The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04

The following Is from MrS. Cullu'
Letters from New York: :" it wout6
have been more satisfactory if the
name of the place had been given. :.
II have somewhere read of q regi
ment ordered to march into town ano
take it. think it was in the Tyrol
but wherever it was it chanced thai
the place was settled by colony who
believed the gospel of Christ, ano
proved their faith by their works. A
courier from a neighboring village
informed them that troops were ad'
vancing to take the town. They
quietly answered, If they will take
Lit they must Soldiers soon came rid
ling in, with colors flying and flies
piping their shrill defiance. They
looked round for an enemy and saw
the farmer at his plough, the black.
smith at his anvil, and the women al
their chunns and spinning wheels
Babies crowd to hear the music and
bows ran out to see the pretty trainers
with feathers and bright buttons, the
harIequins of the nineteenth century.
of course none of these were in pro-
ner position to be shot at. Where are
vour soldiers ?n they asked. we
have none,, was the brief reply
But we have come to take the town.
Well, friends, it lies before you.
But is there nobody here to tight =
NO. we are all Christians
"Here was an emergency altogether
upprovided for; sort of resistance
which no bullet could hit. The COM
mander was perplexed. IF there is
nobody to fight with, of course we
cannot fight, he said. 1T is impos-
sible to take such town as this 80
| he ordered the horses heads to be turn
ed about, and they carried the human
animals out of the town as guiltless as
they entered and perhaps somewhat
WISER" ,. .. ...
PULPIT NoT1CEs.-Good nature is a
yery bad thing, generally it is with
ont backbone. Goodness by grace puts
crit, backbone and ribs into the soft
parts. Many preacher doses his con-
greeation with all kinds of notices be-
cause he has too much good nature in
his makeup. Over-politeness and
over-easiness are out of place in the
pulpit. The flood of pulpit notices are
frequently so long, so varied ana dis
yerting that the sermon and service, II
not lost, are seriously affected. we
clip this: . .,,;o
IA Michigan pastor, discussing this
question in u ministers meeting, not
long since, made this telling point /:
"A pulpit notice is pulpit endorse,
ment. Some people may, at hrst
thought, dissent from this, imagining
that q pastor is simply f1eshly phono-
graph to grind out the notices put into
his hands into audible sound. But
second thought will convince any one
that minister should never read no
tice of any sort which either hlmsei1
or some wise and proper officer OF MS
church does not personally know TO De
worthy of recommendation and OF a
nulpit reminder When this princll-
ple is established and acknowledged,
church members and society workers
will learn to recognize what a serious
offanse it is to seek pulpit advertising
by imposing on pastors gooo na'
ture.n
THE TRUE WAY.-A little boy once
said HHow hard tits to do right; I've
tried and tried, and there's no use try
ing any longer" But one day, alter
reading his Bible, he said, "Why, I'ye
been trying to change myself all the
time. and here I read that God can
only change me. I can no more
change my heart than a colored man
could make himself white. How fool
ish / have been not to ask Him."
And he was right. Are you trying
to change your own heart? You can
never do it. It will get worse and
worse until you ask Jesus to give you
u new heart. And he will do it now.
Jesus says "Give ME thy heart"