Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-08-23


p@ How many persons in an ordinary
congregation could honestly say that they
certainly know of some soul being brought
to Jesus Christ through their instrumental
ity? How many have lived for twenty,
thirty or forty years, and yet never had a
single fruit grown on their dry branches?
Is this right, Scriptural or safe? Is it not a
more terrible thing for the protesting Chris
tian than for the souls he neglects? Did not
the Master say, "Byy their fruits We shall
know them," and what is fruit but repro
duction? Is not the divine law some thlr.
ty, some sixty and some an hundred fold: "
Any Christian professor has good cause 10
doubt his conversion who has spent half
lifetime in the Church Of God without any
definite fruition in the conversion OF others.
And yet this test would make anaWful sep
aratiOn at any communion table. Dear
brother, what fruit are you bearing forthe
Master? Dear sister, wake up ere you weep
over.a starless crown. or find that you your
self have not religion enough for your own
salvation.-UOrk and JtOrld.
GRIEFs AND yAI'FLICTIoNS,--In Lauter-
brunnen, in the canton of Bern, in the Swiss
Oberland, rushes mountain stream toward
the valley as if it would carry destruction
among the villages below. But leaplng
from sheer precipice, Of nearly nine nun
dred feet in height, it is caught in the clutch
es of the winds and sifted in fine soft show
ers, and benignant spray covers the fields
with perpetual green. Many sorrow,
Christian friend, may be such torrent to
you. 1t may bedeW you with meekness,
patience and heavenly y-mindedness. In the
grand and glorious vocation of building, as
Christ shall help you, a perfected Christian
character, it will do what no dazzle of pros
perity will effect. And when in the life to
come your eyes open to see all things in
their true values, you may cry in grateful
ecstacy, !Thank God for my griefs and
Affections"
MORNING AND EvENING.-Speak kind
ly. in the morning; it will Tighten all the
cares of the day, turn sorrow into gladness,
make household, professional and all other
affairs move along smoothly, giving peace
to the one who thus speaks, and grateful
10Y to the one one who hears. Speak kind
ly at the evening hour, for it may be that
before the dawn Of another day some tender
loved one may finish his or her span of life
for this world, and then it will be too late
to recall an unkind word, or even to seek
forgiveness for an injury inflicted upon the
heart of loved friend departed.
p9 Wanted dimniediatelyA AAvast increase
| in number of thoroughly consistent profes
sors of religion! They are wanted for the
sake of the world, for the help of perishing
souls. The words of. Adam Clarke, though
uttered for a past generation, have lost none
of their force: "What pity that all pro
fessors of religion were not at all time:
faithful to- their trust and consistent ir
their conduct! = How soon would intidelity
and vice lose their glorying, and the faith
and hope of the gospel everywhere triumph
But, alas how few are clear in this matter
| ". Y Christian, .Advoctlte.
nS Mind not much who is with thee, o.
who is against thee; but take. care that Goo
may be with thee in everything thou doest