The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-17
COLUMBIA.
. Sunday Morning, September II, 1885
Sunday.

noisy; forever IN q run or wrestle. 1ond oh
streperous, insolent, obtrusive; void OF
shame, eager for gain; avid as sharks. at q
barter and traffic; selfish, egotistical. vain.
and suffering neither themselves nor any.
body else to he Mt peace But thov have n
beautiful slster-meek, gentle, sweet, lovely,
'Fair SIS a star when only ono
Is showing in the sky"
She follows them at q modest nace sbed
ding sweets<and softness- around her "a she
goes, soothing the hearts wounds which he,
1ll-brcd brethren have made; pouring balm
mto the bruised spirit; winning love back
TO regions OF strife; bringing the calm after
the storm, arching the bow OF peace over
the very brow of the tempest. This is Sun
day-a beautiful and benign maiden, who
or1ngs the sun to, bless the day; the blessing
to crown the night with moon and stars
every sweet effnlgence which can hold fort,,
the promise to Hope, which shall warm it
inally into an assured and confident faith.
And after all tho brawling brothers Of the
vulgar week are laid at rest-when I,abor
mas sunk down exhausted upon his bench,
and Cupidity, no longer suffered to cram
his never-satisfed NAV, leaves the mart for
the fireslde, and ambition no longer ruff1es
along the highway, and the rising passions,
IN temporary exhaustion, no longer acry
aloud-then comes the one fair sister of the
fdmily Of seven, and she filings the smile of
love over the brow of Care, and she sends a
cool breeze to the bosom of sleeping Labor:
anu she hangs n star OF promise ruiz in front
OF the one shutterless window in the house
OF poverty; and she draws with her a. spell
from all the elemental spirits such as charms
the sky to coolnes, and the earth to calm.
while brighter green glistens in the leaves
and softer fragrance issues from the flow
ers, and the alr grows into Il stream of in
nocent song, and even the streets of the
crowded city, SO lately howling and bus
ting mart for strife and evil passions, grows
pleasant as a shady valley, through which
winds trickling water having a gentle
nndersong, the whole burden Of which is
a blessing chaunt of peace Is
And white her brothers sleep; in their
several chambers, silent, with all their rude
energies at rest-temporarily overcome,
she attires herself in garments of ipurest
loveliness, and to the sweet sounds of the
Sabbath bells she goes forth hallowing. the
day with her presence. And there is al
grace in the day which the week and work
day brethren never saw-and thero is q
melody in the face of all things which de-
clare for secret fountains of lie and love-
'ness IN al'-and Peace and Rest, and Hope
and Faith and Charity, come forth from sky
and earth and ala and water, to meet her at
the porch, and they wave over her their |
wings of beauty, and they spread around
her divine PAGES as she walks tho delicious
incense which thcy have tlrawn for her use
out OF the cool pure cisterns of the eternal
observation-disclosures Which overflow with liv-
'nS nciples-subt1e as the air or the fire,
warm and .ministering rs Love delicious
and soothing as devotion at the couch of
care-a'' of which penetrate the thousand
avenues of nature and soothe her to-a peace
which IS kin to that of heaven
Go forth, 0! wearicd children of the
earth, and behold and be refreshed by the
divine aspect of this fair and blessing sister
OF most brutal brotherhood You will
know her as You see. In her hand she car
res green bough, which is the type of the
spirit; on her shoulder sits white dove
VINO whlspe religion in her ears; and
around her brow is the halo, as it were O.
sp1e OF God himself, which, reseh ING
ltsei1 into the atmosphere b1ings earth to
that bridal with the sky, which good George
Herbert sang of all the Sabbath tlays of
earth
Letter Of Mr.. ID. McGregor.
Mf iMc(IregOr WAS d confactant fo,. IL L.