Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-10-07
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month recently in Oconee visiting my
children, grandchildren and friends;
and 1t was TO me season Of much
real JOY and pleasure-so much so
that | was iUath to leave. The pleas
ant associations of this visit will be
Il green spot on memory's page that
will ever linger with me. At the
same time there was a great degree
Of sadness mingled with the pleasure,
from the fact that so many good peo-
pie have passed to the other shore
from the Richland community since
1909. noted about twelve who
have died.
While in the county enjoyed so
much the beautiful scenery, as / have
read OF the scenes in the great book
OF nature that has done so much for
this cOunty-the great mountain
range, its peaks that lift their heads
into the clond-land; it's rolling hills.
bubb!ing springs and beautiful water
falls; the trees in field and forest,
beginning to put on their robes Of
many colors; the goldenrod (of the
aster family, fringng the hillsides
and meadows with their lovely gol-
den plumes. Often | am surprised
that so few people (men especially
never seem to take notice of the won
dcrful beauties of nature that God
has caused to grow, bud and bloom
for our enjoyment. The untaught
Indian, the red man Of the forest.
was a great lover of nature. He
once owned these hills and valleys
NrOm which the white man drove
him from his home and possessed his
land without compensation and he
loved the forest, with its nocks Of
game Of all kinds, its brooks, creeks
and rivulcts that were alive with all
kinds Of fish. 1t was in the valley Of
the beautiful Keowee, and along its
banks, that the red men would meet
to settle with blood their disputes Of
boundary and domain; and it was
over these same hills and gorges that
the stalwart Indian wooed and won
his forest-bOrn lover. Yes, the red
man of the forest was grea ter lover
Of the beauties Of nature than is the
white man OF to-day.
"EnOch," who walked with God
three hundred years, understood the
teachings of nature. For him Cod
was in everything-the mountains,
the clouds, the waves, the trees, the
valleys and hills, all had their voice
Cor him. For him the flowers and
the sounds of nature had voices like
those the angels heard when the
morning stars sang together. He saw
beauty in the waters that we never
feel; in field, in forest, in plain, in
mountains and in woods he recog-
nized lovely forms which we cannot
see, because we do not look.
DR.. MorTis's Sermon
at Richland was timely and to the
poiHt. ! wish everybody could have
heard him on Home MisSions,"
"Catholi"ism" and Emigration" He
explained the home mission work
beautifully and he scored Romanism
and cm!Gration from the shoulder,
and justly so. ! hope he will preach
hD
shcba and from Beersheba back to
Dan. ! hope the day will soon come
when the hatchways OF emigration
shall be shut down on undeyirables.
And yet we pay big salaries 10 men
to look after this emigration into the
United States! hope the Doctor
will come again and preach from the
same text. We will drink that kind
Of SKINNED milk all the time.
Well, Mr.. Editor, my time is up,
and have had to leave the county of
OcOnee, where youth buds and age
blooms, where the water is good the
air bracing, and the people generous,
kind-heartcd and brave.
cannot now give you the altitude
Of Oconce county, but its height, |
know, is great. While Josh Ashley
was in the Legislature few years
ago a member Of that body from the
lower part OF the State asked II
what was the altitude Of Anderson
county. "Mostly Baptist" said
Josh. ! am not able to give the alti-
tudc Of Oconee, but | believe it, too,
is 'mostly Baptist"
The Old Ship of Stata
is about to be herself again The