seem turning to
living jewels. spreading a golden veil
over tho setting sun, or white gauzc,
around the midnight moon, sporting in
the hail shower, folding bright snowy
curtains softly above the wintrv world,
and weaving the many color ed iris, ,ha,
seraphs zone Of the sky whose warp is
the rain of the earth. whose roof is the
sunbeam of heaven, all checked o'er
with celestial flowers by the mystic
hand of refrac,ion--stiil ALWAYS beau,i-
ful that blessed cold water. No poison
hau3les OIL its brink, its foam brings not
u adness and murder, no blood stains
lis liquid glass, pale widows and slarv-
ing orphans weep not burning tears. in
its clear depths, no drunkard's shrek
ing ghost from the grave curses it in
words of despair. Speak out, MY
friends-would you exchange it for the
demons drink. alcohol ?"
= A shout. like the roar of the tempt.
est, answered, No nol'
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llEBREw WoMEN-The Hebrew wo'
man in her love for her kindred scars
above her Christian sisters. The ten
der devotion which the daughters ,f
Israel bestow upon their parents, esre.
cially upon their father, is full Of beauty
and pathos. In the dark alleys Of the
Worlds Ghetti, when the old Hebrew
man toddles home from his dAily strife
with prejudice and luere. wondrous
change transforms his face as he crosses
the threshold Of his weather-be beaten
house. The fnrtive glance expands. tho
crooked gate is made straight, The many
! wrinkles of his brow are made smooth,
the crouching form Of the pedlar disap.
pears, and the old man stands erect as
if he were worthy of better things the
smile loses Its sinister grin, and is cloth
ed with genial beauty. Rebccca has
kissed away the ugliness Of the money
changer, and to see him sit down at his
table after having sen: up to jehovah n
prayer for good luck and plenty Of gain
for the coming day, and chat with his
daughter, who delights in hulhoring his
I jokes, is n treat for an artist in search
Of tlie picturesque, or for a poet in quest
of the romantic. Rcbeccas abound not
only in the regions of the Ghetii, but
in tie middle, and higher. and highest
order of Hebrew abodes., Here we find
the daughters, Us class, watching with
Argus. eye fathers and mothers happi.
ness and comfort. Here, on the domes,
tic shrine, all the fires of love and af.
fection are burning so vigorously that
unwittingly even The symyatlics are
consumed, which are wonted 10 kindle
the great flames round. the sacred altar
of a common humanity. Unless this
drawback is constantly kept in view
our description Of the Hebrew daughters
love for her parents would be calculated
10 surround the feeling with too an
gelic atmosphere,--Croyon
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= DHFERENCE oF TWES-It is astonishing
to see how man mey live on small IN
come, who has hardy and industrious
wife, Some men live and mako far better
appearance on six or eight dollars per week
, than others do on fifteen or eighteen d"llats
The man does his part well, but the wife i,
, goo,l for nothing She viii even upbrait
| | her husband for not living in rs good styl,
MS his neighbor. while the fault is entirely
Il her own. His neigllbor has a neat, capable
and industrious wife, and that makes th'
: difference His wife, on the contrary, is
!. whirlpool, into which great many silve
q cups might be thrown, aid the appearance
( of the water remain unchanged.
: ItF'E- as.E 49, s<EDpss s-
meant to have told you Of that hole,
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