Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-25

more concerning some oCners. vi
one it is written; "Killed by a cir
cular saw" Another is said to
have "died in great peace and full
Of hope" Several wer' expelled for
various causes; while it is stated
of one that The killed his uncle,
--, August, 1873" Later on
yet another was drowned in
Sleepy Greek, below the ford at
the old Gold Mill. The cause of
his death should be warning to
every body-destructive whiskey."
So much for these old records
and the tales they tell but how
easy and natural to pass in thought
from these musty records with
their imperfect fragments of hu-
man history to those above where
the entire and perfect account of
every life is made. None shall
ever know till the archives of
heaven reveal their secrets, all that
God has written concerning those
members of old McKendree Chhrch
to which this old record points our
attention; nor shall it ever enter
into the mind of man to conceive
of all that the heavenly account
book has to say of those men of
God who for more than seventy
years (as noted) traversed this
section preaching the Gospel of
Christ. The souls they led to God,
the hearts they comforted by words
of cheer and sympathy and prayer;
the sorrows, cares aud disapoint-
ments themselves endured; their
successes, triumphs, and mighty
elations of soul as they proclaimed
to their dy ing fellows the glorious
Gospel of the blessed God-are not
these all carefully written in the
chronicles of heaven? Veg. and
further back another picture Of
which the human record has
naught to say, but which contrib
uted so largely to the success of
the men whose names are recorded
the parsonage home where dwelt
the itinerant's family. Did the re-
cording angel forget, as men have
done, to take note of this? Ah /! no!
but with special pains the heavenly
penman records the daily events
occurring there. The housewife s
busy brain, struggling with 'he
problem o. how to adjust a lneagre
and uncertain salary to the needs
of dependent loved ones; the toll
marked hands busily and defty
darning and patching little
threadbare garments and stockings
that will wear out; the hours OF
loneliness and waiting for the re-
turn from the round of a four
| weeks circuit--all these are writ
| ten in the book wn1Un -r1Uorus ali
human history, and out of which
,tinerant preachers, and itinerant
preachers wives, and all others
shall be judged.
And 80 the records 60 on. Men
are still making history, and
seventy years hence musty Church
books and others in which cur
works are being in part recorded
wild be brought out by curious
hands on rainv days, and az men
search the records we shall be re.
membered and probably estima-
ted by what has been recorded.
Rut what an imperfect idea will
the fragmcntary records give OF
what our generation really did.
The names of very many high lin
the estimation of God will not
even appear, except perhaps as
members of soma church who were
received at such a time, by such q
minister, and who died in such a
year,-"the short and simple an
nails of the poor" and unrenowned.
Besides, of those recorded Will not
some appear to great advantage
over others9 Yes. undoubtedly !;
and men will not be slow to praise
those who shall appear to have
done well, and to lightly esteem
those who may make but an in
different showing. I can easily
imagine some whom talent, or c;r-
cumstances, may have brought in
to prominence, and whose human
record will therefore attract notice
in coming years; and on the other
hand, names of others equally
faithful, and possibly of more real
worth and value to God and man
which will scarcely be noted at all.
But meanwhile the record on