Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-27

How TO DO IT AT HoME.-'Doctor," said
gentleman to his pastor, show can best trail
my boy in the way he should 60 -
''By going that way YOURSELF" blandly re-
sponded the pastor
No sounder advice could have been given
Sound instruction is excellent. Education in
morals and correct theories in living are not
by any means to be neglected. But those fam
lilies where the quiet influence of pure and
noble example is found are most likely to be
the ones where childhood is most successfully
trained. In nothing is the influence of little
things more important than in the domestic
circle. Parents naturally and properly live a
| free and unrestrained life in the presence OF
| their own families. If they are cross, fault
finding, unreliable, Unfair in their conduct to-
wards others, it is idle to expect that the chill
! dren, who are hourly witnesses to this con-
| duct, will be of sunny disposition or unSelfisll
and honest towards others in their life. But
if home life is filled with little deeds of kind.
ness, with gentle, loving hopelessness the
''slnall sweet cOurteseS" of hourly intercourse
and the regard for ''the golden rule" they
will descend from father to son, and from
mother to daughter. Home will borrow the
radiance that is the best foretaste Of the bless
edness of the heavenly world, and children
that are reared in such AN atmosphere are
are interested in their welfare.
CHRISTIANITY NOT A AFAILURE.-Chrstian-
ity failure! Then man is failure. Then the
race is failure. Then the Government OF
God is Il failure. The man whose face is
scanned and ridged all over with the fruits of
vice says virtue is failure. The bloated be-
sotted, drivelng inebriate says temperance is
a failure. The highwayman and the murderer
say the law is failure. The reckless viola
tors of the laws of health say the science of
medicine is a failure.
Pope Plus IN, said the civilization of the
nineteenth century is a failure. The owl
says light is a failure. Is it any wonder that
men may be heard to say that Christianity is Il
failure? It's an old cry; every single century
since Christ it has been sounded out. But
somehow this thing we call Christianity does
not fna And the charge Of Christianity's
failure never seemed quite so absurd as in the
high noon of the nineteenth century. He
only can make the charge who shuts his eyes
to some tremendous facts, and who is smitten
with the notion that his own little world OF
doubt and cavil is the whole wide world of
thought and feeling of to-day.
SEEING OPPORTU NITIEs.-Al lady once Wri-
ting to young man in the navy, who was al
IuoSl Il SllallRcll tliouSlC, 'olail tioao 1''io
as anybody would, or shall say aWOrdfor my
Master ?'' and, lifting up her heart for mo-
ment, she wrote, telling him that his constant
change of scene and place was an apt illustra-
tion of the words, "IIere we have no continu-
ing city," and asked if he could say II seek
one to come 90 Tremblingly she folded it,
and sent it off, Back came the answer 81
thank you so much for those kind words.
am an orphan, and 40 one has spoken to me
like that since my mother died, long years
ago" The arrow, shot at venture, hit home,
and the young man shortly after rtjoiced III
the fulness of the gospel of peace. How often
do we, as Christians, close letter to those we
know have no hope ''as anybody would, ,Nwhen
we might say a word for Jesus ! Shall we not
embrace each opportunity i'll the future ?
NITUPERA ALTON. --VituperatiOn does no
good. 1t often defeats good cause, because
it produces disgust or anger or mental lmpa-
thence in the lIearer, either OF which IS fatal to
any effort at calm thought and rational docis-
ion. But vituperation is nowhere more offen-
sive or injurious than when uttered in the COL
umns of religious paper. In this respect 1t
is obvious that there has been Il great i'm
provement in recent years; and now 1t Is rare
thing when we meet with this offensive prac-
tice There has been a marked change in the
secular newspaper, dlso, III tiiio !eHPeIV' hu'
stil there is room for further improvement.
The most influential and best edited secular
papers do not deal in vituperation or inyective,
and do not indulge in the vulgar habit OF as
persing the motives or mSrepreSentlng the
acts of an opponent.
s9~ Gibson, the great Chief Justice of Penn
sylvania, once said to certain sceptical friends
of his :''Give Christianity acommon law trial
submit the evidence pro and con to an impartial
jury under the direction of competent court,
and the verdict will assuredly be'in it's favor"
his'deiverance coming from the most illus
trious Judge of his time, not at all given to
expressions of sentimental pety, and quite in
capable of speakingon any subject for mere ef-