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, The Abbeville Press and Banner. BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C~, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2571887. VOLUME XXXI. NO. 48. Christian Neighbor. BY REV. MIDI II. BKOWXK, Of the K*nth Carolina ConferenceH ii mill ly?Rclf-Re?pert. One of the most beautiful charactertics of a Christian is humility?the placing of a low estimate upon whatever is of worth in himself. Before God he ever cries, unworthy, unworthy; before men he is v pattern of modesty, and appreciative oi the good in other men. Not thinking too highly of himself his vision * ' * * - r?a l.AifAn/I liimcolf in or tnose ne icuis aic ucj>/>m Christian attainments is not obscured, there is even danger of hiding Christ himself when the heart is tilled with vanity and self-gratulation. But there are in this as in all things two sides to be presented. If humility does not permit us to place too high an estimate upon ourselves it does allow us to retain our self-respect. This very strong element in self-help and moral elevation cannot bo eliminated from our constitutions, nor, ue believe, did God ever desire the loss of so strong an ally of good morals and Christian integrity.1 Name a man who is without self-respect and we will name the same man as being without the respect of his fellows. There are some we have seen who ap-: peared to think that by throwing awayl all dignity and self-regard that they were practicing a fine virtue?that self-respect only evil, ana "oe eradicated one vror.id 3 noz.o;i*: ~eed. "lUrvii.id bund"., ar.a. rr.pei:i;, n; their lip*, ncrept wirhosv prot?*r ir?s ?nnifi.nie>uriv h*araan ?Tine may oar; i-.pcr. them. deceiving themselves with the thought of; reaping a reward for their humility. J Instead or possessing that Christ-like virtue they are merely without self-respect, and lower men's estimate of Christian character rather than win them to see its true beauty, and thus be drawn to love it. ?i The "C*lor" We<ll((. The recent Protestant Episcopal Convention of the Diocese of South Carolina! consisting of about fifty or sixty clericali and lay members were so divided in their opinions as to the legality or expediency of admitting a colored clergyman, Rev. J. H. M. Pollard, into their body, that, after * in sidft issues: mucn ueiug wiu?> U'lmj and parliamentary questions?the majority of the delegations present seceded from the Convention. The pivotal question on which the secession took place j was not directly on the admission of the! oolored clergyman but rather on the rul-j lng of the Chair?Bishop Howe?followed by the written declaration of the seceders, read by the secretary, that "finding it impracticable to organize the Convention occordlng to the Constitution and the canons of the Church they deem it wise to withdraw," which they did immediately. The Bishop declaring a quorum left proceeded to organize or reorganize, and j soon after adjourned. The two bodies met in separate rooms next day?Saturday. Correspondence between the two bodies effected nothing towards re-union. So they stood at the final adjournment. The total of the secession was fivecler gyraen and twenty of the tnirty-inrep parishes. This split seems to have been occasioned by one colored clergyman* The "colored" wedge has split things before to-day. ' Partlflps CrlmtniH." The importance of the article under this head found elsewhere in this paper \ and its general applicability more or lessj to every section of the country, not ex-l oepting South Carolina, is our apology I for publishing so long an article. Think- , ing readers may not say it is too long. | The attention of editors is respectfully | directed to the article. The preyalencel <lf homicide and lynching atlbrds an op-1 portunity for editors, correspondents and j publishers to use the "Power of the' Press" clearly, fully and fearlessly in favor of law and order and thus against whatever maj' provoke men to take the law in their own haDds, and also against the management in the courts of the country by which it is too plainly shown that 1A- art/1 AMIOV assaults Oil nuuicu, m UUIVI f?iu W..V. crimes are often disposed of in such a way as to take from evil doers respect for Jaw and fear of just punishment. The times call for a higher type of courage than that which led or drove the average ( soldier into the "defence of his country'' in the late war?the fruitful source of the troubles now afflicting the people of the] country. Rev. John B. MeFerrln, D. 1>. Though the death of Dr. McFerrin was not unexpected yet the intelligence of the fact has given nnusual sorrow to the churches throughout the South and far beyond. Having served his generation with dew/vHrtn ar>H fidelitv the veteran fell on sleep at his home in Nashville, May 10, 1887?thirty-six days short of fourscore years sojourn on earth, and in his sixtythird year in the ministry of the Methodist church. In the many positions of honor and trust which he was called to fill he proved himself trustworthy. No one preceded him or survives him whose entire life presented a record of more marked fidelity to God and his church. The eighteen years of editorship of the Christian Advocate, Nashville, stands prominent among the departments in which he served the Church. The redemption of the' Publishing House from bankruptcy and disgrace was mainly the work of his well balanced head and honest heart. Children's Day was appropriately observed by Marion Street Sunday School on the day set apart for such services. Readings, recitations, songs, with addresses by the pastor, Rev. E. T. Morris, and the Superintendent, J. A. El kins, made an interesting ana proniauie program. The addresses are spoken of as forceful and practical. The city council of Anderson have passed a resolution to buy a plat of land .to be used as a public cemetery. Way 15. ISH7? 'liildrrn'w Pay. Dear Xcigkhur: I went tn my charge May (Friday) the hotter to arrange lor Children's Day. What a lovely day it was?overhead, nmler foot and all around, rt was "good morning" and "good evening" to every person meeting another, and wasso if a body met up with no one bill himself or herself. Children and teachers from flie Concord school and from the liaplist school in town and other friends from town and country fell in with tne ljcesviuc iuuuiodist Sunday Scliool and joined in tiic edifying exercises oi' the day. Superintendents Mitchell and Crouch had charge; the pastor looked on and, when his time came, talked long and loud enough. Our regular organist was prevented from being in her place, but j Miss A kindly consented to lead in the music and she did it well. The occasion?10 a. m. and also at 5.30 p. in. was well attended and it is hoped, of profit to many of the orderly and interested asI semblage. I itinerated on foot considerably on Saturday and .Sabbath, within the corporate limits, not staying very long at any one place, I did stay all of the first night at the "Derrick House" and all of tho next at Mr. Pick Bodie's?not quite all with the latter, for after tea I took a good long n. a - i o-j?to hnw WillK hi if.u II at, a ucijjuuut n...? the very sick lady was. "Resting quietly"?next mnrnins learned she was better. A Iter dining- Sabbath-with llie lamilv and .-..uipaiiv ?i|* *'*Ui?**U' .linnuie llo?li?r" I l?apl i/.?-J Moml* infa-it daughter <>t Dr. U. M. miiU Mrs. Sullie ?'ri>sst>n in ihr* j>itsencc ui the gi'.iml pAicuiv, and company present. Anions the) friends present on the occasion was the genial Dr. L. M. Asbill of Ridge Spring. Mrs. Mattie Watson, wife of Rev. E. O. Watson, T found recovering from an attack of malarial fever which brought her a few weeks since from her husband's charge to her father's house for home treatment. No one on earth like mother, nor^ any place on earth like "home"?as the young married daughters will for a long time call the place where father and mother live, however good their new home may be. S. II. 15. Rev. Wm. Weir, Washington, Pa., one of the Secretaries of the "National Reform Association," on a visit in the South writes, (May 5,) to the Christian Statesman, Philadelphia. Speaking of Columbia, S. C., he says: How fresh and sweet are these mornings and evenings our Master gives this Southern climate. This morning in crossing Sidney Park, a curious bowl shaped enclosure crammed with great water oaks and other trees, the clouds as a soft grey mist hid the hot sun. the foliaye took that rich dark hue it | never wears in sunlight, the air was as gentle, fragtant, dewy, refreshing, as the breath from Spring'sown lips. But yesJ terday evening, 011 my way to the postoffice, I suddenly came out where the street ran along the edge of a bluff. For miles and miles stretched tjic beautiful [ vision. Here before me lay a large portion of the city with its shaded streets and homes hid in vines. The air was rich with the last song of the robins, j Away to the right lay the va'.lev of the I Congarec and the eye ran along the farI thest line of its bluffs until sight was lost in the hazy blue. Along the distant sky trailed a column of smoke as of a I passing train. Such indescribable purple shadows in the Southwest. Such a j glorious sky overhead. And in the west I the evening star shone, a solitary mati| niricenl brilliant, fastening a bow of dull ! crimson cloud at the throat of Kvening. Til the Wexlcyan Atlnira/r of May II appears the following, which is self-explanatory: Nkw York, May 1SS7. Dear Dr. /??.**: Our noble friend, Oliver Hoyt, died this p. m. at I. lie* was one of the grandest men 1 have ever known, and will be sorolv missed. Uo was thrown from his carriage a low days since and seriously injured, lie lingered until to-day. Yours truly, f?KO. Sunk v. It will be remembered that Mr. iloyt, unsolicited, made a handsome contribution to Wesleyan Female College, and also to Memorial Church in Savannah. The Colored Iiaptist Convention of South Carolina, Columbia, beginning May 4, was largely attended. The various interests of the denomination were disposed of in harmony and hope. Our duties would not permit looking in upon the Convention, but we none the less bid these co-laborers great success in the work of leading sinners t<> the Saviour. Dr. Draw ley, editor of the /hi/iti-st Tribune, issued a Daily during the Convention, an enterprise to the credit of the Tribune and the church it represents. nr tha soon 70S for fnreiirn 111 is sions by the Board of Missions at its reccnt meeting in Xasbvillc $1-1,000 arc assigned to the South Carolina Conference. The appropriations made by the Board, including $21,415.35 contingent, amount so $193,415.90. * Excess of assessment over appropriations ?106,382.01. ^ ^ ? A little child of Section-Master West of the Port Royal railroad, living near Ellenton, S. C., died May 14 from the effects of concentrated ljro administered by a twelve year old nurse whose father compelled against her will to serve in that oapacity. The nurse is in jail awaiting trial. The murder of Rev. Mr. Haddock, Dr. Northup and Mr. CJambrell by the anti-prohibitionists gives a significance to the nrevailimr strusrirle cn the "liquor question" and the ''pistol" custom as well which should concern every friend of sobriety and safety. ? ?? There are over four hundred saloons in Cairo, Egypt, where a few years ago not one was opon. Most of them arc owned by Englishmen.?AV. Is this, like some people say about war, an opening of the way for the gospel and the missionary ? Ed. C. X. A commodious hall is to bo erected at Bridgewater, England, in memory ol (ieorge Williams, the originator of the Young Men's Christian Association, wlm was converted at the place nearly lifty years ago. ,! COMMONS. Tlio Old Portrait. I ll<* IIII'I' Illil.V III- Kill III niiuniii, Anil i no lirow In- marked by euros; j Cist when i 11u11\ :it iliu.se faded lips I oui.v think <<f their prayers. I ' I doubt if her hands were ever As fair and small as your own; I!::! 1 knew at another's failings They won:d never east n stone. I can look through the eyes' faded lustre To the loving heart within, A.id ean see beneath the withered face The life of pat ieiit sillier! ng. And I think tlint the angels bending near, When she knelt nl night to pray, SUM kept their watch for her dear sake When they tobk her from earth away. Kit oft when my fo?t were straying Krom the paths that led aright, lias her tremulous voice in praying conic buck again to me at night. So l cannot see iis homeliness, Though since you spoke I have tried, Kor every line of sweet old face My love lias glorified. The Star of ISetliloIiem. j 1>. Cassiopeia. j ZS'otawry intelligible name, is it? j And yet (Mat is the name of a luminai ry which on a memorable occasion did exceedingly good service to certain wise men from the East, thereby winning for itself more glory and renown than has ever fallen to the lot of any other constellation in the heavens. It was B. Cassiopeia and no other star that revealed to the anxious oriental seekers after truth the birthplace of Jesus Christ. Suoli at least is the popular belief, and no astronomer has as veI succeeded in proving that the popular belief is \\ rong. of course I*. Cassiopeia did not get its Latin name until quite recent times. For many cenfuries alter it flashed before a wondering world il was known to the ignorant and learned alike as the long lost star of Bethlehem. And probably it would never have been christened anew had it seen lit to remain in the obscurity into which it passed after its first memorable appearance. "When do you expect this star to appear again ?" 1 '' '' *' 1 - - ifOA mi/] " wen, it was uue in ioou, unu 'appear anj* day now. T am assuming, of course, that it is a variable star, with a period of a little more than three hui.dred years. Its last period was three hundred and eight years. Within tho last two thousand years twenty-four of these temporary stars have appeared, and all of them, like the star of Bethlehem, have been characterized by sudden outbursts that have been always followed by quiescence. Eruptions of blazing hydrogen are the cause of these outbursts." "I have seen it stated that this star of Bethlehem might be identical withj the nucleus which Hartwig, of StrasI burg, discovered in the nebula of Andromeda in September, 1SS5. Is that possible?" "No, sir, for the simple reason that one star is in Andromeda and the othI er in Cassiopeiar. No one who is not ! gifted with an extraordinary imagina! tion can even conceive of a star traj versing the distance between these | two positions in anything like 300 ! years." I "What is its exact position in the | heavens now?" u l>nt.nnil ?>YflCt : position can be seen close to tbe North j ! Pole .it half-past ten o'clock at night, i j Probably many telescopes are turned j i toward that point from time to time." I "The star of Bethlehem or tbe Pil? i grim, as it is also called," said the edi-; j t;:r of a scientific j jnrtial of tbis city.i j "may ?:ppear at aiiy moment. It was , du?*i:j IS-t), and ought certainly to be (here now?that is, assuming that it j shows itself every .WO years. I be-' i lieve it has been traced back as far as I.'iJii, and there is certainly no reasoni why it should forget to pay us a visit I this year. One can never tell, howj ever, what a variable star will do. Its I appearance would create world-wide I interest, because it would strengthen I the popular belief that it is the very I same star that guided the wise men j j from the Kast to Jerusalem. School j {children, as well as astronomers, j would be interested in such a case. Several other competent persons; j were interviewed on the subject, and! ' the consensus of opinion seemed to be; that the star would appear in a short j time and astonish the world with its ) old time brilliancy. One thing is cer; In:n. that for some time to come all [ 1 who own telescopes will turn them, j pretty frequently toward that point of jibe heavens in which B. Cassiopeia j has lain dormant for three centuries. Saved by a Hymn. | The Turks, it is well known, treat ail persons suppuseu iv i>c uia/.j ninij j much consideration. They cousiderj madmen as being under tlie special; and particular protection of Divine j Providence, and entitled as much to1 kind treatment and immunity from I all punishment. The following instance thereof is of interest : Mr. , a Bulgarian who had spent several years in America and there became a Protestant, was arrestsome time ago on suspicion of being concerned in a revolt against the Turks. There was no possible doubt as to his guilt, and lie was condemned to be hanged. A few mornings afterwards he was escorted from the jail in company with others, en route for the place of execution. Knowing that he was marching to his death, the poor fellow I commenced to sing?or rather to shout j?the beautiful hymn: "Ilock of A fires, cleft for me!" Before the sad procession had moved much farther, the officer in command Jsaid to hi* subaltern : "Why ! this man must bemad." "Certainly," says the lieutenant. "Well, what are we to do? One can't hang a madman." "That is so," replies the lieutenant, ("madmen can't be hansred." j .So t he captain ami lieutenant agreed that Mr. should be put back to j prison to await further orders. Mr. 's companions were duly ' executed. After spending a few weeks j in prison, he was finally released, and ! now lives in Sofia. This episode deserves to he quoted as a very curious instance of pure Chris-' tian faith. For Mr. was assured (hat he was going to martyrdom, since he Ur.ew that by offering to em-J i brace the Mohammedan religion he j would save his life. In fact, such a | choice would always suffice to save the | life of any Christian condemned by the Turks. He fully believed that his I constancy to Christianity would cost I him his life; and yet it was the hymn which he sung as a farewell to life 'which recalled him to the world. Our Duttes to Others. Not long since my eye fell on a remark which would well bear a wider application than the one in which it was used; to the effect, that one of the great needs of the present was that people should think less of their rights and more of their duties. Do we often realize how little Christ and his disciples taught of our rights and how much of our duties? Througli Gospel and Epist'e runs the thread of exhortation, not "exact this," but "do this." Not that each one has not individual right?, which nothing but superior weakness or criminal negligence should cause us to relinquish, and which the well-being of society, both as a mass and as separate unities, demands should be recognized. But selfish human nature may generally be trusted to remember Its rights, if sometimes it forgets its duties. Our duties to others. Beginning in the narrowness of the home, how like increasing wave circles they stretch out into the wide distances of the great world and touch grave questions, as of the relations of capital and labor, and broad ones, as of the relations of nation to nation. For the humanities are not like an aggregate of separate atoms, each separate, but rather as the pieces of delicate machine whose wheels contiuually interplay, where none can be injured without ar&cting all, and the failure of one to act its part may destroy the harmony of the whole. And first as the central ring, our duty to those of .our own household, tol the parent and child, brother and ais-j ter, husband and wile, how diversei and manifold they are. T<> the miei deference, thoughttuluess, solicitude that thr path may he smoothed for the feet grown slow and weary in the heat and hurdeu of the day ; to auother care, protection, cherishing; to another interest, sympathy, helpfulness: to all continual service, the daily constant ministries to weakness and strength, wealth and sickness, joy and sorrow, enough, it would seem, to fill to the utmost hands and heart and time. But this circlc of kindred is only the inmost one, beyond which lies the stranger within your gates, from the ?* ! < im- HtnKon tn hp Vttllt in I^aiucu wi 1\IVV*1VM taught and borne with, and haply by wise word and gentler example stimulated to the "something better than she has known;" to the chance sojourner and guest in the parlor, to be cheered, refreshed, and sent on his or her way strengthened and helped by our contact. And still outward is the stranger without our gate, the sick neighbor, the poor neighbor, the bereaved neighbor, the stranger neighbor (and using the word not in its narrow meaning of "my street," "our neighborhood," but in the deeper, fuller significance of the Master's teaching.] To each of these we owe, as far as opportunity will permit, a personal duty; the duty of kindly attention, and gentle sympathy, and wise assistance, and cordial greeting; a duty which if each one of us were but faithful to, how many of life's dark hours would be brightened, and lonely ones gladdened, and hearts that are wounded, fainting, and ready to perish, soothed and strengthened as with oil and wine. Still beyond these are the Church, with its peace, its piety, its usefulness to be promoted, its work advanced, its holy character to be maintained. And the great world, with all its calls for missionary and beneficent and benevolent work?the great world, with all its .suffering, its wrong, its weakness, its sin, to whom we owe the duty of aid where aid is possible, of justice where it will avail, and always of sympathy and that charity which is broader than mere alms-giving as the ocean than the river it receives. And above all, and to all, whether near or remote, as the sweet fountain from which all duty, spriugs and the centre to which it engathers the duty ~e o 11H hrvlipcf of fill. "I I"VC, ...j,wv-ov Love for his sake, who made his life a service for us; and who taught through the lips of his beloved disciples that our love should be not "in word neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth." ? <Jt^ Woman's Influence. It is related of Franklin that from the window of his office in Philadelphia he noticed a mechanic, among a number of others, at work on a house which was being erected near by, who had a kind and cheerful smile for every one he met. Let the day be ever so cold, gloomy or sunle&s, the happy smile danced like a sunbeam on his cheerful countenance. Meeting him one day Franklin requested to know the secret of his constant happy flow of spirits. "It's no secret, doctor," the man replied; "I've got one of the best of wfvps. and when I tro to work she al ways gives me a kind word of encouragement and a blessing with her parting kiss; and when I go home she is sure to meet me with a smile and a kiss of welcome; and then tea is sure to be ready ; and as we chat in the evening, I find she has been doing so many little things through the day to please me, that I can not find it in my mind to speak an unkind word or give an unkind look to anybody." And Franklin adds: "What an influence, then, hath woman over the heart of man, to soften it, and make it a fountain Of cheerful and pure emotions. 8peak gently, then. A happy smile and a kind word of greeting after the toils of the day are over cost nothing, and go far toward making home happy and peaceful." "While nracticing law a number of year.?i ago," paid Judge Tourge, "I had a peculiar will case. An old lady was a slave-holder, dying, bequeathed her colored man, John, and her dusky maid, who sustained to each other the relation of husband and wife, to the j trustees of the church, "to be used as far as possible for the glory of God.' I was curious to know what course was taken, aDd upon investigation found that after meditation and prayer, the trustees sold their legacy at auction, and with the proceeds sent a missionary to China." When Luther saw the truth, as he was laboring up the stone stairway in Rome, seeking peace through bodily penance and human merit, he sprang from his knees and put that sublime, text, "The just shall live by faith," to his lips, as a silver trumpet, to blow a jubilee blast. upon it which awakened a sleepiug world. It is time war, with its horrors, was crushed to earth, never to rise again. HOUSE AND FARM. Reducing Bones. Bones are the cream of manures, but the difficulty is that ground bone is sold at too high a price, and not every e ... i.. ? I.. i...1.../. V./> IUIIUL'1 KUUWH 11UW iu ICUUUC II11/8C uc may collect. The following mode is one of the best and most efficacious: "Put them into a large arch kettle or boiler, with an equal bulk of good hard wood ashes; pour in water enough to make a thin mortar, and boil the mass from one to two hours, when the bones become completely dissolved or broken down, with the exception of a few hard shin boues. Shovel the mass into a box and allow it to remain a week or so, when the remainder of the bones will mostly disappear. Mix it with twice its bulk of earth and use it in the hills." Now, brother farmers, collect the old bones about your premises as above directed, and apply it in the hill of anything you choose, remembering to kick a little soil over it before you drop the seed, and you will find this receipt worth the price of this paper. Uses of Salt. A morning hand bath in cold salt water is delightfully invigorating. Warm salt water inhaled through the nostrils will cure cold and catarrh. A glass of salt water, warm or cold, taken on rising in the morning will cure constipation. Bathing the eyes when tired or weak in warm salt water will soothe and strengthen them. Comfort lit Trouble. li i* rarely that we read anything more touchingly beautiful than the way in which Catherine Tait, wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, tried to comfort her own heart and the heart of her husband, after they were suddenly deprived, by death, of "five most blessed little daughters." Other parents, who mourn because of empty cradles and desolate places at the fireside, may be strengthened by their example. Mrs. Tait writes: "Now, constantly with our daily prayers for them, we say the thanksgiving and commemoration: jjora, tnou nasc lee my lime ones depart in peace." "Lord Jesus, thou hast received their spirits, and hast opened unto them the gate of everlasting glory. "The loving Spirit leads them forth into the land of righteousness, into thy holy hill, into thy heavenly kingdom. "Thou didst send thy angels to meet them, and to carry them into Abraham's bosom. "Thou hast placed them in the habitation of light and peace?of joy and gladness. "Thou hast received them into the arms of thy mercy, and given them an inheritance with thy saints in light. "There they reign with the elect angels and thy ble3sed saints departed, thy holy prophets and glorious apostles, in all joy, glory, felicity and blessedness, forever and ever. Amen." + A Sensible Suggestion.?The danger of contagion from articles used in the sick room is well understood. That it is the part of wisdom to use every possible precaution all admit. The difficulty of keeDiner entirely apart the clothing and linen used in the sickroom complicates to a marked degree the housekeeping arrangements during periods of illness in the household. A medical journal suggests : "In view of the fact that disease may be, and doubtless often is, transmitted directly by linen used in the sick-room, it is advisable, whenever possible, to use paper napkins for absorbing offensive discharges in placc of sponges, handkerchiefs, napkins, and towels. These are clean and attractive. and can be burned as soon as used, thus avoiding all danger of contagion." It is impossible to find a simpler and more effectual remedy for nervous diseases than what is known as the rubbing cure?a cure within the reach of all. Nervous persons are in a disturbed electric state and need the rubbing friction from another's hands to draw off the electricity which is in excess, or impart what is lacking to a healthy condition. Rubbing is the best anodyne that can be administered. It soothes and quiets the nerves, inducing sleeo. which in turn invigorates the body. Again, rubbing is beneficial to invalids a9 a substitute for other exercise and outdoor life. Were rubbing generally resorted to in the case of persons suffering from overwork or nervous prostration, more cures would be wrought than the best physicians ever dreamed of in their philosophy. It pays to clean the snow away for the hens. Locomotion is a very difficult matter, for poultry when the snow is deep, and the hens will often suffer from hunger rather than undergo the task of traveling in the snow. After cleaning away the snow sprinkle ashes on the ground, and change the drinking water frequently to prevent froo7i n or Money is a golden-breasted bird, with silver beak. It lights on the counting-room desk and on the parlor centre-table. Men and women stand and admire it, not noticing that it has wings. One wave of the hand of misfortune, and it spreads its beautiful plumage and is gone, as as eagle toward heaven. Preaching Arts.?"Three arts for the minister to learn?expression, compression, impression." So speaks the Christian Register. We would add suppression. Happy the minister who does not fear to prune his sermons, as wise gardeners do their vines. Many think that sleep is lost time. But the style of your work will be mightily affected by the style of your slumber. Souud Asleep is the sister of Wide Awake. Sleep is not a subtraction ; it is an addition. What is pleasing in the mouth may be the worst thing for the stomach. Fast eating is abuse of the stomach. Chewing food well and mixing it with the saliva of the mouth is the first step to good digestion. T* ????? o fnnnVi i v>nc nffarortno htr Alio It vvao a luuvmug uwtviuiiuw wj vuv of our most eminent American female writers: "She is only a half-mother who does not aee her own child in every child." What the sick most need is a dose of sunshine. There is no use of going in to sit on the bedside and help the invalid groan, What Others Say. [?. 3. Times.] An inert person is likely to be a useful person. Motion is not necessarily progress; action is not necessarily accomplishment. One may be as truly inert in action as in inaction. Among philosophers, inertia is that tendency of matter to remain in the state in which it has been nut. Once at rest. it continues at rest; once in motion, it continues with the same motiou?until acted upon by some external force. Most persons are troubled with inertia. If they are at rest, they need some one to rouse them into action. If they are in motion, they need some one to vary the speed, or change the direction of, or to stop that motion. He who waits for an external force to cure his own inertia, will not be very likely to be much of a force in helping to cure the world's inertia. By slackening your own speed, you may draw some one else into action. By increasing your speed, you may push some one else into action. There is no virtue in motion unless you move something; no virtue in action, unless you act upon something. If you would be of use in the world, avoid the inertia of motion as well as the inertia of rest. I National Baptist.J The widow offered the two mites; it was all she had; it was acceptable ; it was precious. We all have something ?the poorest even, the feeblest, the sick, the helpless. There la one offering that we can all render; it is the offeriugof silence. When something irritating is said, and we are tempted to reply in the same spirit; when something injurious is said about the absent, and we arc tempted to acquiesce and to echo; when something irreverent is said, and we are tempted to laughter and applause; when we are under great suffering or provocation, and the word of repining calls for utterance?in all these cases, and in a great many others, the offering of sileuce is an offering unspeakably precious in the sight of God, and of Him who "sat over against the treasury" and marked the gifts of the rich and of the poor. [Minneapolis Presbyterian.) Congress may spend fifty millions, or fifty billion, on coast defences, but what good will it do if the anarchists keep bringing their dynamite into this country. Every man that rejects Christian law is a menace to our happiness and prosperity. We can not defend our altars and our fires in any other way so well as by playing the Good Samaritan to these wretched creatures, and so exercising the demons of misrule and superstition, of ignorance aud disbelief, through the potent and gracious power of Christian love. (Greenville News.) General Beauregard and General Longstreet evidently have the same single impression of the Confederacy. Each is confident that he was the greatest man in it and would have been successful as commander-in-chief and that his suneriors were shabby, overrated and pig headed men, jealous of merit and giving most of time and labor to repressing greatuess. Longstreet joined the republican party and assailed General Lee; Beauregard joined the Louisiana lottery and abuses ex President Davis. That is all the average southern man cares to know about either. CElihu BurriCf.) "I would say to all, use your gentlest voice at home. Watch it day by day, as a pearl of great price, for it will be worth more to you in days to come than the best pearl hid in the sea. A kind voice is joy like a lark's song to a hearth at home. It is a light that sings as well as shines. Train to sweet tones now, and it will keep in tune through life." (MeQioilist Advance.) ?%a/M\1A 4>s\ HPli nv VJCfc IIIC Jjcupic HI icuuillfi. JUI.J need a little rest and recreation from hard toil. Then they need information. There is no educator that beats a good newspaper. Keep one lying about the room for your children to read whenever the humor strikes them. They will grow up intelligent and thoughtful, at a cost of two dollars a year. Think of that. Begin at Once. Begin at once to do whatever your Master commands. Begin to practice religion. A child never would learn to walk by a hundred talks about the law of gravitation ; it must use its own feet, even at the risk of many a tumble.. Wait not for more feeling^ or more pungent convictions, or ror anything that you read of in other people's experiences. These are all snares and hindrances if they keep you from doing at ouce the very first act that will please Christ. Have you never opened your lips to an unconverted friend, either to avow your own feelings or to do that friend some good? Then try it; you will strengthen yourself, and may bring an unexpected i blessing to him or her. In short, you must begin to obey a new Master; to serve a new Saviour; to strike out a new line of living, and rely on God's almighty help to do it. When you give yourself to Christ in this wholehearted and practical fashion, he will give you a thousand-fold richer gift in return. Yes, he will give you himself! When you possess Christ you have everything.?Dr. T. L. Cuyler. Contentment in Rags.?There is contentment with godliness, which is ereat erain. having the promise of the life that now is and that which is to come, and is like Joseph's coat of many colors. If Joseph wore such a garment as true contentment, as his after years showed, he was more than a prime minister?he was a king the monffent he put it on. How rich, how royal are all they who are clad in its many colors. They are the possessors j of three worlds; the greatest is that of i inward peace, which can reform ] worlds aud reclothe men in the midst of the penuries of life. A Scotch noKlnm o n ciooincr rii old cardener of h is | ] establishment with a very ragged coat, made some passing remark on its con- < dition. "It's a verra guid coat," said ] the honest old man. "I cannot agree I with you there," said his lordship. "Ay, it's a verraguid coat," persisted i the old man; "it covers a contented < spirit and a body that owes no man ? any thing, and that's mair than many i a man can say of his coat." j The measure of our success is iu proportion as we satisfy God. SCHOOLS. Poetical Points. There In a farmer that Is Y's Enough to take hla E'e, Aiid study Dftture with his I's, And think of what he C's. He hears the chatter of the J's, As they each other T's; And C's that when a tree D K's It makes a home for B's. 1 . A pair of oxen be will U's, With many haws and O's; And their mistakes he will X Q/s, While plowing for his Fs. , * In raising crops he must X L's, And therefore little O's: And when be does his soil by spella, Ho also soils his hose. A Girl's Wof-k. Several years ago a young girl took a class of boys in a certain Sundayschool. She was very young, had never taught, and therefore shrank from the work ; but with that instinctive sagacity which boys often show, they chose her, and persisted in their choice; and so, very doubtfully, she began her work. There were ten boys in the class, and tbtey lived in a town of four or five thousand inhabitants, a town which boasts of forty drinking saloons! They were not the good sort of boys?not at all; but they had a sort of cordial liking for their teacher, ' and a strong class spirit was soon de-.U!?l. * * ? ? -? vciwpcu, ui wuivii uur sienuergin aia Dot fail to take advantage. She encouraged them to stand together, and she stood among them. They learned to tell her everything, and she was the hearty sympathetic adviser and per- ? soiial friend of each. Wise little woman ! She wa.i laying the foundation deep and strong* for well she knew that by and by the Hoods would rise aud the winds would blow and beat upon these precious human houses entrusted to her care. Aud so she dug deep into the solid confidence aud affection of her boys. The trial days did not delay to^ome. The boys were growing tall and manly. They were learning to smoke and to taste beer, and what was more natural than that they should find themselves too large to go to Sunday-school. "I had a dreadful time with those boys for four years," said the teacher er, "but I could not and would not'let them go." "But how could you retain them? Boys at that age are pretty strong." "Well, I followed them. As sofln as a boy absented himself from Sundayschool I went after him. I had their confidence, and they would tell me even wheu they did pretty bad things, * which, of course, was a great help. They were wide awake, active boys, and wanted to try about every new thing and they did it; but I tried to keep along with them. At one time they formed themselves into a club; rented a room, and grew old very fast. I used to tremble in those days, and *1 had reason to. But I did not give up." "It must have taken a good deal of time to follow them up." "Well, yes, it did. There have been t weeks in succession when I was out every evening looking for my boys, but I thought it would pay." "And has it?" asked the curious listener. "I think so. Six of the ten remain, and I have no more difficulty in keeping them in Sabbath-school. The others have moved away, but I hear ~ from them. All but two are Chris tians, and these two are steady ana seem to be well established in principle." "But they are men how. Do you still teach them ?" "Yes; I cannot induce them to go into a Bible class, though I have often tried to do so. They seem to dislike the thought of a change." '' And little wonder. So it comes to pass that in a certain Sabbath-school there may be seen a class of young men, respectful, attentive, absorbed, listening to the lowyoiced teachings of a slender young woman, as if they thought her voice carried weight. And so they do?the weight of life which means earnest purpose, and faith in the work which is given us to do. "But she had time to give to her class," some one says. f "nurinc nil these vears. she was a hard-working school teacher, with but slender stock of health, and strength to draw upon. Yes, she had time to give to her boys, but where do , you think she found it? Possibly some of the adornments and enjoyments of girlhood had to be given up. Did it Pay? Look to Jesus. Young Christian, are you troubled because of your sinfulness? You area great sinner, no doubt, but where are you looking? At self? Does that help the matter anj'? Do not you find self becoming even worse instead of better as you look? You have probably but a faint idea yet of your sinfulness; and the longer you look withiu, the worse will be the sight. How long would it take a sick man to get well by feeling his own pulse and looking at his pale, thin face in the glass? Looking at your sinful nature and ?? til ^^4 cnillKing oi your siutj win nui t-nc them away. Like the sick man, you need help outside of self. You need to look, but not at self. In you there is no help; God has laid help on One mighty to save. Look to Jesus. The Bible says, "Look unto"?not yourself nor your .sins, but unto?"me" (that Is, Jesu9 the Saviour), "and be ye saved." Look to him, Christian; he died for you, and he is able to save you from all sin. Look away from self, away from all (hat is sinful; look to the only One able to save from ein, and he able to save unto the uttermost. Think of, trust in, him as the One who died to redeem you. Keep looking to him; if you look at your sins, let it be only long enough to become sorry for and ashamed of them, so that you feel you must iiave tne saviour at once, .men look to Jesus.?Forward. Young man, what are you trying to make of yourself? We do not ask what pursuit you are to follow, or what your haud9 are to do, but what kind of a man are you intending to be? Have you settled the question of your future character? Will it be lofty and pure, or low and bad? Will it be distinguished by allegiance to God or subjection to Satan ? Now i9 the time to decide. If you want God to help you by His Spirit to lead an upright and pure life, give Him your ueart. [f you want Goa on your side, get on His aide.