Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-07-08
Woman.

We have raed Chinese maxim no matter
where, but it deserves to be cugravcp in let
tcrs of gold, then sprinkled with diamond
dust, and hung conspicuously in every home
where fenlininity dwclls. Thus it runs "Wo
require four things Of womnn--that virtue
dwell III her heart; that modcsty play on her
brow; that sweetness flow from her lips; that
industry occupy her hands" A virtuous
woman, with modest mcn sweet words and
industrious habits, is very lovely creature.
She can transform humble homo into para
disc, and cause the dcws of love, and waters
of usefulness to flow over, the cothc it in
perennial beauty. AS daughter she may
be the apple of her mothers eye, and the
pride of her fathers heart; as sister she
may be the talisMan to allure her brothers
into wisdom's pleasant paths; and the dar
ling campanion of her sisters. She is friend
to her young associates, whom they respect
aud love. These arc all important relations
which woman is called to fill in tho social
system hut in one sense they arc minor oncs.
When she plights her faith to another young
heart which palpitatcs with the same hopes,
fears, Joys and affections that hers does, when
she stands before the sacred altar and solcmnly
promises to love and servo him faithfully SO
oug as life shall last the4.it is that she en-
tcrs on q new existence, lofticr sphere Of
action than what she has known before. AS
as maiden she followed where others led, as a
wife she becomes one of the leaders of society
She is at once transferred from the rear to the
van guard aud her promotion involves CORES
ponding duties.
Swedenborg says that in one of his visions
Of Heaven, he saw number of lovely maid
ems grouped together, and the sight was very
pleasant to look upon but little farther was
cluster of wives, who far outshonc them in
radiance. They were in higher sphere,
and rcvolvcd nearer to the Scraphin aud
Chcrubln in the cycles of eternity. The
ems at once to become candidates for this
lor,icr Heavenly sphere; for VIC presume
that if the wives were there, the husbands
were not far Off The wife is in sense not
her own, for the comfort and happiness of
But the highest, holicst, most intensely inter,
csting position woman can Gil in this world,
is that of mother. She is like beautiful
her. Opening their tiny leaves to welcome
the sunbcams; drinking in the SPARKLING dew,
and gentle Showers growing in size and
SblSupll, anu DuuNluS aHu III ucau-
ty The mother scents the fragrance of her
flowers, and feasts her eyes On their lovely
hucs, for from her, in an especial manner,
sprang their primal charms, whether Of out
ward adornmcnt, or inward grace. TO her is
committed the training of these little branch
cs for Immortality; and this places her still
higher in the scale of being. and imposes still
heavier responsibilities. We must believe.
and surely it is so, that the high-soulcd
Christian mother, is the lolticst type of wo.
man.
A WoHD TO MorllERs. Every mother is
historian. She writes not the history of en-
rires or of nations upon paper, but she writes
her own history upon the imperislable mind
OF her child The tablet and that history will
| remain indciblc when time shall be no more.
That history each mother shall meet again
and read with eternal joy or unuttcrablc grief
in the coming ages Of eternity. The thought
should weigh on the mind of every mother,
and render her deeply circumspcct, and prayer
full, and faithful in her solemn work of train.
ing up her children for heaven and immor.
tality
The minds of children are very susccpti.
bic and easily impressed. A word, look. a
frown, may cneravc an impression upon the
mind Of a child which no lapse Of time can
clacc or wash out You walk along the sea.
shore when the tide is out and you fern char
acttFs, or write words or Names in the
smooth white sand which is spread out so
clear and beautiful AT your feet, according as
your fancy may dictate; but the returning
tide shall, in few hours, wash out and cilncc
all that you have written. Not so the lines
and character Of truth or error which your
conduct imprints on tic mind Of your child
There you write impressions for the cvcrlas
ting good or i'll Of your child which neither
the floods nor storms Of earth can ever wash
out, nor Deaths cold fingers erase, nor the
slow moving ages Of eternity obitcratc Tow
careful, then, should each mother be in the
treatment os her child How praycrfnl, and
how serious, and how earnest to write the
eternal truths Of God on his mind-thosc
truths which shall be his guide aud teacher
when her voice is silent III death, and her
lips nc longer move in prayer in his behalf
in commcading her dear child to her covcn-
ant God.
~ BEAUTIFUL 1DEA-IIar away among
tho Allcghanics, there is spring so small
that q single OK, in summers day. could
drain it dry. 1t steals its unobtrusivc way
among the hills, till it spreads out into the
beautiful Ohio. Thence it stretches away
thousand miles, leaving on its banks more
than hundred villages and cities and many
a cultivated farm, and bearing half thou
sand steamboats,. Then joining the Mssis.
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