The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-13
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Apropos Of our article on, .."Rnm and
Ireverence,"r 9 correspondent, sends
Us q statement that q gentleman enter,
ing wholesale liquor store saw what,
seemed to be handsomely bound vol
umes, on the back Of which appeared
In gold letters "Holy Bible.D On in.
quiry he found that these boolx.shaned
bottles, bound In cloth or leather, are
sold full Of liquor, and the demand for
them is great among "the boys.D
This statement Is made on the author.
ity Of The People, published In Scran.
ton, Pa. The editor says that another
liquor firm in that place has . list Of
commandments parodying those in
the Bible. "Thou shalt honor me and
the barkeeper, 80 that thou shalt live
long in the land and continue to eat
and drink at my house." Is 1t to be
wondered at that the dealers in this
soul-and-body poison should perjure
themselves whenever brought before
the Courts. or that they should find
scores among their customers ready to
deny any truth or affirm any falsehood
necessary to secure the acquittal or
mitigate the punishment Of rumsell-
ers? -.
Some have tried without success and
they say there LIS no use to try again.
But II the reader thinks 20 let me say
that you do not reason In that way
about anything else. Suppose, when
at school, you had given up everything
you failed to learn at the first, or even
the second effort, would you ever have
learned anything? What would you
think Of planter, or mechanic, or
merchant, who would give up In de-
spair and live in idleness, because Of
one or two failures? Try again. So
men do in matters Of infinitely less i'm
portance, and II you try in the right
way failure Is impossible. II 90 to
perdition I will first exhaust every
means In trying to escape, and I viii
sink into hell from an effort to find the
way to heaven. ...l ..
The Advance gives an account Of .
lady who went to hear one Of the
modern "apostles of humanityn
preach, and this is her spirited account
Of the sermon:
He preached just as expected him
to. We went asking for bread, and he
gave us-not q stone-no, 1t was not
"hefty" enough-but, sawdust. It
was about the 'ssame philosophy un-
derlying all religions" and hcw we
should :sDcr to bria. ai. ihines into
"harmUuy"-tiiat Is, iiUl. v LSzL:, .:
Buddhism and Christianity. IAN
idol Ii not a god, 1t is merely word to
express their idea Of God" etc. I
could hardly dt in my seat. I Just
ached to get up In the pulpit when he
had done, and say the First and Sec
ond Commandments.
DR.. Lyman Abbott says that early
In his ministry he resolved, and still
holds to the resolution, that he "would
not profess religion for q man after
death who had never professed for
himself when living" No man ever
made q more rational resolve. The Or
thodox preachers who are ready to find
q title for every great, rich, or popular.
man to q mansion in the skies, even,
though he never gave any scriptural
evidence Of being born again, take,
back In the particular what they
preach In the general, excite contempt
among unbelievers, encourage neglect
of religion, and strengthen the hands
of loose thinkers in and out Of the,
Church. ID
Lord Lawrence says: "Christianl-
ty, wherever it has gone, and nowhere
more so than In India, has promoted
the dignity Of woman, the sanctity o.
marriage, and the brotherhood Of man.
Where 10 has not actually converted,
it has checked and controlled, where
1t has not renewed, it has refined and
where it has not sanctiaed, 1t has soft;
eueu auu suUuuou' .l".ii,
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A writer in the Advance points noQt
five sorts of persons who ought not TO
Join the church: /. The man who,
thinks he Is good enough to join. a
The man who thinks he knows enough
to do it. 8. The man who thinks he
is doing the church favor by joining
II. 4. The man who thinks that 3oin1'
ing the church will save him. s! The
man who intends to cease effort when
he joins the church. - @:'d'.H "
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