The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-28

When hath ceased all sin and sorrow,
Where thy life hath no tomorrow,
Sun, nor threatening cloud nor moon; ).
To the love thy past that planned,
Mid the harps Of heavens band,
Thine shall find tune.
EVERY CHRISTIANS DUTY.
1t is the Office of every disciple to be q
witness for Christ, calling the world around
you wherever you touch it to come and see
him as illustrated in yoursef-in your fdel-
ity to every trust, in your patience Under any
igncminy and insult, in your sweet serenity
Of spirit in the midst of all anxiety and fear,
in your very face which shines as with the
morning star. shedding its lustre on it be-
cause you look for the realms that are ABOVE.
You are to show forth Christ for the'hum6le
and the poor, for the needy and the suffer-
ing, for the sinful whom you will call back
to him, for the beloved disciples with whom
you enter into sweet fellowship because OF
common affiliation with him. You are to
be living epistles, known and read OF men,
and written on every page Of your lie IN the
living letters of light from on high, as LETT
ters from Christ.
That Is the duty, that is the responsibility,
that is the glorious office OF every man or
woman and every youth who confesses hlm.
self or herself disciple Of the Master. What
GAS the Father hath sent ME into the world,
so send you. Ah, my dear friends it Is not
the minister alone, it is not the officer OF the
church alone, it is every individual disciple
embraced within the church who Is thus TO
set forth Christ and call the world to see him,
and who needs for the accomplishment OF
tha: august and lovely office the indwelliug
power Of the Holy Ghost [Dr. r. s. Storrs.
STRAIGHT PATHS. j.
The best railroads are made at great eX-
pense for right of way, tunneling, grazing
and cutting and the best material Is used Tor
steel rails. When completed, large engines
pull heavily loaded trains over them at
great speed with safety. Cheap roads are
built with poor material, and 60 curving
around hills and other obstacles, up hill and
down over shaky. bridges and dangerous
trestle work, and when it is done 1t Is quite
dangerous to run trains at all fast, and good
engines can't 60 up the steer. grades with
what ought to be an ordinary load.
So it Is in religion. There is cheap
twisty kind that doesn't cut down the
mountain of unbelief, but curves around
every disagreeable duty, and is destined not
only to he failure here, but to wreck those
who have it for all eternity. 1t curves
around the hill of repentance, runs over the
valley of humiliation on trestle work,
scarcely comes in sight of restitution; the
ties are worldly interests, the rails SELF.
righteousness; the engine phantom OF
Christ, run by good resolutions and sell.
righteousness.
1t stops at all the towns of worldly pleas
ure, and never has time for works OF charity,
except to be seen OF men, and has It's mead,
quarters in worldly conformity and sensual
pleasure. It is cheap route, and popular
with poor deceived souls, some OF VIII
think they are serving God, and will re.
the kingdom BY and by.
cANoN FARRAR on FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Canon Farrar has been delivering course
of missionary lectures OIL Saturday after.
moons. In the one delivered January II, In
Westminster Abbey he said: At the be-
ginning Of this century certain notability
Of Massachusetts, made the remark that "the
religion of Christ is such that the more you
send it abroad the more Won have it at home"
There were those who repeated the old stale
objection that we we've preaching to Esqui-
mauN when there were idolators IN England:
Were we to do nothing for Europe until
all was perfect in England, nothing IN Eng
land until all was perfect in westminster,
nothing for Westminster until all was per.
feet in our own homes, nothing in our own
homes until all was perfect IN our own
hearts? In the wake of American missions
abroad came American emancipation OF tae
slaves at home. Who turned the ice when
had formed over the hearts Of Churchmen
in the last century into flame? Wny,J
Wesley and George Whitfield.
Both were fervent in the cause OF foreign
missions, and both went out as missionaries.
Did that spirit spring from fantastic en-
thusiasm for the heather abroad, and silly
indifference to the heathcn Mt home! The
call to 60 to the heathen was greater. Inc
heathen had not heard, as men at home had
heard, if they would, of the Gospel OF
Christ. He concluded by saying, with one
of those old Celtic missionaries, st. Asaph,
that he who would binder the progress OF
Gods Word cnyied the happines OF man
kind.
JOURNEY OF LIFE.
No one, remarks the Independent, passes
through the Journey OF this life, though 1t
be but of moder .te length, without losing
Kindred and friends by death, whom be ten
dcrly loved when living, and continues to
love long after they are gone. If one lives
to an advanced age, he usually has
greater number of such friends in the ne
world than he has in this. Death swee
them away, aud sometimes he is left almoss
alone in respect to the cherished companions
ships of his earthly life. To these loved ones
dead he can ren,ler no service, and, SO far as
we know, from them receive none. He may
think of them, but he can do nothing for
them. They arc entirely beyond the reach
of his action. He can speak no kind word
to them, and give them no good advice. He
can make 10 sacrifices to promote their joys.
The lesson to be learned from this fact is
that We should act towards our kindred and
friends while they are living, rs we, II sur
-iyng them, will wish we had acted when
they are sleeping in the grave. Let the hus-
band and the vie so treat each other, While
they hold this relation, that the death OF
neither will give the other any OCCASION for
regret on account of misconduct. Let par
cnts anil children, brothers and sisters,
friends intimately associated, and, indeed,
;,ll men. observe the same rule, and this GER
tainly would be Il much happier world The
rule would lessen the number of family
uuarrcI>, and make life more serene and
more like heaven. Fewer hard speeches
would pass between men.
GicntiencSs and kindness would be the law
OF human nc ion. We once heard man who
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