The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-11-27
williamson Zimmerman

Yxo volumes bound in one complete
with thrilling story old but sweet !;
No title needs the cover fair,
Two golden hearts are blended there.
. The oft told old story is ever new.
And 1t is we'll that it is. read once
Of certain religious denomination
that believed in rejoicing and feast
ing when one of their number depart
ed this life, on the ground that they
believed that the happy hunting
Sroands Of the great beyond was
place Of unending pleasure and hap
Riness, and why should they mourn
If that be true? And that the time for
mourning was when two young peo-
ME set out on the journey Of life hav-
ing plighted their faith the one to the
ether. I do not know that ] agree
with them as to the latter. AS to the
former il we believe that when one
&des and is saved that he has gone to
everlasting happiness, why should
we mourn? 1t would be selfshness on
ear part But life is a perilous jour
aey from childhood to youth.
Ard then, at last, to be man;
To fall in love, to WOO, to wed;
with seething brain to scheme and
plan;
To gather gold, or toll for bread;
70 sue for fame, with tongue or pen;
To gain or lose the prize: and
- them
But II the golden hearts be blend
el In love then the Journey must OF
necessity be one Of pleasure. when
@od made the world, he put love In,
and none of it has ever been lost" 1t
BLOSSOMS in flowers, sings in moving
waters. fills the forest with birds, and
makes all the wonderful music OF
spring. 1t puts the color upon the
pobin's breast, scents the orchard with
hr-reaching drifts of bloom, and scat
ters the pink and white petals over
the grass beneath. Through love the
aoxer changes to fruit, and the
birds sing lullabies at twilight instead
Of mating songs"
And so it is in all nature. "Bnt
God has made it so that love given
must unfailingly come back an hun
Sred-fold; the more we give, the rich
or we are" But the Journey goes on.
From childhood to youth and to man
hood when the faith is plighted and
everything looks bright and sunshiny
-
And then in gray and wrinkled cid,
To mourn the speed Of life's de-
cline;
70 praise the scenes his youth be-
held,
And dwell in memory of Lang Syne;
To dream awhile with darkened ken,
Then drop into the grave; and
then
It always gives me pleasure to see
two young people who have plghted
their faith and have started out on
the Journey of life It makes me re-
new my youth to see their happiness
and their bouyancy of spirit, espec-
islly if I feel that love dwells there
FOR all the world loves lover.
But I sat down and took my type
writer in hand to write little story
Of real wedding that had the pleas
sre of attending on last Saturday az
ternoon at Dyson in Greenwood coun'
ty in the neighborhood of the scenes
of my youth, though many have beer
the changes that have been wrought
since those days The old house il
there, and the presence at the wed
ding feast of my father and mother
made me feel but boy again, ane
memories Of the days that are gone
came fast and thick. There were no
snany present who were there wher
left the community to go off Il
school, and that has not been so loni
ago. / can recall now only DR.. ant
Mrs II N. Sloan who have since
moved to the city of Ninety Six. bn
at that time were living in the neigh
borhood.