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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-12-30

BUILDINGS eight and ten stories
high@are not too high when the
streets, are9 broad, but beyond that
there. Is hardly any surrounding
spaceinsa city wide enough to make
them proper. Indianapolis, with her
broad streets, could stand buildings
of great height well So far as seemli-
ness is concerned. % Paris the
height of buildings IS regulated by
law according to the width of the
AUDITING street; nowhere in that
city are they a fourth as high as Chi
cago's sky-scrapers, and this suggests
that there is more greed than need in
such structures. London, with four
or five million people, and Paris, with
two or three million, transact their
business without ten-story buildings
and sewerage and sanitary regula'
lions are much better obeyed In those
cities than here. The Chicago effort
is timely. 1t should call a halt =.
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RECOGNIZING H LIGHT FROM HEAvEN.

RECOGNIZING THE LIGHT FROM HEAvEN.
DR.. Dale. in his recently published book,
'The Living Christ and the Four Gospels"
tells of a japanese gentleman of consider.
able intellectual culture and great mental
activity and vigor who gave him the follow
ing account Of how he became a Christian.
He had been a Confucianist, but could not
find In Confucius any clear, satisfying teach
ing on the subject of God, though he sought
for 1t eagerly. While thus unsatished and
perplexed under the antiquities Of
him a Chinese Bible, asking him to
read 1t, and assuring him that translation
was m achievement Of scholarship, and
possessed of very great literary merit. II
found he was right; the translation is ad-
mirable. / read page after page until l came
to the 18th chapter Of st. Pauls First Epistle
to the Corinthians, beginning, IF I speak
with the tongues Of men and of angels, but
have not love, I am become as sounding
brass or a tinkling cymbal!' l read the whole
chaper. I was arrested, fascinated. I had
never dreamed of o morality like that. I
felt that it was above the reach of the hui
man race, that 1t must have come from
heaven, that the man who wrote that chap
ter must have received light from God
from God about whose existence
I had been specializing. And then 1 read
the Gospel Of st. John, and the words OF
Christ filled me with wonder. They were
not to be resisted. 1 could not refuse him
my faith" This japanese gentleman did
not enter upon any question of the author.
ship of the Fourth Gospel, nor did he insist
upon knowing what proofs were forth-com-
ing as 20 st. Paur's having written the
Epistles to the Corinthians. Whoever wrote
these passages had received light from
God" That was enough. He saw the
light, and recognized it to be divine. 1.-THE
Christian Register.
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RELIGIOUS READING.

DEAR Tho MT BURDEN
Bear Thou my burden. Thou who bear'st
my sin;
Both are too heavy, Lord, for me to bear:
Oh, take them, call them Thine,-yes, Thine,
though mine
And give me calm repose in hours Of fear
and care.
Let me not fret because Of evil men;
Smooth Thou each angry ripple of my
soul;
Reviled, oh, let me not revile again,
And ever let Thy hand my rising warmth
control.
Let not my peace be broken when the wrong
Conquers the right, but let me still wait
on:
The day of right is coming, late, but long,
Long, right beneath the sway Of the ALI
righteous One.
When truth is overborne and error reigns,
Where clamor lords it over patient love,
Give the brave calmness which from wrath
refralns,
Yet, from the steadfast course, declines
one foot to move.
When love no refuge finds but silent faith,
When meekness fain would hide its heavy
head,
When trustful truth, stunning the words Of
wrath,
Waits for the day Of right, so long, so long
delayed:
Beneath the load Of crosses and of cares,
Of thwarted plans, of rude and spiteful
words;
o, bear me up when this weak flesh des-
pairs,
And the one arm which faith can lean Oh
Is the Lords.
-TPnpor
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voes that are coming, want that will
shiver in need of fire, huger that will cry
~ va;n for bread, ~crielties that will
not leave the heart then they have
cr,,shed il. but pinch it again and stab it
AGAIN. until some night she will open the
dooor Of the place where hr companion was
r11ined, and she will fling. nut her arm from
under her ragged shawl and say, with al
most omnipotent %eloquenf: "Glve me back
GG;1a me- back my all! Him Of the kind
Saort and GENTLE words ah the manly brow,
&c him back to mep1 And then the
Matches. obese and filth, will push back
tha;Nmatted locks and thy will say: "Put
bar ontI Put her outp phi sel~f-righteous
nan without God you re in peril. Seek
aftar Him today. Amid the ten thousands
tamntatious of life THERE'S no safety for q
man without God.
B,t l NAV be addressin some who have
cone astray, and so l $sault that other
%Sroposition that the dissdute cannot be re-
| Claimed. Perhaps you hve only gone a
little astray. While / speak are you
troubled? Is there a Voiq witnln you sey.,
Hon 90 there? What did Yu mean by that9"
f. there a memory in YOU soul that makes
Won tremble? God onk knows all our
hearts. Yea, if you hay gone SO far as to
Commit inlquities and haS gone through the
whole catalogue. I inv}e you back this
hour. The Lord waits FIR you. Rejoice!
8 Young man in thy youh, and let thy heart
cheer thee in the days bf thy youth; but
know thou that for all tbse things God will
bring thee into Judgment
Come home, young maj to your fathers
| God, Come home, yo4g man, to your
mothers God. Oh! INsh that all the bat
teries of the Gospel could to-day be unlim-
bered against all those ifuences which are
taking down so many of3ur young men: l
would like to blow a trmpet Of warning.
and recruit until this wble audience would
march out on a crusade against the evils Of
society. But let none of $ be disheartened.
Oh. Christian workershy heart Is high
with hope. The dark hfizon Is blooming
into the morning Of whia prophets spoke,
and of which poets havl dreamed, and Of
which painters have skethed. The worlds
bridal hour advances he mountains will
kiss the morning radianl and eRulgent, and
ali the waves Of the SO will become the
CRYSTAL KEYS of a great Cyan, on which the
| fingers Of everlasting joyfhan play the grand
march Of a world redee1ed. Instead OF the
thorn there shall come p the fir tree, and
instead of the briar Their shall come up the
myrtle tree, and the moptains and the hills
shall break forth into Aging, and all the
trees Of the wood shall CLIP their hands.
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THE spIRIT's SWORD.

On one occasion DR.. Malan was travelling
bv diligence to Paris, his fellow-traveiers
being a French officer, a member Of his wi
congregation, and another gentleman, a
stranger. According to his custom, DR.. Ma
Ian took out his Bible and read some por'
ton of it aloud.
The stranger demonstrated, avowing inf.
del opinions and loudly assailing the Word
Of God. The French colonel, seeing that the
discussion was likely TO be q protracted one,
and not altogether persuaded of the wisdom
of his pastor in thus introducing the subject
Of religion in : public vehicle, Interrupted 1t
by saying:
'"You are well aware how greatly I respect
you, DR.. Malan. but l think ut this time you
err somewhat in judgment. You should
drst convince this gentleman that the book
you arc reading aloud is tie Word of God,
since he denies it to be so. You can hardly
expect him to submit TO- an authority that
be openly disavows."
COLONEL said DR.. Malan, "I ask you,
would you-if you were going into the field
If battle-endeavor to persuade the enemy
that the weapon in your hand was 4 sword.
Or should you use it,
"Most undoubtedly 1 should use it, said
The colonel.
s'That is just what I do" said DR.. Malan;
II believe the Word of God to be the Sword
Of the Spirit, n L use II accordingly.
Silence soon followed. and mt the end Of
The day the three travellers passed the night
It the same hotel, DR.. Malan and the French
colonel proposing to continue their jour neg
on the morrow.
At breakfast the next morning, as the
friends were seated together at the same
table, q waiter entered the room and in
ouired of DR.. Malan 'whether or no he was
%proposin. to 20 on to Paris by the dill
gence?".7 On receiving a reply In the atir.
native. he explained, 1.-The gentleman that
travelled with you yesterday desired he to
inquire, as, il you are purposing to 90 on
to-day, he wishes to be your fellow-travel-
ler."
Malan and the professed skeptic had become
cordial IN their intercourse. In after years,
the latter became q commitment In DR..
Malan's church and his attached friend in
the bonds of the Gospel.
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THE LESSON OF ABSTINENCE EMPHASIZED,

THE LESSON OF ABSTINENCE EMPHASIZED.
As railway companies, from economic
considerations, find it necessary generally to
prohibit the use of intoxicants by their en-
ployes, at least while on duty, 80 does much
Of the modern, complicated la~bor-saving
machinery emphasize tho lesson OF absti-
nence. The Gate City, Of Iowa, abiding to
this subject, refers to the old days when q
man could use liquor freely, .'and all that
happened was that the tool he was moving
stopped when his arm stopped" and says:
"But he cannot be fuddled now when he is
using q machine driven by steam or cleo.
tricity; drunkenness in managing that Grip
pies or kills the workman, aud destroys q
costly machine Of the Factory upon which
the labor OF men and women depends Our
attention has recently been called to the
case Of a foreman in one Of the largest print.
ing press works In this country, o mechanic
OF rare skill and genius, who has OCCASION
ally yielded to drink, with serious loss to
his employers, and who, though holding his
position still, holdsi it now only on probation,
to lose It with another repetition OF his
offense. The most delicate and complicated
machinery Of all, that Of the human body
and brain, suffers most from alcoholic In.
dulgence.-National Advocate,
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

TEMPERANCE NEWS M NOTES.
Delirium tremens kills four people per day
In England.
The man who paints the town usually ends
by making a picture Of himself.
England and Ireland together drank a..
00O, QUO gallons more beer than Germany last
year.
1t is less important to a young lady that
her lovers diamonds should be OF pure water
than that bis drinks should be.
The Cincinnati police are directed to ar.
rest on sight any boy finder fourteen years
of age seen using tobacco In any form.
The law of Fiji provides that a white mar
giving drink toFaii aboriginal or half.caste
Of any district shalfbe subject to q fine Of
$3.50 and imprisonment.
The Prohibition ;canteen at Fort Riley,
Kansas has had only six cases Of drunken
ness out Of 649 men, while the rest Of the
army has forty-one in a thousand.
Out of the mayors in England thirty.
seven are total abstainersi and temperance
reforIners, and besides these twenty.six are
favorable. to alliance or to local option.
Twenty Scotch provosts are also total alb
staiuers.
The W. c. T. U. has gained In member
ship 10, 369 during tue year 1881. OF this in
crease Ohio furnished 1900, Illinois 1896, Or
egon 1000, Indiana $50, Californta65o Texas
$50, while in Virginia the membership Was
doubled. aud Japan gained $50,
The statistics presented by Lady Henry
Somerset in regard to liquor drinking in
London are significant Eighty.1ve cents
for gin and four cents for education carries
its own commentary N the wretchedness Of
Whitechapel and other slums Of the modern
Babylon,
It is said that eleven gentlemen met re-
Gently at luuch in Shanghai, and, finding
that all were total abstainers, compared eI.
periences. They had each livedin the trying
temperature ofNorth China for from TWEEN.
ty-fve to thirty-hve years, and not one Of
them had been once sick from climatic
cause.
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TEMPERANCE.

Worldwide a curse lies on our land;
From shore to shore, from sea to sea
No nation, country, island, free
From alcohoFs destroying hand.
So long.-since time began: and prayers
Ofmother-hearts have risen in vain!
For paltry pelf, for sordid gain,
This goodly land its harvest bears.
Weak things there are confound the strong:
Oh Waterman for the morning hour,
Worldwide there runs a chain OF power,
Electric with the voice Of song!
What is that the strong king fears?
No iron chain Of lordly might.
But just a threat Of ribbon WHITE 9.
Gods answer to the prayer Of yearsi
Each strand about a hearthstone twined,
Each song O mothers lullaby;
From shore to shore, from sea to sea,
The ribbon white the dear home binds.
Worldwide, a blessing waits for thee,
Oh homes beloved. of every landl
For trained Of heart, and trained Of hand,
Thy children shalt thy country free!
Esther 7. Housh.
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A scEPrIc's CONCLUSION.

DR.. R. F. Sample Of New York. writing to
the philadelphia Presbyterian" relates the
following suggestive incident:
Some timid ones are just now greatly and
unnecessarily disturbed. They fear the
foundations are about to be destroyed. But
if they &C. a little further down, they will
find the granite rock. Bible truth is as
changeless as the law that deeps the earth in
its orbit, and although Tesuvius may burn,
times give way, the planet itself holds
on its way toward q grander destiny and
an immortal youth. Men who resist
The truth may become its strongest ad-
vocates, or wholly lose their power to harm
II. They may unwittingly establish the
wavering in the precious faith. Unbelievers
may receive their first lessons In the truth
from its assailants, and, struggling through
its quicksands, reach the everlasting rock.
AS / travelled over one of our great railways
I saw q sceptic take a Bible from his travel
ing-bag and read half through one OF the
Gospels. When he paused, 2 conversation
ensued.
81 am reading this book with reference to
q single question, and I am marking every
passage that bears upon it."
"May I be permitted to ask what the ques-
ton Is that so engages your attention."
ut is this, sir: Whether there Is any way
to God except through Christ? 1 am not an
atheist, nor am I a Christian, but the more
I read these reputed prophecies and Gospels
the more I am persuaded that I shall have
to submit my reason to the Scriptures and
20 where they point, or keep on IN the dark,
where, I confess, ! have been for forty
years"
1t was a slur on the Bible, which came
from an unexpected source, that led him to
look into this book. Whatever he may have
been, he is now to all appearances an honest
INQUIRER after truth. fhus God oyerrules
the evil to his praise.-lThc Armory,
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HOW ALCOHOL AFFECTS THE BODY.

HOW ALCOHOL THE BODY. -
It has been discovered that the toxic action
OF alcohol in large doses primarily affects
the cerebral lobes after which the other
parts Of the cerebro spinal system are con.
~secutively involved, till in the stage of deal
drunkenness the only parts not invaded by
q benumbing paralysis ere those automatic
centres In the medulla oblongata, which
regulate and maintain the circulation and
respiration. Even these centres are not
wholly unaffected; the paralysis Of these, as
Of the other sections Of the cerebro spinal
system, varies In its incompleteness and at
times becomes complete, the coma Of drunk
enness terminating In death. More usually
the intoxicant is gradually eliminated and
the individual is restored to consciousness
a consciousness disturbed, however, by the
secondary results of the agent he has abused.
In every case the stomach suffers directly or
Indirectly through the nervous system. Nu-
TRITON, consequently, is interfered with by
the defective ingestion Of food as we'll as by
the mal-assimilation Of that which is in
gested. To this cause, as well as to the pa
culiar local action of the poison, are due the
various organic degenerations which, in
most instances, shorten the drunkard's
days. Oncc-A- Week.
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AMONG RUSSIAN PEASANTS,

A philanthropic lady Of the Government
Of Tamboy, Russia, who owns several vii
lagos, has caused all the liquor stores in her
villages to be closed, and established in their
stead ~tea-houses. where peasants can get
meat. rolls and all the tea they can drink for
a nominal sum-. On Sunday she and her
husband spend the afternoon in these tea.
houses, reading useful books and extracts
from newspapers to the guests. The peasants
are greatly pleased with this innovation.
The %tea.houses are p~atronized, and drunken.
ness is almost unknown In those villages
where they are established. As the scheme
was a suggestion Of the novelist Tolstoi, the
church authorities at once established q
supervision over them, with the special OBJ.
ject OF preventing the benevolent lady and
her husband from reading Tolstoi's works,
or any heretical books to the peasants on
Sunday. But the philanthropic couple do
not mind this, and continue their good work
undisturbed.
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1T will take more than an open let

IT will take more than ar open let
ter from Lord Tennyson to convince
the world that the Car Of Russia is
an. excellent and amiable person, not
at all responsible for the cruelties
and crimes which make his domain a
scandal to the world. Very likely
the Car was amiable to the poet, but
let Lord Tennyson 60 to Russia and
let fall a few revolutionary words and
the chances are that his views will
undergo a change.
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AN Ohio Mn hid a bottle of whisky
in q stone hce. Others saw him
and when hdhad gone appropriated
the bottle I'D drank its contents.
The whisky as drugged with strych-
nine and onenan died of It's eHects'
Moral: Stop fence whisky IS Usually
fatal.
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'D1DNT g no pw1ze c1imbin' dc
creased pole did ye. EphF" mo
but I got hut a poun' o. tolaple
lard.n
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COMPARISONS are odorous"-ant
somebody will think the following
announcement out Of all taste, and
smelling very strong Of anarchy, and
all that sort of thing. Without pre-
tending to settle the question of ethics
or good taste, or the degree of crime
in either case, we give it just as we
find it in another newspaper: 1--WE
Nebraska banks are in trouble. The
First National Bank at Enterprise
was robbed of several thousand dollars
by three cowboys, and on the same
day the National Bank at Tecumseb
was closed by order Of the Comptrol.
ler Of the Currency, having been
robbed of about $4,000 by the bank
officials" Now where is the differ
ence? Is it not really in favor of thu
cowboys? They had the courage tc
make the bank officers hold up theil
hands and violated no expressed faitf
to the public. The officers got thu
public confidence and cowardly stol'
behind peoples backs. Yet the law,
or the public as the case may be, will
send the cowboys to the penitentiary
and If possible settle with the Other
thieves for so cents on the dollar.
And this is-what do you call it, any
hnW2
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-12-30

A man said to his employer, II can't wash
the wagon on Sunday morning; l am willing
to wash it on Saturday afternoon. but, sir,
you will please excuse me, I can't wash the
wagon on Sunday morning." His employer
said, You must wash it; my carriage comes
in every Saturday night, and you have got
to wash it on Sunday morning." ~ can't
do il" the man said. They parted. The
Lord looked after him-grandly looked after
him. He is worth to-day a hundred fold
more than his employer ever was or ever
will be. and he saved his soul. Young men,
it is safe to do right. There. are young men
in this house to-day who, under this storm
Of temptation, are striking deeper and deep
or their roots and spreading out broader
their branches. They are Daniels in Baby.
lon, they are Josephs in the Egyptian court
they are Pauis amid the wild beasts OF
Ephesus. I preach to encourage them. Lay
hold OF God and be faithful.
There is mistake we make about young
men. We put them in two classes; the one
class is moral, the other dissolute. The
moral are safe. The dissolute cannot DO re-
claimed. I deny both propositions. The
moral are not safe unless they have laid hold
of God, and the dissolute may be reclaimed.
I suppose there are self righteous men in
this house who feel no need Of God, and will
not seek after Him, and they will go out in
the world. and they will be tempted. and they
will be flung down by misfortune,
and they will 60 down, down,
down, until some night you will see them
going home hooting, raving, shouting bias.
phemy-goins home TO their mother, going
home to their sister, going home to the
young companion to whom, only a little
while ago, in the presence Of a brilliant
assemblage, flashing lights and orange
they promised fidelity and purity, and
kindness perpetual. As that man reaches
the door, she will open it, not with
an outcry, but she will stagger back
from the door as he comes in, and In
her look there will be the prophecy c.
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Paf,a Decenfion.

An inside carfnl of passengers were
toiling up one of the long hills in the
county Wicklow. The driver leaped
down from his seat 10 front and walk
ed by the side of the horse. The poor
beast toiled slowly and wearily, but
the six inside were too busily engag-
ed in conversation To notice how slow
ly the car progressed.
Presently the driver opened the
door at the rear of the ear and slam
med il to again. The passengers start
ed, but thought the driver was only
assuring himself the door was securely
closed. Again the fellow opened the
door and slammed it to again. The
travellers turned around angrily, and
asked why he disturbed them in that
manner.
whist" whispered Pat; "dont
spake so loud-she'll overhear u.s."
"Who is she y
"The mare. Spake low." he con-
tinued. putting his hand over his nose
and mouth. "Sure I'm desayin' the
crayture Every time she hears the
door slammin' that way she thinks
one of yez is gettin' down to walk up
the hill, and that raises her sperrits."
The insiders took the hint.-Tit-
Bits.
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