Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-02-05
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So 9 christian ministsr " reported 70 have.
said while disposing Of raliingg tickets at 4,
fair for the bene6tof his congregation. The
language may have been misguided, but that
he engaged in the business 10 Well known.
Now, 10 it 1t that Christian ministers or
religious societies should do stthe devirs3b bust.
ness" because it pays well1 What a change
of programme is the introduction of a fair
conducted, to a great extent, upon such prin.
oiples, in the midst Of a series of religious
meetings, and in the midst Of rejoicing 10 q
"~revival of religion r. Yet such was the case
with the fair to which %allusion is made. IL
there not special danger that converts, gath
cred under such influences, will "fall from
grace?"
But this is only . low step in the direction
to which fairs are wont to tend. They are
generally a device to get money for the Lord
from those who are the servants Of the devil,
and the means must be suited to the end or
it will not pay.
Will the Lord be pleased with such offer.
ingsS If He would not allow the price Of a
dog to be brought into his house for any vow,
will hs aooopt the gains Of ''the devils bust
ness" a worthy tributei
IL it not time that Christian ministers and
Christian churches set their faces against such
thingsl Such devices for replenishing tho
Lords treasury may be fair in promise, but
in tho end they will not pay. Better that
our churches should be unfurnished and una.
dorued, and that our music should be from
voices esstained only by tho deep %fountain Of
piety in the heart, than that the taste should
DO gratifed by such unholy means.
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AGEM PAssAaE.-In q letter written in
1928, Lamartine thus beautifully and relig-
iously explains his motives for entering polit-
ical life:
"When the Divine Judge shall summon
us to appear before our conscience at the end
of our brief journey here below, our modesty,
our weakness, will not be an excuse for our
%inaction. It will DO Of no avail to reply
we wero nothing, we could do nothing, we
were but as . grain of sand. He will say to
us-I placed before you, in your day, the
two scales of . beam, by which the desti-
ny of the human race was weighed; in the
one was good, and in the other evil. You
we're but a grain Of sand, no doubt but who
told you that grain of sand would not have
caused the balance to incline on my side2
You have intelligence to see, a conscience to
decide, and you should have placed this grain
of sand in one or the other; you did neither.
Let the wind drift it away; it has not been
of any use 10 you or your brethren"
HEADS MAx1Ms.-Franklin said, "Time
is money" Now I tried to pay a note with
time; l tried to pay my grooer's bill with
time; [ tried to pay my printer the same way,
and tho only. satisfaction l got was, that cit
was time to pay UP" They didn't see it as
Ben. did at all. "Timo is money" only when
it "passes." /.
"Necessity is the mother Of invention.''
Now, | have known her, personally, all my
life, but I could never invent any way to got
a living without work.
Going 10 bed is a good institution getting
up is thunder, and I'm down on tho man that
invented it. 1t is said to be healthy to s'rise
with the lark" if you have been on a "lark''
the night before, when it amt healthy. It
is said, too, t',h,t the early bird catches tho
worm" but you don't want any worms-they
amt healthy. So you need not hurry about
getting up.
BY taking tho various. remedies for differ.
ent diseases advertised in the papers, you will
be a healthy invalid, and will help q healt,y
growth of quacks. You will also assist in
supporting some doctor, and after a shor,
time, the undertaken.
When you are hungry, 1t is best to cal
something. If you board by the week o,
month, tho moro you eat the nearer you viii
, como to getting your moneys worth.
"Traiu up . child in tho way he should 40
. and when, he is old he will not depart from
it." Then most people don't show taIoh 10,
their training, that's all.
"Contentment is riches" perhaps, but i
F: won't pay board and washing.
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OUR Ex.JUDaEs.-Ohief Justice Dunkil
= has entered into q eo.partnership wish his son
: A. H. Dunkin, ESD, Of this city. ). II
: Judge Wardlaw, we learn, will open a Ia,
! Office at Edgofeld Court. House. >