The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-24

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we
stoop than when we soar.
Some people are afraid to do the
right for fear they lose money by It.
Serenity and pure heartedness are
the kind of peace that has most OF
heaven.
Leisure is sweet to those who have
earned it, but burdensome to those
Who get it for nothing.
"Life," says the Arabs, 'is of two
parts: that which is pasta dream ;
that which is to come-a wish"
Misfortune is never mournfal to the
soul that accepts it for such DO always
see that every cloud is an angels face.
We easily believe what we wish
but we have wonderful facility in rals-
lug doubts against those duties that
thwart our inclinations.
Earnestness commands the respect
of mankind. A wavering, dead anu
alive Christian does not get the respect
of the church or the world.
People often say they cannot speak
or say much in meeting. No wonder
they have nothing to say who dali y
read twenty columns of newspaper to
one square inch Of Bible.
It is o curious fact that among the
thousands of insects killed by the
electric lights every night, there are
no mosquitoes found.
Every attempt to make others hap
py, every sin left behind, every temp
tation trampled under foot, every step
forward in the course of what is good,
is a step nearer to heaven.
No soul can preserve the bloom and
delicacy of its existence without lone
ly musings and silent prayer, ana the
greatness of this necessity is in pro-
portion to the greatness of the soul.
When you move toward Cod in
YOUR desire, He moves toward you in
gracious help. When you touch Him
with faith, He touches you with in
slant salvation. This is His Gospel.
Self.eonceit is the very daughter of
self-will, and of that loud crying out
about I, and me, and mine, which is
the very bird-call for all deyils, and
the broad road which leads to death.
Amidst the worlds babbling we are
often wishing for period OF silence,
and longing for the wings OF u dove to
carry us to a place of rest. And yet
how soon the solitude disgusts us, and
makes US hurry back to the haunls OF
men.
Often the most useful Christians are
those who serve their Master in little
things: He ne yer despises the day OF
small things, or else He would not
hide His oaks i'm tiny acorns, or the
wealth of wheat field in bags Of lit
tie seeds.
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 go,d qualities when we are so
sharp-sighted to their bad ones.
We are made for wide communion.
The man who isolates himself dwarfs
and loses the power he believes he IS
cultivating. Our need is to have init
mate communication with our fellow
men, and with as large a variety as
possible, always excepting, OF course,
the depraved.
It makes world of difference to us
whether we tender the cup of cold W.T.
ter, and, if need be, stoop to bind up
the fellow-traveler's wounds, or pass
by on the other side. Better for us
were it. if we are recreant to this duty.
that a milestone he hanged about our
neck and we be cast into the sea.
Faithfulness in the humb!est part
Is better at last than proud sucreSS:
And patience and love In a chaslcned heart
Are pearls more precious than happiness;
And In that morning when we shall wake
To the spring-time freshness of youth again
All troubles will seem but lyihg 1inKe'
And lifelong sorrow, breath on the pane.