The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-09-30

Delng ltEudCul6te, OiGuS1 ." OPso'ss - saSsrs
in conduct? It was amusing to hear
Sam Jones tell how he was going to raise
his children. If young buck came to !.
see his daughter he would invite him
into the parlor politely and send for Paul
and Bob to come in and entertain him..
Well, that's one way, and there is no
patent on it either. We oldlime folks;
used to go to school with the girls, and :
ne were proud to stand up and recits
with them, and we were ashamed ostand
foot, and we mixed from childhood to-
maturity and got along pretty we'll, and
there was no patent on that, for some
times there was trouble just like there is
now. If there is any sure way to raiae
them it has not been recorded in any
book, for there are come better and some
worse in every flock. Aman may makes
cloister or convent, or even prison Of
his house, but it will do no good. The
fastest girls I have known were educated
in convents. The best children are those
whose parents teach them by precept and
example to be truthful and honorable,
and who associate with them as compans
ions in their yonth. A fathers example
and mothers love are the best safe
guards. But all these fail sometimess
Ola father Adam failed 10 raise Cain
right whenthere we're no barrooms nOs {
gaming houses, no clubs, nor baseball or
race courses, old Father Jacob rsiseds sss'
dozen and they were badly mixed. But Z
let us all do the best we can and be
thankful. The preachers try mighty
hard to raise good children, but some,a
times they fail like the rest os US: Sam
Jones says that if q girl makes good
biscuit and fries good chicken and helps
her mother, a feller will come 500 miles
to get her. Well, he ought TO come a|s
thousand, but l overheard a girl lssy that,
these 500 mile nags were awful scarce6
and very uncertain and If one of them
was coming for her he must, be coming inc
walk and stopping under the shade of
every tree on the road, she said she want:
ed "get there Eli" feller.
Sam Small used hard words against th6e
whiskey men, and called them hellions;ss I
and other hard names. Well, of course
he feels that way, but / remember that a
year sgo samJones spoke very kindly of
them, and said he knew many Of 5thsmss
in Cartersville to be clever men, kinas
and charitable and good citizens, aud saks
was only their business he was fighting
Well, that was the best way to talk stos
them, and those men are his friends now
While Mr.. Small was laundering his
anathemas, Iwas reminded of the time
when Abraham Lincoln first came before !:
the public as a candidate for Congress
against Stephen A. Douglas. Douglas:
was naughty aristocrat, while Lincoln
had been raised a rail splitter and had
kept country saloon. Douglas said ne !;
had not had the honor ofan sequaint
with his opponent, but he remembered To-
have seen him on one occasion, some
years ago, when he was standing behind
a counter retailing whiskey by The drink.
When Lincoln rose to reply, he put s;2
broad grin all over his face and said::li
.Yes, fellow.citizens, Nj. Douglas is COZ
rect. That was the FIRST time / ever sew
him. He was on one side Of the counter
and was on the other" IS
Mr.. Small preached good sermon, as
he always does, and our people appreciate
his worth as an evangelist, but We do not
think he can do any possible good BY; ;ds.8
nouncing slavery as 1t used to be. Il iss
all over now, and those old people whos
knew slavery as it was far better than he
does have no patience with such lectures.
His talk was like vet blanket, and
chilled the service down to q brief dox.I
ology. We commend to his better refec-1
tion the following from DR.. Mayo's adj
dress at Boston. DR.. Mayo is the super
intendent of public instruction, man Of
thought and learning and dignity. HeS
said: No six millions Of people in any
land were ever SO marvelously led BY I
Providence as they have been. ALI the ;
good there ever was in slavery was for
them. It was that school of work and of
constant drill in the primal virtues that
every barbaous race must get at the.
start. American slavery was charity
school when it is contrasted With the
deselation of war and tyranny by which
every European nation has come up to-
its present station of civilized life."
But let the preachers so on, and let
them learn all they can as they go. Az
young preacher who does not improve as
he grows older had better quit. There
was an old man of seventy preached tho
last sermon of the meeting, and it was . \
sermon fit to close it with. I never en-.
| joyed sermon more, and wish that the
thousands who were there in the day
| could have heard it. His name is Sul-s
lins, and he is the learned, eloquent and ]
pious president Of college at Cleveland. J,
hope he may live to revisit the taberst
nacle for many years to come. So let 4
the preachers 60 on, for they are better
far better than the rest of us-bettsrE
citizens, better fathers, better husbands
What would a town be without it
churches? What would a Sabbath bd
without the sound of the church.goipa
bell and its morning call to prayer. e.
BILL ARP.
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