Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-22

they espouSe -absurdly orthodox. Such men
are not to be trusted Unless they are grant
ed the privilege of governing everything and
everybody they will play the part of a spoiled
child. The principles and practices for which
they contend to-day they will fight against To-
morrow. They are absurdly loyal.
THE TEST OF MEN.
"By their fruits ye shall know them," says
the Saviour. It is easy for men to talk about
what they can do, and what they design doing,
but does all this talk do the world any good.
There is, in every community, some one lndi-
vidual whom the rest agree to call great. He
is regarded as a wonderful creature. He is
spoken of as "a man of fine natural abilities,
AS an individual of rare attainments, and
when he dies long epitaph is carved on his
tombstone.
It is difficult to discover how many Of these
men ever succeeded in making themselves ia
nous. If it were asked what have they done
The answer would be NOTHING. They lived
and died. That was ALL The world was not
advantaged by their lives and suffered no loss
when they died. They did nothing for either
Church OF State. In reality they were splen-
did failures. Some Of them inherited large
fortunes, which grew sublimely less every day.
MY HUSBAND WILL NOT ACCOMPANY Me
| TO CHURCH.--And why not !? Perhaps you
have not tried to induce him OF, perhaps,
seeing that your temper has been so little i'm
proved by church attendance that he does not
deem it necessary. But admitting that you
have tried, what then Must you follow his
example, and stay from worship for weeks
Should he even throw obstacles in the way, it
is your duty to remove them, for though wife
should obey, her highest obedience is to God,
whose laws are superior to all others, marriage
itself deriving its authority from him.
| Your situation is doubtless trying, but Gods
grace will enable you to bear it and an impor-
tant means of receiving that grace is attend
ing divine worship.
Some wives suppose that by yielding in this
respect they will ut length persuade their hus-
bands to attend, but the result is just the con.
trary, for, the wife yielding a principle once,
her next step is more easy, and her husband
seeing her violate conscience once, is more en-
boldened. Whereas, had she been firm, and
shown by her temper not that she loved her
husband less, but that she loved her God more,
he would have more respected her, and per.
haps would have been won over by her CONVEX
satiOn As regards domestic peace alone, a
wife stands greatly in her own light who either
neglects Church herself or, attending it, does
not influence her husband to 60 with her
without patience to meet the crosses that daily
arise there can be no such permanent peace.
And there can he no such peace in family
unless it comes from Him who is ''the author
of peace and lover of concord"
1t is 80 rare for husband not to attend
Church because the wife will not, that it is
hardly necessary to consider such thing
only, if Lots wife chose to turn to pillar OF
salt, Lot must avoid her sad fate by fleeing to
the mountains.
THE BEE.-Gotthold saw bee tlutter for
a while around a pot of honey, and at last
light upon it, intending to feast to its hearts
content. 1t, however, fell in, and, being be-
smeared in every limb miserably perished.
On this he unused and said: tits the same with
temporal prosperity, and that abundance OF
wealth. honor, and pleasure, which are sought
| for by the world as greedily as honey is by the
bee A bee is happy creature so long as it is
assiduously occupied in gathering honey from
| the flowers, and by slow degrees accumulating
store of it, When, however, it meets with
hoard like this, it knows not what to 90,
and is betrayed into ruin. In like manner,
many a man shows himself godly, humble,
pious, so long as he is obliged, from day to
day, to earn his bread with the sweat of his
brow, and constant difficulty and toll Let
some extraordinary turn of fortune, however,
suddenly put him in possession of great wealth
and it becomes stair by which he descends to
the pit of destruction. A bee perishing like
this, in a pot of honey, might be painted with
the motto, abundance is my ruln." What,
To.l TO
fortune might prove to me a great misfortune,
and abundance issue in eternal want. Grant
me grace that, like bee, may diligently Ia
Dor in thy fear, and not in vain, for the por-
ton of bread convenient for me. In other re-
spects be thou my wealth. and then shall be
exempt from danger. Gotthold'S EndlemS
BEGIN RIGHT.-Begin the day right. AS
we are about to enter upon it's duties we know
not of what trial or temptation may await US.
We know not to what tests we shall be subject
ed. This we know, that each day brings sutfi-
cient of temptation to secure our downfall
unless we are sustained and buttreSsed by God s
grace. Hence, we need to begin the day by
going up on the mountain summit and meet
ing with God. The reason why we so frequent
ly fail and have to lie down and weep over our
mistakes and our follies, is that we fail to get
into close, pulsating union with God at the be-
ginning of the day.
Begin life right. Remember now thy Crea-
tor in the days of thy youth before the evil
days come, or the years draw nigh IN winch
thou wilt say, 81 have no pleasure i'll them. y
These days are coming The sunny days OF
childhood and youth will not last forever.
The flowers will not always bloom along lite's
pathway. Dark days will come. Rude storms
will smite the fair flowers of worldly pleasure
We must then find our happiness and rest IN
God Let the celestial sunlight fall upon thy
heart plant the flowers of Christian hope and
virtue along life's pathway. That light Will
ever remain those flowers will grow forever.
Western Recorder.
GENTEEL LYING.-'Speak every man the
truth with his neighbor''-Eph. 4, 25. Mr.
Finney, in his Revival Lectures, tells OF min
lister who was once boarding in certain faml-
ly, and the lady of the house complained to
him good deal that she didn't get much COM
fort out of her religion, and nothing seemed to
help her. One day some ladies called, and she
protested that she was very much offended be-
cause they had not called before, and pressed
them to spend the day, declaring that she
could not consent to let them go. They ex-
cused themselves, however, and as soon as
they were gone she said to her servant that
she wondered those people had so little sense
as to always be troubling her and taking up
her time The minister overheard it, and I'M
medately told her that he could now see why
she did not enjoy religion.
Let us beware of these fashionable insincer-
ities We can be civil and sincere at the same
time. One thing is certain--the Spirit of Truth
cannot abide with one who habitually indulges
in even genteel lying.-1he Presbyterian.