Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-09-29


thereof. The Lord is my Shepherd, shall
not want. Ilo makclh me to lie down in
green pastures; he cadcth mo beside tho
still waters, lie rcstorcth my soul, ho
lca3cth me in paths of righteousness for
his names sake. Yea, though l walk
through tho valley Of the shadow of death.
J. will fear no evil; for thou art With me;
thy rod and thy staff they comfort mo.
Thou preparcst table before me in the
prcscuoc OF nac enemies; thou annointest
my head with oil; my cup runncth over.
Surely goodness anG mercy shall follow me
oil the days of NY life, and | will dwell in
tic house of the Lord forever.
An cnlarglng of our sympathics and O
| qulckening of our charities. If wo allow
the stripScncy of tho time, to blunt our
| scnsloiitles, to shut us up in ourselves, to
abrdgc the amenities of our social life, to
! iamu up within ourselves the charities that
! in more prosperous times have been flow.
ing out in benevolent directions, then YOU
will have been under this great discipline
| IN vain aud you will pass out from under
It not ohastcned, streug gthcncd, exalted, but
hardened, cnerYatcd, petrfcd.
| lou that have means do not, oh! do not,
become graSpng, cxtortionatc, exacting, but
exercise liberal spirit and use lavish
hand-bc busy, not calculating your chances
OF increasing gain, but in calculating your
opportunities OF doing gooi---bc busy in
dcvlsing measures for relieving the poor.
And you that arc enlightened, you that arc
spiritual, you that arc in communion with
the Lord Jesus, stand by your weaker
brethren in these times Of eroube and by
your sympathy and by your prayers and by.
your warnings, see thut they do not yield to the
terrible temptation with which they will be-
piled, with all tho force of Satanic subtilty,
crying out in their miserics, let these stones
be made bread, aud tho Lcnclictions
Of those you have relieved, the bcnedic-
tions Of those you havo strengthened aud
kept from falling, will como thronging
around you like .ho blessed voices of tho
angels in the time Of your,'grcat straitcning;
q clearer, deeper appreciation Of the num-.
bcrlcss blessings flowing in upon US through
our lord Jesus Christ lie was tempted in
all points like as we arc, but not for himself
lie combattod with Satan In that terrific
struggle in the wildcrucss, not for himself
but for US, ho hath put tho blessed words
Into our mouth, II is written man shall not
live by tread alone, but by every word that
proccnirh out of the mouth Of God. IIc
has ovcrthrown our great Adversary Ke
has ;nu,.. Us 50 richly aud 40 largely just
along the lines that il 50 necessary that wo
Should learn. Ile h,s taught US 80 touch
insly aud 50 powerfully aud so grandly
thar the system Of nature and the systom
OF Providence and the system of grace has
the sane wise, gracious, benevolent, uu-
changcab!o author.
The very hairs ef your head arc all
numbered The sparrow doth not fall to
tho grouud without the notice of our h,av.
cny Father. Ask and it shall be given
you; seek and yc shall find; knock aud it
shall be opened unto you. For every ono
that asketh rcceiycth, and lie that socketh
indeth and to him that knccketh it shall
be opened. Or what man is there Of YOU
whom it his son ask bread! will he givo him
a stonc! Or if lie ask fish, will he give
him serpent? | ye boing OWL know how
to give good gifts unto your children, how
much moro will your Father, which = in
heaven give good things to them that ask
him Jesus answered them, verify, verify,
Aay unto you, yc seek me, not because W
saw tic miracles, but because yc did cat of
tho loavca and were filed labor not for
the meat that pcrishcth, but for TINT meat
which cndurcth unto everlasting life, which
the Son Of Man shall give you. Then said
they unto him, Lord, cyormoro givo us this
bread.
Finally we arc taught the trarscondant
superiority Of tho spiritual lifo lie who
has madc tho Lord God his refuge is under
save covert from the storm. He who is
in communion with the Lord Jesus, pour-
shed by tie bread that cometh down from
heaven, is not swallowed up in trouble when
the harvcsts fail. For all things arc yours;
whether Paul OF Apo!'os or Cephas or tho
world, or things present, or things to como;
all are yours, aud ye arc Christ and Christ
is Gods.
| Little children, you had iinc illustra.
ton of the spirit of our subject in tho les
son (lntornationaD which You recitcd this
morning, tho children Of Israel moving
forward at tho commanl Of God into tho
Red Sea. Two millions of pcoplo, With
their baggage, With their Aocl;s and herds,
simu tancous'y, mcthodically, joyfu!ly fall
ing into line, leaving country whore they
had been soiourning at loast for two huns
dred and fifteen years, where their fathers
lie buried, where they had so greatly null
tiplcd that tho posterty Of Jacob is mum
bered by tho million, io tho excitement and
haste, not forgetting the cmbalmcd body of
their great ancestor Joseph. The cmbodi--
ment Of that host, the orderly procedure of
the different columns is not only tho result
of long years Of training, OF Watching and
waiting and teaching, bl; the result Of di..
Woe inspiration. Tho people arc under the
! in, nnIsa nf ,bc Swirl. of GA mn; ::