Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-09-11

ioiS IhS SoI. JOIlu ~. LdCIluGS ASSO-
citation at it's fourth annual meeting
in Cashiers Valley, n. c., August 81,
1912. There are kindred and friends
Of this large and well known family
oven the States Of South Carolina.
North Carolina and Georgia, many Of
them readers Of The Courier, who
will read with deep interest
Mr.. Iachary's Address.
My Kinsmen: 1t affords me mex
prcssible pleasure, after the lapse of
forty-two years. to meet here to-day
so large a representation OF the great
Zachary family. Judging from the
go0dly number present, if all the
members Of the family, in all It's
numerous branches, were assembled,
sure enough it would make Mr..
R~oosevelt's ideal American family
look like two lost children in the
woods.
learned through Cousin John r.
Zachary some three or four years
ago that an effort was about to be
made to form a Coz. John A. Zach
airy Association" but heard nothing
Of it subsequently until a few months
past. when | was informed that such
an organization had actually mate
rialized; and | wish. in the outset,
to pay a well-earned compliment to
Cousin John r. Zachary and Cousin
Ralph II. Zachary and Thos. Zachary.
and to thank them, as we'll as all
others who have been active in the
am sure ] can safely do so in the
name Of the organization. 1t was a
most laudable work, and no little
task to find the addresses Of all the
tered as they are Over many States.
to arouse their interest In the object
to be attained and yearly bring to-
gether SO large a representation.
They are entitled to this &C
acknowledgements of their intelligent
and successful prosecution Of the
good work. 1t Is eminently fit and
proper hat we should meet together
at least once a year to shake hands
in brotherly love and kinship-to en-
courage the living and to memorial
ize our dead.
The pleasure experienced on this
occasion, however, like many other
pleasures, Is mingled more or less
with sadness. 1t is so often the case,
when | inquire about those whom |
knew and loved in earlier days and
the answer Is made, Dead! dead!
dead" that | feel very much as did
Ril Van Wrinkle upon his revisit to
the village OF Failing Water after his
twenty years sleep.
do not believe in living too much
in the past. or in a too frequent or
morbid indulge in it's sad reminis-
cences. but we cannot always "let
the dead past bury it's dead" for it
can never do it--not SO long as the
lungs breathe or the heart beats. A
too frequent brooding over the trou-
bles INT bereavcments Of the past
engcnderS dissatisfaction in the pres
cnt and gloomy forebodings for the
future. We canno too assiduOusly
cultivate a feeling Of contentnent in
a faithful performance of the duty Of
the hour and in looking hopefully and
bravely to the future; and let us
teach u children the grandeur in
duty faithfully performed, and that
tho brave thing in life to do is to de-
tcrmine to overcome difficulties and
not to shun them. We may overcome
the most Of them, but shun them all
we never an.
Some years ago I stopped over
Sunday in the city of Chicago, and
moving out on the train the next
morning for Cincinnati. | was glanc-
ing V G a sermon delivered by an
eminent divine the day before on a
kindred subject. | was impressed by
two little verses he quoted on Con
tentment," in which that little bit Of
philosophy vas very beautifully cX-
pressed:
"Thc world is wide
In time and tide.
And God IS guide.
So do not hurry.
"That mar is blessed
Who does his best,