Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-03-02

have Zig fireplace called the sun, and 1t
has very hot fire, and the stokers keep
the Goals well stirred up, but much of
the year we cannot get near enough to
this fireplace to get warmed. The worlds
extre1nities IRE cold all the time. Forget
not that it is colder at the south pole
than at the north pole, and that the Arc
tic is not so destructive as the Antarctic.
Once in awhile the Arctic will let ex-
plorers come back, but the Antarctic
hardly ever. When at the south pole
ship sails In. the door of ice is almost sure
to be shut against its return.
So life to many millions of people at
the south and many millions of people at
the north is a prolonged shiver, but
when | say that this is cold world /
chiefly mean fguratively. If you want to
know what is the meaning of the ordl-
nary term of receiving the "cold shoul-
der" get out of money and try to bor-
row. The conversation may have been
almost tropical for luxuriance of thought
and speech. but suggest your necessities
and see the thermometer drop to so de-
grees below zero, and in that which till
a moment before had been warm room.
Take what is an unpopular position on
some public question and see your
friends fly as chaff before windmill,
AS far as myself is concerned, l have
no word of complaint, but | look off day
by day and see communities freezing out
men and women of whom the world Is
not worthy. Now it takes after one and
now after another 1t becomes popular
to depreciate and defame and execrate
and lie about some people. This is the best
world ever got into, but it is the mean
est world that some people ever got into.
The worst thing that ever happened to
them was their cradle. and the best
thing that will ever happen to them will
be their grave. What people want is
warmth.
Many years ago man was floating
down on the ice of the Merrilnac, and
great efforts were made to rescue him
Twice he got hold of plank thrown 10
him and twice he slipped away from it,
because that end of the plank was COY,
cred with ice, and he cried out. For
Gods sake, give me the wooden end of
the plank this time" and this done he
was hauled to shore. The troubleis that
in our efforts to save the soul there Is
too much coldneSs and icy formality,
and SO the imperiled one slips off and
floats down. Give it the other end of the
plank-warmth of sympathy, warmth OF
kindly association, warmth Of genial sur
roundings.
The world declines to give it, and in
many cases has no power to give it, and
here is where Christ comes in. and. as on
a cold day. the rain beating and the at
mosphere full of sleet, the hen clucks
her chickens under her wings. and the
warmth of her own breast puts warmth
into the wet feathers and the chilled feet
of the infant group of the E.:rnyard. SO
Christ says to those sick and frosted and
disgustel and frozen of the world. Come
in out of TIE March winds Of the worlds
criticism; come in out of the sleet of the
worlds assault: come in out of world
that does not understand you and does
not want to understand you; will COM
fort and will soothe and | will be your
warmth. las hen gathe-eth her chick
ems under her wing" "a. the warm
heart of God is ready for all those to
whom the world has given the cold
shonlder