Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-02-14
Little Things.

size, quantity and quality. The first
verse Of the Bible says: "In the be-
ginning God created the heaven and
the EARTH" And it Is for us to see
that they are little things in compar-
inson with His divine power. When
we read on, in verses following, we.
see that He makes all the things
that are on the earth, and all that
are beneath the earth. We, the 1T
tie things OF the earth, look above
us into yonder deep, deep blue. and
we wonder at the distance, and we
wonder how many little things are
there which we cannot see by day;
by night we only see a few OF those
little things, yet the stars cannot be
counted.
When we began the study of ge-
ography and saw the statement that
it took $4,000 miles to meet around
the earth, our minds were too unde-
veloped to grasp the thought of the
greatness Of It's size; and even now
we members of the tenth grade find
IipI q SttpChNouo IlouEiI. buI " lSil
we get an Imaginative glimpse of its
size it's makes us feel SO little that
we imagine we are almost invisible.
How hard it is for us to believe
that there are four other planets,
each larger than our own! And If
the earth Is only dot compared with
Jupiter, then where are we? All this
moves under the wonderful power Of
the All-wise Creator, Maker Of all
things, both great and small. Yet
we walk with head erect, proud that
one Of us discovered that Jupiter,
Saturn, Neptune and Uranus are lar
ger than the earth; and, too, we are
pround in thinking Of the earths
one.
AS l stand with my face toward
The west, directly straight on to the
coast there are many little States
linked one on to another till the last
one dips its edge into the Pacific.
But we cannot see 1t; there is only
that little power Of Imagination that
sees it. Directly from here, looking
south, there is only one little State
South Carolina with its edge dip
ping into The Atlantic TIE aist uCn
50 hr' ocean ta lnuo in coDlpar aon
&.h me stanca ,y ho }aanNg, Yau
We. Jarno, aAr Alarg.e Why9
Because our : use Of yigiHE IS 'oo
weak
Had our eyes the power Of looking
deep into the ocean from the deck Of
4 vessel we might see a specimen Of
the largest animal that exists; and
we conld follow him by sight as he
swims, with those gigantic jaws
apart, taking in as his food the mi
croscopic globigerinae, then we
would say, Look! the largest ami
mails live upon the little things Of
the ocean"
So little things die that whales
may live; men die because little
things live, such as disease germs
Of typhoid, tuberculosis, pneumonia
and others. So the majority do not
die being swallowed by whales, but
die by degrees from the fearful eff
fects of little things.
In the latter part of Coleridge's
"Ancient Mariner" are these two
lines:
"He prayeth best who loveth best
All things, both great and small"
There in that little phrase all
things is constituted, everything, of
the earth and its relatives spelled by
that little word ALL. That must
be why 1t Is such an important word
in the English ocabulary-becaus
we can spell everything with three
letters. ALL spells all of these
punctuation marks on this paper; it
spells commas, colons, semi-colons
and periods, even the hyphen mark.
The last is very important, too, be-
reading our history in class, in it
was that part which mentions the
Dutch man-of-war bringing over
twenty negroes: and Lula, the lit
w ohS VI thS tlNSot lCbN IL ii5hN, b'I
If that hyphen following man had
been omitted, she would have read
1T tho Dutchman of-war.
Some time ago, in copying a list
OF articles to be Imported free of
duty fruit plants were included.
The clerk inserted comma be-
tween them, thus making it mean
two different words. AS a result of
that comma the government lost