The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-02-09
Foa -aE HEkAIo.
MY Childhood'S SabbSthS.

Retrospective views need not the hand
Of art TO polish and adorn, as their scenes
like the sublinity of natures grandest
works, have been touched by the pencil OF
the Great Artist. The scenes are gifts
granted to sll classes of men, and are
treasures from which none would part.
No, "who for all that sge can bring"
would forget the past, the brilliant past,
the soul.stirring past? Who is not proud
TO say ''when / was youug!" How the
aged sire lights with uuwonted fire and the
young grow silent, as these words iutro-
duce some pleasant fancy or profitable lscs
of days agone-now that we have reached
almost two.seore years, we feel that our
youthful days are long way back, but
that the curtain of the past unlike that OF
the future Can be penetrated by the minis
eye, and that we Can live those happy days
over again. We remember the old hick-
ory tree where we gathered nuts, the huge
bank of we'll dirt in which the new kniie
was planted and our building dimiuuti7e
booths of persirnnon leaves which we peo-
pied with crimson hollyhocks. There was
then poetry in life, but it is not TO these
days we would dedicate these lines, but 10
our childhood's Sabbaths, those holy days
which stand like stone pillars III the mighty
pale of time. Whether our ancestry de-
sended directly from the Cuidee fathers
who fed 10 the lone Isle of Iona for the
Words sake" we cannot tell, but we do
know that they imbibed their principles
and Initiated their, examples. Tis thought
by some that the cloud Of witnesses spoken
of By St. Paul, Heb. 18th, lst, are the
spirits of our departed. If this be so, sure
much rejoicing will it give the white robed
to behold the beams, which were kiDdled
from their funeral flames, shining unre-
fracted into the spiritual darkness OF the
new world and to know that their ashes
waited by wind and wave TO Columbia's
soil, have arisen into like spirits asking for
1.-THE good old way" in which the fathers
walked. Well might a hystaudcr, when
the youthful Patrick Hamilton was burnt,
caution the archbishop to burn the Chris
tians in cellars, "as, " said he, the smoke in-
fects as many as it blows upon" Among
people of this impress We were born and
reared. These believers like sll true be
levers loved every ordinance and statute
of the Lord and we must say that very
marked feature of theirs was the obser-
vance of the Sabbath. In tLis duy Of
progress, the watchman from the tower
heralds the Sabbath dawn, and the sweet
church bells echo from village 10 village
Sabbath morn, as the gloom Of night is dis.
pelled by the celestial day, but long before
''wheels and bells had learned to chimea
there was still smal? voice which whis-
pered ''bake that ye will bake and seethe
that ye will seethe, for tomorrow is the
rest Of the Lords Sabbath" With us, the
always commenced the day
previous, both with man and beast. As we
have told you before, church attendance
was part Of our existence. Our father
would manage TO take the horses from
work Saturday at noon, that they might be
for the Sabbath days journey.
The other duties such as preparing proven
der, cutting wood, overlooking the harness,
shaving, shoe-blscking &C., were all at
tended TO Saturday evening. Mother
arranged her domestic affairs, ''setting her
house in order, ",:shat there might be 40
ous,le Sabbath morning. On this holy
morning we aere reminded Of our duties,
and told that Christ rose early when he /
finished the work OF mans redemption. |
After worship our frugal meal was taken,
chapter read, catechism learned, and then |
for church. Our churches |
Kings Creek aud Cannon's Creek, are we'll !
$pown to many OF you, as they have been
nursing mothers to lnauy Of our good peo- |
pie. Their FIRST pastors known to us were |
Rev. Galloway and Rev. Ransom. 4r: Gal: |
oway off lated when our parents were |
married, and baptized their children.
" hen We were told this we felt that he |
aad done something more for us than |
others had. Truly, he had, for We were |
;aught that he had received US into the |
church as members, baptized members. |
Just here an Incident introduces itself
which somewhat amused US, and which i'm
pressed us with the fearful ignorance of
many protesting Christians. We heard a
mother say that as her children were not
hriving she must have them ctristened. |
baptized she me.n,) The children we're
,aptized-they still live but whether bap-
ism is intended for the physical or spiritual
,art of man, we leave the reader to decide.
This was not in Egypt or Mexico, but in our
'wn Csrolins's enlightened land. When
We left You We had told you who oul pastors
rere. These servants OF Christ we're faithful
nd are doubtless reapiug their reward. We
ad barouche which usually conveyed our
ntire family to church, but unlike Holmes
hay it would sometimes get out Of order,
hen the horses were saddled and vith the
tile ones riding behind, We could all 90.
Il the summer, when we would have two
ermons the brown linen pocket we'll filled
'ith biscuits and apples was suspended from
le saddle horn, and the pitcher, yes that
ear old-fashioned pitcher which now
iosns our nantel piece, was carried too
lat We might have water. We always
rived at church in good time snd in our
;oS ro cep roa she aced fsthars With