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F"r ">"v?~ ^ The Abbeville Press and Banner. J BY HUGH WILSON ABBEVILLE, S C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1887. VOLUME XXXI. NO. 41. l| ? ? ? .? . Christian Neighbor. BY REV. SI 1)3 II. 3BOWXE, Of the South Carolina Conference. COLURIBIA, S. C. "Let Tli7 Words be Few." In view of the communications of some of the many friends of the Christian Neighbor which appear in the present issue (?some of them quite up to the measure of our deserts?) we, editor of nineteen years of consecutive labor, in humility and gratitude, praise God and thank friends for the past, and say no mor?* beyond substituting the following for aught else we might feel inclined to say: anniversaries. The anniversary of the birthday of a paper may be celebrated as well as that of a person?indeed the one has become as common an event as the other. Like a man reviewing his life during the last twelve-month the n/mtanonop mow Cr?'IT1 its cou 1'se lit ?? 0|yt4|/V4 ? - - ? for the same time. Many errors, maybe, have left their marks on its pages ?perhaps some have been corrected : friends have been won, others have been alienated; nukindness or injustice has wounded some, flattery has soothed others; one has gone a step up in life, another a step down ; prosperity ha3 smiled on this, misfortune in the form of unpaid subscriptions has overtaken that; A has found fault that his contribution was mutilated by the printer, B that his did not appear at all. Newspaper life is pretty much like that of a flesh-and-blood man, only "a little more so." The newspaper, too, has a conscience? though some rash speakers have denied it; the newspaper, too, has honor, dignity, and even "feelings" to sustain. "Feelings," however, are usually frosted till tney are killed or buried beyond purpose of resurrection. Unlike aman'slife, that of the newspaper may be prolonged beyond the three score years and ten, but with the disadvantage always attending a change of motive power. The same haud is not at the helm, the same brain and heart do not give tone and energy?individuality?life?to the creation.* It is as if some stranger came to take the vacated place of a friend. All is new and unknown. The Minutes of tlie South Carolina Conference. A fortnight since the pastor of Lees ville and Concord charge received 8 copies of the minutes of the session of the S. C. Conference, Dec. 1-5-20, quite equivalent we presume, to amount col- , lected in 1886 for "Minutes" on that charge. The publication 119 pages, exclusive of 10 pages advertisements, is i neatly printed on good paper and I bound in good style, by C. A. Calvo, Jr. We had almost forgotten to expect the minutes, so long they were a coming! but it is but justice to the editors and publisher to say that a publication like this?abounding in statisti- 1 cal and financial composition?is a tedious job, requiring much care and i~i? lainji. . It would be marvelous for such a pamphlet to be altogether free from errors. In that respect we are not pre- i pared to judge; only the holders of ; manuscript and the proof readers can do this. Restricting our examination to Leesville and Concord we find one error (p. 72) which is manifest: The amounts $21.46 and $23.20, paid the Presiding Elders, (A. C. Smith and (). A. Darby) make $44.72 instead of $54.72, as the in correct addition in the : minutes has it. Beyond this we are not prepared to judge along through the many pages of statistics and figures. The substance of what some news naner* snv about soldiers who have 1 X ! --- died since the war, is that they were iu Regiment, commanded by Col. , were wounded in the battle of , acted gallantly in the tight, Ac. While it may be just to the memory of the dead to state the part they acted and suffered in the war, may it not be asked, Are such statements all or the best that can be said of our countrymen?soldiers?who have outlived the war ? Are there not other facts in the lives of those men which would be just as well to mention? Did they not make efforts to pay their just debts? Did they not help, as they were able, some war-made widows and orphans? Did they not help to reconstruct and build up the country that had been scattered and felled by the war? If, in the United States, there can be found any three congressmen, with any three Railroad men and any three lawyers?nine men?who agree as to the meaning of the "Inter-State Commerce bill" as passed by the late Congress, let them step to the front and claim compensation for services performed, a fee of $10,000,000 each. <?> Christian Advocate (Nashville) comes out, April 2, in a new becoming dress. Its former head had too much "fixing" about it; the new head reminds one of the bonnets of old time class-meeting Methodist women?none the worse for that. Neglect?Bees in Battle?Frost?Fruit. Dear Neighbor: Every now and then, all the way to Leesville, last Saturday evening (April 2) I felt like I had left or forgotten something, but could not tell what, until that night while at supper at Bro. Joe D. Mitchell's a message came from John Spaun inquiring if I had "brought a bundle for him?" Then all was plain: I had neglected to bring a pair of store shoes for my friend ; that too after he had hauled me all the way through that deep sand a few days before. Too bad. He kindly granted me another trial. Sabbath morning! Delightful! Looking at the bees at work I saw the ground for a few feet in front of two or three "gums" almost covered with '' " 1 1^"" Af frklsl mo fhof nrIP UVciU UCC5. U1V. 1U? tviu iuv/ vtiMv w..w swarm that had eaten up their winter's provision had attempted the day before to enter the gum of another swarm that had honey. Hence the figbt, and probably a gallon of bees dead on the battle field. Strange it is that though the bees all look alike to human eyes yet they know at once bees from other hives. In the contusion of battles they can tell an "enemy" from a friend as quick as thought. The slain on the battle field of the bees was saddening to look at. Thought of a human or inhuman battle field?a thousand men slain by their brothers, ani this in the light of the Christian religion. At church I found Superintendent D. D. D. Mitchell and the school worshipping. The hour of public wor- | ship was not without interest and profit. Miss Bodie, at the organ with supporters, leads the singing with sensible tunes. i After dinner with the family of Bro. and Sister Bodie, Seniors, I made a ! few calls before taking tea with friends ( at Mrs. Derricks. A pretty fair congregation to hear a paraphrastic diecourse at night. With many others I 1 regret that Sister A. O. Watson and family, after a residence of two years | in Leesville community, are preparing to move back to Greenville. The sick- 1 ness of their little daughter kept Brother and Sister J. P. Bodie at home all day. It is gratifying to learn that the venerable Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bodie \ are manifestly improving in health. The fruit has been killed only in j part. Seldom, if ever, is the fruit crop a failure at Leesville. S. H. B. The German Parliament will not exempt theological students from military services.?Exchange. If theologians and theological stu- j ilents may preach war why should they not fight in war. ? 1 Mrs. A. O. "Watson and children passed through the city April 5, en j route from Leesville to Greenville i where they .'ill join Bro. Watson. Justice H. H. Blease of Newberry, on his way last week to the United 1 States Court in Charleston, turned 1 bimself for a little while, and with favor, into the Neighbor office. During twenty-five years the Friends in the London Yearly Meeting have had an increase of 1,739. The colored Methodist church, Edis to Island, was destroyed by Are March "4- _ Albert H. Mowry has been appointed post master at Charleston vice F. F. Huger, deceased. A surprise to many. Saturday Nigrht. Placin g the little hats all In a row, Rpady for church on the morrow you know; Washing wee faces and little black fl6ts, (.Jett ing them ready and fit to be kiised; rutting them intoclean garments and white, f hat is what mothers aie doing to-night. Spying out holes in the little worn hose, Laying by shoes that are worn thro' the toes. Looking o'er garments so faded and thin? Who but a mother knows where to begin? Changing a button to make it look right, That is what mothers are doing to-night. Calling the little ones all 'round her chair, Hearing them lisp forth their soft evening prayer. Tall tn<v i hpm tcfririPK nf .Tpsna nf old. Who loves to gather the sheep to his fold, Wutfhing, they listen with-childish delightThat is what mothers are doing to-night. Creeping so softly to take a last peep, After the little ones all are asleep; Anxious to know if the children are warm, Tucking the blankets round each little form; Kissing each little face, rosy and bright? That is what mothers are doing to-nfglit. Kneeling down gently beside the white bed. Lowly and meekly she bowed down her head, Praying, as only a mother can pray, "God guldeaad keep them from going astray." Composure is often the highest re serve of power. Sin is suffering in the root; 9ufferiug is sin in the fruit. Most men consider more the person that speaks than the thing he says. No fountain is so small but that heaven may be imaged in its bosom. Sometimes it is exceedingly hard to tell where frankness ends aud impudence begins. How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world! The best way to keep a whole city ciean is iur every nouseiseeper 10 scruD her own doorsteps. Do not fail to make good resolutions now because you failed to keep some you made last year. Try again. Meekness is a very important and lovely grace of character which all should prize above mountains of gold. Have you known how to compose your manners ? You have done a great deal more than he who has composed books. Prosperity is only a blessing when we truly thank God for it and use it as a furtherance of our eternal happiness. When a man says he thanks the Lord that he hasn't a wife, every woman in the land should respond with a hearty amen. Vjrwuu pujjei iinu ywuu vj lviiu it good printer will not make a good religious paper; there must be an Editor. Au Editor of a religious paper occupies one of the most important posts in the whole world; and but very few men have ever filled that high place worthily for the glory of God and the best interests of mankind for time and eternity. A man may be a useful minister of the gospel, a very good deacon, elder, class leader or president of a college and yet be a poor Editor of a religious paper. To be a good Editor a man must be abundantly blessed with common sense. He must be of a philanthropic nature and mind broad enough to em brace in his affections the entire human race. He must be a careful reader and a calm diligent thinker. He must not be passionate, nor ever "render railing for railing," or speak "unadvisedly" with his pen; but ever keep in his view the solemn fact that hianrinferi words will live for cood or evil long after he will have left his editorial chair forever. But an Editor of a religious paper must be a Christian of course, and a Christian too, of the very highest order ; and such a one is full of love and "clothed with humility." He is no bigot, and yet contends earnestly for Christianity with weapons that are not carnal; and rejoices first in the progress of true Christianity, and last in the prosperity of his own religious denomination. A good Editor will be a man of prayer; and he will pray as he writes and selects for his paper; and will pray much more in secret than he does in the public sanctuary, the social prayer meeting and in his family, all combined. A good Editor will not only be very careful what he writes for his paper but also what he selects, and will never forget that his readers are both mortal and immortal. It is with much sorrow that I am obliged to say that I know of but very few papers in our broad land that I can conscientiously call truly and fully good religious papers. I cannot now think of half a dozen. During our dreadful civil war I could find but one paper worthy of being called religious, not even the "American Messenger" printed by the American Tract Society at No. 150 Nassau Street, New York city. That solitary paper that I refer to was and is the "Friend's Review" printed by the Friends at 1316 Filbert Street, Philadelphia. A paper that approves of war is not a good paper by a great deal. The Christian Neighbor, I am happy to say, is one of the very best religious papers ever published, and on the whole I know of no better one. I hope it will be published, by the descendants of the present Editor to the latest week of time, even if that week 9bill be ten thousand years distant. I love the Christian Neighbor and the Editor and his dear family and all paying subscribers. My wife, now a saint in heaven, loved the Neighbor, and at her very kind and respectful re quest I became a paying subscriber till tne generous Editor sent it to me "without money and without price." [Though "without money and without price," yet not without superabundant compensation in the many good religious communications. Editor. How the Leaven of Lying Works. By Kev. Josiah W. Leeds, of Philadelphia, Pa. From the President of the White Cross Society, New York City, I received a few weeks ago, a circular in reference to the lying, profanity, and some other abounding evils of the time, with the request for practical suggestions as to how to bring about their abatement. Immediately after replying to this circular, the matter of the Dependent Pensions Bill was brought into specially prominent notice through its veto lesser well-to-do people of the place, have, by evasion and simple lying, relieved themselves from the payment of hundreds of tliousandsof dollars of annual taxes lawfully chargeable upon their luxuries, there is not such very great reason for wonderment that desperate men with no hope of heaven in their souls, should have attempted the ruin of a society against whom they claimed to have a long and very black bill of grievances. And so we clearly perceive that the spirit of lying is one which leads right on to war and death. And lying itself is begotten of lust, the Apostle James thus certifying,? WORDS OF CHEER. BEING KINDLY CONGRATULATIONS ON THE "CHRISTIAN NEIGHBOR'S" NINETEENTH ANNIVERSARY. A Good Religions Newspaper. By Rev. John lleiunicnway, Saint Anthony l*itrk, Minnesota. n 1 ? ? .1 ? ' From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that tear in your members V ??? Truth and Purity?Brotherliood of Man-Fatherhood of God. By Rev. T. J. Clyde, of (he Sruith Carolina Conference. In these days of puerile, obscene and irreverent literature when a subsidized Press teems with publications adroitly and malevolently designed to debauch private and public morals, and fill the homes of this gooclly land with vice and crime?'tis refreshing to witness the ever increasing circulation of the Christian Neighbor. Your weekly visits have brightened many a fireside, cheered many a weary-footed toiler in life's rugged ways, sl rengthpnpfl mttnv a lonelv. desnondintr suf ferer, and sent a thrill of joy through many a sorrowing heart. I have noted with admiration the sturdy individualism of the Neighbor. In all questions affecting individual or public welfare your editorial utterances have harmonized with our highest ideals of truth and purity. The manly straight-forwardness of the Neighbor?turning neither to the right haud nor to the left?but pursuing with steady gait and serene benignant countenance the good and right way is a picture on which even an angel might pause to gaze. This world has been a vast battle-field for ages, and man's inhumanity to man made countless thousands mourn. The orphan's wail and widow's groans have followed in the wake of war. Forgetful of the ties of brotherhood, with amazing, brutal stupidity and ferocity man has imbrued his hands in the blood of hi9 fellow-man for the enthronement of some royal knave or tyraut in ease, luxury and power. Yours, deat Neighbor, is a message of peace and good-will to all men?emphasizing the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. Undeceived by the ingenious sophistries of the artful, unmoved by the ridicule of the thoughtless or the frowns of the base and designing, you have, with unswerving fidelity, championed the cause of Peace, and heralded the oncoming of that sublime emancipation when "the sword shall be beaten into the ploughshare, and the spear into the pruning hook and when inen shall learn war no more." Already the "signs of the times" indicate the advent of a new era. True, some fancy they can hear the tramp of gathering armies whose blood shall redden the soil of Europe, and whose victories and defeats shall change the dynasties and destinies of nations. Nevertheless^ the time hastens apace when the white-robed Angel of Peace shall smile over a world redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled. While we may not accept all the articles of your faith, yet we do most cordially and lovingly bid you God-speed in the endeavor todethrone the grim Moloch of war, and promote the interests of the Redeemer's Kingeom. Orangeburg, S. CMarch, 1887. rnnnerntincr With the Lorcl Jesus Christ by tne .rresiaeni-. juoccuneu lume wu that one act, had it unfortunately become a law, would have operated as the occasion for more false swearing and dissimulation generally, on the part of many prospective beneficiaries under the bill, than could have been successfully combated by all the White Cross Societies in the country during a whole generation. Another item of information, suggestive in the same direction, came to me this week in the shape of an article in the American, of Washington, copied in part from the Chicago Daily News, showing how it happens that Chicago's millionaires and rich lawyers, her bankers, brokers, merchants, oil men, ministers, judges, doctors, and f n>omltltiru monofrp 11\7 uuaiu v/i nauv ^uiijuivio, *-> j defective schedules and false oaths to avoid their just share of taxation. The writer shows, that highly expensive articles of household furniture such as thousand dollar pianos, will be assessed by the owner at the beggarly valuation of. say $50, and horses and carriages, elegant carpets, cabinets and silver service, worth other thousands of dollars, will be set down and sworn to at less than so many hundreds. As a result of this lying spirit leavening the community, he furt her states that whereas the city of Boston, in the year just past, with its population of 400,000, paid tax on personal property assessed at $193,000,01)0. Chicago, on the other hand, with upward of 700,000 population, paid lax on an assessed per-j sonalty of less than 32 million dollars! l'lease fasten this in the mind before going farther. Now, the Anarchists, under sentence of death in that city for crimes deemed capital, were undoubtedly guilty of the committal of most atrocious deeds. Yet when we consider that the great money kings of the methopolis of the west, and verv lanre number of the By Rev. C. If. Prltchard, of the South Carolina Conference. I congratulate you on another return of the anniversary of the Christian Neighbor. Its peace principles are Christian and should be advocated earnestly and with prominence. War is an evil of great magnitude and should he thus represented, denounced and discouraged. People need light on the magnitude of the evil and the means of its avoidance. You are cooperating with the Lord Jesus Christ in the accomplishment of one of the great ends He had in view in coming into the world?the universal reign of Siace. It is predicted of Him "and e shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plow shares and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." You arc blessed having two strings to your bow, the pulpit and the press ; an editor of a religious paper has a grand field for usefulness reaching hundreds whom he cannot reach through the pulpit. The revelations of eternity will be requisite to disclose the amount of good you have been instrumental in accomplishing under God through the pulpit and the press. Many will rise up and call you blessed for the good you have done them through their instrumentalities. Some years ago, in a conversation with the father of ourBro. J. W. Woiling, who has recently gone as a missionary to Brazil, in relation to his religious experience he told me that he had been brought to Christ in reading the Christian Neighbor. You have reason to "thank God and take courage," "to be steadfast, unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in tho Lord." Tlie Best of Newspapers. By the Editor of the '"Abbeville Press aiul Banner.'* Abbeville, S. C., April, 1, 1887. Editor Christian Neighbor : I would congratulate you on the anniversary of your very excellent newspaper, the Christian Neighbor, and would at the same time express the wish that your useful life may be spared to celebrate many returns of the day. ?" ? -- - 1 1 A '1'lie CHRISTIAN IX KiUiiJJUK. suuuui be read by every family in South Carolina. Ic is a newspaper which will benefit every family in which it is read. It is pre-eminently a peace paperopposed to war between nations?opposed to strife between individuals, it sets us a good example in, that it has never assailed the character of any one, or impugned the motives or doubted the sincerity and honesty of those who may have differed m opinion from the editor. The Christian Nkioiibor has been in fact fair with its contemporaries, peaceable with its ministerial brethren, and full of love for all mankind. In tone ic has beon elevatiug, purifying, and ennobling. Its great work hat been to teach the highest duties of life, and to inspire in us the hope that we may at last reach the promised haven of rest beyond the &iver. Again congratulating you on the good woik which you and the Christian Neighbor are doing, and wishing for the paper and its excellent editor a long life with constantly increasing usefulness, I am sincerely and truly, your friend and well-wisher. Hugh Wilson. Conservative, Loyal, Useful. By Rev. A. J. Cauthen. of the Soutli Carolina Conference. Some of your frieuds will doubtlesf select some special subject upou which to prepare a contributory article for the 19th anniversary of the Christian Neighbor. I hope you will allow me the liberty of making a sort of variety contribution. First of all, I offer my sincere CONGRATULATIONS, dear Neighbor, ou your continued healthy and useful existeuce. Life is an inestimable blessing; but bow out conceptions of its value arebri<rhtened, when it is devoted to the exalted objects of modifying human suffering, ami or promoting numau uappmess, with the outcome of growing usefulness. Such, in a good measure, has been the lively career of the Neighbor as it has gone forth from week to week for nearly twenty years in the interest of PEACE and religion in all of its branches. Some of your habitual readers have honestly dissented from some of youi utterances; but none have doubted the honesty and earnestness of the Editor, nor hesitated to concede the desirableness of "peace as opposed to carnal war." Many persons who have never identified themselves with the Peace Society, are in harmony with the Neighbor as to the doctrine that peace is rightj and that war is wrong, with all possible emphasis. The Neighbor has not been slow to discover, noi backward to properly characterize VICE in high places, and in low places; and to point out the true and right way; an essential function of a religious journalist: requiring good judgment and unflinching courage: elements foi which there will he a growing demand with the influx of a heterogeneous mass of new comers to this fair land ol ourj. LOYALTY TO OUR CHURCH, and liberal contributions to her development, and upbuilding has not been ??i i .1 n 1! -i J Wimueici. oomeuiuea oui wneis iwiu methods, as well a9 dangerous innovations, have been criticised with startling boldness and vim, but with deference and courtesy to those holding opposite views. Often a good cause is damaged, and unnecessary offence given by a disregard of the amenities due, one to the other, in the warmest discussions. OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, and agencies have received commendable attention and support from the Editor personally, and your columns have been offered, and often accepted by others for the promotion of our church work generally. So far as I have observed, the Neighbor has been with the rest of us, the pronounced friend and advocate of our schools and Colleges; attaching due importance tc them for the general good, and also as offering useful advantages to those who are called of God to tne work of the ministry, and can avail themselves ol such advantages: but not held by the wisest, as a sine qua non, either foi ability to expound the gospel, or to lead our hosts in the organized work of soul-saving under the divine blessing, which our ministry has enjoyed abundantly. With a wise conservatism, and yet prudently aggressive, vam iinuo iiovnr vArtt.nred nnnn extreme ground as opposed to Met&odist antecedents, and Methodist requirements on the subject of ministerial education and other vital point9 in our heavenblest system, fcjuch revolutionary suggestions anent our itinerant economy; such harsh and harmful utterances a; were published iu the Southern Methodist Jievietv, Nov. 188G, under the heading "Methodism and Ministerial Education," never found expression in the Christian Neighbor, nor any othei Methodist publication that I am aware of. Those who read the article referred to, should read the reply to it in the March number of the Review for 1S87 ?a temperate, wise and opportune paper on a vital subject. One that will be appreciated by the "rank and file,'1 many of whom never had college traiuing, but are nevertheless able expounders of the gospel, men who have proven their divine call to the ministry by "signs following." Pure men, who help in many ways to keep up institutions of learning, that furnish employment and bread, to a few perhaps, who know but little of the fell responsibilities, and usefulness of tiif Methodist ministry. I invoke for vou many more years oi usefulness, antl the return of scores ol happy anniversaries. Teaching the Great Lesson of LifePurity of Principle?Freedom of Expression. By Rev. IV. Smith .Martin, of the Mouth Carolina Conference. Having again readied your anniversary, as a well wisher in your growth and prosperity, and in the divine principles you so ably, and faithfully vindicate, permit me to congratulate you on your age, and future outlook. You have contemporaries who can boast o! greater size, of more advertising matter, of a more Darning "Caption," and of greater variety of news, &c., but foi purity, nobility of principle, aud freedom of expression, I am free to say, 3'ou cannot be excelled by any. You have as grand a mottc as ever decked the pages of journalism, and as a defender of that sentiment, you have been consistent, courageous, and firm, and only eternity will unfold the extent of your efforts in elevating national opinion, and promoting the essential traits of the Oopsel. You have no doubt doue much in establishing the opinion that war and bloodshed is brutal, and uncivilized, and in advaucing peace and love ovei this great Commonwealth. What s I micittinu vou have before you ! You certainly should have encourcouragement both in the form of subscription and concurrence. ".Peace on earth and good .will toward men," is the great essential ol tlie gospel, and it would be more in keeping with the life and teachings ol the Master, if Christian denominations, would cavil less over creedism and boast less of their denominationa characteristics and differences, and de vote more time, men, and means tc the promotion of peace. I question the propriety, yea the ap ! proval of Christianity, in Christian pa rents, teaching their children the his tory of wars, and the immortal honor! of warriors. Many a boy has made i cut-throat by reading bloody school books, and familiarizing himself witl crime. The most important lesson of life A \ (and by far the safest) is "to love God arts, and b with all thy heart, and thy neighbor should fit t i as thyself.'' May God crown your ef- their own! forts, dear Neighbor. is discharj : , m , gard them t God's comi - Birth Days. brings the hand and a ; By Rev. John W. JIcBoy, of the South Ha he uses Carolina Conference. rebeUj( Soloman says there is a "time to be not in the] born," and from the creation until he think s now, nations, kingdoms, empires? waseubser orro'it. mnn oml email mon orr-onri 1 ? ?*7- iaiu .iNiriev prises and enterprises not so grand? was tjje p, [ have been born. Like other enterpris- jews were es, the Christian Neighbor had its incurable birth, and it has been proven that it israei was was not untimely. I desire on this, and his doi your birth day. to give you a smile of liverers ol encouragement, and to extend to you a aVenger of hearty well done, and a cordial hand- and when | shake, hoping they may stimulate you tile to the 1 to still greater effort. subserve 1 In all the ages, from the time of Pha- the conqu raoli, it has been common for rulers Hj9 C0nqu( and subjects?for nations?to celebrate Greek ]an) their own, and the birthday of their the East i heroes. Evil sometimes follows. The the diffu'si ' reader will readily call up the result of tougue wi ' the performance of that silly, foolish e(j that'spo ! girl, at the entertainment given by guage. T Herod on his birth-day, when shedem- Work of n onstrated to the guests, that she had intercourse I "more brains in her heels than she had 0f jaw to a ' in her head." We apprehend no such jng tozeth s result to-day; for Christian neighbors and races 1 never dance. There Is no danger that affording si your veteran Editor, hoary with age, ers 0f the i and venerable for goodness, will follow an the Ror ' the example of Herod. was no Ion These occasions may be made profit- when her able. It should be a day of examina- nate anj c< tion. For properly adjusting our rela- perstitious, i tions to God and each other. hardv nati< Of gratitude. For life. For the many. Th good we have done?for the good we great empii [ have received their sevej Of consecration. We have been aU(j aa the\ I bought with a price. We should "glo came unfit ri fir HaH ff ... . ? Afj 7 ... m . , were laid ii p Of determination. To?be wiser, ho- hand lier, happier, and more useful. Look at t Of feasting. There is no harm in fulfilJed pr eating, so we do not eat too much? Babylon tl not even in having a few extras on Alexander I 0UAfbirth"-a^8, 7 j , peculiar pe Of receiving tokens of love and deathless 1 friendship. . and pe0pie IS ow my dear Neighbor, I know that an(j 8ju?e you and your many friends and admir- qocj thect ers, are grateful for your continued ex- Krea't usur | istence. May your valuable life be church the ; spared to greet many more returns of the den'rav 5 this happy day, and let usall examine, njty 0f th< and endeavor to correct whatever we the map of may find wrong in either our spirit or jeft? Ta practice, and determine hereafter to be ry au(j wh . happier in ourselves and more useful manj . toothers. of human i You will to-day seat your guests to thege ianda I an elegant feast?such perhaps as they nejg 0f nat have not enjoyed since your last birth- stupendous day?consisting not only of substan- ag?jre hav tials, but of delicacies usual on such trolled by t occasions: and I earnestly hope, you Dj-ecv jn may receive as tokens of love from A' i time to time, a large number of appre- I'arthTv nov i ciative subscribers, if nothing more. jug in efoqi ? the coming 1 "Days"?Why Not Neighbor Day. It is the i ages we sc 1 JBy I>r. James M. Bnrfcesi, of Gree- eyes, and 1 lyviiie, s. . the tombs 1 The celebration of the anniversaries steps of hif of the Christian Neighbor is in accord- where the ance with the long established, and in- lingers. V creasing popular custom of such obser- tion, in th vance of remarkable events; and and in the i ilNeighbor Day" is surely entitled to a j8 there thf ( place on the long list of "days" to be charter to 1 observed. To make the correctness of coming age 1 this proposition more clearly apparent, soevershal several things may properly be consid- expansion' ered. her? From South Carolinians of the generation she is bou now passing away, grew up with the bearing all idea that the States were sovereign, theolawo: and the right of Secession inherent. Review Oc Nullification, union, slavery, abolition- a8 ^myth ism, emancipation, freesoilism, repub- Missions 11 licanism, and secession had been drummed in their ears until they were sick of it, and the only hope of getting rid of the horrible din?the only hope of pcace?was in getting away from it. We had c Secession was the right road, and the bright you only road ; so thought many, and so she was, ' ' tiiey acted, men louowea war, uuu wuguiug n ; Lee's surrender and as much more as way with h the imagination of one who did not a mixture ! witness it may be able to gather up. that alway In the mean time christian men who don't see t had thought and voted and marched comes mou and fought believed they had been do- not in. 1 i ing their duty all the while, and when course, and 1 it was learned that a Methodist preach- ty toss of t 1 er wanted to get the name of every "He's at man in the State who was "opposed to it." ; war" the mental conclusion of at least When w ! one, was that "a born fool had gone a pretty bri crazy." Butthe Neighbor was estab- "Butl'nc I lished; the standard of "peace as op- nie. f posed to war" was raised, men began "Sorry!" to think, to inquire, and many were "Yes,"sf Jed to see that killing their fellowmen any man w - was incompatible with love for the her husbau Prince of peace who had died for their man whose salvation and who had commanded contempt f them, while he was alive and on earth, husband's to love each other "as he had loved what she o ! them." [See John 13-34 with margi- him. If si ual explanation.] And not simply store, or hii "as they loved themselves" as under useless onl; ' the Mosaic law. must be th< Until all men observe the "new com- it will be d '11 ? ? H^of will OAmO t manameni" n cauuut ue cauc^ivu ?uk> ? v> v , 1 all men will endorse the principles of which is < I the Christian Neighbor" or consider tempt. If, it's establishment a "remarkable a wifely pr event," nevertheless it behooves all orhistheol 1 Christians to pray for its success and ever it maj that God may give peace to all and good tion from h will to men. and his lav ?*?? strumeut o I Man Passes Awaj, but God's Church means of d Continues Forever. jj? she?wS , If the world does not exist for pur- er?^\VV' . poses of the church, then it exists by accident and at random. If the histo- " ryof the world be not the history of the kingdom of Christ, the Redeemer, J? i then it is but the history of confusion, : J l* I and chaos and utter nothingness. a mi T , Bring to mind some of the prominent ai^ facts in this matter. bUe geuera i First, you have God's own promise ? to his church ages on ages ago. The lruesuc< nation and kingdom that will not serve ot'ie.r ni< thee shall ])crish, yea, these nations P .lP01,n8 shall be utterly ivasted. Trace the - march of that church in the light of ll,zed. Ifi r that promise, or rather prediction, as ough piece i ehannmps in onnt.net with the success- ?* essay I" ive mighty empires of the East and nignaniar West?the Egyptian, the Assyrian, the &iates who , Babylonian, the Medo-Persian, the Pe 18 I Alexandrian, the Roman. The office if he did p< * of each, in relation to her, was clearly f.r stand. . ) indicated, and their conduct and con- the estimal sequent fate, all are made known in doing, tnat - these predictions, and illustrated in attainment - parallel lines in their history. Egypt - was the nursery and school to the in- A nursin 3 fant church, whereby the discipline of both the q i centuries a handful of nomadic shep- milk by dr - herds were to be transformed into a If possible i nation of civilized men governed by to her bed regular laws, living in fixed habita- ing. Eggs , tions, possessed of all those multiform products ol abits, and appliances that hem for their new career in J land, and when this office jed, and she begins to reas her own, and resists ^ liands in regard to them, be m out of her with a high in outstretched arm. Assyas a scourge and a rod to ous people, though it was heart of the king, nor did o, and when that purpose ved, the indignation of God eh in the grave. Babylon rison-house in which the ! cured of their apparently idolatry, and the uation of utterly dissolved. Cyrus tninion were made the def God's church, and the V. her wrongs upon Babylon, that power had grown hosourposes it was raised up to CA t was shattered to atoms by ering power of Alexander. ests in their turu spread the guage and culture over all and prepared the way for :] on ot the Gospel in that leuever Jews were disperske and read the Greek lan0 Rome was assigned the taking commerce free arad M s safe, of teaching the idea 1 barbarian world, of bind- is er discordant nationalities 3 in one vast dominion, and | afe conduct for the preachreligion of Christ through .jg nan world. And when she g-er needed for this purpose, civilization became etremi)rrupt and her religion sushe went down before the -_M >n from the woods of Ger- ia lus one by one were these res raised up to minister in al ways to God's charch, ' turned against her and be; to advance her interests i the grave by a resistless he space covered by these ';*j edictions?Egyyt, Assyria, le empire of Cyrus, and of and Borne, Judea and its ople, with all their strange, c listory, and all the lands.. bordering upon that land; the coming of the Son of lurch in all lauds and that pation or parody of the ; shadow it should cast on ity of man, and the malig3 Devil. Take these from the world, and what would ke these from human histo- - -,'M at would history be? It is feat that the central current history has flowed over i, and through these chanional life. Then the broad i fact is, that all these vast e been moulded and conhe spirit and power of prothe path of that prophecy aves of these greatest of vers and dominions, speak- - . r"$| Lieut death and ruin to all ; generations. march of God through the (6 thus opened before our the graves of nations, and of cities are the luminous s course and his judgments. light of his presence still 7hat is a man, a city, a nae presence of such a God. way of his purposes? What it stands safe, and that has ife and continuance in the s but his church, and what- ^2 1 minister to her glory and ? Who is safe but within i God she came?to heaven nd?like the ark of Noah, of life that is to live from rid to the new .?Princeton 1.1857 quoted by Dr. Thornin "Obedience the Life of pp. 101-105. Wifely Pride. ;auea, Jennie auu jl, ou a ng bride, and very bright with sparkling eyes, and ips, and a pretty, girlish ter, half timid, half defiant, of girlishness and self-will s looks pretty?when you 00 much of it; then it beotonous. Her husband was tVe inquired for him, of 1 she answered, with a pretbe bead. that horrid office. I hate e came away I said, "What ide Cousin Harry has." ^8 i sorry for him," said Jen- * said I, in surprise. lid Jennie; "I am sorry for hose wife has no pride in d's business. Sorry forany. i wife, by her undisguised or what ought to be her pride and ambition, does m to make it a drudgery for le looks at his office, or his s factory as a 'horrid' place, y to make money in, what 5 result? Either his joy in ulled and quenched or he ;o look on it wun mat piiy dangerously akin to conon the other hand, she has ide in his law, or his trade, ogy, or his practice, what' be, he will catch inspiraer high thoughts about it, r will become to him an in>f justice, and his trade a . 1 oiug good to humanity, and ;y a spiritual experience; II illumine and elevate ev- 1 r hsr womanly aspiration.,T lat," said I, "jf it be a busian cannot have a pride in?" " i said Jennie, "the sooner he e better; for no man ought t a true wife ought to be have him do." * I ther think Jennie is right. g lly is. -| ;es9 in the line of any study i iiital exercise is attained by of good work, rather than ing that good work recogi young student does a thorof work in the preparation , and yet fails of getting as k for it as some of his classmake no such preparation, successful than he would be sorer work and took a high* rt- Jo ivliof o mnn tlnpn nnt .e which is put on a man's ; is a man's real measure of ; in the world. \ g mother can best increase uality and quantity of her inking freely of new milk. , a pint should be brought before rising in the morui, oysters, cocoa, and the f wheat are all valuable. \