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

The credit that is got by q lie only
lasts till the truth comes out.
No man who has ever really studied
the Bible would have vulgar style.
How much better is the love that Is
ready to die than the zeal that Is ready
to kill.
Enthusiasm is good to raise men up
ON, but discipline is the only thing to
fight on.
Have you ever done anything for
Christ that has SCARED your heart or
your body?
Personal work for Christ is vague
expression. Go and do something for
some needy fellow creature. That is
definite.
! have found nothing yet which re-
quires more courage and independence
than to rise q little decidedly above
the par Of the religious world around
me. s,..
It is one of the heaviest penalties OF
wrong thinking and of wrong living
that they blur, if they do not obliter..
ate, the very perception OF good and
evil. I ....
The seed of our punishment are
sown when we commit sin the pun
ishment itself Is sure to come, sooner
or later, as the inevitable harvest OF
our sowing.
The success of sainthood is the sue
cess attained by struggle and suffering
! and achieved by faith success OF
honor, of clean hands md pure heart,
of service to man and glory to God.
just bear in mind, when your pastor
gives you his weakest, feeblest ser.
mons, that he'll preach good deal
more gospel truth than you'll be likely
to put into practice during the week.
Sorrow is not selfish !; but many per-
sons are, in sorrow, entirely selfish.
1t makes them so important in their
own eyes that they seem to have q
claim upon all that people can do for
them. h, .... T. e
There are brlers besetting every path,
Which call for patient care;
There 10 q cross In every lot,
And an earnest need for prayer;
But q lowly heart that leans on Thee
In happy anywhere.
Yielding utterly to the inner i'm.
pulse of conscience gives an intelligent
power, q moral insight, capacity OF
expression, freshness, an incisiveness
of phrase entirely unobtainaple by
mere will, or by any method of intel
lectual prudence. ...,s ....
God has lent US the earth for our
life; 1t is q great entail. 1t belongs as
much to them who are to come after
( US, and we have no right by anything
that we do or neglect to involve them
In unnecessary penalties, or deprive
them of benefits which it was in our
power to bequeath. " -. :
He who has well-defined purpose
in life finds that all his time and all
his energies are not too much to devote
to that purpose. He who lacks such q
purpose knows nothing Of the true en-.
joyment of life. What are you living
I for? If you cannot answer that ques-
tion, your life Is failure. g..
Where Christ brings his cross he
brings his presence; and where he is,
= none are desolate, and there Is no room
for despair. As he knows his own, so
he knows how to comfort them, using
sometimes the very grief itself, and
straining 1t to sweetness Of peace un-
attainable by those ignorant Of sorrow.
The natural propensities of the heart
call for constant watchfulness. Satan
takes advantage of mans weakness
arouses his temper and provokes to bad
words. These In turn lead us to sinful
deeds, or provoke some one else to
wrath and vengeance. David said II
will take heed to my ways, that I sin
not with my tongue will keep my
mouth with.a bride, while the wicked
Is before me-"
GOOD USE FOR HOUSE SLoPs.-It
you save all the slops from the house,
the wash-water, and suds of sundry
occasions during the week, you will
find that you have supply of nutri'
ment at hand to draw upon which is
far richer than you had any idea. II
will not make a poor soil permanently
rich, but it will afford sufficient nutri.
ment to nourish such plants as you
grow in it during the summer in very
satisfactory manner. We planted
some ANNALS on stiff clay that had
been thrown out of cellar. We watel
them regularly with suds and slops
and they surpass in growth and florif
erousness those grown in the garden