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ABBEVILLE, S.C.
Wednesday, July 20,1887.
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Horse Sheds as a Means of Grace.
The little church was in a small
country town, and many of the members
lived in the country from one to
five miles away. In fair weather the
country members usually turned out
in force, and hitched their teams to
posts, fences, trees?any where to
make them secure while the services
were in progress. In hot weather the
poor beasts suffered from the heat, and
shivered with the cold in cold weather,
and sometimes both horses and
carriages were thoroughly drenched
by a sudden storm.
This church had called a young pastor
fresh from the seminary, and the
very first Sunday he gathered the
church officers together and addressed
them thus: "Brethren, it is a crime
against God and the dumb brutes to
have these horses hitched out around
the church in this way, exposed to all
sorts of weather. We n^ust have some
horse sheds at once." "We can't afford
it," said deacou Blank ; "my old
horse has been hitched to that old
stump almost every Sunday for fifteen
years. I guess he can stand it for a
while yet."
">*o\v brethren," replied the preacher,
"itis not right, it is not Christian
to treat your animals in thii way : 'a
merciful man is merciful to his
beast.' "
Before the next Sunday arrived the
pastor had made a thorough canvass of
his parish in behalf of horse sheds.
Some promised to work on the proposed
sheds, some gave timber, some lumber,
aud others gave a little money.
The congregation were somewhat
surprised oil the next Sabbath to hear
the following notice read from the pulpit:
"All who are interested in the
erection of a row of horse sheds are
invited to attend a grand mass meeting
at the church, commencing Monday
(to-morrow) morning at seven
v vivvu^ UliVl WUIIHUUIQ II111ii mc J*UV;UO
are completed. Bring spades, axes,
saws, hammers, and dinner pails."
At the appointed hour the pastor
was on hand with coat off and ready
for business. The people had a mind
to work, and in one week eleven good
horse sheds were completed and surrounded
by a neat fence. The prayer
of the pastor on the following Sunday:?"We
thank Thee, O Lord, for
horse sheds and may they be a means
of grace to us," met with a hearty response
from the congregation. The
prayer was abundantly answered; for
the congregation was more than doubled
within a month. Many who
would not venture out to church if
they saw a cloud in the sky as large as
a man's hand, were now present almost
every Sunday, often coming in a
storm.
During the week the sheds were
thrown open to the public, and were
greatly appreciated by those coming to
town on business. One farmer, not a
, t. . -
vuuiui was uearu 10 say as lie
drove under the sheds one rainy day :
"These sheds are about the Whitest
things in this town. I believe I'd like
to hear tiie feller preach who pushed
this thing through." lie did hear
him preach, and not many mouths
after became an act ve mciuiier of tlie
church. More sht d-were i?.lilt as the
congregation ineivaM-d, i.n:j| forty
teams could be comf<>.iaS>iy housed
around that church, and us many were
often there.
Other churches in the community
caugiit the horse shed fever, and in a
short time each church had a goodly
number of comfortable sheds.
So the horse shed enterprise proved
to be the greatest means of grace the
churches of that place had enjoyed for
many years.
No doubt other places would be
blessed by a similar undertaking.
Try it.?Ex.
Sir Charles Napier said, that "to
oa -come all feeling of religion is generally
the means of making a warrior."
He who prevents a conflagration deserves
more credit than those who put
out the fire after it has done a vast
amount of damage.
Sad Bat True.
Tf io qqH trt tViinlr flint thoro Qra
many who eagerly respond to any objection
that is urged against the perfect
credibility and infallible inspiration
of the Bible. They instantly
leap to the conclusion that those who
assail its authority must be right, and
its defenders wrong. Their natural
sympathies are with the "higher criticism"
and other forms of skepticism,
simply because their natural sympathies
are not with God and his Word.
A gentleman who professes to be a
Christian and claims to be a great
reader, came not long ago iu a state of
excitement, to a minister, exclaiming:
"I have just found a wonderous book
in the library. It is a book by Prof.
Robertson Smith of Scotland, who
shows that the laws of Leviticus were
unknown to the Jews for a thousand
years after Moses, aud that Deuteronomy
was written at a period much later
than his day.
Tho m? nictcr of Ki'm n mA_
a"v 4jutuichvt iwntu ai tuiu a iuu"
ment, and quietly said: "What is it
in you that instantly takes sides
against God's Word ? You did not inquire
whether Prof. Robertson Smith
had been utterly refuted and routed,
but immediately jumped to the conclusion
that he is right."
"I did not know," the man sullenly
answered, "that any one had replied
to him."
"Just so; j'ou did not know, and
you did not care to ask. Now, let me
inform you that Prof. Green of Princeton,
to say nothing of Hengsteinberg
and others, whose scholarship is so far
beyond that of young Smith, that he
is unworthy to unite their shoe-latchet,
has proved that all his talk about
Leviticus and Deuteronomy is the
merest trash."
He is the representative of a large
class who eagerly take up with anything
that promises to shake the faith
of men in the Scriptures. They hope
tn finH tho nlH T3nr?Lr folcn Itonupcp if
bears so hard upon them in their unsaved
state; and yet, if it were proved
false, they would be left in an infinitely
more pitiable condition to grope
through darkness to an unknown eternity.
But he tbat is brought to bow
his proud will at the foot of the cross,
and to accept pardon as the unmerited
gift of God, through Jesus Christ our
Lord, can turn to the inspired Scriptures
as the unfailing fountain of wisdom,
strength aud consolation; and
the more he resorts to them, the more
surely will he see that "holy men of
God spake as thev were moved by the
Holy Ghost."
The Reign of Queen Victoria.
EXTRACTS FROM A SERMON PREACHED
IN 1837, AT ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL,
BY THE REV. SIDNEY
SMITH.
A second great object which I hope
will be impressed upon the mind of
this Royal Lady is, a rooted horror of
war?an earnest and passionate desire
to keep her people in a state of profound
peace. The greatest curse
which can be entailed upon mankind,
is a state of war. All the atrocious
crimes committed in years of peace?|
all that is speut in peace by the secret
corruptions, or by the thoughtless extravagance
of nations, are mere trifles
compared with the gigantic evils
which stalk over the world in a state
of war. God is forgotten in war?
every principle of Christian charity
trampled upon?human labor destroyed?human
industry extinguished;
you see the son, and the husband, and
the brother, dying miseiably in distant
lauds?you see the waste of human
affections?you see the breaking
of human hearts, you hear the shrieks
of widows and children, after the battle,?and
you walk over the mangled
bodies of the wounded calling for
death. I would say to that royal
child, Worship God, by loving peace,
it is not youi' humanity to pity a beggar
by giving him food or raiment. I
can uo that; that is the charity of the
humble, and the unknown?widen
I m l\/,? wf Ctw f 1\ a m r\r?r\ n%*non/)oi')
^ UU ji uui iivai i. iui inv uii/ic vAyauuvu
miseries of mankind?pity the mothers
of the peasantry who see their sons
torn away from their families?pity
your poor subjects crowded into hospitals,
and calling in their last breath
upou their distant country, and their
young Queen?pity the stupid, frantic
folly of human beings who are always
ready to tear each other to pieces,?
and to deluge the earth with each other's
blood ; this is your extended humanity?and
tliis the great field of
your compassion. Extinguish in your
heart the fiendish love of military
glory, from which your sex does not
necessarily exempt you and to which
the wickedness of flatterers moy urge
you. Say upon your death-bed, "I
have made few orphans in my reign,?
I have made few widows, my object
has been peace. I have used all the
weight of my character, and all the
power of my situation, to check the
irascible passious of mankind, and to
turn them to the arts of honest industry
; this has been the Christianity of
my throne, and this the gospel of my
sceptre; in this way have I strove to
worship my Redeemer and my J udge."
I would add (if any addition were
wanted as a part of the lesson to
youthful royalty), the utter folly of all
wars of ambition where the object
I sought for?if attained at all?is commonly
attained at manifold its real
l value, and often wrested, after short
enjoyment, from its possessor, by the
comoiueu inuignation, ana just vengeance
of the other nations of the
world. It is all misery and folly, and
impiety, and cruelty. The atrocities,
snd horrors, and disgusts of war, have
never been half enough insisted upon
by the teachers of the people; but the
worst of evils and the greatest of follies
have been varnished over with
specious names, and the gigantic robi
hers and murderers of the world have
j been holden up, lor their imitation to
j the weak eyes of youth. May honest
counsellors' keep tiiis poison from the
mind of the young Queen. May she
love what God bids, and do what
makes men happy.
<?!> ?
Teacher (in geography class)?
"What is a desert ?"
Young Student?"Don't know mum,
I always eat at the second table."
No farmer who buys oats, corn or
wheat, fodder and hay, as a rule, for
ten years, can keep the sherifl away
from his door in the end.
Remember, "God and one man make
a majority."
COMMONS.
g.
Trials in Home Life. F
The other day I read an article on T
"Husband-Lovers," which taught a
good lesson to one-third of the mar- A
ried women; but how about the other
two-thirds? Many a tried, heart-sick si
woman will read this piece, and with T|
moist eyes look back to the time when
her husband was a lover, and follow g|
the years up carefully, trying to find
where she is at fault that he is no long- F<
er one. Yes, to be sure, "the curls
that he used to push back in order to
kiss the white forehead" are brushed
away, the bit of lace and bright ribbon
has been put aside for a plain collar
and pin which are not nearly so becoming."
The pretty light dinner dress ^
has given place to a plain dark one.
The hands that arranged the graceful t
curls, have several heads of curls to '
brush now. In order to have three or ?
four children clean, and dressed for j~
dinner and papa, mamma must put up
with the easily arranged collar. Where 1,
there are babies to feed, food to pre- '
pare, etc., a bright, dainty dinner R
dress would be incongruous. To be "
sure, she never stands now at the window
with a bright face watching for rj
him, and rarely plays his favorite airs, J?
or sings the old love songs, because her r;
songs must be lullabys; her fingers "
are tired and stiff with "making his
home bright and attractive," and keep- ?.
ing his children presentable. Alas! V;
she does not forget that 'tis "hard for
the nentlv-drpsxed oruntlpmnn to ryiress
an untidy woman," and the knowl- 31
edge only makes lier more unhappy, w
but he forgets that this woman from P:
earliest morning has not had one moment
to think of herself. His sweet- t?
heart was a beautiful, loving, light- ?j
hearted girl, with never a care to cloud
the sunshine of her life; his wife is a
prematurely old woman ; tired brain, 11
body, and soul, with few bright spots j1
piercing the shadow. My friend, n
your women are the minority; unfortunately,
mine are the majority. You ?
speak of bringing back wandering bl
hearts. Is it not strange that after a ?'
woman has sacrificed herself for her |4r
husband and children, after she had
faded in his service, that he should
want to wander? I do not believe al
there are many women who, through w
mere idleness, neglect their looks. **
Most women like to look pretty and
attractive, and it is hard for them to N
see their beauty fading and their hus- n
band's admiration declining, and turn 01
to duties unpleasant. You speak of r(
the trials that the husband must en- 31
dnrer do thev not vanish before the
wife's ordeals? When the poor tired *l
body has a rest, and the heart a little
encouragement, she will gladly cultivate
her mind. w
The Deadly Cigarette.
A distressed father sends to the sanitary
headquarters of New York the
following wail of despair:
I am the father of four boys, and J
two of them are cigarette smokers? }r
one twelve and the other fourteen ^
years. I notice their health failing, "
"and I send them to a physician. He ?,
says it is from smoking cigarettes. I ri
have begged them to desist, but with- v
out avail. I have punished them in
various ways, but they seem to have n
acquired a habit which it is almost P
next to impossible to check. Their &
school companions also smoke. Be- n
sides this, the photos which the manufacturers
pack in the boxes are of such ^
a vulgar description, that alone will j1
ruin our young men, besides destroy- ^
ing their health with the poisonous;
cigarettes. You will confer a great;
blessing on the people of the city by ^
rising up against tiie monstrous crime P
of which the manufacturers of these 11
cigarettes are guilty. They ought to .
tnvprl onf of pxifcrenpe. There was 15
a bill introduced in our legislature a "
few years ago prohibiting the sale of J1
cigarettes to boys under fourteen, f'
Bribery was used to defeat it. I know tJ
it to be a fact. Yours with respect. j*
An aggrieved parent. ,
William Conkoy. ~
Mr. Conroy seems to feel an interest f(
in his sous. He would like to see H
them grow to perfect manhood. He 1(
would rejoice to see them robust, clear- .
headed and undetiled in mind and J1
body. ^
But, alas, for the hopes of Mr. Con- 1
roy. He fluds that the deadly eiga- 11
rette is a bigger man than he is. He .
finds that the miserable little roll of "
sorry tobacco has stolen vigor from the ^
limbs of his boys and left them physi- li
cal wrecks on the very threshold of \
youth.
The most painful part of Mr. Conroy's
letter is his despairing reference *
to-the obscene pictures. No longer j
contented with destroying the health 1
of boys, certain manufacturers of ciga- j
relies now put into each package an
obscene photograph. The cried is 1
most ueriiiciou:). u
Cigarettes, accompanied by pictures
not good for the youths of tiic land to '
see, are sold bv the thousand in At- s
lanta. It is a wonder that some of the 1
leaders in our moral reform move- 1
ments have not looked into the obscene s
picture business that is going hand in .
hand with the cigarette tralhc.
It may be there is no way to reach 1
the cigarettes and the pictures. There s
is certainly a way to reach the boy 1
who insists on smoking the one and
feasting his eyes on the other. The
way to reach such a boy is to reach
him with the loose end* of a buggy
trace. It will not kill him, ami it ?
may possibly cure him. The cigarette 1
haljit is a desperate disease and re- 2
quires heroic treatment.
Many are apt t'> imagine that repen- '
tauce is nothing but a concern andsor- 1
row for having done amiss, and trusting
that God, for Christ's sake, will
pardon them ; and too many place re- *
pentance in protesting to be sorry for j
their sins, and promising not to repeat
[them; anil are aatisiiei! wua tui.s, ,
without any serious endeavors of ,
amendment. Most Christians, too,
imagine that repentance is in their j
own power; that they can set about it
and perform it when they please, and ]
do not know that it is the gift of God,
and that it must, as all other graces, bt ?
asked of God with earnestness, humility,
and with a sincere desire of forsaking
every evil way. J
God will appear to them in a way of j
grace, that attend on him in a way of ]
duty. J
Strength for To-day.
irength for to-day 1b all that we need,
As there never will be a to-morrow;
or to-morrow will prove but. another to-day,
With Its measure of Joy and sorrow.
hen why forecast thctrialB of life,
With such sad und grave persistence,
nd watch and watt lor a crowd of Ills,
That as vet have no existence ?
Lrength for to-day?in house and home,
So praotlce forbearance sweetly?
o scatter kind words and loving deeds,
Still trusting in God completely.
trength for to-day?what a precious boon
For the earnest souls who labor,
or the willing hands who minister
To the needy friend or neighbor.
How Does Ho Sleep?
BY HEV. DR. DEEMS.
One of the most important things to
now about any mau upon whom you
re going to place any dependence is
ow he sleeps. Sleeplessness may
>metimes be involuntary. There
lay have been some shock to the
tan's nerves which has made him in>mnolent;
but sleeplessness is more
onnanf vnlnnforv \fon pVmriQA tn
ush their studies or their work into
lose hours when they should be
deep. It does not matter for what
luse any man may do this ; the mere
ictof not sleeping spoils his case. He
lay spend his nights in the theatre,
1 the study, or in the "protracted
leetiug." It will make no differice;
the result to the body will be
le same. The sleep was not had, and
>r that the man must pay. One man
lay do with a little less sleep than
nother: but, as a general rule, if you
ant a clerk, a lieutenant, a lawyer, a
hysician, a legislator, a judge, a preslent,
or a pastor, do not trust your invests
to any man thntdoes not take,
ri an average, eight good, solid hours
f sleep out of every twenty-four.
Whatever may be his reason for it, if
e does not give himself that, he will
3iip sometime just when you want
iin to be strong.
The intellectual and moral connecons
of sleeping, have, I think, not
ei?n sufficiently appreciated. Men
nd boys have been praised for "bumig
the midnight oil." Now this
midnight oil" is a delusion and a
lare. The studeut who is fast asleep
t eleven o'clock every night, and
ide awake at seven o'clock every
lorning, is going to surpass another
iudent, of the same intellectual abilir,
who goes to bed after twelve and
ses before five. In sleep, the plate
a which the picture is to be taken, is
jceivinsr its chemical preparation,
ad it is plain that that which is the
est prepared will take the best piclre.
Men who are the fastest asleep when
ley are asleep are the widest awake
hen they are awake.
Great workers must be great resters.
A Divided Heart.
Concentration of effort is necessary
> success. He to whom different ob;cts
are equally attractive will waste
1 indecision and in varying efforts a
irge portion of his energies. To use
is energies aright they must be fixed
n a single object.. There may be vaiety
of means, but there must not be
ariety of end.
A divided heart is a great evil in all
latters, but, most of all, in matters
ertaining to religion. To be a true,
rowing, useful Christian the heart
lust be fixed on God alone.
Some men's hearts are divided beiveen
God and the world. They love
ivine things, and they also love earthf
things. At times the love of divine
[lings clearly predominates. Then
liey give evidence of being earnest
iliristians. They are seen with the
eople of God. They are seen laborng
to do good.
At other times the love of the world
i strong. There is a desire to conjrm
to usages which the spiritually
liiwlurl rtMrnml jik sinful, or ns tendill2
) sin. There is a disposition to soften
lie stern requirements of the Bible
nd to lessen the offense of the cross,
'hey persuade themselves that by so
oing they can acquire an influence
:>r good over persons who are repelled
y those of greater strictness in religjn.
It is great folly to attempt to move
eavenward with a divided heart,
hie cannot walk in two directions at
lie same time. "Ye cannot serve God
nd mammon."
There is no real enjoyment with a
ivided heart. The converted heart
annot enjoy the world, and cannot
11 joy Christ while striving to enjoy
hu world. In order to religious enuyment
the heart must be "fixed."
Theie is no religious progress while
he heart isjdivided. The path of the
;iirirttian should be like the shining
ight which shineth more and more
into the perfect day. "With a divided
leart there can be, at best, only alterlate
seasons of light and darkness, of
.dvancement and retrogression.
There is no usefulness when the
leart is divided. There may be xenons
of devotion, and of zealous efforts
o do good, but such efforts are often
leutralized by the inconsistency reciting
from a divided heart.
Let no one be content till his heart
ssupremely fixed on God, till he feels
hat at all times and under all circumitances
he has but one tiling to dohe
will of God.
Sickness Turned to good Account.
'To those who have enjoyed during
ilong life sound and perfect health,
ilness is particularly alarming. Let
/on and 1, iny dear friend, number
hij: infirm health among the merciful
irovidences which have beeu dispensed
to us. ITow much more do we
njoy our intervals of ease than those
bvliO know 110 pains; and I hope we
iniy be able to turn the pain itself to
;ood account. 'All things work together
lor good to them that love
Jod.' "
'During a severe illness,' she said,
His chastisements are gracious lovingkindnesses.
He will not let me forget
Him ! I thank God I have beeu enabled
in the night, when sleepless, to
make use of many hours in devotion
xud meditation, which have been
greatly profitable to me; otherwise,
my time has been so occupied in the
lay that I should have appropriated
Loo little to private devotion; but my
loug nightly prayers and reflections
liave proved a great support and compensation
to me when my daily ones
bave been abridged.' "
HOUSE AND FARM.
Good Xnrsing.
There are few things that require
more strength of charucter, more geueral
excellence, aptitude, and deftness,
than the charge of a sick-room does ;
and the very hrst thing that one must |
do, upon undertaking it, is to forget
one's self. You become from that moment
impersonal; you are to have no
sensation, no identity, no wishes, no
fatigues; you are to be utterly out of
the question; you are to be only a
healing force, a machine; there is nobody
in thai room but the patient,
lou are to abandon yourself wholly to
determination, to one determination
that the sufferer shall recover; and
that, since you are there to insure it,
you will not leave a thing undone,
any more than if in case you did, the
death should lie at your door.
How refreshing to a patient is the
passing of a wet cloth over the face
and hands, carefully wiped again at
once; the turning of the heated pillow,
the fauniug of the aching forehead,
the rearrangement of the coverlets,
the murmuring of the tender or
reassuring word; aud then how refreshing
it is to be let alone. For the
nurse who fusses forever over a sick
person is as bad as the nurse who neglects
him.
There is no physician who will not
tell you that more cures are wrought
by good nursing than by medicine;
nnH fhminrVi if ic nf r?Aiirco imrwtQcihlp
for many of us to hope to reach the
eminence of a skillful administration
of medicine, yet it i9 within the power
of all of us to make the cures that
are wrought by faithful nursing.
Relief for Ingrowing Toe >'ails.
For that very painful affection, ingrowing
toe nails, the simplest measure
of relief which has been advocated
is the application of tannin. One
who has had many years' experience
with it uses a concentrated solution
(an ounce of perfectly fresh tannic
acid dissolved with six drachms of
pure water, with gentle heat), and has
the soft part around the nail painted
twice a day. Two cases recently had
110 pain or lanreuess after the first application,
aud went about their avocations
which they could not do before.
After about three weeks of this treatment
the nail had grown to its proper
length and breadth and the cure was
complete. No other treatment of auy
kind was used, though formerly he introduced
lint under the ingrowing
edge of such cases.
Can Sunday be Saved]
"Save Sunday and we can save the
Republic?otherwise not." These are
the words of the eloquent teacher,
Joseph Cook, spoken in his Boston
Monday lecture prelude, Feb. 15, 1886.
It is an important statement. If the
continuance of the Republic depends
upon the continuance of Sunday as
the Sabbath, what are the chances that
the Republic will long continue ?
In connection with the words, quoted
above, the speaker made a statement
of facts which are very significant
of the answer which must be iriv
en to the above question. He said!
"The other day I attended, on the
banks of the Mississippi, an evening
service in a stately church where there
were only six present, although an admirable
discourse was delivered, aud
at the same hour almost, or on the afternoon
of the same day, 3,000 people
were out, at a dollar a head, in Chicago,
to listen to an infidel lecture, and
30,000 out at horse
Things Said and Dune.
The character of each of you is the
product of your inner life. It is the
result of your thinking, your feeling,
and your williug. J5e careful, then, of
what and how you think, that your
intellect may be more aud more responsive
to truth. Guard 3'our emotions,
the springs of action, that they
may be pure and strong, delicately respousive
to all that is worthy. And
take heed that your will, the arbiter of
your destiny, steadily gains power to
hold to your convictions of truth, of
richt. aud of duty. So shall you gain
iu increasing degree the ability to direct
and to develop the true life of liumau
souls. Never forget that influence
flowing from character is lasting.
Let this thought clothe your work
with its proper dignity. Sounds
"die in yon rich sky;
They faint in hill, or Held. or river;
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And live lb rover and forever."
Wohk as a Medicine.?You have
nothing to do?how ^asily you yield to
indisposition.
You have an engagement, you have
an article to write, a dress lo make, a
field to till, a harvest to gather, a horse
to groom, a store to open, an occupation
of some sort or other whose ca'l is
peremptory and must l>e obeyed?
what a sLillener of nerve and muscles
an engagement is. How infinitely
less prone one is to yield to an indisposition,
a pain or a suggestion of idleness
and ease.
Work is the best medicine.
n. Sfi. nurfir li*itirl man
JLjACiv;isc ia ito ii^nw uunu iiiuu.
cupatiou is what mankind needs, and
just as soon as we retire from lite \v<
may begin to prepare for death, foi
life is a quick imitator, and will re I in
from us, acting on the hint given, Ili >1
we are weary of the burden and wisl
to shake it.
? O
An illustration of unconscious inilr.
ence is told of jjpurgeon. A
many years since he was invited i<
| speak in a large hall. In order to yii
I the key of the building he visited i
| when vacant, as ho supposed. Stand
! intr on llii! nhitfnnn iL (n-i'nrrod to hill
to use the familiar passage: "This is ;
faithful saying, and worthy of all ae
ccptation that Jesus Christ eauie int<
the world to save sinners ; of whom am
chief." lie repeated the text
Nothing was heard of the occurrence
for years. A mechanic was dying
When asked about his spiritual stah
lie told of being at work in the hal
when suddenly he heard the voice am
the Scripture. At that time he wa
wicked. The truth smote him unti
he found peace in believing. Thu:
the utterance of the minister brough
forth rich fruit. Most speakers wouh
have used other words in making th<
test.
Jglfc
What Others Say.
(iVeu> York Christian Advocate.)
He Confesses It.?At the meeting
of the Maine Conference Chaplain
M'Cabe exhibited to us the following
extract:
The Western Watchman, a Roman
Catholic paper published io St. Louis,
I savs:
Protestantism.?*Ve would draw
and quarter it. We would empale
and hang it up for crow's meat. We
would tear it with pincers and Are it
with hot irons. We would fill it with
molten lead and sink it in a hundred
fathoms of hell-fire.
We expressed doubt as to its having
appeared exactly as quoted, and rennested
the f^hanlain to write to the
Editor of the Western Watchman.
He did so, and the Editor returned
the extract with this sentence added,
"But would not lay an ungentle hand
on a hair in a Protestant's head," and
then wrote, "That is the sentence in
full. E. S. Phelan.
Well, the Roman Catholic Church
never changes. We would hate to
trust ourselves in many a country in
this world in the hands of a man belonging
to an infallible Church, the
Church of St. Bartholomew and the
Auto Da Fe, whose rhetoric woul
reach so sauguinary a height as thi
We fear that to make sure of drawin
and quartering Protestantism, and <
impaling and hanging it up for crow
meat, of tearing it with pincers an
firing it with hot irons, it would be
conceived to be the best way to subject
Protestants to all these things.
It is a singular fact that every figure
of speech in this extract finds historic
illustration in the methods and instruments
of the Inquisition.
Not long since an Episcopal clergyman
shot his wife in a fit of anger.
Subsequently, when he was about to
be tried for the crime, he committed
suicide, aud the evidence seemed to
show that it was not a case of lunacy,
but unbridled passion. Now a Methodist
miuister in North Carolina, who
was accidentally struck by a ball
thrown by a boy, who at once ran forward
and begged pardon, knocked
him down, stamped upon him, aud
dragged him about uutil the bo?s
united and drove him away. The
boy, however, was so injured that he
soon died. The miuister called to the
boys later and upbraided them for not
dragging their schoolmate away sooner,
and said he did not know what he
was doing; that his temper for the
time had crazed him. "He thatruleth
his own spirit is greater than he that
taketh a city." The control of the
temper must begin in childhood, and
continue without intermission to the
end of life. Men who commit crimes
under the influence of passion should
be dealt with severely. It is a disgrace
to any sane man to get into such
a state thai he does not kuow what he
is doing; but when a minister of the
Gospel gets in to a paroxysm of rage it
is dishonorable to the Christian profession
as well as to the man. Huch
cases ending in crime should be severely
punished.
(Fuller.)
When in my writing I have occasion
to insert these passages, "God
willing," "God lending me life," etc.
I observe that I can scarce hold my
hand from encircling these words in a
parenthesis, as if they were not ess>eii
uai to tne sentence, out may as well
be left out as put iu. Whereas, indeed
they are uot ouly of tJje commission
at large, but so of the quorum,
that without them all the rest is nothiug;
wherefore, hereafter I will write
these words fully and fairly without
any inclosure about them. Let critics
censure it for bad grammar, 1 aui sure
it is good divinity.
(Orangeburg Times and Democrat)
The idea that the quiet, decent observance
of the Sabbath us a d;?y of
rest is a concomitaut of civilization
appears to be gaining ground in aoinof
the cities where it litis been the cua
torn to allude to all Sunday laws a
"blue laws." The movement ugains
Sunday base-ball playing is gainin:
strength in ail the principal cities
iiiere is a feeling among the best
friends of the sport that either the national
game or the Sunday playing of
it must go.
lu many a case, it is doing more for
a person to receive a gift or a service
from him, than to give a gift or to render
a service to hiui. Jusii because it
is more blessed to ^ive than to receive,
we have no right to be always taking
that blessing to ourselves; but we
should permit others to gain their
share of it. A child is helped by being
privileged to give a gift to his parents,
or to render a service to some
one whom he loves and honors. A
scholar is worth more in a class,
through contributing to the stock of
its common knowledge; and the class
is worth more to him in consequence.
' Mind ai:d character are developed
through their exercise, and are gain'
ers through their outlay; hence, in
' every sphere of life there is an attainment
which is possible only through
self-deuial and self-expenditure. Our
[ duly toward others involves a looking
[ at their needs in more directions than
one; ami in order to the meeting 01
[ their need of illiquid to their highest
: development of miud and character,
I we must often permit them to be the
' | givers and doers, when we should realJ
iv find more personal enjoyment in
conferring favors than in receiving
11 thorn.
>|
l T\v > K.vds.?When a small boy, i
t w.in c.ir ying a not very large udder,
- wiii.ii ill ne was a crash. An unlucky
i movement had brought the tear end
i of my judder against u window. In
stead of scolding me, my father made
11 mo stop, :tnd .said very quietly :
L here, my sun, there is one thing i
. wish you to remember; that is, every
ii ladder has two ends." 1 never have
. forgotten it, tbougli many years have
e gone. Do not we carry thiugs besides
I ladders that have two ends? When i
1 see a young man getting 'fast' habits,
s I think lie sees only one end of the
1 ladder, the one pointed towards pleass
ure, and that he does not know ti'n
t other is wounding his parents' liearl
1 Ah! yes, every ladder has two end
e and it is a thing to be remembered i
more ways than one. *?, afcfofrrr."