The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-10-16
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Black. DAYS.

-. Have YOU ever knownsdays that We're
Black !? Have: you ever known days in
Z which eYcrything went wrong, as though
some invisible hand turned your whole
life tepsev-tll1vey Did you ever get up
IN the morning after the manner which
the juveniles style s'wrong side foremost"
Did you stub your toe with the flrst step
youetook? Did your strings tangle
themselves into Gordian knots-your but
tons yoff like rockets-your hooks mys-
teriousIy vanish, just when you were in
tie greatest hurry? Did glass and china
Break spontaneously beneath your most
careful touch?. Did the dress you fancied
short, .magicaiIy lengthen itself to make
You stumble? Did every sharp instru-.
ment you handled, pierce orscut you OF
It's own accord p Did somc undiscovera-
:Ble: H,dividual throwsy your neatly arranged
work into confusion, and abstract the
book in which You were deeply inter
ic,stcd 2? Did the pen spattei, and scratch,
and obstfnately blot the paper, when you
attempted to write? Did the current OF
your thoughts, which usually followed
With 4pleasa MT freedom, suddenly become
stagnant? Did the persons you least
wished to see force themselves into your
q presence, and those you. loved best re-
main absent? Did you labor with more
rh,n wonted zeal, and yet accomplish
nothing? Did it seem as though some
evil genius walked in your steps, and
flung stones in your path, and turned all
4Your actions away, and made all your ct.
Forts failures, until you grew crosser and
crosser, and became quite unbearable to
4ysonrself, to say nothing OF being. unen-
: durable to others With your equilibri-
UNI destroyed-all your purposes defeated
Your Sspirits7not dampened merely, but
drowned-did you not emphaticaliy call
the day black ??.1s:
Such unbalanced days wien life seems
ALI O. game of cross purposes, will como to
most Of us-and how is their unholy spell
TO be broken? Truly,a momentous qucs--
ton. Very often the1presence OF some
being gifted with a stong. pure heart,
genial. temperament, and sympathetic ma
ture. will chase all the. shadows, restore
serenity to.the ruffied temper, and evoke
order out Of confuson--even as the voice,
the.look Of. onoasingle angel can put to
fight ~ legionzof evil spirits. But it is
snotsalways that visitants, happily en-
,,sSdo,,Wed with this calming, cheering, de-
mon-exercising power, enter in, and tinge
.t,rl ..to,rulr;oyerhanging clouds with the splendor
3;of:their own internal sunshine.
Oftener, far, if we would not succumb
to the depressing influences that weigh
upon us in these black days, we must va
.liantly take up arms ourselves to war
against the invisible enemy. If in the
midst of the laborTthat.is. proving futile
,sthe duty that we are lily performing-the
annoyanccs that are go9ding us with
needles, we could only beinduced to pause
and ponder, and look our own mood
steadily in the face, We might gain u
seedy victory over q host Of these Lillipu-
tian torn,entors.
A state of gloom is always an unthank-
ful, ungodlv state. Sometimes it is pro-
dnced By some physical derangement-
sometimes it springs out Of some hidden
discontent-sorae haunting disappoint-
ment; some torebodng of menacing mis-
fortune-and sometimes it is untraceablc
to any source II its origin be physical,
..is.it not incumbent upon us to use every
sastainable means to restore tho health OF
tile body, that the sanitary tone of the
mind may return? II discomfort, or dis
appointment have thrown this sable pail
over the spirit, will it not be lifted by the
rcmemberanco that all events in life are
Heaven ordered, and no apparent failure