The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-04-17

It is said that John Bright gained
his rare mastery of strong, pure Eng
lish by his close study Of the English
Bible. That Bible is the place where
most men get all that is worth having.
Final instructions TO the Samoan
commissioners were completed ut the
Department of State at Washington,
and have been considered in the Cabi-
net. They were dispatched by Il spe-
cial messenger to the commissioners,
who sail for Europe to-day-Apr!l IL.
The "Peace' department of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
will he represented at the Paris En-
nosition. Mrs. Hannah J. Bailey, of
Winthrop. Nc, National Superinten-
dent, at her own expense, has sent
many thousand pages of literature for
free distribution, having had it trans
lated and printed in the French lam
guagc. a beautiful white silk banner
of exquisite design is her latest effect
i've and graceful Offering to the depart
mrnt. This will also be sent to Paris.
r.. G. Porter in Central Methodist ::
I see now, rs plain as daylight, that if
the General Conference were memOrl-
allied to say what are the "standards
of doctrine" in the sense OF the first
''rcstriclivc rule" and the memorial
were entertained, we would have q dis
cussion worth talking about. ltmight
do good. If the Standards of doc
trine" were named, the term defined,
| ,,nl,l
IintcIligcntly, more pointedly. If |
were in that law-maliing body, ia
hate TO name any book but the Bible.
rve never seen any other book that !
believed as Il whole. | take the Bible
to be the inl;lllible Word of God.
What men have to say | run through
my own book-mill and grind it all over
again, and sort out what | like and
then throw the rest away. dare not
do this with "thr Word" itself. 1t is
Gods Word.
Prof. Albert Leeds, of Hoboken,
y. j., told the American scientists re-
Gently that out of every 100 infants fed
on mothers milk. statistics show that
about died at Tie end of the first
wear: out OF 100 wct-nurscd, Is deid
and out Of lh1 fed on "infant-food," 81
died at the end Of the first year.
In Rdsc Valley, six miles from Trout
Run, Lyconiing county, Pcnnsylva-
nia, are seven natural wells extending
almost straight downward to depth
unknown. Large stones cast into
them cannot bc heard to strike bot
tom.
\ Danish cnigrant ship has been
abandoned at sea. She sailed from
Copenhagen inr New York with G50
passengers and crew Of 10.
our shoe department is ovclllowing will
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