The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-02-12

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Serve God by doing common actions
in heavenly spirit.
The credit that is got by lie only
lasts till the truth comes out.
If our condition were really happy,
we should have no occasion to divert
ourselves from thinking of it.
To rejoice in the happiness of others
is to make it our own /; to produce it is
to make it more than our own. =
Self-denial is that which gives the
martyr a crown of glory and exalts the
beggar above the dignity of king.
Self-denial is kind of holy associa-
ton with God and by making you
his partner interests you in all his hap
piness. :,
Personal work for Christ is a vague
expression. Go and do something for
some needy fellow creature. That is
definite. .N
Treat all men and women consider
ately and you will be surprised at the
dividends that will come to you daily
and yearly. "
All the doors that lead inward to the
secret place of the Most High are doors
outward-out of self, out of smallness,
out of wrong.
The worst education which teaches
self-denial is better than the best
which teaches you every thing else,
and not that. -
Self.denial is virtue of the highest
quality, and he who has it not, and
does not strive to acquire it, will never
excel in any thing.
1t is not interesting to have a man
tell how rich he might have been if he
had good luck. 1t is better to know
what he has been able to do against
bad luck.
Faith shines most brightly in believ-
ing things that seem incredible-hope
shines in expecting things that seem
|improbable-patience, in bearing
crosses that appear intolerable. ;.
Our admiration of famous man les
sens upon nearer acquaintance with
him, and we seldom hear of a celebrat-
ed person without catalogue Of some
notorious weakness and infirmities.
AS the word of God, we'll studied,
will help us to understand his provi-
dences, so the providences of God, well
observed, will help us to understand
his word, for God is every day fulfill
ing the Scripture.
It is a great comfort to people of
commonplace gifts and talents to know
that the measure of success, in the
Masters sight at the last, will not be
largeness Of result, but faithfulness in
the use of what the Master has en-
trusted to us.
Nearness of life to the Saviour will
necessarily involve greatness OF love to
him. AS nearpess to the sun increases
the temperature of the various planets,
so near aud intimate communion with
Jesus raises the heat of the souls aftec-
tons toward him.
The moment human being arrives
at that point where he feels the object
of life is to give rather than to get,
when he prefers the place where he
may be able to do the most for others,
rather than to receive the most that
others may do for him, that moment
marks the transition into another and
higher phase of life.
A smooth sea never made skilful
mariner, neither do uninterrupted
prosperity and success qualify for use.
fulness and happiness. The storms OF
|adversity, like those of the ocean,
rouse the faculties, and excite the in
vention, prudence, skill and fortitude
of the voyager. The martyrs OF an
cient times, in bracing their minds to
outward calamities, acquired a lofti-
ness of purpose and moral heroism
worth lifetime of softness and secur-
ity.
They who "hunger and thirst after
riphteousne whose consciences
will not let them rest who seek after
a better standard of right and wrong,
truth and falsehood. purity and impu'
rity, Justice and injustice, than they
find in the world around them to
whom justice is a positive joy, and in
Justice a deep and ranking grief who
Ilong with the longing of the psalmist,
in dry and thirsty land, to be better
themselves, and to make others better
also who prize Gods law more than
gold, yea. than much fine gold whose
heart and whose flesh cry out after the
living God-these "shall be satisfied"
Alas it may not be here; but in that
new and better world wherein dwell
eth righteousness.