Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-04-03
THE CERTAINTY OF DEATH.
Let Your Lives be Your Monuments ts-Live
Right and Die Right.


Chester, March 29.-Editors Keo.
wee Courier: During the past winter
there have been an unusually large
number of deaths over the country.
Almost every copy of The Courier has
brought the sad intelligence of the
death of some friend or acquaintance,
and once or twice that Of relative.
A great number of Oconee's best and
most honored citizens have passed
away during the last few months.
Death was not satisfied with the old, i,
gray haired fathers and grandfathers,
but called also the middle-aged and
young. All must obey the summons
of this grim enemy, if it can be con
sidered an enemy-and the Bible tells
us that death is the last enemy that
shall be conquered. What happy
thought this must be to one PROSTATE
upon the death bed, knowing that the
last enemy will soon be conquered,
and he will be at rest!
Many poor, suffering creature has
welcomed death as deliverer. 1t
it always surrounded by sorrow, yet
it is the transplanting of the soul
from a sin-cursed world to one of
supreme happiness. Blessed are
they that die in the Lord.
Many are the hearts that have been
rent in this State within the last six
months-yea, in the last week. No
one has ever died who did not leave
some one to mourn his or her death.
1t matters not how low in the scale
Of humanity one may be, nor how
degraded, nor what his color or creed,
there is some one who will weep for
him. True, when the beggar dies
there are few to mourn his death,
and his remains may cumber the pot
ter's field, yet on the resurrection
morn he will be equal with the hon
ored statesman, the wealthy gentle
man, the high official, at whose death
thousands mourn. Both will appear
before the All-wise Judge, by whom
earthly power or lowliness is not
taken into account, but whose judg-
ment is justice and wisdom and ac-
cording to the deeds done in the
body.
Some time ago ! walked through
cemetery and noticed magnificent
monument, towering high toward the
heavens, erected to the memory Of
some prominent man who departed
this life long years ago a little
further on, in an obscure and out-of-
the-way place, | came to mound,
unmarked and uncared for, where,
doubtless, rest the remains of some
poor person, whose relatives were
unable to mark his grave even with
an unpretcntious slab. Here, close
together, are the graves of rcpresen-
tatives of the two extremes Of soci-
wealth and povcrty-the one
beautitied with costly marble, the
other unmarked. Yet mother earth
has forever blottcd out their social
inequality, and for eternity there
is no difference between them.
do not undervaluc the custom Of
erecting monuments to the loved
ones who pass from this life. IL is
proper and ust tribute to their
memory. But let us build our own
monuments by a proper use OF our
opportunitles-monumcnts that will
mark our lives and not alone the
last resting places of our bodies. No
matter how poor, how little known,
our lives will exert an influence on
some one. Let us, then, guard our lives
well and be sure that our influence
is for good. Our lives are watched
by those around us, and are potent
for good or evil, according to the
use or abuse of the ta.cnts God has
given us to improve. Let our lives
be such that when the summons
comes to us to "walk through the
valley of the shadow of death" we
may depart in peace, knowing that
we have performed our duties as
Christians and "fonght a good fight"
Rhctt II. Doyle.
The lingering cough following grip
calls for One Minute Cough Cnre For
all throat and lung troubles this is the
only harmless remedy that gives immo.
diato results. Prevents consumption.
j. w. Bell.
A Missouri editor sums up the
situation of how much some men
think Of their dogs by saying that if
a man had a $50 bull pup he would
look after it carefully and not let it
run all over town at night. But ii
he has a boy it is different. He is
turned loose at the tender age to go
to the bad; and people wonder
where the great army OF trampS,