Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-29

THE METHODIST CHURCH SoUTH.-The
Methodist Episcopal Church South is next to
the largest of all the Methodist bodies in the
world. heGeneral Conference which recent
ly closed ut Nashville, Tenn, settled the poll
cy of the denomination on several questions,
for at least four years to come 1t refused to
change the Discipline so as to make women
eligible as Sunday school superintendents. 1t
petitioned Congress against the carrying OF
mails on Sunday. 1t declined to amend the
general rule forbidding the use of Intoxicating
beverages, so as to make it also prohibit their
manufacture and sale but it inveighed against
intemperance, and provided that dealers in al
coholic drinks might be proceeded against un-
der tile law of the Church relating to impru-
dent conduct AS to the marriage OF persons
divorced for other causes than adultery, the
vote was unanimous that no preacher ought to
ofliciate in such cases /; but it was decided not
to put any provision in the Discipline on the
subject. In the matter of amusements, Il
strenuous effort was made to put all dancing,
tlIeatricals, circuses and card playing under a
ban ; but it failed, and the law, which leaves
such diversions to be dealt with by the local
churches, WAS left unaltered Indulgence in
tobacco was not forbidden, but resolution
was passed deTecating an incorporate use OF
the weed. The use of the revised New TeSta-
ment in Sun1ay-schoolS was ordered to be dis
continued. A proposition to assess all men,
bers equally for the support of the church,
and eXpel those who refused to pay when able
to do SO, was rejected. The denomination was
asked to celebrate the centennial of Episcopal
Methodism, in 1884, by contributing 81, ,000,-
600 to be applied to missions, education and
church extension.
HOME LovE.-Home love is the best love.
The love that you are born to is the best that
you will ever have on earth. You, who are 50
anxious to escape from the home-nest, pause
and remember this is SO. 1t is right that the
hour should come when you, in your turn,
should become wife and a mother and give
the best love to others but that will be just
it. Nobody, not a lOvcr-not a husband-wlll
ever be so tender or so true as your mother or
your father. Never again, after strangers
have broken the beautiful bond, will there be
anything SO sweet as the little circle of mother,
father and children, where you were cherished,
protected, praised and kept from harm. You
may not know it now, but you will know 1t
some day. Whonsoever youmay marry, true
and good though he may be, will, after the
love days are over and the honeymoon has
waned, give you only what you deserve OF love
ana SynlflCny-dHu usually uuCH leSa lt"'
YOU lose that love which came in through the
eye, because the one who looked thought you
beautiful. But those who bore you, who loved
you when you were that dreadful little object,
IL small baby, and thought you exquisitely y
beautiful and wonderfully brilliant--they dc
not care for faces that are fairer and forms
that are more graceful than yours. You are
their very own, and so better to them always
than Others Christian at Work.
e. Courtesy costs nothing. 1t is the out,
ward exhibition of Il kindly disposition ano
a kindly disposition is a kingly disposition
Therefore, whatevera Il mans business, what
ever his toll that brings him into contact with
his fellow men, let him speak and act will
courtesy to every man. In general, it Will Dc
appreciated often it will not be but it is not
a question of appreciation, but II question OF
a mans own Inherent royalty. TO be dlsconr
teous to any one is simply to knot and gnar
the sweetness of ones own heart that sweet:
ness that gladdens life, that cheers its outward
expression, that gives man, even i'll humDles'
life. the mission of a sunbeam, kissing away
cold and decay and wooing into beauty and
usefulness.