The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1855-01-10
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MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Star Spanglsd Banner.
Individual Effort.


be in sympathy and benevoence, how
over much we may lean 70 support AMI
guidance on the counsel and assistance Of
Others, we must depend entirely upon
ourselves for the progress we make in oO.
tiining wisdom, or in building up the
character. The experience of ages ,s..
the counses Of the wise and good, all
that is beautiful and eunob,ing in ART,
science, literature, and nature, are open To
US. The divine precept and exam lc are
ever with us. The collected beauty OF all
human morality and religion is ever spread
out in all its attractiveness before U.s.
But of what avail are they, it we posses
not the teachab.c spirit OF what avail
are they, it we have not that noble, all
graspiug energy, which will, labor on,
through prosperity aud adversity, through
good and through evil report, to win u
lofty and digniiied characterl All that
can be done for us, al the aid which M
ture and art can render are of no service
if we posses not the desire and the eaer.
gy to accomplish the good work. The soul
Is alone in tue world IN this respect, and
depends entirely upon itself for advance
ment.
Going to church on Sunday, reading
the Bible and Baxtcr's Call, are not good-
hess any more than looking Il, the ocean
is going to EngIm. A man may bend
his knees aud cover his eyes in prayer
time without bsing any nearer heaven
than though he were out in the green
fields. They are the aids to goodness,
which properly used may lead him up to
something better than the vanity OF world
illness, but they are not the thing itself
Though it is eighteen hundred years
since the great NJ lster said that the hypo-
&crites expected TO be heard because of
iheir much speaking, they still continue
speaking, and sii'l expect 70 be heard be-
causeroi the ~aJuulance OF their words.
e A man mnyago to church all his M1thne,
may read al the gool books that have
ever been written, anl yet without pur.
pose, without liked desire for, without
AN earnest grasping after, the Pare, the
Good, aud the rrue, he will accomplish,
no:hing.
Men are positively stupil vt times OF
this subject. They wantIo lie, cheat their
neighbors, make sharp bargains on State
street, aud still have "a lien on the King
dom OF Heaven, for which they delnlr
themselves iuto tho belief that il,ry have
Ptid the full price. They have bcnn Ia
church every Sunday, covered their faces
IN prayer time, put sixpence into the
contribution box forF Foreign Mission, aud
these formalities are the price of the sorl's
salvation. The widow and the orphan
have been dcirauded; but what "f that
The prayers have been said ! 4 fortune
has been made out Of the simplicity of
some poor struggling neighbor, who is
now IN tile poor house but n0 mliter-
tile sixpence that wen, To teach the Ncs-
torians the way Of | fe has atoned forit
a friend has been wronSed in his purse,
outraged in his morals il matters not
he reads the Bible every night before he
goes To be,l.
We have seen members Of the ,,,arth
in g,ol and regular stnlins III luke.
warm, indifferent members eLIcr~-whD
could close their harl lists npon "a e,iner
coin IN the presence ol real suffering ail
suiS'be as coaiilcn: Of g5iug To IL nv.n
as though tue pearly gates were already
opening for them. But to suc'i M
Heayeu is indeed on the o,htF.si,Ic of
Johlsn; il is not within their owi ..,lrts.
and they will certainly l,e drowned when
they attempt 90 cross the iircr.
Sons years ago, AN in$tallc. run 10
our knowledge which iilu<,rties thi, nital-
ern salvation by faith aud not works"
Avery poor man who had been forced
intp the very strait of p1yeuy by sickness,
found himself unable TO pay tlle few little
debts he had been obliged To contract. =
All the village knew him to be An honest
inan, temperate, industrious, AMI frugal
and being Nn honest man his Obligations
10 others NATURALLY gave him great deal
of nnsasiness. Choosing the wiser course,
ale determined to call upon them aud state
his case
HE first called upon his butcher, who
was likewise u poor man, and who could
sli atffsd to lose even the snnll amount
uehim, lie hal, however, what was
better tllm wealth --lis llpl q nol,e AMI
generous heart Tie posr ,le,dor stated
hs c'sc,.TusIanceS aud added that he had
hlillis farnilsre--a clock and rocking
ehsir--tlat conld be sparsl, which he
waswilling to give up. IBus tie butcher
took the bib, receiptsd II, aud gave it TO
tho de,'ter ---hs "sosRsse him the ,leb,.y
Ills next visit WAS 10 Deacon A.
saeef ,haelioseu saints OF the place, rscl,,
SIT IN the broad aisle az tho mee,inys
house, and hcdonbt expected onc.of the
chief seats q titcsynagog,e 10 the world
% come. The poor In,n told his story.
The dvagon frownsd The debt was for
9 lead 81 wyoi which had warned fhe
slek room of ilis iBdigrnt neilhbor. Tie
oiIsy g giseup The clock, roekiag chair.
aud aiiser arsieIss Was repeated. and tlI,
pioas ,'eAcoa readily accepted i'll That
very day he removed tie articles 70 Ibis |