Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-10-31
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On yesterday (sIonday) morning We had
the pleasure Of "a visit from the Rev. Ellison
Capers, Of Greonvllo. He was a fellow cadet
of our Professor Of Mathematics, Mai u.
Sloan. Mr.. Capers, at the conclusion Of tho
morning devotional exercises in the chapel,
by request, addressed q few instructive and
timely words to the young msn of tho Cola
lege.
Ho said in substance that great truths ~arS
often overlooked and failcd to be appreciated
from the faot of their familiarity. BY be-
coming things Of common aud duly observ--
ance, they lost, often s6emingly, at loast, their
influences over the minds and hearts Of men.
just as frequent observation of tho grand,
sublime and beautiful has tendency to
destroy the eensibility ofthe emotional nature
so do great truths, by becoming common,
blunt in some degree their perception. The
Canadian and the citizen of South Carolina,
standing on the banks of the Niagara, in sight
of tho great falls and surrounded by the sub.
limest scenery on tho American Continent,
the latter would bo moved into cctasies of
thought and feelings, while tho formor would
stand unmoved. There would bo nothing
grand or beautiful in tho scene. because tho
Canadian had been accustomed to look upon
it from carly childhood. lilo could view with
indifference what stirred tho emotions of the
other (the Carolinian) to the very depths. So
there is danger that young men in college
may lose relish and appreciation of tho
great truths and principles which are involved
in tho study Of the languages and the sciences
They may be daily led into the temple Of
learning and by familiarity with tho ritual
by which tho truth is set forth and illustrated
thoy may lose u proper taste for the truo the
beautiful and the good, without which there
cnn be no roal advancement in learning. no
true scholarship aud tho essential element Of
succcss--the love Of TRUTHS wanting. The
speaker beautifully and trutbfully showed
tho young men how to avoid such disastrous
result by going forward in tho earnest dis
charge of duty, by addressing themselves like
men to tho work before them. rcdeeming tho
time, the days and years that they aro in
college. SEQ to it that this precious time of
their youth is not wasted. If they now do
not make dilligent use Of their time, do not
appreciate their present privileges, as students
of Adger College, then the consequence of
familiarity with tho truths and principles
involved in tho curriculum Of study would be
to deaden tho intellectual and moral nature
Their present privileges would bo either q
savor of life unto life or death unto doath
intellectually or morally; that it should
be Que and not the other, was in their own
hands, Persevore in their studies and stand
to truth and duty at the cost Of every sacrifice.
Then their future usefulness (if life be spared)
to the church and State could be predicted
with almost moral cortninty.
The above is tho substance of whit the
speaker sad. Would that others of our
Gionds would do as he did-pny US visit
like entertaining and instructive.
MEMBER OF COLLEGE.
We call on Oconeo to do her duty next Tues
day, and poll heavy vote for the County and
State tickets.