The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1860-04-12
NUMBER 40.
Hliarfllanrulla Rrahing.
Youthful friendships.

What fond and generous friendships are often
bred among youthful companions in the bright
epoch of school.day life! Then the innocence,
gaiety and hope of unsophisticated hearts create
sky and land anew, and robe the scene in their
own soft hues. No cynic frost has fallen on our
disinterested sympathies The world has not
laid its icy hands on our throbbing pulses. Our
faith in each other. in whatever is lovely, virtu
ous, heroic, knowsno limits. Then how frequent
it Is for attachments to grow up at whose stain
less sincerity and tender romance we emile In sf-
ter years, when, alas. in too many cases, time
has hardly brought enough to compensate MS for
what it has taken away Together we wander
through the field as through enchanted grounds.
We dream dreams resplendent with the triumphs
we fondly vow and think TO win. In the artless.
ness of that pure time our secret souls are trans
parent, and in the unfiawed clearness of our
communion we look through each other Our
joys, our griefs, our whole hearts, are united in
free friendship, whose strength and closeness
foretell sweeter and nobler life than the fairest
passages Of history have yet realized. These
halcyon unioLs rarely survive full entrance up
on the common pursuits of life. But they are
prophetic And when the cares of the world
the deceitfulness of riches, and many sins, come
upon ua and ALLEVIATE us. still their glorious ora
cles are never all forgotten. They haunt us like
voices from fairy land. And oft the cliffs and
shores Of memory reverbate the plai1tive echoes
Of our love- calling after many beautiful Hylas
vanished from beside the fountain of youth
How often the remembrances of friends and the
friendships of other days come back from the
by-gone times when we knew them, and fiji our
hearts as with the wild, sad melodies Of an Eo-
llan harpl Who. he reviews the hallowed
hours that went swiftly in the morning of life,
and recalls the dear. familiar faces laid so early
in the dust of the grave, would be ashamed to
shed a tear TO their mingled memory-Aiger.
s@~Ns--
A TnorGur FOR MoSpAr.--There is a large
class who leave religion in the pews on the Sab
baths, and there is another class, who, however
disposed to take it with them to their farm. mer-
chandise and daily occupation, cannot how
| this is practicable. We commend to them, be-
| fore they re-engage In the duties of the week,
| the following illustration from Payson. ...-
"Christ commands whether we eat, or drink,
or whatever we do, to do all to the glory Of God.
| Perhaps some will ask, How is this possible 7
We cannot be always thinking Of God we must
| attend to our business, provide for our wants
and those Of our families. True: but look at
man about to send ship to foreign port AS
he purchases his cargo. and makes the requisite
preparations, he considers what articles are most
suited to the marlseti what provisions most me-
cessnry for the voyage; how the ship Is to be
rugged and manned in short, all his plans are
| laid with reference to the end of the voyage.
So the Christian, though not always thinking of
heaven, should take care that all his business
and all his pleasure may forward his journey
thther, ank promise his great object of prepara-
| ton for that abode of blessedness"