Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-06-01

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was hanged. Charles the IXth, who shed so
much Protestant blood that the canals of Par.
is were red with blood, died of dreadful
disease which caused the blood to run in
streams from every pore Of his body.
Stephen Gardiner burned many of Gods
people to ashes, yet, in the end, God smote
him with fearful burning, so that his tongue
was turned black as charcoal and hung out
of his mouth. The principle on which God
governs the world ia. "With, what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured, to you again." -
Matthew Wiz "Whoso diggeth pit shall
fall therein" PROV. xxii:N.
DISHONESTY BEGINS AT HoME:-The cry
ing sin of the day is dishonesty. One hears
much of it in public life; but, as we have
said before, there is too much of it altogether
in private life. And its cause is to be found
in the want of selfcontrol in the indulgence
of tastes and appetites. Reckless, extrava-
CANT living is at the bottom of it all. If this
living had any true foundation in any hearty
desires for desirable things, there would be
more hope of amendment. But when one
comes to see what things ill.gotten gains are
spent upon, the outlook is sad one. Dress,
display, amusement, costly things bought just
because they are costly wealth won evilly,
merely that it may be wasted foolishly these
are the signs of time which it is not pleasant
to contemplate. Ifa man loves any one thing,
say rare books, or pictures, or objects of art Of
any kind, or music, or science, so we'll that
for the sake of the one thing in which he
would be rich, he is willing to be poor in ev-
erything else, no matter though his choice be
an unwse one according to the best standards
of choice, he will yet have motive which
will help to keep him upright. But for those
who love none Of these things, but simply de-
sire them because it is the habit of the time !;
because, like pampered children, they must
needs cry for whatever they see just out of
their reach for them is needed the wholesome
self:discipline which shall teach them to let
alone whatever is not theirs. And the be-
ginning of this selfdiscipline is in the home.
Parents must teach their boys and girls the
great lesson of doing without whatever can
not be ftly theirs. There need be no niggard
ly restraint, but in some way the first lesson
for childhood should be that Of earning its
pleasures. To get whatever it Graves as soon
as it asks for it, is the worst training child
can have -Churchman.
AN ENFORCED PAUsE.-God sometimes
sends an reinforced pause" 1t comes in the
shape of trouble, fever, an unforeseen
journey, perhaps-what we call an accident
and we are taken out Of our ordinary lives
and obliged to stop. From the confines OF
the sick room the world recedes. The cares
that loomed so large to our sight yesterday,
seem to have gone away indefinitely. The
things that we thought nobody else could do,
must be done by somebody, and it seems to US
strange that we felt ourselves so Important
Our vacation has come-not the one we want
ed or planned for, or intended, but the best
for US, because God has put it into our lives
and He makes no mistakes. There are faith
ers who would-strange as it may seem, and
wrong as it is-never get acquainted with
much but their children's faces, if they were
not now and then kept at home for few days
by illness. There are mothers, who, in their
ANXIETY for their children's dress and deport-
ment and culture, lose sight of the souls that
they possess, till some sharp wind of sorrow
blows the mists from their eyes, and they feel
that "the life is more than meat, and the body
than raiment." In hours Of convalescence,
the Book is read that has been awaiting an
interval of leisure the song is listened to-,
that the little daughter has learned at school
the buds on the rose-bush in the window are
counted and exulted over something kind
and sweet is planned to be done for the neigh,
Dor over the way. Not in vain has the Lord
sent his pause into the whirl and hurry and
tumult in which the hours and days were
passing.
SATURDAY N1GHr.-"Amongst my many
mercies for which I can never sufficiently
thank God," said speaker at large meet
ing in London, "is that Of having pious
mother, who taught me when child, always
to prepare on Saturday night for the privi-
leges and duties of the Lords day. The
good wash was only part of the nights pro-
gramme. We had to put out on the chairs
in our bedrooms, the clean linen, Sunday
clothes, and shoes in apple-pie order. Halt
century has passed over since then" con-
tinued the speaker, "but to this day, the early
habits taught me by my good mother are still
continued everv Saturday night"