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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
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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."
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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
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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."
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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."
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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.
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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.