The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-25

The New Orleans Picayune asserts
that in northern Michigan there are
many counties without church of any
denomination, and thousands of men,
women and children grow up in the
towns and in the woods who never
have heard the word of God or seen a
church.
At recent Baptist gathering, DIR.
A. J. Gordon made powerful address.
One of his points was, that "a small
man with a great gospel will accom-
plish more than great man with q
small gospel"
The Presbyterian General Assembly
at Saratoga reaffirmed the declaration
made by previous assemblies in regard
to the use of the Bible in public
schools adding that ave regard its
exclusion from our public schools as q
menace ta national welfare"
A letter from The Car, written in
reply to one from the Queen OF Den
mark, is published. In hG letter the
Car promises strict inqniry into 81
berian scandals, and says he will pun
ish heavily excesses of severity On tht
part OF officials. Lastly, he promise:
to instruct his ministers to draft meas
ures of amelioration.
The most obtuse ass in Christendon
can write his own biography; the
difficulty is to get anybody to read it
says Blakely Hall, referring to the
sketches of senators and representa-
tives in the congressional directory.
The New York World recently offer
ed prize of one hundred dollars fol
the best receipt for keeping husband
at home. Quite a number of ladies
contested for the prize, but the one who
won wrote: Keep him at home by
encouraging him to 60 out occasional
ly. Employ no arts of coquetry. Be
come his choicest comrade. Keep the
details and worries of the household
from him; he has his full share O
worry outside. II, after all this, hi
goes elsewhere,n she adds, she is no
worth keeping at home" This is true
especially the last clause.
In an article in the Observer, DR.. G
Is. Robinson says he once knew the
hymn, 81 would not live alway. L ask
not to stay,u given out in sanitarium
and sung by 200 invalids, all of whom
had come there because they wanted
to "stay," and were doing their costli
est and best not to leave this world.
George William Curtis gave new
grouping of the agents of civilization
in his address at the New York Cham
ber of Commerce dinner. "The Bible
the teapot, the spelling-book and the
bath-tub," he said, have been the pion
GERS of progress on this continent.
An American exchange says that
distinguished statesmen" have been
heard to use such expressions as
"Smith met Brown and 1 this morn
ing" This is very natural mistake
and one which is easy to account for
When the distinguished statesman
was boy he used to say, "Brown and
me are going fishing this morning"
He was corrected SO often mot for fish
ing, but for the English) that hejump'
ed to the conclusion that it was always
right to say Brown and |, and always
wrong to say Brown and me. Many
educated people-besides statesmen
fall into this error.-IorO1ato GLOBE.
DR.. Sayre, of New York, tells the
Herald that the average of life in the
United States is three years more than
in England, France or Germany, and
five wears more than it was sixty years
ago. If Americans are OH the rush it
is because they are a high-strung peo.
nle and must move that way. The
horse which prances dies no sooner
than the horse which walks.
One of the greatust banes of a stu
dents life is that he is obliged to write
compositions. 1t is something looked
upon as extra work, and is usually
left until the last minute. Then the
student hurriedly collects the necessa-
rydata. and in writing is very apt to
Introduce sentences from the encyclo-
pedia. Unfortunately it hapdens that
one of the professors of English at
Yale has written numerous articles
for the encyclopedias. A few days
ago this professor was reading over a
composition with its author when he
came across q particularly finely con-
structed sentence. "That's pretty
sentence" remarked the professor.
Yes 1 prided myself on that replied
the student. $50 did l when I wrote
it,n added the professor, to the great
discontinue of his pupil.--le1p Ha-
rem leUS.
Flattery liz like ice-kream; to relish
II oood we want il a little ut O time,