The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-08
GRAINS.

We make the danger when we fear
it.
Whatever you dislike in another
take care to correct in yourself.
Never think you can make yourself
great by making others less.
Electricity always seeks the best con-
ductor. God uses those who are most
in harmony with himself.
We cannot conquer a necessity, but
we can yield to it in such way as to
be greater than if we could.
One of the most important rules of
the science of manners Is an absolute
silence in regard to yourself.
1t is an unansWerable dilemma. If
the service of Christ were bad, why
did you enter into it? If good, why
did you depart from it?
Money never stays with me; it
would burn ME if it did, throw it
out of my hands as soon as possible,
lest it find way into my heart.
1.-THE world says, BE man. Christ
says, BE child In nothing did the
Great Teacher more show forth his or
iginality and divinity of Instruction" :"
It should be remembered that godli-
ness consists, not so much in system
of right notions, as in holy and spirit
ual affections, regulating the whole
conduct.
The malice that is eager to ascribe a
selfish motive for a good act is the
blacklist thing in unregenerate human
nature. 1t is akin to that which as
cribed Christ's miracles to the Devil.
Much of the beauty of obedience lies
in its being rendered at once and with
out question. Gods will is done in
heaven Immediately, because love is
perfect there. The child is disobedient
who is slow in obeying.
Something must be wrong when
two parts of a mans life fail to agree.
An error has got in somewhere. Pro-
fession and practice ought never to ap-
pear as though they ought to belong to
two persons instead Of one.
Those who totter God upholds,
And he raises those who fall;
How his tender mercy folds
To His bosom one and all 4!
Those who seek Him still must find Him,
And He casts their sins behind Him.
Our days of gloom and sadness are
very often due to ourselves alone. The
world is all right, but we are not in
harmony with it. When such times
come, 1t is we'll to look within and ex-
anime self, before trying to find the
cause in somebody else or something
outside of ourselves.
The grand condition of being saved
is simple willingness to be saved. We
have not to 60 after a Saviour, nor to
invent one by our performances, nor to
propitiate one by persuasion, but sim
ply to receive one who waits, to unbar
the hearts door where He stands even
now and knocks, and let Him freely
in.
The aim with many persons is to
simply get through the world in self
defensive way, resisting its evils as
they can, and avoiding all claims that
their situations might present to them.
But they are not the happiest people.
1t is they who start out aggressively,
determining to plant some seed, grow
some harvest, gather in some store,
who have the largest amount of bless
ing.
One who believes that every dollar
belongs to God, and that it is to be
used for Him, will not imagine that
he has discharged all obligation by
giving tenth to the Lord. There are
multitudes in the land who. after hav-
ing given one tenth Of their increase,
might fare sumptuously every day,
crafty every whjm, and live with the
most lavish expenditure. Would that
fulfil the law of Christ? ."If any man
will come after Me, let him deny HIM
self, and take up his cross daily and
follow Me-"
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