The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-02-16

A man who is simply posted on cur
rent events, to say nothing of moral
training and religious influences, who
deliberately makes up his mind to 40
a wrong thing is about as much TOOL
as he is brave. While all nature de-
clares that there is God, every
wrecked life ant prison wall and court
of Justice and hangman's rope tell us
in louder tones than God has spoken
It that it does not pay to dc wrong.
Poor Saunders, the alleged South
ern Express Company robber, with a
conscience that made him surrender
and somebody else disgorge thirty
seven hundred dollars of the money,
with wrecked life and ruined hopes,
could preach a sermon to-day to the
young men of America that would
cause them to halt and think and re-
form while the, sermons of thousands
of preachers would fall dead upon
their ears. But whata mighty sermon
is preached every morning in our
daily papers This one gone wrong
that one gone wrong ; suicide here
murdered man there wrecked
home yonder and blasted character
here. ct cetera. The man who does
not believe that the way of the trans
cressor is hard does not believe any
thing. He has doubted until he now
doubts whether he doubts or not.
The sooner young men learn the les
SON thoroughly that it is not only
right to do right and wrong to DO
wrong but that they cannot afford to
do wrong and that they cannot afford
not to do right, the better it will be
for them, and then they have learned
the lesson that forms the very basis
Of all usefulness here and all hopes OF
Z good hereafter.
aBy the sweat Of thy brow shalt
& thou earn thy bread. Some men
say, is Gods curse pronounced upon
men? It's God $ wise direction to a
child. Employment is the very safe
gnard of character industry is the
very basis Of manhood. There is
more in labor than the dollars and
cents which labor brings. Employ
ment is worth more than emoluments
to any man. A man who does good
work on half pay is getting along bet
ter than the fellow who does sorry
work and gets double pay. Fidelity
to. the task undertaken ! DESTROYS
first to do we'll the thing you are do
+ lag, and making all other considera-
tions secondary, is the very ground
work Of patience and when man
loses patience and gets in hurry to
be rich, then comes the dangerous
period. Human weakness coupled
with temptation brings about the con-
dition Of things which would wreck
the world. I had rather follow plow
for a dollar week than to follow
II otter the Chicago wheat dealer, at a
million dollars a year. A man can
plow his way to manhood but he can
only speculate himself to hell.
Ais we'll that ends we'll, gentle
men, and the end is coming. Some
mems sins go before them to judg-
ment /; others follow on. This is true
every day and everywhere. | have
seen it in the courthouse in my own
county, where mems sins went before
them to judgment-sins that wrecked
their character, destroyed the conf
.dence Of the people Of the community
in their integrity and convicted them
at the bar Of public opinion before
they were arraigned at the bar Of jus
tice in the Court House. Their sins
went before them and condemned
them before the day of Judgment. |
have known others whose sins follow
ed them and overlook them at the
Court House, when one witness after
another brought up chain of evi-
dence that came at last with its accu-
mulated force and crushed them un-
der the wheels Of justice. With the
big dogs Of this county who are spec
ulating and carousing and gambling,
their sins are following after them.
They don't seem to be ahead like the
locusts Of Egypt eating up the coun-
try before they come on but the
hounds of hell are after them on their
heels. They will overtake them.
The valuable lessons Of life are never
learned by some until they arc too old
to be benefited much by them. If a
Young man at 16 or Is or 20 years of
ace could have the knowledge of
things which the experiences of 2G