Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-03-15
States. For two days the mild and
balmy weather lasted, drawing every

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1t quickly turned cold, and one night
the moist earth was frozen, and with
1t the unmatched larvae and also the
| young and crawling locusts above
ground. And though the earth thaw-
; cd again In a few days, the locusts,
with the exception Of scattered few,
had disappeared.
And to quote Goyernory Pills
( bury, we have never seen any grass
! hoppers since'.'
You may be surprised at the con-
clusion draw now from this authen-
| tic and recent record of Gods an
swer to peoples prayers, when l
apply 1t to the boil weevil in South
Carolina and in the South.
l assert, without reserve Of doubt
or question, that God did hear and
answer their prayers in that marvel
Gus case. l assert my conviction that
in such a case he would hear and
answt. the prayers Of the people Of
South Carolina.
Do then advocate proclamation
of the Governor appointing a day of
prayer about the boil weevil? No;
not now-not yet. why not?
First. Because the boil weevil Is
not as yet realized as calamitous
fact. The minds Of the people are
not united in sorrow and horror OF
ruin as was the case in Minnesota.
Some hardly believe that the boil
weevil Is not to be considered a pest
in the appalling sense at all; that
benant and not injury follows In its
trail; that economically the boil wee
vii is blessing.
Second. The cotton belt section is
for the moment minded to put It's
problem in human hands for solu-
! ton. Scientific devices and agricul-
tural ingenuities have not been ex-
! hausted at this hour, though there
appears little to show that they are
effective anywhere. Mans extremity
10 Gods opportunity. We have not
come to our extremity on account OF
or about the boil weevil In this Sec
ton. There Is no mood of repent
ance, no sense Of abject human de-
spair, no real fear upon the people
and they would not cry to God.
Third. The boil weevil Is warn
ing--not the only warning, but
great and powerful warning-that II
unheeded, forbodes neither prosperi-
ty nor happiness to the people.
II do not understand this boil
weevil," said certain farmer. "1
planted my cotton in my best land,
put my best fertilizer under 1t, and
my hands and my mules worked It
according TO m idea OF how 1t ought
to ba worked. My cotton looked to
be good. got ny seasons when
needed them, my rain when It was
dry, and my sunshine when 1t was
wet. But my cotton gave me only
one bale to my ten acres; my ten
ants did no better; my crop is a fail
ure-and just because of that little
bug that came from nowhere, and
that nobody understands"
Thou fool! It Is my" this and
"my" that and "my" everything.
That little, mysterious bug has come
to denounce thee. Here is one preach
era hundred thousand to the acre
you will have to listen to, and you
shall support him we'll. too-not in
the strained out dimes begrudgingly
given to some church collection, but
in great dollars upon dollars. God
Is out collecting for the beneflt OF
another one OF His creatures what
you, His dishonest steward, withheld
that was His, and you considered
God knew 1t not. You were His part
ner and played Him shabby and
short. The boil weevil is getting the
piled-up arrears that was Gods!
No, 1t Is not for a proclamation OF
tho Governor We may yet look, but
this boil weevil - wonderful little
thing that laughs It's way from the
Rio Grande to the mountains, MAX
Ing monkeys of science and human
contriyances-does tell us to pray
just the same.
God brought the boil weevil here,
and God can send him away. A pro-
minent business man wrote me let
ter which I have nnw IN my hand.
"On tho boil weevil,' he says, back
to Malachi, the last OF the prophets,
in chapter 3:10-12. | DIRE you to