Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-03-12

WANT or DEo1sroN.-A great deal Of ID
Dor is lost to the world for .hoswant Of n Iitt1
courage Every day sends to thor grave
obscure mon, who have only remained in Of
security because their timidity has prcvehtc
them from making q first effort, and who.
they hud only been induced to begin, woul
IN al, probability, havo gone great lengths i
the cnrcer Of fame. The fact is. that in doin,
anything in the world worth doing, We mus
not stand on the bank siivering. thinking o
tne cold and danger, but jump in aud scram
bic through as well as we can. 1t will no
40 to be perpetually calculating all very wei
before the tlnoi, when u man would consul
MS friends upnn an intended publication 70
one hundred and fifty years, and live to se<
Its SUCCESS for ak or seven centuries after
"Hfus; but at present, man waits and doubts
and oonsults his brothers and sneles md, mr.
1lcu'ar friends, until one day he fnds he il
s'xty'hvo years of age, md that he has nc
more time to follow thei, advioe. There i,
80 little time for oyerrqaeamishness at preses,
'"as the opportunity slips away. The very
period OF life at which u man cheses 10 yan,uYc
II ever, ~ SO confined that is no bid rule "a
Pfesoh up the necessity, in saoh instances, OF
q little violence dese to the feeling, and Efforts
nnade in defiance of strict aud sober ealcnla.
ions.-Sidney .SmioA.
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"A Word TO Mofnsns-Haoh mothsr ia
a historian. She writes not tho history Of
empire" or nations on pspsr but she writes
nor own history OH tho imperishsble mind Of
ier child. That tahlet and history will remain
lndeliiblo when time shall DO no moro. That
history eaoh mother shall meet again, and
read with eternal jay or unustsrable grief ia
the coming ascs Of eternity. The thought
should weigh on tho mind Of every mother,
and render her deeply oircu,nspcot, and PRAYER.
ful and faithful in her solemn work Of training
up her children for heaven and Immortality.
The minds Of children are very susceptible,
easily Impressed. a word,Tn look, a frovn.
may engrave an impression on the mind Of =
child which no lapse of timo oan oGace Or
wash out. You walk along thasenshoro when
tho tide is out, and form characters or write
words and names in the smooth white sund.
which is spread out so clenr and beautiful Mt
your feet according as your fancy may dictate;
but the returning tide shall in a few ho,rs
out and eY,ce all that you have written,
80 the lines and characters or error. wh;oh
our conduct i%mprints on the mind of a child.
mere you write an impression for the e~verlast.
ng good or i'll Of your child, which neither Tho
iood' nor tho storms of earth can wash ont.
'or the slow %movoins ages of e~ternity obIiter
'te. How careful then. should each mother
20 in her treatmcnt IF her child. How prov.
'rfnl' and how seriora, and how earnest 70
Tr'tc the eternal truths which sl,nlI be bns
and tencher,' when her VOICE sl,ull be
''ent IN death. and her lips no longer move
n prayer In his behalf. in commanding her
lear child to Ler covenant Cod.
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ATHEIsr.--One who does not believe in
ne existence Of God. Such a creed can univ
f'so from tho Ignorance of stupidity, of a cor
ION OF principle, since tho whole universe
filled with the moral and physical proofs Of
Creator. He who does not look to n sumo.
'"r and experimenting power az his maker
M his Judge, is without that coercive prin.
'paI OF aIutary fcar which should pro,nnt
I'M to do good a;,i cschew evil, and his oath
an, OF necessity, be no stronger than his
'ord. Masons, looking to such a dappcrous
.ndency OF such a tenet, have wisely dis
outraged il, by deei,sing that nd atheist can
q nd IN nurtioir,t. z, ~.