Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-06-01
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FOR THE COURIER.
Scraps for Children.-No. 8.


DEAR CHILDREN: AS our clever Editor
has boon SO kind as to publish the two first
scraps sent, / am encouraged to write you an
other letter. In my last scrap told you we
had then about forty bright-cycd boys and
girls in our Sunday School Our School has
now increased to about sixty four scholars aud
twelve officers and teachers, making seventy
six in all. Has your Sunday School been
growing that fast !? You must clcctionccr
with all the little boys and girls in your neigh.
borhood to go to your Sunday School and
learn about Jcsus-tho way to Heaven. But
I'm not going to write this epistlc about Sun
day Schools altogether, although love them
we'll enough to write great deal more about
thenn.
want to send you few lines this timo on
memory You hear folks talk about nsen,o,i-
aing this or that. Our teacher used to tell us
20 say, Commit to memory" instead of
memorizo." Sometimes people speak of
"short memories "-i.e. they forget what
they hear or read. 1t would be good thing
if they would forget all the chaff but then
the loins of their minds should be girded up
tight enough to hold the wheat. IF we don't
be careful though, We will remember the trash
and forget the solid and sensible Once n
good man was going to church on Sunday and
met bad man. clio" said the bad man,
"did you meet boy driving cart, with
plows and hoes, &C., in it 2" eyes" an-
swered the good man "and I am afraid he
belongs to family with short memories too"
Why 81? (" asked the Sabbath. breaker-
Because" replied the good man, he forgot
that command of God, Rcmcmber the Sab.
bath day to keep it holy" Exodus, goth
chapter, and 9th verse.
One Sunday morning an old gentleman
was going to church lie was happy, cheer
full christian, who had very great rcsncct for
the Sabbath. He was, however, somewhat
singular In his manner of giving rcproof. AS
he was going along, he met a man drvinr y
heavily loaded cart through the town. When
the old gentleman came opposite the cart he
gradually stopped, and, lifting up both hands.
as If in alarm, he exclaimed, as he eazed nm.
der the cart: There, there, you are going
over 1t; you have gono right over it, The
driver was frightened and instantly cried out.
Whoa, whoa, and brought his horse to n
stand. He then looked under the wheels. ex
pccting to soc the manglcd remains of some
innocent child, or at least some poor dog or
pig that had been crushed to death. But af.
ter gazing all about, and seeing nothing nnder
the wheels, he looked at the old gentleman
who had 80 strangely arrested his attention.
and anxiously asked, What haye;T aone over
sir z Over the fourth cona,,,n,tzn,eat, ,wos
the reply. Remember the Sabbath tdav TO
Keep it holy . That cart driver had short
memory-so short, at least that he did not
remember to keep ono Of tho plain commands
Of God And don't you reckon that all who
arlve their market wagons on tho Lords day
are some akin to him in slortness of memory
Well now my young friends, from what T
have written in this little letter you may loorn
this one important lesson: "Rcmember tho
Sabbath day to keep it holy" 1st. Remcm-
Der it. Don't let it slip your mind. Keep it
IN your memory. Think about it and moedi.
tate upon it prayerfully. Cd. "Keop it ho-
~. 1t Will do you no good to remember it
unless you keep it, And it will do you but
little good, if any, to keep.it unless you keep
IL hoiy-.in holy manner. The good Book
tells us that we are not to do "our oaon waus.
nor find our own pleasure, nor speak our own
words" on this holy day. Isaiah, 59-13
But we should think and speak for God. wor.
shipping His great name "in the beauty of
holiness" You should attond the SUNDAY
School and recite your lessons we'll. Go 70
church and hear the man of God preach. : Be
attentive and engage in the hymns and pray
ers with the congregation. BE serious and
devout, behaving. yourself well in the house
OF God. BE good boys and girls on the Sab.
bath and all other days of your lives. Give
yourselves to the blessed Lord Jesus Christ
who shed His "prcoious blood =. for you; and
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