Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-01-19
coon prTr-pys AFTER MANY DAYS.


same week YOU give letter Of introduc
ton to Young ian struggling III busi-
ness. During tt.e same week you make
an exhor,auon in prayer meeting. II
Is all gone. YOU will never hear OF It
perhaps. you think.
a few years after man comes up to
YOU and SAYS. You don't know me. do
you:' You say. No, don't remember
ever to have seen you" Why he says
i WIS IN the Sabbath school class over
which you were the teacher One Sun
day you invited me to Christ. | Iaccepted
the offer You see that church with two
towers yonder: Yes" you say lie
SAYS That IS where preach: or. do
YOU see tha; governors house: That is
where live" One day a man
comes to you and says. Good morn,
ing. You look at him and say.
Why you have the advantage OF
me. cannot place you. he says.
Don't YOU remember thirty years ago
giving a letter Of introduction toa young
man. a letter of introduction to Moses
& Grinnell: Yes, yes, do, BE
saws: Il am the man: that was my first
step toward fortune. but bave re
tired from business now and am giving
my time to philanthropies and public IN
terests Come up and see me.
Or man comes to you and says: II
want to introduce myself TO you. ]
Went into prayer meeting IN Atlanta
some years ago. sat back by the door,
Won arose to make an exhortation. that
talk changed the course Of my life. and
II ever get to heaven. under God Will
owe my salvation to you. In only ten,
twenty OF thirty years the circle swept
ont and swept back again 70 your own
grateful heart
But sometimes it is a wider circle and
does not return for great while. ! saw
a bill o. expenses for burning Latiner
and Ridley The bill of expenses says;
One load OF flr fagots .................. 81. I'd
Car,ag, Tor tour loads Of wood. d.......... -.
Item II po>; Observation-Disclosures Is "a
Item two chains. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES o. +H
itruI ;wo staples OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. td
That WAS cheap fire. considering all
the circumstances. but il kindled a light
tina. stone all around the world and
aroused the martyr spirit, and ont from
that burning of Latimer and Ridley
rolled the circle wider and WIDER. star
ins other circles. convolutlng overrun
ming clrcumscribing overarchlng all
heaven-a circle
CIRCLE OF EVIL SPEAKING.
But what is true Of the good Is just as
true of the bad You utter slandeT
against your neighbor II has gone forth
from your teeth II will never come
back. YOU think You have done the
man ali the mischief yor can You re
joice to see him vince You say Didn't
| give If to hlml' That word has gone
out. that slanderous word. on lis poison
Gus and blasted way You think it will
never do you any harm But am
watching that word. and i see il begin
ming to curve. and it curves around, and
1t is aiming at your heart. You had bet
ter dodge it. You cannot dodge it. II
rolls into your bosom and after 1t rolls
In word of an old book. which says,
NTH what measure ye mete, it shall
be measured to you again.
You maltreat an aged parent. You
begrudged him the room in your house.
You are impatient of his whimsicalities
and garrulity 1t makes you mad to
hear him tell the same story twice. You
give him food he cannot masticate. You
wish he was away. You wonder if he is
going to live forever he Will be gone
very soon. His steps are shorter and
shor;er He is going to stop. But God
has an account TO settle with you on that
subject After awhile your eye will be
dim. and your gait will halt, and the
sound of the grinding will be low, and
you Will tell the same story twice. and
your children will wonder if you are go
ing 70 live forever and wonder if you
will never be taken away,
They called you father" once; now
they cali you the old man." If you
live few years longer they will call you
the "old chap What are thosefough
words with which your children are ac-
costing you: They are the echo of the
very words you used in the ear of your
old father forty years ago What is that
which you are trying to chew. but find
it unmasticable. and your jaws ache.
and you surrender the attempt? Per
haps it may be the gristle which you
gave to your father for his breakfast
forty years ago
a gentleman passing along the street
saw son dragging his father into the
street by the hair of the head The gen.
tleman. outraged at this brutal conduct,
was about to punish the offender when
the old MAN arose and said. Don't hurt
him. it's all right. forty years ago this
morning dragged out my father by the
hair of his headr 1t is circle. My fa-
ther lived into the eighties. and he had
very wide experience. and he said that
maltreat1nept of parents was always
punished in;shis world "Other sins may
be adJonrfed to the. next world, but NAL
treatment of parents is punished in this
world
THEY CIRCLE AROUND TO THE JUDGMENT
DAY.
Tue circle turns quickly. very quickly
Oh. what a sts1pendous thought that the
good and the. evil we start come back TO
as. Do you know that the .Judgmept.
Day will be only the points at which the
circles Join the good and the bad we
haye done coming back to us. unless di-
vine Intervention hinder-coming back