Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-08-19
Beauties OF RIble Language.

If VI, need higher illustrations not only
of tho powor of natural objects to adorn Ian
guage and crafty taste, but proof that here
VIC find the highest conceivable beauty, we
would appeal at once to the Bible. Those
most opposed to it's teachings have acknowl-
edged the beauty of its language, and this is
due mainly to the exquisite use of natural OBJ
jects for illustration. 1t does, indeed, draw
from every field. But when tho emotional
nature is appealed to, the reference is at once
to natural objects, and throughout all its
books tho stars, and flowers, and gems are
prominent as illustrations of the beauties of
religion and and the glories Of the church -
"Tho wilderness and the solitary place shall
be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice
and blossom as the rose" "The mountains
and the hills shall break forth before you into
singing, and all the trees of tho field shall
clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall
come up the fir-trce, and instead of the brer
shall come up the myrtle" The power and
beauty of the same objects appear in the Sa-
viour's teaching. The fig and the olive, the
sparrow and the lily of the field, give peculiar
force and beauty to the great truths they are
used to illustrate. The Bible throughout is
remarkable in this respect. 1t is collection
of books written by authors far removed from
each other in time, place, and mental culture,
but throughout the whole, nature is exalted
as revelation Of God. Its beauty and sub
Unity are appealealed to to arouse the emo
tions, and to reach the moral and religious
nature No language can be written that so
perfectly sets forth the grand and terrible in
nature, and its forces, as we hear, when God
answers Job out of the whirlwind. No high
or appreciation Of the beautiful, and of God
as the author of beauty, was eyer expressed
than whom our Saviour said of the lilies of
the field, II say unto you, that even Solomon
in all his glory was not arrayed like one of
these;" and then adds, if God 80 clothed the
grass of the field" ascribing the element OF
beauty in every leaf and opening bud to tho
Creators skill and power.-Irc/essor CAad-
bourne.
THEM Coop OID DAzE.-How do long
(onco in while) for them good old duze
Them daze when there waz moro fun in
thirty cents than there is now in eight dollars
and q half.
Them daze when a man married one hun
dred and forty-ive pounds of woman, and
less than nine pounds (awl told) of ennything
else.
How I do long for them good daze when
edekashun konsisted in what men did we'll.
Them daze 'yl,cn dekons we're as austera as
hoss rcdish, and ministers preached in mems
souls instead Of their pockts.
Them daze when politics was the exception
and honesty the roole.
Them daze when dogs wunt known, and
when brown bread and baked goose made
good dinner.
Them daze when man who wasn't biezy
watched, and when women spun yarn to knit
stockings.
How do long for the good old daze whom
now md then g,l baby was callcd Jcrusha,
and a Wy wasn't split if he was named Jer.
rymier.
And ye who have tho fethers and fuss of
life, who have the goldfish Of wealth without
sense under yore noze, cum beneath this tree
and long fos an hour with me for the good
old daze, when nsn were shamed to be fools,
and women fraid to be flirts.
J. JOSH BILLINos.