Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-08-31
The Child and t9Ac HmdaAel.

AhC VhR1V sIRaV eAC HE HSNCH'
remember hearing of Sabbath school
teacher who had led every ono of her
children to Christ She was faithful
teacher. Then she tried to get her child
rem to bring other children into the school
One day ono of them oamo and said she
had been trying to get the children Of a
family to como to school, but the father
was an inGdc, and hc wouldn't allow it.
"What is an inGdcl?" asked tho child
She had never heard of an inGdcl before.
Tho teacher went on to tell her what an
inldel was, and she was perfectly
shocked.
A few mornings after the girl happened
to be going past the post office on her
way to school, and shc saw tho infdcl
father coming out. She went up to him
and said, "Why don't you love Jcsus7"
If it had been man who had said
that to him probably he would have
knocked him down. lie looked at her
and walked on.
A second time sho put the question,
"Why don't you lovo Jesus?"
He put out his hand to put her away
from him, when, on looking down, ho saw
her in tears.
"Pleasc, sir, tell me why don't you love
Jesus" lIo pushed her aside and away
he went.
When he got to his Office ho could not
get this question out of his mind. All the
letters seemed to read, "Why don't you
love Jcsus7'' All men in his place of
business seemed to say, "Why don't you
love Jcsus?" When he tried to write his
pen seemed to shape the letters, "lVhy don t
you love Jesus?" IIc couldn't rest, and
on the street ho went to minglc with
the business men, but nc seemed to hear
voioo continually asking him, "Why
don't you love Jcsus?"
He thought when he got homo with
his family ho would forgot it, but he
couldn't. He complained that he wasn't
we'll, and went to bed. But when he laid
his head on tho pillow that yoico kept
Whispering, "Why dou't you lovo Je-
sus2"
Ho couldn't sleep. Byrand-by, about
midnight, hc got up and said, II will
get Bblo and find where Christ CONTRA
diets himself, and then III have roason,"
and ho turned to the Gospel of Saint
John.
My friends if you want reason for
not loving Christ don't turn to John. Ho
knew him too long. don't believe
man can read tho Gospel of John with
cut being turned to Christ.
Well, ho read through, and found no
reason why he shouldn't ovo him, but
he found many reasons why he should,
and before morning he was on his knees
and that question put by that little
child led to"hs convcrsion.-D. IT, Moody.
DR.. Carlisle, Of ,Yoffori College, has
declined the Presidency of tho State Uni
versty.
A Virginian hos 172 tobacco factories,
which consume over 4S 100000 pounds of
the weed each year.
Tho present flax yield in the United
States is between 100000 and 5000, 900
bushels of seed and about 10000 tons of
fiber.
OF the 564 new conyicts who wero re.
ceived into the Ohio pehitcntiary last year
feventeen had college education and four.
teen had taken high school courses
Congress has appropriated $4,000 for
the expenses of tho observers Of the transit
of Venus, the 9th Of next December.
Thcro arc to bo three stations in tho North
ern and four in tho Southern Hemisphere.
Tho former arc to be located in Florida,
Texas and Mexico. Tho other four arc
in Patagonia, Chilli, South
Africa and Now Zealand. The object OF
the observation is to measure tho oxact
distance between tho earth and tho SUM-
We are not surprised that Congress should |
giyo $75, 600 to find out.
What will tho cpposcrs of prohibition
and its wcak-knocd friends, who on tho
ono hand deuicd and on tho other doubted
its praoticabilty in Kansas, what will they
soy now that tho Kansas Republicans stand |
bravely and firmly on prohibition plate
form and ro nominate Governor St. John
for second term Of office? They declare
themselves, without qualification, "ip favor
of the prohibition Of tho manufacture or
sale Of Intoxicating liquors." and pledge
themselves to any future necessary lcgisla-
tion that may bc needed to enforce tho cons.
titutionnl amendment on tho suhicct