Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-12-08
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"UNCLE SAYS"
I'VE wish our young friends, especially the
boys, would read the following many times
over, and never forget the wisdom that it
contains.
My uncle is woodman he is now getting
an old man. Some people say he is cross ;
but do not think so. Trouble and toll
may give to his face thoughtful look some.
times but know he has kind heart. Of
one thing I am certain, he has got wise
head. Meet him whenever may. he has al
ways something to say. If you would like
to hear of some Of his sayings, will write
down some Of them for you.
One day saw him with an axe in his
hand, standing by branch he had just cut
from the old oak tree, when he began:
If you set thistle seed, there will spring
up not one or two thistles from it, but twenty
or thirty; and it will be just the same if set
one sin. One sin, he says, has been known
to bring forth hundred more. The farmer
ought to take care that no thistle seeds are
sown on his land and you ought to take care
that no sins are sowp in your heart.
Uncle says that boy seldom looks for
ward unless it is to a holiday; when he is
we'll, he seldom dreams of being sick when
he has money, he thinks it will last him for
weeks and when the sun shines, he almost
expects it to shine forever: but he says we
should be ready to endure patiently, as well
as to enjoy gratefully. "Shall we receive
good at the hand of God, and shall we not
receive evil ?" Job ii. 10)
Uncle says that if the traveller once leaves
the turnpike road in part of the country
that he does not know, he may wander about
in lanes the whole of the day, and when
night comes get stuck in bog at last and
that if venture to wander away from the
path of duty, may lose myself in the cross
roads of error and vice all my days, and at
last fall into the pit of destruction. 1t would
be unwse in traveller to quit the toll-gate
road, when, in doing 80, he runs such risk ;
and it would be very weak and very wicked
for me to quit duty's path when my risk is a
thousand times greater.
Uncle says he had rather read the Bible,
and never look at any other book, than read
every other book in the world, and never
look at the Bible for this reason: Other
books are the books of men, but the Bible is
the book of God and as mans knowledge is
but ignorance when compared with Gods
knowledge, so the wisdom of all the books of
men is but folly when compared with the
wisdom of the book of God
Uncle says that a bushel of wheat will
weig h more than two bushels of bran and
that little modesty is worth more than a
of II +bok hox,
who is modest will learn twice as much as
always be wiser than be appears, while the
conceited will not know half what he pretends
to understand. must strive to be modest,
and watch against selfconceit.
Uncle says that it requires more steadiness
and true courage to despise the laugh of a
bad companion, and to say No d.! when tempted
to do evil than it does to march up to a can
mons mouth. He says hundreds, who are
not afraid of bullets, balls, and bayonets,
have not courage enough to resist the deris.
ion of their thoughtless companions. will
try my best not to be overcome by laugh !;
and l will learn, if can, to say No when
asked to do evil.
Uncle says that forgiving an injury is bet-
ter than avenging it; and that doing cne good
deed is better than intending a hundred. l
wonder if shall ever be as wise as my un-
Gle. He says the first step toward wisdom is
the fear of the Lord, and that the second is
much like it.
Uncle says that take the year round,
where we have one hour Of pain we have ten
of ease and where we have one misery we
have at least score of mercies. If this be
true, and have no reason to doubt it, where
thank God once, ought to thank him a
hundred times over.
Uncle says boy will do more good in one
month by correcting his own errors, than hs
will do in year by finding out the failinge
of others and that he will get more knowl.
edge by studying his own heart, than by
watching all the people that are around him.
must examine my heart a little more closely
than have done, and take more care to cor
rect my errors
Uncle says there are thousand ways to
eternal death. for every sin is road to de.
struction but that there is only one way to
eternal life, for there has onl been offered up
one sacrifice for sin, even our Lord and Sa'
viour Jesus Christ, on the cross. If / forget
everything else that my uncle says, must be
sure not to forget this and must ask for the
Holy Spirit of God to convince me of sin
and lead me to believe in Christ with all my
heart.
Uncle says that the strongest ,uan grows
stronger, the wisest man grows wiser, and the
best man grows better, by often going down
on his knees If this be the case with man
I suppose it must be the case also with boy
l remember that the Bible says, "Pray with