The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-08-05


doubt-after you have tried it.
1t is easier to repress thought than
to atone for its ripened damage.
Religion in business is just as desir-
able as religion in the church.
God has to destroy some peoples
popularity in order to save their souls.
Wealth consists not in having great
possessions, but in having few wants.
It is long stew towards good home
in heaven to make good home down
here.
Freedom is not q state but posses
sion. "The truth shall make you
Free"
No one ever learned how to do right
by experimenting in things that are
wrong.
We are all the time making charac-
ter, whether we are doing anything
else or not.
To have success in mission work
there must be the actual contact of
life, that the love which prompts the
work may be left.
What is the good of giving your
children good advice, while setting
them bad example.
Our grand business is not to see
what lies dimly at distance, but to do
what lies clearly at hand.
The only safe way of dealing with
duty is to perform it at once. "What
thou doest, do quickly"
The man who bites off more than he
can chew is not so numerous as he who
swallows more than he can digest.
"Whatever weakens your reason ;
whatever impairs the tenderness ofyour
conscience, whatever increases the
strength and authority of your body
over your mind; that thing to you is
wrong, however innocent it may be in
itself.
Pray over your work! Gods ears
are never closed to his children's cries.
Heaven is enleagued with humanity in
the work of upbuilding faith and fight
| ing sin. The much praying Christian
not only accomplishes the most good,
out also is blessed himself in his pray
ing.
Cra Wiling from beneath the leaves in
the garden, Satan, in the form of q
serpent, came to tempt Adam and Eve.
This same serpent hides to-day beneath
the leaves of thousands of books
which constantly fall from the printing
press to curse young and old every
where.
g Thecrown of patience cannot be re-
ceived where there has been no suffer-
ing. If thou refusest to suffer thou
refusest to be crowned; but If thou
wishest to be crowned thou must fight
manfully and suffer patiently. With
out labor none can obtain rest, and
without contending there can be no
conquest.
Love, like the opening of the heav-
ems to the saints, shows for moment,
even to the dullest man, the possibili.
ties of the human race. He has faith.
hope, and love for another being, per-
haps but creature of his Imagination.
Still it is q great advance for man to
be profoundly loving, even in his imag-
nations.
Were we sure of living forever upon
the earth, reason might approve of
worldliness. We would then be justi-
fled in laying up material treasure and
in seeking power. But we are here
only for q moment. Treasures must
be left behind and power must be relin-
auished. A death-dUomed creature
should show wisdom by grasping an
abiding portion.
1--WE are in touch with the invisible
every hour; in His hand our breath is,
and His are all our ways. We talk
with Him when we pray. This is the
holy secret of our prayer. We have
but to believe to see this secret, not
necessarily to understand it, only to
know that this is its mysterious quality,
its matchless splendor, in order to feel
the need and to recognize the worth of
daily prayer