The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-09-04
Ora Locals.

Sitting tonight in earthly loneliness
within my room, ICE cheered and
frightened by q presence now gone
there flashes into my mind this sun
beam passage from the word of God:
"Whom the Lord loveth he c~hasteneth,
"a scourgeth every son whom he re-
~ceiveth." Black, indeed are many of
the clouds that hang over the lives of
Gods dear children and the blacklist is
the cloud of bereavement, but they
are always clouds that be near the ris-
ing sun aud their lower edges are rad
liant and beautiful with the glory of the
hidden disk of Providence. Behind
them is the majestic and benevolent
shining of u fathers face. At this
hour l write with fingers that tremble
with sorrow and q heart that were it
not for the touch of divine sympathy,
would know nothing of peace. There
fore through the ministry of suffering
/ am made competent to send u mes
sage OF comfOrtinto other homes, which
like my own have upon them the shad-
owed drapery of trouble and grief,
but l forbear-.
Rev. III. b. Blakely, late of Lancas-
ter, is preaching here tonight. He is
visiting his parents here and will leave
tomorrow for Atlanta, his new field of
labor. Mr. Blakely is regarded one of
our brightest lights in the ministry.
Our little flock in Atlanta is to be con-
graduated.
Mr.. j. G. Bryson will return to the
Clinton College.
Prof. w. NJ. Bryson will be in charge
of the school at Barksdale another
year.
Miss Hattie Blakely gocs back to
Shady Grove as teacher. Miss Mamie
Blakely probably to Anderson, to as
sist Rev. Calvin Presley in the High
School at Cork's station.
Mr.. II. III. Bryson will read medicine
either at the North or in one Of the
Virginia medical colleges.
Messrs. Hampio Hunter and Thomp-
son McDill are to attend Clemson.
Miss Eliza McDill goes to All Heal
ing as Hpupil.
Misses Belle Craig and Eliza Bryson
are to enter the South Carolina Col
lcge for women in the near future.
Mr.: Warren Blakely will return to
Erskine.
Miss Lidie Blakely contemplates a
trip to York to visit her brother, Dr..
S. f.. Blakcly, who, | am told, is sue
ceeding well in his chosen profession.
Mr.. j. T.. McClintock will be in the
cotton seed business this fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lowdy Blakely had u
reunion of their children and grand
children yesterday at which the tur-
key and fatted calf were served.
Our Baptist brethren at Warrior
Creek are r~e-modclling and rc-furnish-
irg their church in which their annual
association is to be held.
Mrs. Bauknight and two daughters,
of Archer, Fla, Mrs. Pedrick and
three daughters of Gainesville, Fla,
Mrs. Marsh, ofJohnson, S. c., are en-
ioying the hospitalitics OF the homo of
Nh. VIM. BrysOn for q season.
Our young ladies, as a circle, early
in the summer decided that literary
knowledge could be obtained moro
readily by combined than individual
effort and havo organized a band of
co-workers, whose purpose is to de-
velop the minds Of its members and to
cultivate u taste for that literature
which is pure and c%nnobling. They
are succeeding beyond their most san
guine expectations, although the young
men arc not turning out as desired.
Come out and don't be afraid to grapplc
with these giant minds. DULY one
young man, and we imagine, though
not there personally, hat he is the OBJ
served of all observers.
WILHELMINA.