Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-01-16
SCATTER THE SEED.

The children of this world are wiser in
their generation than the children of light
They understand the power andl value of the
press in carrying forward their political cam
paignsi;I they use tbeTegalar 9alsy npers and
special campaign issues, and they raise money
in large amounts for the printing and dis
tributiOn of political tracts and documents.
It is said that in the last presidential cam
kpaign, one political party circulated political
tracts in single State to the amount of one
hundred and fifty Thousand dollars. Men
gave the money to produce them, and week
after week they weresent out by the ton, and
scattered, lip ever portion sof, that State, and
their power was felt >.
So much men will do to forward their polit-
ical and personal interests But have not Chris
tans far nobler work to do, and one much
more worthy of; their zeal. and toll? What
have politicians to publish which can com
pare in value and interest with. the glorious
gospel of the Son of God? What is the Cleo
tion of some man to high Office by the suffrages
of his fellows, compared with the election of
grace that elevates men from the depths Of
sin and gloom of mortality, aId sets them
crowned and glorifed III the Kingdom of our
Gody What political principles can compare
in Importance with those principle of truth
and righteousness which we are called on to
spread abroad among the nations of the earth?
What advantages and benefits can this worlds
politics afford compared with the richer bles
sings which come to those who work the work
of God? Shall we not, with earnest hearts
and open hands, enter upon the work Of diffus-
ing the glad tidings of salvation, and see to
it. that we scatter, as on the wings of the
wind, those messengers Of mercy which shall
bring lost wanderefsi to; the 'fod of Christ,
and save the sinful from the wrath to Gomez
THOUGHTS FOR THE CLOsEI.-As rivers
are generally deeper in winter, when there is
commonly more rain, and less evaporation than
in summer, so are religious feelings wont to be
deepest in the wintry season of sorrow, being
then most fed with the showers OF grace grant
ed in answer to earnest prayer, as also exempt
ed from the exhaustive Influences Of prosperity.
The world is tolerant ofIsin anywhere but in
a Christian A Christian should be more toie-
rant of sin in himself than anywhere else.
Indeed, sin in saint takes darker hue Of
guilt from the contradiction which it gives,t to
The profession of him who commitsit it. "How
shall we that are dead to sin live any longer
therein 20 ..,....
If your child is not converted in your house
hold, in what other household may he ever be
converted? If he grows hard under your care,
at whose touch shall he eS0ften2 If YOU, ~m0th-
er, cannot win him to reason and holiness,
who CAM? After such a failure, ;Nhornay have
the courage to renew the attempt?
The devOut man who has learned the mean
ing of theprayer, ''Thy Will be aone on earth
as it is in heaven, freely accepts the obliga-
ton to labor, and does not merely submit toit.
He goes to work with cheerful heart. His
trade, his profession, is to him the way in
which Christ has appointed that he shall live.
NEAB VIEWS jOR HAHmnility and re-
pentance are the result of large acquaintance
with God. Job said, "I have heard of thee by
the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye
seeth thee" 1t expresses two kinds of knowl-
edge-tfre one speculative, the otler practical.
He fiatt formerly distant and vague acduain-
tance with God, without contemplating Him
by that faith, "Which seeth Him who is invis-
ible.r He now had an intimate, deep and
practical sense of God, very different from the
mere vague conceptions be- had when ne only
heard of Him; that knowledge which is prac-
tical, deep intimate, and profound. The two
effects were Humility and REPENTANCE H'l-
mlity is produced by the sight CT His great
ness, repentance by a knowledge OF His purl-
ty. 1t is the union of these that forms the
idea of God.-Robe,t Hall.
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TIE D1FFERENCE- The grand difference
between the Christian and the man of the
world is, that the burden of the one is gath el'-
ing as he proceeds, while the othec is becoming
lighter and more easy tae man OF carnal mind
and worldly affections clings more and more
to the earth, and new cares thicken around his
deathbed: his is collecting as he advances, lapd
when he comes to the edge of the gravesit
bears him down to the bottom like mill
stone. But the blessed Spirit, by gradually qel-
eyating the Christians temper and desires,
makes obedience more easy and delightful,
until he mounts in the presence OF God, where
he finds it service of perfect freedom.
PREMILLENNIALIsM.--W never could see
how the belief in the near coming of Christ
could create any new obligation or motive to
duty, not enforced by the belief of the common
truths of Christianity. The shortness and
uncertainty of life render devout watchfulness
and diligence the imperative duty ct every fol-
lower Of Christ.-Christian, Guur 1ion'