Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-05-28

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and fretful baby in her lap, and her little
shivering, hungry boy at her side whom poor
Mary's patient articles can not always keep
quiet; she has toiled over tho last piece Of
work wl.ich she can procure from tho shop,
for the man has told her that after this he
can furnish no more, and tho little money
that is to come from this is already portioned
out in her own mind, and after that she has
no human prospect of moro.
But yet that woman's face ia quiet, patient.
Nay, you may even see in her suffering eye
something like peace, and whence comes it?
I will tell you.
There is a Bible in that room, as we'll as in
the rich mans apartment. Not handsomely
bound, to be sure, but faithfully rcad-a
plain, homely, much-worn book.
Harkcn now while she says to her children,
''Listcn to mo dear children, and I will read
you something out Of this book. LET not
your heart be troubled in my fathers house
are many mansions So you see, my chill
dren, wc shall not always live in this little
cold, dark room. Jesus Christ has promised
to take us to a better home"
"Shall we be warm there all day." says
the little boy earnestly, "and shall VIC have
enough to eat ?"
eyes, dear Child" says the mother; s'listcn
what the Bible says, "They shall hunger no
more neither thirst any more; for the Lamb
which is in the midst of them shall feed
them and God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes"
81 al glad of that" said little Mary; "for,
mother, | never can bear to see you cry"
"But, mother" says little Henry, "won't
Cod send us something to cat tomorrow
"See," says tho mother, "what the Bible
says, Seek ye not what ye shall cat, nor what
ye shall drink, neither be of anxious mind.
For your Father knoweth that 70 have need
of these things"
"But, mothor,'' says little Mary, elf God
is our father, and loves us, what does he let
us be so poor forP
"Nay," says the mother, "our dear Lord
Jesus Christ was as poor as we arc, and God
certainly loved him."
"Was he, mother?"
eyes, children, you remember how he said,
'The Son of Man hath not where to lay his
head And it tells us more than once that
Jesus was hungry when there was none to
give him food"
80 mother what would you do without
tho Bible 2" says Mary.
Now if the rich man who had not yet made
up his mind what to think of the Bible
should visit this poor woman, and ask her on
what she grounded her belief of its truth,
what could she answer? Could she give the
argument from miracles and prophecy? Can
she account for all the changes which might
have taken place in it through translators and
copyists, and prove that we have q genuine
and interrupted version ? Not she! But
how then does she know that it is true ? How,
say you? How does she know that she has
warm life.blood in her heart? How does
she know that there is such a thing as air
and sunshine7 She docs not believe thugs,
she knows thom and in like manner, With
q deep heart. consciousness, she is certain that
the words Of her Bible are truth and life
It is by reasoning that the frightened child,
bewildered in the dark, knows its mothers
voice? No? Nor is it by reasoning that
the forlorn and distressed human heart knows
the voioe of it's saviour, and is still.
Go, when the child is lying in its mothers
arms, and looking up trustfully in her face,
and SEQ if you can puzzle him with metaphye.
ical difficulties about personal identity until
you oan mako him think that it is not his
mother. Your reasoning may DO conclusive
--yeur arguments unansworable; but, after
al, the child secs his mother there, and feels
her arm around him, and his quiet, unreason.
ing belief on the subject is precisely tho same
kind which tho little child of Christianity
feels in tho existence Of his Saviour, and tho
reality Of oil those blessed truths which ho
has told in this world.
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4aS~ Tho "Woodstook co., Standard" says
that an elm was recently out on the old Full.
ler farm, In Royalton, which was one hundred
and twenty feet in height. The trunk was
perfectly straight and sound, aud measured
seven Seet in diameter two feet from the
ground, three feet in diameter at sixty feet
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