Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-01
MALE IRRELIGI0N.

Fewer men than women attend church.
Why is this? ''.''.s
While there are fewer men than women
in church, there are more men than Wo-
men in prison. Shorter-sighted and more
dull of perception, a man fails to discern
the degradation and folly of evil doing,
and so is more easily led into crime. The
perpetration of felony and the neglect of
religion are but different manifestations
of the same trait of character, a failure to
appreciate the dignity of spiritual eleva-
tion, and inability to see anything worth
seeking except the coarse Qualifications OF
illness and crime is that the present is to-
be preferred to the future, the immediate
to the more remote, the material to the
spiritual, personal interests to the welfare
Of humanity; while the underlying prin-
ciple in religious striving is that the true
way to live is to live for humanity, not
self alone-for the moral and spiritual,
not sensual and material. 1t is the man
that inclines to the former view, the wo-
man who is more easily won to the latter.
It is not, then, because men are stronger
minded that they are less attentive to re-
ligious things; it is because they are ae-
tually weak of vision, unable to perceive
that the spiritual is nobler than the sem
sual, that the cultivation of moral inter-
ests is wiser than absorption in material
things. The lofty contempt with which
worldly men regard religious earnestness
is of the same nature as that with which
the ignorant man regards his nelghbor
who spends his time over books, or the
thief regards the one who is too tenderly
conscientious to steal. 1t is not because OF
greater sagacity, but because OF inferior
discernment that fewer men than women
attend church.-[Christian Inquirer.
MAKE 1T R1GHT.-There are few per-
sons who are not conscious of having
wronged their fellow men. They may
dispute it or deny it; but they know that
it is true, nevertheless. The question then
arises, What should be done? There are
many who know the wrong, but will, not
admit it; there are others still who both
know and admit the wrong doing, but
who take no steps towards repairing the
mischief they have wrought or undoing
the wrong which they have done. Strict
ly speaking, the wrong act done can never
be undone; the wrong word said cannot
be unsaid; but no man who has been
guilty of wrong should rest satisfied until
he has done his utmost to make suitable
reparation. If he has wronged his neigh
Dor pecuniarily, let him make restitution,
not in scrimped and scanty measure, but
literally, heartily and ungrudgingly. Let
him restore four-fold. Ifhe has said wrong
things, let him promptly and openly re-
call them. Let his apologies be as distinct
and hearty as his accusations have been.
Let him in manly and Christian way, SO
far as in him lies, remove all occasion OF
grievance. Let him see to it that the false
Impressions he has given be corrected,
that the slandershe has uttered be recalled.
Thus, and thus only, can he win back the
the blessing of the Lord whom he has Of
fended.-[ Christian Standard.
HE MUST BE A GENTLEMAN.-Both in
the ranks of workers and in the ranks OF
society we still find the ideal gentleman.
We are charmed with the good breeding
which we discover in the humblest as
we'll as the highest ranks of American
society. We find in every class in college
some natural born gentleman, anG in every
profession, in every branch Of industry,
there is man with good heart, modest,
unselfsh and noble who is not thinking
of himself, but of that mother whom he
hopes to support; he is working for her
and not for himself; he begins thus to find
the road to fame and honor.
In the banking house, in the dry goods
store, in the railway Office, do we look for
the looming gentleman" the man who
is not working for himself, but for some
one else. That cultivation, which is the
parent of good manners, is, however, nee
essarily left out of the training of such
young man. He has got to do it all him
self; he must make himself conventional
gentlemen. If a man is scholar, think
er, a reader, manners will come to him,
even if, like Burns, he starts from the
plow; but if he has to work he must think
of his manners.-[Mrs. NJ. E. W. Sher-
wood.