The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-25
The best remedy for worry is trust.

Inc neSC remedy lOT worry Is tTuSt.
Genius is a curse unless it loves
truth.
God has no use for people who sim
ply play at religion.
It takes hard times to make some
people thankful.
A stony heart and an iron will are
q bad combination.
They can do the best work who know
best how to rest.
Some men seem to have been made
out of dust that had gravel in IT.
Give what you have. TO someone 1t
may be better than you dare to think.
Every man who does honest work
gets double pay for it,"
Some church choirs would sing ibet-
ter if they quarreled less.
Gods promises are heavens bank
notes, made for circulation on earth.
Thedevil's cause prospers most when
Christians quarrel among themselves.
The sin we are the slowest to for
give is the one we are most apt to
commit.
There is no such thing as doing
right until we have made up our
minGs TO stop doing wrong.
The word which declares the will of
the Lord is better than the heavens
which tell his glory.
The man whose head Is in the clouds
will often be found standing with his
foot on brothers neck.
A sense of perfect peace with God is
the grandest thing in all the world to
travel through life with.
Every Christian should try to do
something every day that will make
his pillow softer.
Love longs for companionship with
the loved one. Those who love Jesus
want to be near him, and he is glad to
have them there.
God mingles the bitter with the
sweet i'm this life, to set us seeking
another life where there shall be sweet
alone.
Ifas much preaching had been aim
ed at the heart as there has been at the
head, the millennium would have
dawned long ago.
No man ever knows just what is the
strength of his Christian principles
till he has actually been subjected to
some adequate trial.
To have made a clear discovery of
the faults and defects of your character
is to have taken the first step toward
their correction.
Perfect, unquestioning trust is the
way to peace. Do not wait TO see; do
not ask to see !; but believe in God,
and be at peace.
Prayer is very profitable at night
it is our covering; in the day time 1t
ia our armor. Prayer is the key to
unlock the day, ard the bolt to shut
In the night. Prayer sanctifies all our
actions.
The common notion is that do what
we like is most pleasant. Not at all.
To do what we ought is most pleasant.
Fools always want to give. orders.
Wise men want to take them.
A true man can be true whatever in
fluences are about him and There is
no time so miserable but a man may
be true" He who does wrong be-
cause of his surroundings shows that
he is wrong apart from his surround
ings.
The everlasting Arm! I think of
that whenever rest is sweet. How the
whole earth and the strength Of it
that Is, almightiness-is beneath every
tired creature to give it rest, holding
US always! No thought Of God is
closer than that.
Have you ever noticed how much of
Christ's lie was spent in doing kind
lhings-in merely doing kind things ?
Run over it with that in view, and you
will find that He spent great proper
ton of His time simply in making peo.
pie happy, in doing good turns 10 peo-
pie. What God has put in our power
is the happiness of those about us, and
that is largely to be secured by our be-
ing kind to them.-Prof. Drummond.
Character grows and strengthens