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


pictures of The worid nau,
est coloring. the blood Of the artists who
made them. The migbtiest oratorios
that ever rolled through the churches
had, IL their pathos, the signs and sroans
Of The composers. who wore their lives
OUT in writing the harmony. American
independence was triumphant. but 1t
vowed on over the liteless forms of tens
Of thousands of mel who fell at Bunker
Hill and Yorktown and the battles be-
tween, which were the he~morrhages Of
the nation. The kingdom OF God adj
vanceS III all the earth, but it must be
over the lives of missionaries WAC die Of
malaria in the jUnSles or Christ an
workers who preach ard pray and toll
and die in the service. The Saviour tri-
umphs in all directions-but beauty and
strength must be torn down from the
| palm trees OF Christian heroism and coz
secration and thIown IN his pathway.
To what better use could those palm
trees or the southern shoulder OF Mount
Ohvet and clear down into the Valley OF
GethSemane 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 ""uld we put our lives than
into tire sacr. fee For Christ and his cause
and the happiness of u fellow crea-
lures: Shall we not be wiling to e
torn down that Righteousness shall have
triumphant way: Christ WA 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 lictle
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 our branches to make emerald his
way:
A E LEAVES FROM OUR BRANCHES.
The process is going on every moment
in all directions. What makes thai
father haze such hard work TO find the
hymn today: He puts on his ~spectacles
and holds the book close up, and then
holds it far of, and is not quite SURE
whether the number of the hymn is 80
OF 13o, and the fingers with which he
turns the leaves are very clumsy. He
stoops a good deal. although once he was
straight as an arrow. and his eyes We're
keen rs a hawks, and the hand he
offered t. h bride on the marriage day
was OF goodiy shape and as God made it.
will tellvou what is the matter. Forty
years ago he resolved bis family should
nave no need : d his children should De
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 .fftpyears he has been tearing
of from the palm tree of his. physical
strength and manly form branches to
throw in the pathway Of his household.
It has cost him -lnuscIe and brain and
health and eyssisht, and there have
been twisted off. more years from his life
than any man IN. the crowd on the
famous Palm Sunday twisted off
branches from .the palm trees on the
road from BoshpsgstoJ erusale1n- What
makes that mother Took so much older
thap she really s?t,Eou say she ought
not yet to have one gray line in her ham.
The truth is the family was not always
as we'll off as now. The married pair
had a hard struggle at the start. Elk
anime the tips CT the forefnger and
thumb Of her right handsand they will
tell you the story of the needle that was
Piled ds,.in and day out.
:. Yea, look at both her hands and they
Will tell the stofy of the time when she
did her owr work, her own mending
andsernbbing and washing. Yea. look
intoz the fase and read the story of
SCARLET fevers and Groups and midnight.
wStchings when none but God and her
self in that house WIRE awake, and then.
the burials. and the loneliness afterward.
which was more e~xha6sting. than Che.
preceding watching had been, and no
one now to put to bed. How fair she