The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-02-15

would read Adam told Lamech, La
mech told Noah, Noah told Abraham
Abraham told Jacob land Shem tolt
him, tool, and Jacob told Lsvi and Lev
told Amram.
Lamcch, Noah, Abraham, Jacob
Lsvi and Amram. The twenty-seven
generations are reduced to six men
and those six we're all mon favored OF
God and In the line OF descent to David
and Jesus Christ. Besides these men
there were gOdly women not a few.
Ola Mother Eve was there, tho last
and best part OF the creation, and pro-
badly lived with Adam until his dc ath.
| Don't you know she loved to meet with
her descendants and how she sat in the
corner with her knitting and talked to
Old Mother Eucch and Mother Methu-
saleh and Mother Lamech, who was
her g:g-g-g.g-g-g.gr granddaughter and
how she wept with them over that
apple business.
| rlan have any better or more truth full
God fearing men and women to learn
from? Young men, beware how you
| become infatuated or infected with
! this modern idea OF higher criticism
For Z, 500 years the authenticity of
the Old Testament has been studied by
the most learned men OF the ages.
Paul says, unto the Jews we're COM
mitted the oracles OF God. What If
some do not believe; shall their unbe-
iiei make the faith Of God without Of
fect' God forbid; yea let God be true,
but every man a liar" Two hundred
and Gig hty-hvo years before Christ
seventy learned men compiled the sa.
cred canon and it has remained un-
changed till this day. But ever and
anon some carping aud cynical mind
strains itself to find flaw and calls it
higher criticism. Just like Seward and
Giddings and other fanatics did when
they armed John Brown and declared
that there was higher law than the
constitution.
Young man, stand by the faith of
the ages, the faith Of your fathers and
ard be not wise in your own conceit,
for Solomon saith, There Is more
hope Of a fool than Of him."
| have recently visited the good old
city OF Columbus aud received its hos
| pitality aud benedictlons. 1t is lust nv
| age, and through ali these years has
moved steadily and surely forward
manufacturing with serenity and dig
| nifty the character its cultured men
and women gave it in the beginning
How broadly beautiful it was laid out :;
how beautiful is its shade how green
the grass on It's public grounds ; how
beautiful the river that girdles IL. Not
tor q single year has there been any re-
| trograde in the manners or morals of
its people. Considering its climate, So
ciety and prosperity | do not know d
city that had rather live in. 1t is al
ready large enough for moral safety,
for jeff. rson spoke truth when be
said that great cities were pestilential
to good health and good morals. Oi
course, we favor the Increase of an in
dustrial population that keep the
wheels and spindles turning and the
| wolf from the door and the beggar
from the streets and If every city cared
for its operatives In the mills as Colum
bus does, there would be no object les.
sons Of misery to be carried before the
legislature. [ visited the young men 3
| club rooms Of the Eagle and Rhenix
mills. Yes, club rooms for factory boys
where they can spend their evenings
and read and write and bathe and ex-
exercise instead Of going to the saloons,
The beautiful library has 900 volumes
OF standard books and tho reading
tables are furnished with the best news
| paper and magazine literature. I can
| not epumerate tho pleasant and attrac-
| tive features OF these rooms. They are
all free or nearly SO to the factory boys
who become members. Colonel Gunby
Jordan is the big-hearted promoter OF
this attach ment to the mills and the
mill owners pay all the expenses.
Sad but sweet memories came ovel
me as | recalled the halcyon days wher
the Hollis, Gouldings. R,dds, Howards
Thorntons and Warrens lived here
and ! went to school and to college will
their sons. These boys are all deat
save two, and | am reminded of m,
loneliness. recall other leading citi
zens who walked the streets and pre-
served the standard of honor and in
tegrity. Such men as Seaborn Jone,
and Benning and Crawford and Chappe
and Bethune and Bozeman and Lomax
! Shakespeare says, "The evil that men
do lives after them tho good Ia oft In.
| tered with their bones" I would re-
verse that expression, for good deeds
and their influence last longer than
| evil ones and nowhere has the success
| sion OF good citiZ ,nship proved it more
palpably than in C,lumbus. There 1t
still wealth without ostentation and
| hospitality without strain. Not q
shyster among her lawyers nor quack
among her preachers. Mt fancy
| preacher among her clergy, nor q
venal partisan among her editors. For.
tunate city happy people