The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-20

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"Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye In the
ways, and see, and ask for the old paths,
where isthe good way, and walk therein,
and We shall find rest for your souls
Jeremiah, WIG.
The Prophet. jeremiah lived B. G.
S5o-5S0, and prophesied during the
reigns Of Josiah, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin
and Zedekiah. He lived in an age OF
great national and spiritual decline, and
his prophecies are either, q exhortations
to rppentence, r. warnings and threat-
enirgs against the impenitent and incor-
rigible, or 3 lamentations over the ruin
and desolation of Judea, that followed
the burning OF, Jerusalem and tho cap
y. tsyity of the jews under Nebuchadnezzer,
King of Babylon. He lived among o
people whose moral natures had been
blunted and callonssd by waff and idol
atries aud who loved tie srGys OF s;n in
iD.sicii they had 6esn 5o7s and reared. His
prophecies calling TO reform and revival
to former pietN and uprightness grated
Z on the ear Of 10th kings and people He
never delivered q single message that was
J. z acceptable to his countrymen. He never
y preached sermon that did not render
him more unpopular. He endured re7
proach and persecution. He was the
victim of murderous conspiracy, and was
3 more than once doomed to death, but
escaped at the last extremity by the in
: terposition of friends. BE describes him
8 self as one IN ,cisose- 6oaes t6e-messdge of
{ Goo. .burnt Ike fire, and had to Do delipered.
And yet When delivered they but stirred
the rage of an emasculated people, who,
Z rather than mend their lives, preferred to
kill the man CT God, who faithfully told
them oftheir sins.
The words Of my text seem to be .
special message from the God OF Israel
70 ms wandering lest, st,,DewldereoPeopie
Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in she
= \ ways; and see, and ask for the old paths,
sWhere Is the good way, and walk therein,
and ye shall lind rest for your souls." ,
The words aatand ye in the ways
rnd see1 mean come to . tin your
journey, and consider if ye be in the
right road. Stand and see, look at
your gui6e-book, examine the Way-marks,
<5 and you vii aiscoyoS that you are, out OF
the highway anu mare wandered IN some
by.gath.
Haying stopped 10 consldor-aa the
mariner would s:y, ID get your bearings
--syor will surely discover that you have
gone wrong. What :hen Ask for the
old paths. Enquire dor the true high
way. Find It as speedily IS possible;
w AND having Iennd u, without olls
Iartner Delay walk tneIein Beat a
retgeas set yourselves rignt, Nv, snen Aor-
WARD III aiong the Ine. aik tnsre. gre
n,-snow w ene same eagerness eo go tlBsnt,
:. ssias lai yon ,I,, oid 70 e goewrong-
NJ nat WIZ oe the result OF tnls
cnange OF eonductI Q Shall ma rest '
ior your Souls. s.
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Some, perhaps VIII say snere mas oeen
no moral suspension; May Do nor, out
my opsersation is tiiat sle hiolat ioiess
IN operation among US before tne war
have never been fuily resumed; we are
a wont to look at the results OF the war as
physical, social and political.
D 1t is easy for US to call up the san
culinary field, and review the thousands
Of slain and wounded. We daily look
& upon the arinless sleeve, the wooden leg,
the scared face, the mutilated hand, and
remember that those men now growing
gray, and bearing about them the marks
of battle, were once the living wall brist-
ing with bayonets "aloug the Potomac" /"
And so we contemplate the physical evils
Of the war.
(2) We look upon the impoverished
condition of the cid people of our land,
who once lived in easy afiuence: We
e have seen the whole social fabric thrown