The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-05-16
The Amen Corner.

Malice, like measles. may remain
hidden for time but the moment you
get hot it will break out all over youl
face.
Probing the Bible with cold intellect
to find trnth is like probing tine brain
with cold steel to find thought.
have noticed that people who be-
lieve in mixing politics and religion
generally manage to put politics in
their religion without putting any re-
ligion in their politics.
A religious paper in the house
where the altar fire gives forth no.
thing but smoke, will often start q
blaze that will light and warm every
nook and corner in the house.
When the devil wants make liar OF
boy, he gets his mother in the habit
Of telling society fibs.
The only thing about some Church es
that tells which way they are aiming is
the steeple.
=, Growing is the voice of greed.
That is why dog growls at you when
he is busy with bone. And that is
why man growls at you for interrupt
ing him when he is busy. The shah
biest thing about our modern Chris
tianity is that it excuses a man for
being brute when he is busy. One
of the most unapproachable men l
know is an eminent Christian worker
who claims the right to be impolite on
the ground that his work is more i'm
portant than shaking hands with folks.
If God was as unsociable as Some of
his children, we would never have the
courage to pray to him more than
once in life time.
When "pray" rhymes with "play"
it's jingle: when "pray' rhymes
with "obey" it's a joy.
The blackest storm cloud has Gods
promise written in letters of light a
cross the back.
The Sunday School is good thing
in its place but it was never intended
for mothers place. There are mothers
who put their babies in Sunday School
just as they put eggs in an incubator.
The critics effort to rid the the Bible
of difficulties is like the child's effort
to scour clean floor with a dirty rag.
Difficulty and dirt are made where
there were little or none before.
We do not need to possess more truth
until the truth we have has possessed
Us.
Satan takes more pride in the piety
of some men than in the sins Of
others. The piety for instance that
puts bank note in the collection plate
and puts off paying the washerwoman
at the cost of her Sunday breakfast.
If you don't want to be betrayed
into the hands of the enemy keep an
eye on your temper. A bad temper
rarely fails to give man away sooner
or later.
When q man gets in a pet he says he
is nervous. When he is sullen it is his
liver. When he feels like swapping
your head off and tells you so he calls
it indigestion. When he whoops a.
round the house like maniac, yells at
his wife, knocks over the chairs and
throws the tongs after the cat he is said
to be letting off steam. Wien he sue
ceeds in doing something that be can't
lay to any natural causes he lays it on
the devil. Once or twice in life time
we come across man who shoulders
his own sins and confesses that he is
too mean to live.
Our children may step in our tracks
with safety only as our footprints fall
in with the footprints of Jesus.
We are not heard for our much
speaking, but man who never spends
but two minutes at time in his closet
does not need a veil to cover his face
when he goes down the street.
No man knows what it is to live for
Christ who has not learned to live with
Christ. You don't live for stranger
but for a friend.
If you have found your religion
sour pickle, don't try to get other
people in the same pickle. Get bet
ter article yourself, and when your
friends see that you have made good
investment they Will be more apt to
give you hearing.
The shabbiest side of our modern life
is its greediness. We gulp down eve
ry hour of the six days God gives us
and sit up nights to devise ways and
means to cheat him out OF the only
day he has reserved for himself.
God always comes to our help in the
nick of time. What great many
folks are fretting about is that he will
not come ahead of time, and let them
know that he is on hand.-Rev. E. l..
Pell, in Southern Presbyterian.