Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-12-22
THANKSGIVING DINNER IN 1888.

THANKSGIVING DINNER IN 1888.
Thanksgiving meant much in the early
time of New England, when the very life
of the colony might depend upon shower
of rain. On all the coast Of New England
there is pretty sure to be period of drOuth
in the summer, and this 'drouth caused
the first corners extreme apprehension.
The soil was light, the sun was burning
hot, and the discouraged farmers saw the
corn upon which their existence depended
withering day by day. One of the old
ministers of 1888 wrote in the quaint man.
ner of the period, and not without q touch
of Yankee humor:
"The chiefest corn the people planted
before they had plows was Indian grain,
whose increase is very much beyond all
other, to the great refreshing of the poor
servants of Christ in their low beginnings.
All kinds of garden fruits grew very well,
and let no man make jest of pumpkins,
for with this fruit the Lord was pleased to
feed His people, to their good content, till
corn and cattle were increased"
But even pumpkins will not grow with
out rain. In the summer of 1888 there.
was dry time 80 prolonged and so alarm
ing that the people gathered together to
pray for saving shower. AS the writer
already quoted, records, "they fell down
on their knees, }" and urged it as "a chief
argument that the malignant adversary
would rejoice in their destruction"
The answer promptly came: "As they
poured out water before the Lord, so, at
that very instant, the Lord showered down
water on their gardens and fields, and, as
the drops from heaven fell thicker and fast
er, so the tears from their eyes, by reason
of the sudden mixture of Joy and SORROW"
To crown their happiness, "whole ship
loads of mercies" arrived from beyond the
seas. In gratitude for this torrent Of bless.
ings, the seven churches of New England
appointed the 10Th of October as a Day Of
Thanksgiving and Praise. "They took up
the cup of Thanksgiving, and paid their
VOWS to the Most High"
FAMILY QUARRELs.-I.have no respect
for the woman who runs around among
her neighbors and friends talking about
her husbands shortcomings, and the va
rious points of Indifference between him and
herself. And have great contempt for
the man who is given to airing his matrl-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS abroad. No third par
ty can adjust the differences that may ex-
ist between man and his wife. If he
and she cannot settle their own affairs
they must go unsettled. There is nothing
more destructive to the peace and happi--
ness of home than the daily little bick-
erings and bits of fault-finding in which
so many husbands and wives indulge.
OF course, there are the "blue Monday"
sort of days, when nothing goes right, and
a spirit of evil seems to have taken posses
sion of the entire household. Such days
come to the best regulated families. It's
human nature. It's an out-cropping OF
our innate tendency to 60 wrong at times.
Sometimes am glad that such days come
to our house, for we are all so glad and
happy after we have "kissed and made
up" all around.
never say anything when / hear hus-
bands and wives declare that in all the ten,
fifteen or twenty years of their married
lives they have never had "single cross
word" / keep mum because hate to tell
them don't believe what they say, and
lust don't believe it. We are not angels,
and only angels could live that way. But
whatever our differences, do let us keep
them to ourselves. Disaster follows In the
wake of man or woman who tells to the
world his or her quarrels with John or
Mary. Mum is the word.-<ze'eds Dane IN
Good Housekeeping.
OLD AGE.-Dean Bradley successor of
Stanley in the deanery Of Westminster,
tells an anecdote of him as he neared his
sixtieth year. He was travelling in Ger
many on Rhine steamer, and getting
with boy, (he loved chill
dren, } the boy asked him his age, which
being answered, he said, "Why, all your
life is over" "No," said the Dean, "the
best is yet to come"
"You must be on the wrong side OF
sixty" said one acquaintance to another.
"No.h he replied, II am on the right side"
Old age is cherries enough to one lacking
faith in God and Christ; but bright with
divinest hopes when one has for his por-
tiOn the Christ, whom to know with the
Father is eternal life. Let every man
mourn as old age creeps upon him If he
be without faith in the holy One. Let
every man rejoice as age comes upon
him if he trusts in Him who said, BE
cause live, We shall live" Life here is
only the state of infancy.
A plain London lighterman, only nav
igator on the Thames, was in the A6bey,
standing before the monument OF John
Wesley, and as he talked with the Dean,
knowing he had been to Palestine, SAID,
at must have been beautiful to have
walked where the Saviour walked"
eyes," and with sanity look he said,
beautiful to walk in the steps of the
Stanley's words, as ne spoke
of death are so beautiful we quote them:
"There the soul finds itself on the noun
tain ridge overlooking the unknown fl-
ture; our company before is gone, the
kinsfolk and friends of many years are
~ nd wa q
left alone with God. We know not in
the shadow of the night who it is that
touches us-we feel only that the ever
lasting arms are closing US in; the twi-
light of the morning breaks, we are bid to
depart in peace, for by strength not our
own we have prevailed, and the path is
made clear before u.s."
Great and many are the compansations
of advancing age.
WHERE WAS EDEN?-The location of
the Garden of Eden is disputed by bibli-
cal scholars. Some have endeavored to
locate it by means of the fruits and miner
Al productions named in the description
given in Genesis ii, SIT. But the main
indication seems to be in the four rivers
1t seems to be agreed by COM
mentators that the Tigris and Euphrates
are the third and fourth rivers mention
ed. But they differ as to what rivers
should be regarded as the Pison and Gil
hon. Some think that the Pison is the
Ganges and the Gihon the sacred river of
Egypt; others that the Garden of Eden
was located on the high table land of Ar
menia from which rise the Tigris and
Euphrates. Others think that Eden was
in the vicinity of the Mountains of the
Moon in Africa, regarding the Nile as Pi-
son and the Niger as Gihon. The vicin-
ity of the city of Babylon is still another