Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-04-23
sTalnaa SERMON ON WADE HAmpron.
"He Serves Mankind Who Teaches Us How
to be Men"--His Life was Truth.
[ThesState, April 14.l

~S " eoAAaASS VIZ, tOV0Oo hAOVho-
dist church yesterday morning DR..
Mark L. Carlisle, pastor of the
church, delivered splendid sermon,
taking "Wade Hampton" as his sub
ject. The sermon was eloquent and
forcible. Below is given full
synopsis:
DIR. Carlisle's text was Acts xiii: 36,
"For ~ after he had served his
own generation by the will of Sod,
he fell on sleep, and was laid unto
his fathers" These words were
spoken of David, the great king of
Israel. The minister said they
might fittingly be spoken of many
other men who have done their duty
and been true and faithful in promi-
nent and responsible places. And
there is need of no special intellec-
tual keenness for you TO perceive at
once why have chosen these words
for my text to-day. There lies in
his home'in this city, still in death,
one who, for more than a generation,
has stood in the public eye, serving
his State faithfully and we'll. The
whole Commonwealth mourns her
great son, who, during long life,
freely spent and was spent, giving
his blood, his energy, his love to her
and her people. "Wade Hampton"
represents to-day perhaps the great
est man, in the ordinary sense, that
you and | have known. Its not
my purpose to pronounce any eulogy
on the dead hero. That would do
us no good, and it would do him
none. We honor him for what he
was and did, for the principles for
which he stood, the successes that he
won, and the life that he has lived.
There were faults, no doubt, for he
was but man, and l have yet to
find man who has no faults. But
over the faults we will drop a veil
of charity and consign them to OBJ
livion, as we shall shortly commit
his body, to the tomb. 1t is my sim
pie purpose to-day to point some
morals for our help as his life may
indicate.
The first thing I wish to say is,
that he presents to us the highest
ideal of patriotism. Sometimes it
seems as if patriotism were an obso-
lete thing with us. No great crisis,
no war, no stress of any sort exists
to arouse us for the fight for "home
and fatherland." l have no doubt
there are patriots here, that many
would give time and even life itself
for the great interests about us.
But self ana self-interest are to the
fore with US, and it is well to pause
and study m.n who could and did
risk all he had to serve his State and
her interests. 1t may be that we
see these things little out of pro-
portion. Hampton's record as SOL
dier, his undaunted courage, his
wonderful cavalry charges, the mas
terry of men that made him an in
spring leader, his brilliant victories
and his greatness in defeat, have
blinded us perhaps to the real patri-
otism of the man. That was shown
in the later days. The same quail
ties that made him great general
fitted him to lead the political fight
for white supremacy in '76. 1t is
vastly harder to serve and be great
in peace than in war. Many men
were his equals in courage and en-
thusiasm in war, who are in no sense
great in peace. He. showed the self
mastery, the coolness, the self-sacri.
flee of the patriot in serving his State
in peace. No man was more intense
in political convictions, yet not even
In the heated contests in which he
was leader did he even descend to
the low plane of the war politician.
There was never any vituperation,
no calling bad names, no personali-
ties; no suspicion that he sought
office for the loaves and fishes of
political influence; never any init
nation that his election must vindi-
cate him. His aim was the triumph
of principle, of right and justice !;
the good of the people and not his
own glory. We need perhaps such
an object lesson. There is current
idea that politics ruins man. There
is no reason why it should. Never
theless it is true that, very often,
those who move in those circles of
public life show a letting down of
the standards of personal honor and
righteousness. What a picture that
of the recurring struggle in our
greatest metropolitan center between
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