The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-30
Our Sunday Column.

Ire hoiy spirit IL the agent In every real
conversion. He is omnipresent and ON mnipo-
tent, and can therefore reach you and save you
anywhere, ct any time and under any circum-
stances, if you resist him not. In the face of
such a fact. IL you ore lost at oil how deeply
you will be lost.-E1ehangs.
You accept the fact thatthe setting of disl oca-
ted limb must be attended with pain, but think
the renewal and re-adjustment of your spiritual
nature may be affected painlessly The New
Testament takes diae: ,ut view-and all genu-
inc religious experience acoords therewith.-
Fitzgerald.
Mo- to preach doctrine is, in one sense, to
preach its opposite. To keep doctIinal chris
tianity out Of the pulpit is to SOW the pews with
doctrinal inidelity. rh-istian Iniex.
What IS done when only part of the church
membership aid in revival shows what would
be accomplished if al! would do so.-FG.zgerald.
To believe o thing on sufficient testimony, is
as real as seeing It'll. W. Smith.
Sunday railroad trains, aud Sunday news
papers, mean q secula,ized Sabbath in this
country, rs long rs they are continued. Let
managers aud stockholders think of ths.-Er-
change.
Nothing you do for Jesus Christ is too small.
We want to-day men and women who are
willing to do. 1 suppose il these re porters had
been living in the days of Mary, and heard on
the streets Of Jerusalem that she had broken
that alabssser box upon Him. they would rot
have thought it worth noticing, but it has out
lived anything else that took place taen. If
they had seen that widow cast those two mites
into the treasury of the Lord, they would have
| said: "There will be no in Jerusalem that
will care far that" But see; Eighteen centu-
ries have rolled away, and that story had out
| lived anything else that occurred there.-Mr.
| Moody.
"Seest thou maa diligeut in his business?
he shall sand before Kings; he shall not stand
before mean men."-Bbie.
Who can tell what is little or what is ,rea.
When the rich men were casting their gifts into
the treasury, the Lord said of the widows two
mites: "Of a truth say unto you, that this
poor widow hath cast IN more than you all"
1t is the motive that gives dignity and worth to
&C. on, and the heart performance of lifes little
duties is of gre.t value in the sight o. the
| Lord.-Es;racf.
When DR.. johnson was asked why 80 many
literary men were iufdcls, he answered.: "Be-
| cause they are ignorant Of the Bible.''
II only the money which is spent in the
saloons, in defiance Of law could be availed Of,
it would abundanly suffice to relieve all the
poverty of the community, and the Legislature
! would not be embarrassed in p 'oviding means
to sustain our many chara able institutions.-
l Jo shud Bailey.
"Behold q sower goeth forth to SOW" is tue
Of every human being entering the new year.
Let no man rude rae his influence. He is not
a mere mechanic, he is a sower. The universe
is full of germs. SD look, word, has the
terminating principle as much as kernal of
barley. What we hide, we plant. 1t will come
up. There is no dead thing anywhere. The
very carcas swarms with myriad lives. De-
cause men focget the germ chat waits in every
thing. they talk abous traes and do not see the
Sac prison in the stroke Of he pen which is
10 get them out O.. temporary troubles. ~ will
make it all rigtt before it is found out" buS il
is found QUE when it is done, and they will
make it all right whel they eau make new
universe.-Zion' H.raid.
Regeneration is a thorough. o lea, change
The Lord God makes the creature new crea-
t're, as the goldsmith mel,s down the vessel of
dishonor, and males it vessel of honor, Man
is, in respect o. his spiritual s.,te, sltogethel
disjointed by The call; every faculty Of the soul
is, as IL were, d;sloc.ted in regeneration the
Lord looseth every joint, and sets it right aga in
II is change into The likeness of God. Every.
thing that generaes, generates its like. The
child bears the image Of the parent; and they
that a:e born of God bear his image. 1t is a
universal change; all things became new. 1t is
blest leaven that ,eave1s TIE whole Jump, tho
whole spirit and soul and body.-Eoston.