The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-08-28

Hurt not your conscience with any
known sin.
He is most powerful who has him
self in his power.
A sense of necessity is right quail
fication for prayer.
A true sense of our unworthiness
makes every blessing great and pre-
ciOus.
A great many men when they start
out to reform the world leave them
selves for the last job.
The most delicate, the most sensible,
of all pleasures, consists in promoting
the pleasures of others.
The man who has begun to live
more seriously within begins to live
more simply without.
The gift of gifts is love, and there is
no other in the world that can hide its
lack or make good its scantiness.
Astounding Christian life will show
itself in good works. 1t cannot sim
ply exist and do nothing-leave no
mark, yield no fruit.
Wherever souls are being tried and
ripened, in whatever commonplace
and homely ways, there God is hewing
out the pillars for His temple.
To maintain an opinion because it is
thine, and not because it is true, is to
maintain thyself, not the truth, and so
to prefer thyself above the truth.
"What is talent to-day" says Grant
Allen, "would have been genius yes
lterday what is genius to-day will be
but talent as men reckon tomorrow"
The reason why Gods name is so
lseldom in peoples mouths is not that
they reverence him, as they say, too
much to talk of him, but because they
do not think of him.
Much of the beauty of Scripture is
lost to us for want of spiritual discern
|ment. Let us remember that our
heavenly Father giveth the Holy Spir-
lit to them that ask Him.
Reverence is one of the signs OF
lstrength irreverence one of the sure
indications of weakness. No man will
Irise high who jeers at high things.
The fine loyalties of life must be rever-
enced or they will be foresworn in the
day of trial.
\ Whoever loves or delights in any
thing beyond due bounds, let it be
ever so good or so lawful, sets up an
Idol in bis heart and worships it, with
out being professed idolater; and
this is confirmed by Scripture, which
saws that covetousness is idolatry.
With the same height of desire thou
hast sinned, with the like depth of sor-
row thou must repent thou that hast
sinned to-day, defer not thy repent
ance till tomorrow he that hath
promised pardon to thy repentance,
hath not promised life till thou repent.
IT'S not in temples made with hands
i The Great Creator dwells.
But on the mountain top He stands,
And if the lowly dells;
Wherever fervent prayer Is heard.
i He stands recording every word:
In dell, on mountains, everywhere,
He never tails to answer prayer.
i T cannot but think that the world
would be better and brighter if our
teachers would dwell on the Duty OF
! lHappiness as well as on the Happiness
of Duty; for we ought to be as cheer
full as we can, if only because to be
happy ourselves, is most effectual
contribution to the happiness of 9TH
ers.
"You can't add different things to-
gether," said an Austin school-teacher.
"If you add sheep and a cow togeth-
er, it docs not make two sheep. or two
cows" A little boy, the son Of a milk.
man, held up his hand and said, "That
may do with sheep and COWS, but il
you add quart of water to a quart OF
!. milk, it makes two quarts of milk.
I've seen it tried"
"Cultivate spirit of love-" says
Rowland Hill. "Love is the diamond
amongst the jewels Of the believers
breastplate. The other graces shine
like the precious stones of nature, with
their own peculiar lustre and various
hues, but the diamond is white. Now,
in white all the colors are united so
in love is centered every other grace
and virtue. Love is the fulfilling of
the law. ...