The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
GRAINS.

Strength is born in the deep silence
of long suffering hearts, not amidst
joy,
Christ knoweth when the fruit-bear-
ing branches themselves have need of
purging.
We cannot expect perfection in any
one, but we may demand consistency
of every one.
Faith evermore overlooks the diff
Guilty of the way, and bends her eyes
only to the end.
A sound discretion is not so much in
dicated by never making mistake as
by never repeating it.
Your parting may be the last. This
world is full of unconscious farewells.
Part in peace every time.
Cheerfulness makes the mind clearer,
gives tone to thought, and adds grace
and beauty to the countenance.
Never fear to bring the sublimest
motive into the smallest duty, and the
most infinite comfort to the smallest
trouble.
If thou wouldst find much favor and
peace with God and man, be very low
in thine own eyes. Forgive thyself
little and others much.
Some speak to the conscience; some
plough and break the clods I; some weed
out, and some SOW; some wait that the
fowls devour not the seed.
Satan selects his disciples when they
are idle: but Christ chose His while
they were busy with their work, either
mending their nets or casting them in
to the sea.
In studying the work of God, digest
it under these heads; either in remov-
ing some distractions that keep God
and thee asunder, or as supplying some
uniting power to bring God and thee
together.
There are two wings by which a
man scars above the world, sincerity
and purity. The former regards the
intention, the latter the affection.
That aspires and aims at a likeness to
God, that makes US really like him.
Charity does not require Of us that
we should not see the faults of others,
but that we should avoid all needless
and voluntary observance of them,
and that we should not be blind to
their good qualities when we are so
sharp sighted to their bad ones.
Paul said, II bow my knees to the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" "
Many prayers ignore the existence of
God, the Father. They only pray to
Christ. We approach God through
Christ, but our approaches must be to
God. This tendency depraves prayer
and spiritual vigor.
Faith ought to show itself at its best
when the need of it is greatest. Hence
it is that when everything seems to 60
against us we ought to be surest that
all is going well for, at such time
above all others, it is clear that God is
choosing for us, since we should never
haye chosen this for ourselves.
T cannot but think that the world
would be better and brighter if our
teachers would dwell on the Duty of
Happiness 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 Il most effectual
contribution to the happiness of others.
Whoever else may he ready to trust
us, no one of us ought to trust himself.
Others may be sure that we would
never fail in fidelity to the right. We
know that we are liable to fail at any
time. He that thinketh he standeth
is already tottering for fall. Only
the one who realises his constant dam
ger of proving untrue has the possibil-
ity of a sure standing in the way of
truth.
A certain means of stopping dog