Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-03-14
ParksvilIe Scribe Gives Some
Good Advice.

make seeking GOD the hrst tnlng III
life is to begin right. In the sight
of God there IS no difference be-
tween being wrong and doing
wrong. If you would 60 over the
river dry shod, you must get into
the boat.
I would rather have standing
room in heaven than own the world
and 20 to He'll. If good preaching
would save the world, it woald have
been done long ago.
The man who can drive a hog
and keep his religion will stand
without hitcbing. The incoIsis'
tency is not in the Bible, but in
your life. There are men in He'll
because they wasted too much time
trying to find out where Cain got
his wife. You can find everything
in the average church from a hum
ming bird to a turkey buzzard.
The man who swears at true re-
ligion, turns up his nose at one of
the best things on earth. You don't
have TO be like a hedge hog to be
pious.
Riches hayessnever yet given any
body peace or..rest. If there is no
He'll, good many preachers are
getting money under false pre-
tences. The man who is right with
God willnotbe wrong with anything
thai is good.
Some of the biggest lies ever told
are to be found on gravestones.
In every community are some folks
the devil can catch with bare
look.
If you depend on your emotions
for motive power you will come to
a good many places where the wires
won't work. The Bible will always
be full of things you can not under
stand, as long as you will not live
according to those you understand.
Don't stop with telling your boy
what is right. Show him how.
Better die an old maid, sister,
|tahans to marry the .srong man. Our
homes are on a level with our wo-
men, and the Devil has mortgage
on many child from the day it is
born. You never hear of a man
marrying woman to reform her.
Is there any bread in whiskey?
Yes, for the brewer and the distil-
ler of the stuff, but not for the
drunkard's family.
Going to church don't make any
body a christian any more than
taking a wheelbarrow into a garage
makes it an automobile. No hypo-
critic in the church or out of 1t Will
ever get to heaven.
l heard preacher say that he
would rather be pastor of a grave
yard than to be pastor of some
churches he knew.
The man who votes for whlskey
is pulling on the same rope with
the Devil, whether he knows 1t or not.
God pity the country when the
Devil gets the home.
You can have as many theories
as you please, but you will never
get into Heaven unless you plant
your feet on the Rock Of Ages.
If the womanhood of America had
been no better than the men, the
Devil would have had the country
fenced in long ago.
Man was a fool III the garden Of
Eden and he has taken a good many
degrees since.
There would be so many more
church goers if there were not SO
many going churches. God keeps
no half way. house. Its heaven or
hell for you and me.
If there is hell for fools, the
man who thinks he can get to heav-
en- on his wife's religion, will be
there on a front seat.
The father who keeps his son out
of school, is doing his best to make
fool out Of him.
Temptation is not a sin, yielding
is.
All the service that weighs an
ounce in the sight of God, is that
which is prompted by love.
To know some men is an invita-
ton TO do right. To know others
is an invitation to lie, drink, swear
and sink into heel. What God
needs and the world needs, are men
who are solid mahogany all the
way through.
If there is anything that makes
me sick, it is to have some red
nosed ssbuttermilked-eyed, beetle