The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-09-11

men or King Oscar"
The religion of too many people
largely consists in finding fault with
others.
Every Christian should live so that
those who follow him will travel to-
ward heaven.
Hurried estimates, either of our
selves or of others-favorable or unfa-
vorable-should be avoided.
Sympathy for and mild judgment of
an erring one are not necessarily ap-
proval or condoning of sin.
That is "powerful'' sermon which
manifests the power of God without
awakening concern for the lungs of the
preacher.
When death, the great reconciler,
has come, it is never our tenderness
that we repent of, but our severity
Adam Bede.
Cheerfulness is like money well eX-
pended in charity the more we dis
pose of it, the greater our possession.-
Victor Hugo.
He is happy whose circumstances
suit his temper but he is more excel
lent who can suit his temper to any
circumstances.-Hume.
No saint, however holy, is proof
against stumbling over very small OBJ
stacles.
More hearts pine away in secret an
guish from the want of kindness from
those who should be their comforters,
than from any other calamity in life.
Hard speech between those who
have loved, is hideous in the memory,
like the sight Of greatness and beauty
sunk into vice and rags.
Doing without things you want may
be very painful experience, but it is
not half as painful as buying them on
credit, and then being dunned for pay
ment.
Consult your friend on all things, es-
pecially Oh those which respect your
self. His counsel may then be useful,
when your own self-love might impair
your judgment.
Certainly the mistakes that we male
and female mortals make when we
have our own way might fairly raise
some wonder that we are SO fond of it.
It's so much easier to make up your
mind that your neighbor Is good for
nothing, than to enter into all the cir
cumstances that would oblige you to
modify that opinion.
The beginning of hardship is like
the first taste of bitter food-it seems
for moment unbearable yet, if there
is nothing else to satisfy our hunger,
we take another bite and find it possi
BILE to go on.
The signature of the cross-the mark
which persons who are unable to write
are required to make-was not always
confined to illiterate persons; for
among the SaXons the mark of the
cross, as an attestation of the good
faith of the persons signing, was re-
quired to be attached to the signature
of those who could write, as we'll as to
stand in the place of the signature of
those who could not write.
Scholarship has so deteriorated in
the schools in Allentown, Pa, on ac-
count of cigarette smoking, that the
school board has taken the matter in
hand, and given notice through the
to dealers in tobacco not
to sell to boys under 16 years, or they
would be prosecuted.
After his evening prayer boy once
said : Mamma, may pray just as l
want to, and will God hear it," She
Eyes, my son." He prayed:
Dear God, pl ease forgive me for kill
ing bop-toad and putting him in a
hole. Amen" The child was sorry
for his wrong, and did right to confess
it to God.
A wise man, more than two thou
sand years ago, when he was asked
what would most tend to lesson JUS
tice in the world, said "That every
bystander should feel as indignant at a
wrong as if he himself were the suffer-
er." Let us cherish such indignation.
Examine your words we'll and you
will find that even when you have no
hard thing to say the exact truth, even
about your own immediate feelings,
much harder than to say something
fine about them, which isnot the ex-
act truth.
It's plain enough you get into the
wrong road in this life if you run after
this and that only for the sake of max
sng things easy and pleasant to your
self. A pig may poke his nose into
the trough and think of nothing out
side it; but if you've got mans heart
and soul in you, you can't be easy a