The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-03-31
THE REALITY OF LOVE.


its reality and its endurance. He
says:
"lf it is our choice to be men. we
must take down the sorrows of men
Ii it is our privilege to be living souls
we must accept all that goes with that
; privilege. 1t is not true that life is
only vapOr nor is it true that we are
chasing empty phantoms OF joy. The
love of the human heart is the most
real and the most beautiful of all real
tiles. The richest gift of our man
hood and our womanhoOd is this gift
of human affection. 1t is the love
that joins us together as brothers and
sisters, fathers. mothers. children and
comrades. husbands and wives COM
panions. alike in Joys and <c--."$
Whatever the length OF ,.,1a my 81
to have had something 9: ;c.> : 80
have experienced the Supreme ~v.-
lege O. our divine manhood a-G ~c-
manhood T&s ans s. e: -a-..--
came, destroy ,-:s mos r-a. g: all.
rea,.r;eS--aa love has t=-- --s-s e
affection existed The lies aAvs 5-s-
woven which United .=.--s ana sg...s
together The love ,ea- oa-= vas
born in sense car never lie sc- j.
q par, Of The texture OF ru- being
Whi,e We agree mos- heartily VIII
Tie expressed sentiments and in FAC.
think them mos, excellent i, w.,, =
difficult to convince the young ma.
or maiden OF taei" truth in its entire
". That first little love affair. upon
which the young heart thinks time
and eternity depend which they
swear will be the only true and last
ing affection OF their hearts. passes
away like the early dews before the
morning sun. And though the youth
full lovers may for a time think that
life is empty and the world cruel and
hard, time soon heals the wounded.
broken hearts and life is again bright
and happy. Youthful hearts cannot
be persuaded that this love was not
born OF sense"
However, the last sentence of the
above quotation is a striking state
ment, full of rich thought 1t calls
to mind a familiar quotation from
TennySon
Il hold it true whate'er befalls;
feel it when l sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all"
Rich
against this "Live-like Christ" move
ment. declaring it, with many other
similar movements" a failure. The
Methodist bishop is right others
should be as fearless in comdemning
these wild movements" that are har-
anguing and harassing the country
In our opinion it is poor advice to tell
a man to live like Christ; better tell
him to live as Christ would have him,
man, live.
Representative Edwards of Georgia
wants his salary as Congressman cut
from $500 the year to $4,000. Well,
that may be all right for a Georgia
congressman, but South Carolina
sends only high-priccd representa-
tives, who are worth more than a
paltry $4,000
Anderson, in inviting Taft to visit
that city, lays herself liable to criti-
cism by the "staunch. rock-ribbed
Democrats of the State
a whole lot OF rubbish has been
said and written about toadyism, in
reference to the South's general hos
pitality to President Taft. a Republi-
can. While we have no sympathy
with these gushing nothings. spouted
by many of the Southern papers, we
see still less sense in the apparent
alarm on the part of others that the
foundations of Democracy are being
undermined by these compliments
and overtures.
Quoting the words Of an unusually
refined, remarkably intelligent young
woman of the city we say: "the hats
this season are the work of sense
less architect, not artist"
49,
The Charlotte Observer would like
20 bless the nuptials OF Joe Cannon
and Carrie Nation Such consummato
cruelty could emanatc from only the