The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-08-21
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The life of Christian is q praying,
waiting life.
It is better to be nobly remembered
than nobly born.
Nothing but love to God can conquer
the love of the world.
"Let the world have the world; the
whole of it can make but poor al"
You can learn to be patient and
cheerful, in spite of pain and no play.
No pleasure is comparable to the
standing upon the vantage ground OF
truth.
Conscience, once unbalanced by the
overweight of wrong, tends to an un-
derestimate of wrong.
Four things come not back-the
spoken word, the sped arrow, the past
life, the neglected opportunity.
The propensity to evil or dishonora-
BILE course is much more to be deplored
than the acts which come of it.
He is happy whose circumstances
suit his temper but he is more excel
lent who can suit his temper to cir
cumstances. .
The sacred Scriptures teach us the
best wayof living, the noblest way, of
suffering, and the most comfortable
way of dying. !,
The mind IS weak where it has once
given way. 1t is long before a princi-
pie restored can become as firm as one
that has never been moved.
It is not often that great accumula-
tions of wealth do anybody any good.
They usually spoil the happiness of
two generations-one in the getting,
and one in the spending.
''Nothing is more opposite to the
true Christian spirit than strife, re-
venge and tumults. The Christian re-
ligion teaches men to do good and re-
ceive evil ; to receive evil and return
good" ,
Let not him who prays suffer his
tongue to outstrip his heart nor pre-
sumo to carry message to the throne
of grace while that stays behind.
A true perception of the Gospel is
the entire forgetfulness of self, utter
absence Of any pretension, and the
complete and entire refusal to accept
the worlds praise or judgment.
Instead Of hunting around to find
out the missing link between man and
dirty little monkey, I prefer to look
for the missing link that will connect
man with the throne of an eternal
God. .t-
Henry Martyr laments that want OF
private devotion, reading, and short
ness of prayer through incessant SER
mon-making had produced much
strangeness between God ard his soul.
Many preacher is lean from the same
cause.
There is burden of care in getting
riches fear in keeping them tempta-
ton in using them guilt in abusing
them; sorrow in losing them and a
burden of account at last to be given
up concerning them.
Works of which the effect is to cor.
rect our errors, to strengthen our rea'
son, to elevate our spirit, to improve
our mind, are as productive in their
way as those that tend to lower the
price of meat and bread.
BY desiring what is perfectly good,
even when we do not quite know what
| it is, and cannot do what we would
we are part of the divine power
against evil, widening the skirts OF
light and making the struggle with
darkness narrower.
The man who has learned how tc
put himself to work and keep at It,
has reached condition of mastery
that promises MIN success in almost
any situation. He has then a posses
sion infinitely better than the gift Of
genius. :,
Religion in its purity is not so much
pursuit as temper; or rather it IS q
temper leading to the pursuit OF all
that is high and holy. Its foundation
| is faith its action, works; its temper,
holiness; its aim obedience to God IN
Improvement of self and beneyolence
to men.
When you find a person little bet.
ter than his word, little more liberal
than his promise, little more than
borne out in his statement by his facts,
a little larger i'll deed than in speech,
YOU recognize kind of eloquence in
that PERSONS utterance not laid down
in Blair or Campbell.
There is no case in all our Lords
discourses in which the recompense
which he proposes to man does not
consist mainly in the deliverance from
the selfishness which is his great tor
ment and oppression, but upon which,
alas, the followers and ministers OF
Christ have been content to build their
notion of His kingdom in this world
and the world to come.