Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-09-09
SOUTH CAROLINA sUNsHINERs.
Something of the Great Work Being
Done I'm this State.

in the International Sunshine Soci-
ETY., as the State leader lives In Oco-
nee and is known TO all our readers,
as she has worked for rural schools
for eight years.
The Scatter Sunshine Circle, of
Charleston, and "Twinkling Star Cir
cle," Of McCleilanviile. gave Miss
Shelor a summer outing to visit the
"shut-ins" in Anderson and Green
vile counties. In Anderson she vis-
tied Mrs. M. ( e. Johnson, who once
lived in Walhalla. Mrs. Johnson,
while a helpless invalid is cheerful
and wears her Sunshine pin and has
those around her send out good cheer
to other "shut-ins:" While an oppor-
tunity presented itself Miss Shelor
talked up her work. She has learned
by her rural work not to form .organi-
cations until she gets members full Of
sunshine and will not drop out when
the new is off.
Near Pelzer she visited Fred Nc
Kittrick in his home and was charm
ingly entertained by his mother. Fred
is a most wonderful child, now sew
enteen years old. He cannot raise
his head off the pillow, nor can he
walk. He was born "shut-in," but
he will not be shut out Of heaven, for
If work and faith save he will enter
the Eternal City. He is lovely
Christian, always jolly, giving each
one kind word or something to
cheer. He is king Of the whole COM
munity, but he rules by love A
noted South Carolina College presi-
dent said Of him: "Freds misfortune
is blessing to all who know him.
He Is fine preacher" Through the
sunshine work Fred is known far and
near. To prove this just go to his
home and see the uncounted letters,
etc., that are his priced property.
Miss Shelor counted fifteen hundred
post cards and three hundred books.
Last fall the other McKitrick chill
dren broke off cotton bolls and Fred
picked fifty cents worth OF cotton
with his crippled hands and sent the
money to the New York Blind Baby
Sunshine Kindergarten. To North
erners Fred has sent cotton and he
writes Of it's culture to the school
children. His mother, realizing while
he was puite young that he could not
be cured, began to educate him, and
now what pleasure to him that he
can read and help others.
If this boy, who needs his moth
er's care as IL he were a babe of one
month, can do so much for Christ,
why can't we tell the good news and
help the poor boys and girls get an
education? Miss Shelor visited quite
a number Of "shut-ins," and even
while she waited in the depot at
Greenville for car, made three new
members. The fondest hope of her
life Is to see a school established in
South Carolina where defective chill
dren can be educated. The education
Of the defective ones will pay the
State hundred times over.
A South Carolina minister, i'll in
California, has b. en- given post card
shower. In his reply he says that
words cannot express his apprecia-
tion."
The Sunday State has a Sunshine
column, and in this way the Sunshine
work Is being spread all over South
Carolina very rapidly. Wheel chairs,
telephones, graphophones, books,
medicines, ETC., have been given to
the "shut-ins," and rural schools are
greatly aided; rare books and maga-
zines have been secured for colleges:
aged people have been comforted and
only the recording angel knows what
the Sunshiners in South Carolina are
doing and will continue to do. Miss
Shelor works as funds are sent in.
Only recently she told a visiting min
lister In her home that box of pic
lures, books, clothes, ETC., was hacked
up and waiting for some one to pay
express to the Sunset School, where
Miss Shelor began some work five
years ago. She said, "The money will
soon Gomez just ask and wait" On
the next day the minister left a bill
to pay the express. From far-away
Spain comes help. Oh, how much
work Is to be done! If the leader
gives her energy to write and keep
the society going, can we not give
her our cooperation and prayers?
.-. A Sunshiner.