Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-04-27
Death of a Child.

The following extract from letter written
on the death of child, is full of consolation
to the living, and is as beautifully written as
| it is true:
1t went in the morning. bright and ra-
diant morning many went yesterday, more
to-day, and there are dews to be shed for the
departures of tomorrow. And can it be won
dcrcd that pleasant summer mornings should
heguile them into going? Is it marvel that
they do not wait for the burden aud the noon,
but follow the lark and hear her song over the
rim of the rainbow? That those words, so
beautiful, they should make so true "und
JOY cometh in the morning?" Going in the
morning glorious morning-whon the sky
is all in beauty, and the world in all bliss ;
ere the dews have gone to Heaven or the stars
have gone to God; when the birds are sing
ing, and the cool winds are blowing, and the
flowers are out that will be shut at noon, and
clouds that are never rent in rain, and the
shadows inlaid with crimson lie away to the
| West.
| We have sometimes seen little coffin, like
a caskct for jewels, all alone by itself in a
huge hearse, melancholy with plumes, and
gloomy as n frown--and we have thought,
not so should We accompany those little way
who go in the morning. We have wondered
why they did not take the little coffin i'm the
carriage with them, and lay it gently upon
their laps-the sleeper there lulcd to slumbor
without bosom or a cradle. We have won
dcred what there was for tears in such going
in the carly mornIag from home to home,
like fair white doves with downy wings emerg.
ing from neither night and huttering for en-
trance at the windows of Heaven. Never has
there been n hand wanting to take the wan
a Il. Al. \
storm.
Upon those little faces it never seemed to
MS that death could place his great seal there
is no Thought of the charne house in those
young hstencrs to that invitation, whose &C
ceptancc we are bound not to forbid there
should be mourning songs, and not sighs I;
fresh flowers, aud not badges of mourning ;
no fears nor clouds, but bright dcws and bright
dawnings together.
Fold up the white robe ; lay aside the for
gotten toy; smooth the little Impressed pillow,
aud gently smile as You think of TIE garment,
its diadcm of light smile as you think no
years can make that memory old. An eternal.
guileless child, waiting about the threshold of
Paradise tor the coming friend from home
Here Che glad lips would quiyer with an.
! Sulsh tHe oriRhG cuflS growing RfIZIleu ana
gray; the young heart weary and oll--but
there, changelcss as the stars, and young as
the last new morning.
| The poet tells Of green bough rent by the
tempest from the tree, and swept rudely along
the breast of an angry river, and mother
bird with cries of grief fluttering beside it,
for her nest and nestlngs were there. All
better to be waited awayfrou earth, than thus
that they should be driftcd around the world
in storm. hF
! SOUTHERN BAPTIST CoNvESrIoN.--Thc
biennial Convention of the Baptist of the
Southern States will meet in Savannah on tho
10th of May next. 1t has charge ofthe Board
of Missions, foreign and domestic, and also
of the Bible Board, From all the slavehold.
| ing States it will bring together some of the
leading men OF the denomination It's ses-
sions usually embrace about four days, inolu-
Isdiug Sabbath. DIR. Richard Fuller, of Bal,
Etimoro, Is the President. 4Gc,,. Il ftq5'1
- ~Gs Ss o. --4----s--r~s-------- fss it.if sgr Z
OUR old fricnd, Mike Sheran, was yestor.
/ day morning making contract with our law
partner, Mr.. Seals, for years. ditching.---
When it came to writing the contract.
4 q Sthepp, Margsn, soys ,Sliko, .5ye must put
itin the conthract that if war is declared I
dhrap the ditch right there, aud let IL go to
tine diVilJ for aa.a Mikes going 10 tho wars
to fight the Yankees--the blatheri6a spai.
poems that's always bothoring iu.Sosher peo.
! Pies business, tSSaE Etoa { Ale. J IaaHeft