Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-04-14

pictures OF JAe World
est coloring. the blood of the artists who
made them. The mightiest oratorios
that ever rolled through the churches
had, in their pathos, the signs and groans
OF the composers, who Wore their lives
out in writing the harmony. American
independence was triumphant. but it
moved Oh over the lifeless forms of tens
Of thousands of men who fell at Bunker
Hill and Yorktown and the battles. be-
tween. which were the hemorrhages =
the nation. The kingdom of God
vances in al the earth, but it mus, be
over the lives of missionaries WAC de Of
malaria in the jungles or Christian
workers who peach and pray and toll
and die in the service. The Saviour tri-
umphs in all directions-bnt beauty and
strength 2nust be torn down from tie
palm trees OF Christian heroism and con-
~secration and thrown in his pathway.
To what better use could those palm
trees on the southern shoulder Of Mount
Olivet and clear DOM into the Valley OF
Gethsemare put their branches than to
! surrender them for the making Of
Christ's journey toward Jerusalem the
more picturesque, the more memorable
and the more triumphant? Andto what
better use could we put our lives thar
into the sacrifice for Christ and his cause
and the happiness of u fellow crea-
lures: Shall We not be willing to be
torn down that righteorsness shall have
triumphant way: Christmas torn down
for us. Can we not afford to be torn
down for him: If Christ could suffer so
much for Us. can we not suffer a little
for Christ: If he can afford on Palm
Sunday to travel to Jerusalem to carry
a cross, can we not afford a few leaves
from u branches to make emerald his
way:
E LEAVES FROM OUR BRANCHES.
The process is going on every moment
in all directions. What makes thai.
father naye such hard work TO find the
HYMN today: He puts on his spectacles
and holds the book close up, ard then
holds It far off, and is not qaite sure
whether the number of the hymn is 15e
or $50. and the fingers with which he
tarns the leaves are very clumsy. He
stoops a good deal. although once he was
straight as ar arrow, and his eyes We're
keen a hawks, and the hand he
offered to his bride on the marriage day
was Of soodly shape and as God made it.
| VIII tellvou what is the matter. Forty
years ago he resolved his family should
have no need and his children should he
well educated and suffer none of the
disadvantages of lack of schooling from
which he had suffered for a lifetime, aad
that the wolf Of hunger should never
put its paw on his doorsill, and Cor
forty or .fiftuyears he has been tearing
of from the palm tree of his, physical
strength and manly form branches 70
throw in the pathway Of his household.
It has cost him muscle and brain and
health and eSssight, and there have
been twisted off more years from his life
.han any NAH IN the crowd on the
famous Palm Sunday twisted off
branches from ..the palm trees on the
road from Bafhpssst oJerusale1h, What
makes that mother took so much older
thap she really is? You say she ought
not yet to have one gray line in her han.
The truth is the family was not always,
as we'll off as now. The married pair
had a hard struggle at the start. Ex-
anime the tips of the forefnger and
thumb Of her right hand'and they viii
tell you the story of the needle that was
Piled day.in and day out.
!. Yea, look at both her. hands and they
will tell the STORY of the time when,she
did her owr work, her own mending
andscmbbing and washing. Yea, look
intos the Ease and read the story of
scarlet fevers and Groups and midnight.
wsschings when none but Gsd and her
self in that house were awake, and then
the burials. and the loneliness afterward.
which was more eShansting. than the
preceding watching had been, and no
one now to put to bed. How fair she