The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-05-27
Notifications are often more pain
fu1 than raa1 calamiteS

He who lives within the sound of a
cataract is unconscious of its roar.
Satan as a master is bad; his work
much worse his wages worst of all.
Zeal without knowledge is like haste
to man who is walking in the dark.
Men have sought to save their coun-
trv; but who, before Jesus, sought to
save the world?
Why is a prosy preacher like the
middle of a wheel? Because the fel-
lows round him are tired.
Three silences there are-the 1lrst
of speech, the second of desire, the
third of thought.
How many undervalue the power Of
simplicity! But it is the real key to
the heart.
1t is only the soul in need who
knows how precious are the promises
of God.
1t is not the station of life that
stamps this value on us, but the man
ner in which we act our part.
If thou art of elephant-strength or
of lion-claw, still is, in my opinion,
better than strife.
If we delay until tomorrow what
should be done to-day, we charge to-
morrow with burden that belongs
not to it.
Lying is not necessarily in word, for
when the heart falsefies, the dupllclty
will manifest itself, though the tongue
be dumb.
Sincerity and honesty carry one
through many difficulties which all
the arts he can invent would never
help him through.
Truth is quite beyond the reach of
satire There is so brave q simplicity
in her that ste can no more be made
ridiculous than an oak or pine.
Education begins at the mothers
knee, and every word spoken within
the hearing of little children tends
toward the formation of their
character.
If you wish success in life, make
perseverance your bosom friend, eX-
perience your wise counselor, caution
your elder brother, and hope your
guardian genius.
Habits, soft and plant at first. are
like some coral stones, which are easily
cut when first quarried, but soon be-
come hard as adamant.
1t is an established fact that old hens
will produce stronger and more vigor-
Gus chicks that young ones.
Cut down all the trees that have
gone so far beyond their prime that
they have badly decayed trunks and
only one or two broken branches.
Be careful when trimming the old
trees. 1t needs to be done most intel
ligently. Make the cuts smooth and
cover them with paint, as it prevents
rot.
Give fowls head of cabbage occa-
sionally. They will leave nothing but
the stump. Raw turnips, boiled pota-
toes, etc., given whole will help to
keep them busy.
Great thoughts lift us, as on angels
wings, above the trivial task of the
present hour. Visited by these, the
toiler amid the city's din may catch
some faint echoes of celestial music.
"You find yourself refreshed by the
mere presence of cheerful people why
not make earnest effort to confer that
pleasure on others? You will find
half the battle is gained if you never
allow yourself TO say anything
gloomy"
Perfection as the highest aim of
what God in his great power would do
for US, is something so divine, spirit
ual, and heavenly, that it is only the
soul that yields itself very tenderly to
the leading of the Holy Spirit that can
hope to know its blessedness.
PRAYER is the means which God has
given US and to which we come in
stinctively for finding God, for living |
with him and for carrying about with |
us a sense of his presence, deriving
from its comfort and peace and calm
ness and strength.
A bucket of warm water with towels
should always be taken to the stable
by the mixers. The mixers hands
should be carefully washed before milk
ing, and, if they become soiled, after
milking each cow. The milking
should be done with dry hands; milk
ing with wet hands is too unclean to
be tolerated.
1t is a mistake not to manure old or
chards. Often this is the reason they
fail to give satisfaction when they
reach full growth. If these trees ap-
pear healthy, and yet make no growth,
very likely it is because they are
hungry for fresh plant food and need
to be manured.
/ know nothing can make up for
such loss as yours. But you will
still have love on earth all around you,
and his love is not dead. 1t lives
still in the next world for you, and
perhaps with you. For why should
not those who are gone, if they are
gone to their Lord, be actually nearer
US, not farther from us, in the heaven
ly world?
There is no life so humble that, if it
be true and genuinely human and obe-
dient to God, it may not hope to shed
some of his light. There is no life so
meagre that the greatest and wisest Of
us can afford to despise it. We cannot
know at what moment it may flash
forth with the life of God.
The use of grace attracts more; faith
gives a man the knowledge of the
truths of Christianity. But from
whence do this use of grace and this
faith proceed, but even from grace it.
self? The less belief, respect, and rel
ish one hasifor these truths, the more
one deserves to be deprived of them.
One divine gift prepares us for another.
He who, by q holy kind of uSurY, i'm