Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-05-29
&eadima fpr the Sabbath.
CONDUCTED By
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.

CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
HOME RELIGION.
Home religion is a thing of the heart
which is the same as saying it is thing Of
love. 1t may exist in connection with forms !;
and it may exist in its sweet unfolding, in
dependent of forms. 1t may say grace at
the table; and it may not say grace at the
table. 1t may be gifted to sustain family
altar; and it may not have the gift requisite
But if the heart be right there shall be grace
and prayerfalness, albeit forms be lacking in
the family. There is way of eating your
food which thanks God better than any
formal grace saying that can be devised.
There is a way of kissing the wife after the
meal as the husband is leaving for his office,
which covers the whole ground between hus-
band and wife intended to be covered by the
influence of the family altar. We have
known a man ask blessing on food which
he himself condemned in the very next
breath. To thank God for food, and scold
YOUR wife or the cook in the next breath be-
cause the steak is overdone, or the cakes not
Drowned to your suiting, or the tea too strong,
is something more, friend, than impiety; it
indecency. Home religion should be loving,
first of all, and last of it should be-loving.
It should be patient, too-especially on
those days when it is hard to be patient. 1t
should be cheerful, especially when it takes
wit to invent occasions of mirthfulness. 1t
should be brave not to face the troubles that
are without, but the troubles that are within.
A kindly word, pleasant speech, cheerful
or sympathetic look, touch Of the hand IN
the old tender fashion of the courting days, a
strokine of the cheek and the soft movement
of the palm over the hair-"Foolish tricks y
You are fool if you say it, friend. You
didn't think they were foolish tricks once, and
you were wiser then than you are now that
you have dropped them. A little more
counting in married life would keep married
life what courtship is The foolishness Of
love is wiser than the wisdom of hate; and
the more foolish you are in these direc-
tions, the happier will your homes be, and the
sweeter will your home religion be.-North-
,uestern Christian Advocate
A WORD IN SEASON. Kilstein, pious
German minister, once heard laboring man
use the most awful curses and imprecations in
a fit of passion, without reproving him for it.
This so troubled him that he could scarcely
sleep the following night. In the morning
he arose early, soon saw the man coming
along, and addressed him as follows:
"My friend, it is you am waiting to see."
"You are mistaken" replied the man !;
"you have never seen me before"
"Yes, saw you yesterday" said Kilsteln,
"whilst returning from your work, and heard
you praying" >,
"What heard me pray?" said the man.
~ am sure now that you are mistaken, tor l
never prayed in my life"
"And calmly but earnestly, replied
th E minister, eff God had heard your prayer,
you would not be here, but in hell for l
heard you beseeching God that he might
strike you with blindness and condemn you
to hell fire."
The man turned pale and tremblingly said:
"Dear sir, do you call this prayer? Yes, it
is true; I did this very thing"
"Now, my friend" continued Kilstein, "as
you acknowledge it, it is my duty to beseech
you to seek with the same earnestness the
salvation of your soul as you have hitherto
its damnation, and I will pray to God that
he will have mercy upon you"
From this time the man regularly attended
upon the ministry at Kilstein, and ere long
was brought in humble repentance to Christ
as believer.
"a word in season, how good it is !" "Be
instant in season and out Of season reprove,
rebuke, exhort with long-sufering and pa
tience."
WHAT IS L1FE.-What is your life? An
inspired writer says: lit is even vapor, that
appeareth for little time, and then vanish.
eth away" 1t flies away as dream, and
cannot be found. Our life is wind. 1t moves
swifter than weavers shuttle. tits as tale
that is told. 1t is swifter than post. Hume
says, "While we are reasoning concerning life,
life isgone."
Short as life is, we strangely desire each
period of it abbreviated. The child longs to
be full grown. The youth at school wishes
for the day when he will assume the duties Of
manhood. The man of business lives in hope
of the time when be shall retire. 1t is mar
velous how men waste the present moments
I have heard of fool lighting cigar with a
bank note of some value. The same man
committed greater unwisdom than that-he
wasted the precious minutes of whole sum.
mer in doing nothing but iniquity.
Short as life is, it is the seed time for eter-
nifty. Whatsoever man sows here, hs& y
be reaping to all eternity. If he SOL
wind he shall reap the whirlwind. me
sows to the flesh he shall reap corruption. If
he sows in Righteousness, he shall reap in
mercy. If he sows to the spirit he shall reap
life everlasting. This isthe day Of grace, the
season Of mercy, when enduring riches may
be secured Many have seized the moments
as they passed, and become immensely rich in
faith, in good works. in bright hopes and in
blessed inheritance beyond the skies.
= Most mems lives are full of toll and care.
Many are full of sorrow and disappointment.
But, thanks be to God, all mems lives abound
in opportunities of gaining and Of getting
good.-W S. Plumser, D. D.
The OBED1ENr BoY.-I read a very pref
ty story the other day about little boy who
was sailing a boat with playmate good
deal larger than he was.
The boat had sailed good way out in the
pond, and the big boy said, $50 in, Jim, and
get her. 1t isn't over your ankles, and I've
been in after her every time"
81 daren't," said Jim. "I'll carry her all
the way home for you, but can't 60 in
there; she told me not to"
"Who's she 2"
"My mother" said Jim, softly.