The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
GRAINS.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.
Conscience is very often confounded
with opinion.
Nav never another war-drum be
heard or O flag unfurled on an Ameri-
can battle field.
To prise every ything according to its
real use ought to be The aim of every
reasonable man.
THE sweetest messages of God are
those spoken to the inmost soul alone
in his presence.
self will is 90 ardent and active
that it will break world to pieces TO
make stool TO sit on.
There are people who seem to lose
all their religion the minute they can't
have their own way.
The kind of love that is not willing
to suffer long without complaining ID
not Gods kind.
"And this commandment have we
from him, that he who loveth God
must love his brother Also"
"Verily, verify, say unto you, if a
man keepmy sayings he shall never
see DEATH"
A moral, sensible and well-bred man
other, can.
They who never make mistakes,
never make anything. The world pro-
fits by the errors of man, ss we'll as
he who commits them.
There is not heart but has its
moments of longing-yearning for
something better, nobler, holier than
it knows now.
No Presiding Elder ought to recon-
mend a man whom he has never heard
preach.-Bishop Wilson.
An hours industry will do more to
produce cheeefulness, suppress vile
humors, and relieve your affairs, than
q months moaning.
As we must render an account of
every idle word, so mus, we likewise
of our idle silence.
Often do we think when we ought
to act, and act when it behooves us 10
reflect; hence caution is frequently as
fatal as rashness.
Labor may be q burden and a chas-
| tisement, but it is also an honor and q
glory. Without it nothing can be ac-
complished.
Look upon the bright side of your
condition, then your discontents will
disperse. Pore not upon your losses,
but recount your nercies.
Ye have heard that 1t hath been said
all eye for an eye, and O tooth for as
tooth But say unto YOU, resist not
evil. Again, Love your enemies.
Be not in too much haste to come to a
deter mination of difficult or import
ant point. Think it worth your wait
ing to find out the truth.
We are nearer the Light in proper
tion as our religion has made US more
and more lovely. more and more
beautiful, more and more tender, more
true and more safe to deal with.
Observe the law of right and do it.
letl GuC duo CtlC thS
night and day, the heat aud the cold
of life's discipline will foster and ma
ture the grain for the garners in the
sky.
There is only One who ran take our
lives, with all their faults and sin,
their broken strings and tangled
chords, aud bring from them the
music of love, joy and peace.
When Spurgeon was asked by a
friend to state what he thought was
the greatest gift possible to Christian
traveller in this world, he responded,
IA sense of perfect peace with God"
The first physics to recover our
souls are not cordials, but. corrosive.
With Mary Magdalene, we must
Twas h Christ's feet" with our ,"tears
of sorrow" before we may anoint his
head with the "oil of gladness."
Give not thy tongue too great lib
erty, lest it take thee prisoner. A
word unspoken is like the sword In
The scabbard, thine. IF vented, thy
sword is in another's hand. If thou
desire to be held wise, be so wise as to
hold thy tongue.
It does not matter whether a man
paint the petal of arose or the chasms
of precipice so that love and admir-
alton attend on him as he labors, and
wait for ever on his work. IL does
not matter whether he toll for months
on few inches of his canvas or cover
palace front with colour in day; 90
only that it be with solemn purpose
that he has filled his heart with patti
ence or urged his hand to haste.-Rus.
kin.