Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-06-03

and thou shalt not know what hour l will
come upon thee" What he will do when
he thus suddenly comes upon ii, is stated by
declaring what he will not do to those who
have not dehled their garments. 81 will
not" he says, "blot their names out of the
book of life, but 1 will confess their names
before my Father, and before his angels"
To those who have a name to live and do
not repent he will blot their names out of
the book of life, and he will deny their
names before his Father and before his an
gels.
In this there is something calculated to
awaken serious thoughts and solemn inqui-
ry in the mind of every individual whose
name is written in the book containing the
membership of any congregation. Each
may ask the question, SIS my name to be
stricken from the book of life 2" IAN l to
be denied by the Saviour before his Father
and the whole universe?" "Have a name
to live, but am dead"
FAMILY WoRsHIp.-After many years.
asked, upon returning, what changes in his
native land impressed him most. zone of
the most painful, " said he, is the breaking
down of family affairs" On this subject
Canon Liddon remarks:
There is one mark off household in which
God is known and loved, which is too often
wanting in our day-.I mean the practice of
family prayer. Depend upon it, the worth
of a practice of that kind can only be meas
ured by its effects during a long period of
time; and family prayers, though only &C.
cupying a few minutes, do make a great
difference to any household at the end of a
year.
How, indeed, can it be otherwise, when
each morning, and each evening, too, all
the members of the family, the old and the
young, the, parents and the children, the
master and the servants, meet on a footing
of perfect equality before the Eternal, in
whose presence each is as nothing, or. less
than nothing, yet to whom each is so infin-
itely dear thathe has redeemed by his blood
each and all of them? How must not the
bad spirits that are enemies of pure and
bright family life flee away-the spirits Of
envy and pride, and untruthfulness and
sloth, and the whole tribe of evil thoughts
make way for his gracious presence in the
hearts of old and young alike, when, as he
of our existence, so does he and he alone,
make US to be 'of one mind in a house,"
here within the narrow presence of each
home circle, and hereafter in that countless
family of all nations, and kindreds, and
peoples, and tongues, which shall dwell with
him, the universal Parent of all eternity.
WoRK.-It would be we'll if all Christians
would resolve to be workers as we'll as CIV
ers of money. The need of the Church and
the age is the practical contact of class with
class, the rich with the poor, the sufferer
with the healthy and the strong. Jacob had
a vision in early life (most have visions
then), but Jacobs ladder began with the
ground, if its top reached heaven. Let us
begin with lowly work. The fly works,
and seems ever in a hurry, but what he does
is not very manifest. The bee works quiet
ly and for a verysweet end.
TO serve a short time and fill it is far bet
ter than a long and idle life. The minister
was right who, when told she might live
five or six years, if he gave up work, but
only three years if he persisted in preach
ing" replied at once, ~ prefer three busy
years for my Mastert to fifty yearsof leisure"
Let US all guard against excuses for not do
ing. Heart and will are generally our only
need for the accomplishment of most enter
prises. Specially let US guard our religious
life from idle excuses. We may only ride
on deer to our businesses, and on tortoises or
snails to our religious duties.
BB" That is a good story which the Rev.
DR.. Rust, Secretary of the Freedmen's Aid
Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
tells to the Annual Conferences before which
he presents the claims of his society. A
young negro in the South had been convert
ed, and at once wanted to preach. His ell
ders thought he was not fitted for the i'm
portant work but he well-nigh staggered
them by relatinga vision, in which he had
plainly seen the letters &c. P. Co." which
could mean only, $50 preach Christ" n
white-haired negro preacher slowly arose,
and told the ambitious young brother that,
while he had no doubt seen the letters in a
vision, he had failed in the Interpretation.
They probably meant, "Go, pick cotton,"o or
stGo plow corn" This settled the matter.
A preacher in the New York Conference,
when the story was told a few days ago, re-
marked to a friend, sitting near: II wish
we had men in our white Conferences sharp
enough to explain away as satisfactorily the
arguments by which our young incompe-
tents try to convince the committees that
they have been called to preach the gospel.
PutsJmy Adrocate.
Bz- Among the things which, thirty-five
years ago, went to make up the crime OF
high treason in Italy, was the possession of
a Bible, which was in the list of revolution
ary and forbidden books, and for a man to
own it was to subject him to prison, the gal
legs and even to death. Now, Bible depots
are established in every italian city, and
.itinerant vendors circulate the book freely.
In a conspicuous store in Corso, Rome, a
whole window is filled with copies of the
italian version of the Scriptures. The New
can be purchased for five cents,
and a separate Gospel for W. Chica-
go Herald.
cody STABILITY.-A judicious observ-
err has said "The longer I live the more l
certain that the great difference between
men-between the feeble and the powerful,
the great and the insigniicant-is energy,
inyincible determination, a purpose once
fixed, and then death or victory. That
quality will do anything that can be done