Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-04-11
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!. SPRINGTINlE, !.
!. NATURES SYMBOL or !.
j. THE RESURRECTION. !.
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(By J. Russell Wright.D

| the bluebirds are building their nests,
dove is cOoing to its mate, the mock
ing birds are piping their sweet car
! OILS to the air and the clouds from
; the grapevine by day and by night
the whiDpoorwill is sending its keen,
| shrill notes frcm the pine log in the
forest; the little frogs are praising
their pond; the quadrupcds are
coming forth from their winter beds
/. The south wind is blowing softly;
the warm sunshine is beginning to
strike the earth vertically, causing
| the little nuts, acorns and seeds to
burst their hard shells. from which
YOU may see the little buds peeping
out from the dead leavcs--their
winter Misunderstanding more light;
and the flowers are blooming in field
and forest, and all the soft, Whisper
ing winds are chanting rcuuiem
Amy one can read in the great Book
OF Nature this morning that all
thins are praising their Creator. So
springtime is the resurrection sea-
! son. And ii "The Book" was silent
on this point (Which it is not not
Nature would convince any sane per-
son that when man dies he shall
/ live again
| This is the first day OF April. and
/ very little has been done towards
/ Farming: but just look at the trees
! in the foreSt---thcy are backward,
! and that will tell YOU that there Is
time enough to make crop. Have
patience, and when the land gets
right be ready to lay off your coat.
} pitch your shoes in the fence corner,
spit on your hands and draw the
. line over the mules back--and lust
keep going. not caring which way
! over YOU"
! In the 9TH chapter Of Genesis we
have very bricr biography Of a
wonderful man. "Enoch." who
walked with God three hundred
years. He must have been one Of
the best and nobleSt men that ever
lived. or his biography would have
been longer. But there is nothing to
say, because his life is unique; it is
perfectly smooth; there are no mis-
takes in it. no sharp corners, no
difficulties; it moves right on with
the great Creative Spirit OF God.
SO smoothly, so calmly does it glide
that it makes no disturbances; it dis
pels nothing that /, true, disturbs
nothing that is right; it goes on to
its eternal goal without hesitation
or stop because "he walked with
God"
Enoch walked with God in another
sense--he was lover OF nature;
and any one who walks with God
cannot fail to be interested in ma
turc. Stand by the sea; do the
waves say nothing to you? DO they
not tell you of the time when the
voice OF God was heard--so sweet,
and yet so piercing sounding
through the darkness Of the early
fog. saying, Let there be light"
Look at the great mountain range,
its peaks that lift their heads into
the cloudland. Does it not tell You
Of the time when this world was all
a molten mass, and when the Al.
mighty God moulded the mass Of
! matter as the potter tOsses the clay?
Enoch saw glory in the sunshine
ut tie very first glance: he saw
| beauty in the waters that we nover
see; in field, in plain, in mountains
and in woods he recognized lovely
| forms which we never see So, If
the lea(-so beautifully cOlored so
wonderfully shaded that the artist
is dismayed at the thought OF copy
| ing it-if the smallest autumn leaf
as il lies upon the ground. tells YOU
no story OF the falling OF human life,
and repeats not to YOU the old, old
story 0i life and death. growth and
decay. and our dependence on Cod
| IL. rs ii falls to the ground TO die,
II does not teach y0u Of the rcsurrcc.
! zion, when all the nutriments OF that
| leaf will rc-asccnd into other leaves
at the summers return--if even the
| little falling leaf has nothing to say
! to YOU, it is because you live not
! with the God OF Enoch.
EnOch understood the teachings Of
| Nature. For him God was in every
! thing--thp mountains, the clOudS
! the waves thc trees valleys and