Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-10-23
DEVELOPMENT AND ITS SAFEGUARD
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earnest and unwearied cffort2
Ask of the past; to it's golden
memories and its precious legacy
with the enchanter's wand of history
call before your vision the heroes
and sages and saints of earlier days
and see the men whose mighty
minds, whose iron hands, whose
hearts of oak framed and fashioned
the edifice of government and society,
in whose capacious and yet ever cx-
panding shelter you dwell to-day.
Read the story Of the days that
are gone and there seek inspiration
for plan and achievement. From the
strength and purity and sacrifice of
lives that have been known, the
power and the splcndor of lives that
shall be.
Read Alright the history of our
blessed part and from its solemn
monitions learn lessons of hope, of
endurance, of toll, of triumph.
OF what value is the book of expe-
riencc if the dust of neglect lies
thick upon its lids?
Read the lives Of our fathers and
thank God that in your veins runs
the blood of men who, led of God,
made a country, framed laws for
nation, gave their all for home and
freedom, toiled for loved ones, ad-
vanced to dauntlcss devotion the
cause of Christ and "fell on sleep" in
the blessed assurance of immortality
in the City of the king.
What are you going. to do with,
your lives? Twenty years from this
hour what will be your positions in
this world f? Where will you stand
in regard to education, your country
and your God ? As you answer these
questions during the coming four or
five years, so will the verdict stand
twenty years hence.
10 lost opportunities, to the wasted
heritage of mind and Of soul, it will
be in vain that you cry then.
Backward, roll backward,
y limo in your flight,
And mako mo child
| Just again for tonight"
Now, young men, young women,
is the time for decision-this is the
hour for action. Now must the
choice be between ignorance and
wisdom, between darkness and light.
Carry with a noble pride and
springy steps to the parents who love
you and toll and sacrifice for you,
not the withcrcd leaves OF failure,
but the fair flowers of high scholar
ship and the faircr garlands of clean,
lpurc, Christi like manhood and wo.
manhood.
0 young people, have the faith of
your brightest moments, the hopes
of your noblcst dreams; then by
Gods blessing, with faithful work
and courage and sacrifice, dreams
and hopes will be but earnest and
prophecy of glorious realities in that
future, whose light already breaks
upon the hill tops Just ahead.
Many a devoted father is praying
tonight for the child away from
home; many a dear mother is ask
ing God to watch over the boy or
the girl in Greenvillc.
The years arc passing fast, and
soon the fathers head will bend low
with the burden of care and of age
and on the brow of the blessed
mother gray hairs will minglc to the
black or the brown. But the same
tender eyes, DINNER than of yore,
will grow bright again when prayers
are answered and when son and
daughter take their stand for right
and truth and wisdom and Christ.
My young friends, in tho class
room, in the silent watches of the
night, on the streets, on the play
ground, remember that father and
that mother and reward them for
the sacrifices which they are making
for you.
0 young men, young women, my
heart ycarns for you. What are the
pleasures Of sin, that you may enjoy
Tor season, compared with the
glory that shall be revealed in you,
if only you listen to the cry of wis
dom, if only you heed the voice Of
understanding, if only you rest upon
the everlasting arms, that shall raise
you far above the (unvcnomcd fanps
of the serpent, drink,) vices and the
sins that would soil and sully your
clean young lives ?
: a few years, and the men who lead
in fields of industry, in our county's
councils in tho Church Of God, will
have said farewell to the scenes Of
earth; a few years hence and the
noble women of to-day will no
longer gladden. and strengthen home
and church and mission field.
Soon you must guide the indus
trial activities of our country. Soon
yon will inherit the stern RESPONSE
bility Of guarding the welfare of
yonr native land; soon you must
take your places in "the far flung
battle line" of Christian soldiers,
that must fight the good fight Of
faith and go on from triumph unto
triumph, hearing to-day the noise of
battle, the next the victor's song"
May each one of you, stirred by
unfaltcring faith in your Lord and
Master, say: