Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1868-08-21
SHORT SAYINGS.
Syllables govern the world.-Se1den.

Syllables govern the world.-Sellen.
A sorrowss crown of sorrow is rcmem-
boring happier things.-Tennyson;
Truth is as impossible to lie soiled by
any outward touch, as the suubeam.-
Milton.
Posts Of honor do not confer true glory.
1t is the manner in which We fill eminent
stations that signifies US, not the stations.
shall by and by have done preaching
and you done hearing; but the consequent
ces thereof will abide for ever;-F1aoel.
Sinner, God loses nothing if you arc
lost, and receives no benefit if you are
saved yet lie treats you to be reconciled.
at is naught, it is naught, saith the
buyer; but when ho is gone his way, then
he boasteth. Xxx: IA. Trader,
how does this applya
Read of the horrors and miseries of
but one day, and be reminded that He'll ID
still more miserable and everlasting.
'Turn to the right, and 60 straight
ahead" was the reply of the late Bishop
of Litchfeld to fellow-trayeler who sneer-
ingly asked him to point the way to heav-
en-.
A house going minister makes church
going people; as the people are sure to
show the courtesy of returning the min.
isters weekday visits by their sabbathday
attendance. Chalmers,
| We should act with as much energy an
il we expected everything from ourselves;
and we should pray with as much earnest
ness as if we expected everything from
God.-Fzavel.
Not to hit mark is to miss it; almost
to be persuaded to be Christian, is to
remain an impen:tent sinner almost to
enter the gate of heaven, is to sink down
to HE'LL Wstherspoon.
| Our offenses against God and our fellow
men are far greater in the omission Of du-
ties than in the commission of sins. Let
any one think it over faithfully, and see if
tbs weight of condemnation does not rest
there.
An old clergyman once said: When
come to die shall have my greatest grief
and my greatest joy; my greatest. grief
that have done SO little for the Lord Je-
sus, and my greatest joy that the Lord
Jesus has done so much for me.''
God is love. BE is ready to pass by
all thy former rebelIions, thy deep.dyed
transgressions, and to sign an act of obliv--
ion for all that:is past, if now, at last, thy
heart reients for sin, and thy will bows in
obedience to the great commands aud
calls of the Gospel. :.
For my own part, if my pocket was
full of stones, have no rightto throw one
at the backslider upon earth. have eth
or done as bad or worse than he, or GER
ttainiS should if the Lord had left me a
little to myself for am made just the same
materials; if there be any difference it
wholly Of grace.-Rev. j. Nsaoton.
| I find that when the saints are under
trial and we'll humbled, little sins raise
great cries in the conscience but 10 pros
peri,y conscience' is a pope that gives dis
peusations and great laditude to our hearts.
The cross is therefore as nesdful as tho
crown will be glorious. - -
/ A. wise and due consideration of our
latter end is neither to render US sad, mel
ancholly, disconsolate, or unfit, for tho bu-
Esinass and Offices of lie; but to make us
watchfuI, vigilant, industrious, sober,
cheerful, apd thankfnr to that God who
hath been pleased thus 70 make us service
able tUhiIs, comfortable to ourselves, and
profitable to, others land after all this. to
take away the bitterness and sling Of
death, throagh, Jesus Christ our Lord.
The more we sink into the infirmttids OF
age, the nearer wsafe to immortal youth.
+ AN persons are young in the other world.
That sts.e rs an eternal spring, ever fresh
+ and aourithibs, Now, to pass from mid
night into noon ou-ths sudden, to be de.
crspit, one minute, and all spirit and &C
, ttiyity the next, must be an. entertaining
change. 10 oall-this dying is an abuse
-
; Of language.
8 TKR RsLlssous TRACT Soe1Egx OF
X / PARIs.-G. de- F., the eorresoondent of