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BY HUGH WILSON ABBEVILLE, S C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1887. VOLUME XXXI. NO. 41. l|
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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' From whence come wars and fightings
among you? Come they not
hence, even of your lusts that tear in
your members V
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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.
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'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
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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. \