Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-09-25
.eadima fat the Sabbath.
CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
EFFORT AND FAITH.

A Tuscan coastguard reported to his gov
ernment that there had been lamentable
shpwreck on the coast, and he said: mot
withstanding that 1 lent to the crew on
board the ship every assistance possible by
means of my speaking trumpet, regret to
say that number of bodies were washed
upon the shore next morning, dead"
Very wonderful, was it not? And yet
this is the kind of assistance which many
They have yielded them the assistance Of
rhetoric, flowers of speech, and poetical quo
tations, and yet men have persisted in i'm
penitence. There has been no real care for
souls. The sermon was preached, but the
people were not prayed for in secret. The
people were not hunted for as men search
for precious things. They were not Wept
over; they were not in very deed cared
about. After all it was the speaking trum-
pets help and nothing else.
But our faith makes us abundant in good
works. If you are doing all you possibly
can for Christ, endeavor to do yet more. |
believe Christian man is generally right
when he is trying to do more than he can !;
and when he goes still further beyond that
point, he will be even more nearly right.
There are scarcely any bounds to the posi-
bility of service. Many man who is now
doing little, might, with the same exertion,
do twice as much by wise arrangement ana
courageous enterprise. For instance, in our
country towns a sermon delivered on the
village green, would, IN all probability, be
worth twenty sermons preached in the chap
ell; and in London in public hall or thea
tre may accomplish ten times as much good
as if it had fallen on the accomplished ears
of our regular auditors.
We need, like the apostle to launch out
into the deep, or our nets will never lnclose
a great multitude of fishes. If we had but
and face the foe, we should soon achieve inn
mense success. We need far more faith IN
the Holy Ghost. He will bless us if we
cast ourselves entirelyupon him.-Spuyeon
BORROWED THOUGHTs.-The inner life
does not mean a life in monastry, a clolster.,
or study. 1t does not mean life cut off
from things about u.s. separated from man.
kind. It is impossible for a man to be very
much by himself, and yet have heart and
mind wholly saturated with Worldliness
and occupied with commonplace ideas.
Stanley in the centre of Africa was full OF
thoughts for London and New York. On
the other hand, man may be in the very
centre of business and activity, and yet
lead a life "hid with Christ in Cod"
dlklllS Will OOu ID llOU q llSiC
ton. But if the life is to be a true. royal,
godly one, it must be guarded. The eye
must not be wandering and wanton; the
ear must be stopped against many things, !;
the body must be sanctifed and governed
The life hidden must be 'hid with Christi
living, moving, having it's being in His
companionship the soul must be satisfied
with the pleasure of His presence.
The presence of Christ means warm,
watchfuf, sensitive, ready sympathy with
the soul of every human being, and no SYM
pathy with sensuality, with folly, with sin
in any shape. 1t means love of light, in
tellect, knowledge and virtue, an interestlnl
everything that is human and manly and
divine-an honest, unselfish love Of the
good, the true, and the beautiful. The life
hid with Christ in God is the only life to
which is vouchsafed the freedom of the
world-the single eye-the hearing ear the
understanding and all-embracing heart. 1t
means energy, vigilance, Judgment, perse-
verance in business, from the highest mo-
tives, on the highest principles. 1t means
aversion to filth and meanness, and indlt-
ference to the ambitions and allurements
and pomps of the world-a life full of sat-
isfaction above or outside Of them all salts
fed with favor, abounding in the continual
feast of the joys of the heart-the kingdom
of heaven Within Church Guardian.