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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1887. VOLUME XXXII. NO. 32. 1
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New Goods and Low Prices
WILL TELL.
OUR SALES FOR TBI LAST FOUR WEEKS TREMENDOUS.
And for the NEXT 30 DAYS we propose to double our
Sales if Selling GOO ?5 CHEAP will do it.
SHOES.
SHOES WILL BE SOLD 20 PER CENT. CHEAPER THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE IN
GREENWOOD. Large and well assorted stock to select from.
CLOTHING! CLOTHING!
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STATE. You will find tn our stock DIAGONALS, CORKSCREWS, CASHMERES, WORSTEDS
and HEAVY FLANNELS. OVERCOATS of all grades.
HATS AND FURNISHING GOODS.
WE CAN BEAT ANY THING IN TOWN. HAVE HATS FROM CO CENTS to $4.00.
3DRY GOODS.
Consisting of new effects in VELVETS, ENGLISH SUITING, TRICOT, FLANNELS.
OASHMERS and all the latest styles In TRIMMINGS, BUTTONS, GLOVES-IN KID and
CASHMERS?TOWELS, TABLE LINEN, HOSIERY, etc., willed ror quality ana prices win
compare with any in the State. Our stock must be seen to be appreciated.
GROCERIES.
We have on band a full line of STAPLE nnd FANCY GROCERIES which will be sold at
prices to suit the times. Will keep in stock the finest grades of
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Nov. 9,1887.3m
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One-Third of the Wearing Value of Clothes wus RUBBED OUT under the id process of washing. but
now with the Introduction ol the "Washing Otnpound" this waste is nreserv d m.d the unavoidable
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which saves TIME, LABOR and MONEY.
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WE HAVE JUST OPENED A MERCHANDISE AND COTTON BUSINESS, CARRYlng
a full line of FARMERS SUPPLIES, and are specially engaged In
HARDWARE.
A full as?ortment of which we offer at LOW PRICES.
RICE! RICE! RICE!
We are dealers in CAROLINA RICE, both RETAIL and WHOLESALE, and as we deal
as directly with the producers as the largest shipping house in the South we can compete
with Charleston and Savannah houses successfully.
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of which we are agents, is wall known In the upper part of the state, especially In Abbeville
tx>unty, (for prices drop us a postal.) We order in car londs from factory. So send in your orders
promptly and they will receive attention. A little patronage from the good people of
Abbeville and other counties will be appreciated.
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B. S. 8PARKMAN. M?noff*r.
Aii Old Poem.
Who shall judge a man from mnnners?
Who shall know him by his dress?
Paupers may he rit lor princes.
Princes fit for something less.
Crumpled siiirt and dirty Jacket
May heclolhc the golden ore
Of the deepest thoughts and feelingsSatin
vests could do no more.
There are sprint's of crystal nectar
Ever welling out of stone;
Therearo purple tiuds and golden
Midden, crushed, and overgrown.
God, who counts by souls, not dresses,
Loves and prospers you and me.
While He values thrones the highest
Hut as pebbles in the sea.
Man. upraised above his follows,
Oft forgets his fellows then :
Mailers, ruler*, lords, remember
That your meanest hinds are men !
Men by labor, men by fi elliiir,
Men by thought, and men by fame,
Claiming equal rights to sunshine,
lm n nn nnlil i 11 l' niklllP.
Truth and justice arc eternal,
Horn with loveliness and light:
Secret wrongs shall n?>ver prosper,
While there is n sunny rlirht.
God. whose world-heard voice Is ringing
Boundless love to you and ine,
Sinks oppression with its titles,
As the pebbles in I lie sea.
A Surgeon's Life.
I have always held that it is impos
sible for any man to oe a great surgeon
if lie is destitute, even in an inconsiderable
degree, of the finer feelings of
our nature. I have often lain awake
for hours of the night before an important
operation, and suffered great mental
distress for days after it was over,
until I was certain that my patient
was out of danger. I do not Uiink it
is possible for a criminal to feel much
worse the night before his execution
than a surgeon when he knows that
upon his skill and attention must de'
- _ A- ? C ?A1kaK!A nWStroii
peild [I1C IUie Ul it vmuauic viu/au,
husband, father, mother, or child.
Surgery under such circumstances is a
terrible task-master, feeding like a
vulture upon a man's vitals. It is surprising
that any surgeon in large practice
should ever attain to a respectable
old age, so great arc the wear and tear
of mind and body.
The world has seen many a sad pic- '
ture. I will draw one of the surgeon.
It is midday, the sun is bright and
beautiful, all nature is redolent of joy,
men and women crowd the street, arrayed,
in their best, and all, apparently,
is peace and happiness within and
without. In a large 'house, almost
overhanging this street so full of life i
and gayety, lies upon a couch an ema- ;
ciated figure; once one of the sweetest 1
and loveliest of her sex, a confiding i
and affectionate wife and the adored i
mother of numerous children, the subject
of a frightful disease of one of her i
limbs, or it may be ot ner jaw, n not <
of a still more important part of her I
body. In an adjourning room is the I
surgeon, with bis assistants, spreading '
out his instruments and getting things
in readiness for the impending opera- I
tion. He assigns to each his appropriate
place One administers chloro- i
form; another takes charge of the <
limb; one screws down the tourniquet
UDon the principal artery, and another |
holds himself in readiness to follow li
the knife with his sponge. The flaps I
ure soon formed, the bone severed, the j |
vessels tied, and the huge wound approximated.
The woman is pale and i
ghastly, the pulse hardly perceptible, I
the skin wet with clammy perspira- <
tion, the voice husky, the sight indistinct.
Some one whispers into the ear
of the busy surgeon: "The patient, I <
fear, is dying," Restoratives are administered,
the pulse gradually rises, <
and after a few hours of hard work 1
and terrible anxiety reaction occurs. I
The poor woman was only faint from I
the joint influence of the anesthetic, i
shock, and loss of blood. An assist- I
ant, a kind of sentinel, is placed as a <
guard over her, with instructions toj
watch her with the closest care, and to J <
send word the moment the slightest '
change for (he worse is seen. |1
The surgeon noes about his business, 11
visits other patients on the way, and '
at length, long after the usual hour, lie j <
sils down, worried and exhausted, to ?
his cold and comfortless meal, with a I
mouth almost as dry and a voice as 1
husky as his patient's. He eats me- s
chanically, exchanges hardly a word i
with any member of his family, and :
sullenly retires to his study to pre-! i
scribe for his patients?never, during s
all this time, forgetting the poor, mu- <
tilated object he left a few hours ago. I
He is about to lie down to get a moment's
repose after the severe toil of
the daw when suddenly he hears a
loud ring of the bell, and ft servant,!
breathless with excitement, begs his I
immediate presence at the sick-cham- I
her with the exclamation, "They i
think Mrs. is dying." He hur- i
ries to the scene with rapid pace and i
iinxious feeling. The stump is of a
crimson color, and the putient lies in a i
profound swoon. An artery lias sud- I
denly given way, the exhaustion is I
RXtreme, cordials and stimulants are i
at once brought into requisition, thcil
dressings are removed, and the recus- .
ant vessel is secured. i
The vital current ebbs and flows, re- j I
action is still more tardy than before, ]
and it is not until a late hour of the i
niglit that the surgeon, literally worn i
out in mind and body, retires to his I
home in search of repose. Does he <
sleep? He tries, but he cannot close i
his eyes. His mind is with his pa- I
tient; he hears every footstep upon i
the pavement under his window, and I
is in momentary expectation of the 1
ringing of the night-bell. He is dis-lc
turbcd by the wildest fancies, he sees ii
the most terrific objects, and, as lie J1
rises early in the morning to hasten to,1
his patient's chamber, he feels that he i i
has been cheated of the rest of which j i
lie stood so much in need. Is this pic-{J
ture overdrawn? I have sat for it a I
thousand times, and there is not an; 1
educated, conscientious surgeon that
will not certify to its accuracy. t
Bill Nye's Favorite Litera- '
TUBE.?in prose, i tnniK i uerivcM
more comfort from Herbert Spencer,
than any one else, As Mr. Lincoln, |<
during the dark and trying days of oun<
great civil war, turned to the light and i <
joyous comments of Petroleum V. j f
Nasby, so I flee from my own earnest]'
and profound research to the dry, crisp )
humor of Spencer, and more especial- '
ly to that passage in which he charac- '
terizes evolution as "a change from an '
indefinite, incoherent heterogentily 1
through continuous differentiations i
and integrations." Ji
I never get tired of putting a damp
towel over mv head and reading this i
passage, for it enables me to forget <
everything else. \>
Take history through and through,
and it will be found that the men and,
women who have the most devoutly
and honestly feared God have done
most to defend and save the countries
in which they liv?d.
A Very Lamentable Thing.
It is a very lamentable tiling that
the Church is, rts a hoily, doing little
or nothing to decrease and remove the
unchristian and grievous War system
from the nations of Christendom, and
especially not Irom Europe. The European
nations were never so thoroughly
armed as now?never had so
many soldiers under arms in time of
Peace, and never were expending so
much in preparations in time of Peace
for the atrocious work of human
slaughter as at the present time. Surely
this does not look as though the
world was coming, from year to year,
under the spirit ami government of
Jesus Christ, the King of Saints and *
Prince of Peace; it does not lo.>k like
the bright dawning of the "millennial
day." Alas! alasi notwithstanding
all the present revival of the Foreign
Missionary spirit among all Christian
sects throughout the world, theChurch t
as a body, is living, almost in the be- 0
ginning of the twentieth century of 'j
the Christian era, as far as it regards t
the dreadful sin of War, with all its 0
abominable and agonizing cruelties, in f(
the darkness of the dark ages?yea. in jj
the midst of paganism. v
:"no\v, i ao not say mat me uiuren t
is doing too much ; I do not say that '
she is doing one-tenth part of her duty
in giving the light and loveof the Gospel
to the dark portions of the earth ; j?
but it is high time for the Church to u
arise in her majesty and in her Christian
philanthropy, and say to the nations
of Christendom: "You must im- j
mediately begin to learn War no more j
by disbanding your great armies, and
cease to build forts and_war ships, and ,,(
begin at once to live in Feacc, as towns e
and cities now live in the same na- n
lions, and settle all your difficulties, 0
not by the hideous power of murderous
brute force, utterly disregarding
the principles of common sense, philanthropy,
and the Christian religion.
but by the power of Arbitration." ^
When this is done, the Church can
comistently march through all the
[lark places of the earth with the white
banner of Peace "conquering and to
conquer," ana not urjorc.
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Ciiistian Giving". fl
God gets a part of our superfluity, y
ami that is ail. We must dress like
yur neighbors, live up to our rank of ft
life, put a little by for a "rainy day," al
and something for ourchildren. "We (j
must bejust before we are generous," oi
we think. And then, with some re- y
serve for recreation, and some for mis- j)
sellaneous trifles, all the rest shall be ?
the Lord's. It may be but a "mite," t<
but did not he accept a mite? So the
very narrowness of our dole to the h
Lord who has saved us, links us with t!
lltfl WI1U I I till 1 l."5 ^J/CUiUI LUIU I1IV.II MUUW.I . y|
Better keep it all back than give it S(
in that fashion. But the amount giv- >j
en just hinders us from realizing where g
we are. We give it ungrudgingly, ft
perhaps; we think it has the Lord's r(
approval therefore. We do not think g,
liow much it is that we can give ungrudgingly.
ci
Ungrudgingly it must be. Love it at
must be. Though I gi"f all my goods tl
(n lend the r>imr. excent it be love that n
joes it, it will be utterly contemned, cl
But if our love is measured by what e<
we give to him, how serious i9 the ti
j uestion raised! e<
In this great world of sorrow and of h
evil, Christ has interests dear to his t(
heart?how dear, no one of us perhags
lias a notion of. Souls lie in darkness a]
to whom his word would give light, h
ind in bondage to whom it would Ci
tiring deliverance. He says to us, ''I di
?ount upon my people to do this."
How can we answer to him for this 0i
confidence he h?s placed in us? Shall h
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with my neighbors, to provide for the t?
future, to do a great many things. fa
which I thought of more importance?" fr
5r shall we nay, "Lord, thou art so pi
jreat, so high,'so powerful, thou sure- si
ly canst not want my help in a matter ai
like this !" or, again, "Lord, thou art j|
o gracious, I am sure thou wilt accept ,sj
mything I may bring, I would not n
suppose thee a hard Master, to want n:
me to bring thee much?" Alas, what ci
shall we say? Sftall we not rather ij
>wn with broken hearts how little we dl
liniift vnlnnrt him 9?P. Tlr_ QrCLtlt. id
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Laws of War. le
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Put war has its laws. Among the h
laws of war is the right to dominate, y<
for a time, all the liberties and human- ii
ities thut have grown up in times of it
ueace. It does not sieal.hut"forages." tl
It respects neither property nor life. o<
War knows no Sabbath. Some com- tl
manders liave advised its observance, sc
but uot one of them would dare refuse tl
to desecrate it by a battle if military
reasons called for one ou that day. If st
lie did, he would be court-martialed. ,ju
As the common law of England, our | fa
inheritance, lias come to be a well-de- .si
[hied system, made up of accumulated ni
precedents, so war, practiced by all
nations, has its code fairly settled w
imong civilized people by usage. Cer- di
:ain methods of killing and stealing se
luring a war are denounced and nun- ai
shed as contrary to its code. Inoeed, Jo
hat very indefinite and unsettled, but w
recognized, system called ''Interna- as
ionul Laws," in wliich we have all ri
liad more or Jess instruction in ourstu- ai
lent days, is largely made up of max- cj
ms to be observed, duties ami prom- tl
aitions belonging to tlie state of war, hi
tvlrich stale lias been for centuries the
normal condition of some of the lead- fi<
ng nations of Christendom. Great rn
Britain, for instance, has had over
:\venty wars in the so-called peaceful
lialf century of Victoria.
But war also has its spirit and charicter.
Like a nation Willi a history, a d
iterature; laws and couduct, so war, ni
ivitli its organization, its discipline, us ni
inities and diversities, is, in some tl
sense, a person. It is animated by a T
Jistinctive and definable spirit. It in
exhibits certain moral qualities, and is pr
created as responsible. Indeed, this j Im
*reat engine which the nations have tl
created and gradually developed has v<
{rowti to such proportions as to re-lit
mind us of the terrible mechanical j ei
monster [Mrs. Snelley's "Franken- fii
Htein"] which the inventor was said to pi
liave made so perfect that, when ani- fo
mated, it became his tyrant, and tor- h<
mentor. War has not only an all-per- d<
i-mlimr jirul ?niniHtiiiir snirit. it exhib-l
ils more or less of what is called char-1
'icier. The na'ions themselves nre;p<
afraid of it. Once unchained, tlie; i.<
monster is n|t<> become a law untojT
himself.?Advocatc of I'cacc. I n<
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There is no part of a man's nature ai
which the yospel does not purify, nojP
relation (?f his life which it does not.ai
hallow. lei
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Nobody.
f nobody 8 noticed you, yon must be small;
f nobody's slighted you, you must be tall;
f nobody's bowed to you, you must bo low;
f nobody's kissed you, you're ugly, you
know;
f nobody's envied you, you're n poor elf;
(' nobody's flattered you, you've flattered
yourself;
f nobody's cheated you, yon are a knave;
f nobody's hated you, you are a slave:
f nobody's called you a tool to your face,
iomebody's wished for your back in lis place;
f nobody's called you a tyrant or scold;
ioniebody thinks you're of spiritless mold;
f nobody knows of your faults but a friend,
Jobody will miss them at the world's eud;
f nobody clings to your purse like a fawn,
Tobody'li run like abound when It's gone;
f nobody's eaten his bread from your store,
Jobody'11 call you a miserly bore;
i iiuuuii.> n ninuucicu ?iicic jojuui jh-u ,
Ign yourself "nobody" quick as you can.
Disobedience to Parental Authority.
BY REV. A. M'lNTYRE.
In the thriving village of in
he State of there fivgd a family
f much respectability and influence.
?he youngest child was a son called byhe
pet name of Bennie. At the time
f which we write he was a youth
aurteen or fifteen years of age, heal
hy, active and intelligent, popular
tli the boys of the village and aoniehing
of a leader among them. Benie
was a member of the select school
f the village, forward in his books, a
ood scholar with plans already laid
)r usefulness. He had no idea of beng
a drone in the bustling hive of hulan
activity. With all the freshness
nd zest of his youthful vigor he had
etermined to carve a place for himself
i the busy world. The household of
rhich Bennie was a member attended
egularly at the house of God and livJ
under the wholesome restraint ol
iligious influence. His mother and
ther members of the family werepro;ssing
Christians and he himself a
lember of tlie Sabbuth-school. Benie
could not be called a bad boy, raier
the revt-rse. He was thought to
e excellent in his way, yet he had
>mo dangerous traits in him that call
il loudly for control, inese were unlistakably
manifest at timea when he
'ould put at defiance the parental aulority.
Such were the surroundings
f hisyouth, and with prospects most
attering, when the fatal catastrophe
vertook him which brought his
oung life to an inglorious end.
On Saturday afternoon of a beautiil
autumn day his father, about to be
bsent from home for a short time, reuested
the son to take charge of the
tlice. Btnnie in company with a
oung companion had agreed on a
unting excursion that very afternoon.
i! t*1cj n/vmmn n/1 V?*? I
'mc^uiuiug uia luiuvi o wuiumuu *-?%
>ok the gun and started. The father
jeing this, took the weapon from
im and put it in its place, repeating
se order that he must stay in charge
F the office during his absence. The
>11 waited until his father was out of
ghton his journey; then he took the
un and with his companion started
>r the woods. They passed alotig the
iad eastward from the house up u
en tie accent a short distance and halt1
at the place where the railroad and
irriage road intersect. Here Bennie,
andingon the end of a tie, let down
le butt of the gun on the ground and
lacinc the muzzle a<rainst his side
lose to the small of his back he leanI
upon it and began a wriggling moon.
Immediately the gun dischargJ
and lodged the entire contents of a
eavy charge of shot in the body close
> the spine. The shock was terrible,
[is companion sounded the alarm
ud Bennie was immediately brought
nine. The best surgical skill was sejred,
and everything possible was
one to save his life.
The appalling situation into which
ne act of disobedience had plunged
im filled him with dread. The tenmif?
tl-w? /lunQdlocu ivntnhinrr thp
arful and loving forgiveness of his
ither, the prayertf of loving Christian
iends, and especially of his godly
astor, all were of no avail; the cruel
lot was the fatal message of death,
[id after nine days of iutense sufferig
Bennie passed into the land of
lints. But the bodily suffering was
ot to be compared with his agony of
tiud. The thought that he was to be
.it off" so prematurely and his young
fe blighted by one persistent deed of
Isobedience would come upon him
ith nnwprfnl fnrne and then his men
. v.. f
il anguish no tongue could tell. He
ft a message lor his companions to be
arnetl by h's example, aud charged
is pastor at hie funeral to warn all
Dung people in the most public mailer,
never to be guilty of a like offense
st the same or a similar end overtake
lem. The day of his funeral was an
?casion not soon to he forgotten for
le salutary lesson it taught, as amidst
>bs and weeping we laid his body in
le silent grave.
Let the youth who reads this little
ory be also warned of the danger in
ist one act of disobedence. No sin so
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Ltl 1. <i UOb VJ1JV llUtiwgi vnmw,. ? ? ?
n of Eden, the parent of all human
lisery.
He who wilfully disobeys a parent
ill wilfully disobey God. He who
isregards parental authority will soon
(t at defiance the laws of the land
id incur a penalty that is sure to fol\v.
As the subject of this sketch, he
ill be overtaken by some terrible disiter,
or like Cain (if not seized by the
gorsof the law) he will be a fugitive
id a vagabond on the face of the
irtli; or like Judas, the betrnyer of
ie Lord, he may be led to lay violent
!Uids on his own life.
"Surely to obey is better than sacri?e,
and to hearken than the fat of
mis."?Religious Herald.
Quiet Work Tells.
Large conventions, meetings, where
lou-ands are in attendance, etc.,
tike a big noise in the world and till
nch space iu the newspapers, yet
ley do not accomplish very much,
he most of the work lias to be done
i a uery different way. On this point
diticians seem to understand matters
iter than ministers. They tell us
lat though class-meetings and con- <.
jntions are striking and exciting, yet
is tlie silent, hidden work thatiniiu- :
ices the campaign. The men, therere,
that work in the out-of-the-way
aces and in private, can take com- i
rt, knowing that though little is ;
ard of them in the world, they are
jing a great work for the Lord.
Peace is a distinctive promise and
isscssion of Christianity. Where
ace is not Christianity can not lie. ;
here is nothing elevated which is
nt exalted by peace. Of wisdom it
as been said, ''AH her ways are pleasntness,
and all her paths are peace."
eace has ever been the longing and j
>pi ration o" the noblest souls, wheth- i
r for thems?lveu or their country.
Moral Character of War.
BY R. B. HOWARD.
This institution, whose history and
literature are nothing, if not bloody;
whose heroes are not heroes if they
have not, by themselves or others,
done much killing; whose laws, as far
as they can be ascertained, are remorseless
and cruel; whose spirit, an seen
and felt in the final and ultimate end
to which all war must come?the battle-field
on sea or land?is certainly
selfish, grasping, mercenary, unforgiving,
unsparing, tyrannical, and, may I
not add,at times diabolical? Its entire
character is so far removed from
that of Jesus Christ and his followers
as to be evidently unchristiau ; yes,
an/l-christian and wicked. This institution
still in 1887 claims not only
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LUC IJf?llL IU CAIOt, UUl IllUlIUUUlij CI1UI
its existence is necessary, and boldly
demands not only the tolerance but
the respect and honor of the Christian
church.
Wheu one classifies it, as I have often
done in public addresses, wittv slavery,
intemperance, polygamy and
duelling in its essential moral quality,
and together with them have advocated
its abolition, I am met with certain
words with which reformers are not
unfamiliar?"Impracticable!" "Utopian!"
"Fanatical!" "Untime'y!"
They say, "Yes, war is an evil, but not
a sin. It cannot be cured. It must be
enuurea. i ne woria is noi ripe ror its
abandonment."
People imagine conditions, and create
hypotheses, and triumphantly ask,
"What would you do?" They usually
tell the story of some individual who
resolved not to fight and was overcome
by temptation. Or they point triumphantly
to John Britfht's admission
that our civil war could not have been
avoided by the Union.
A Great Man's Greatest Thought.
At a dinner table at the Astor House
when Daniel Webster was Secretary
of State under President Fillmore, after
a period of silence which fell upon
the company of some twenty genllemeu
who were present, one of the
guests said:
"Mr. Webster, will you tell me what
was the most important thought that
ever occupied your mind ?"
Mr. Webster slowly passed his hand
over his forehead, and in a low tone
inquired of one near him,
"Is there auy one here who does uot
know me?"
"The most important thought thai
ever occupied my mind," said Mr.
Webster, "was that of my individual
responsibility to God." And aftei
speaking on this subject in the most
solemn strain for some twenty minutes,
he solemnly rose from the table
and retired to his room.
Thi9 incident, related by Harvey in
bis Reminiscences, serves to illustrate
the attitude of great minds towards
eternal things. Great men are not
scoffers. The men of flippant sneers
and godless jests are men of small
<^AlSKwn ft r?/l ftUft] Intft ? 1 T # Jj Af
tauuiu auu siianun uiicii<cui? xb touvi
the wise man who has "said in his
heart there is no God." It is not the
great man who casts off fear and restrains
prayer before Him.
A great man comprehends something
greater than himself for he is
but the image of a divine Creator,
uiurred, defaced and distorted by sin,
yet bearing testimony to the dignity
and grandeur of the divine original,
whose glory is so faintly shadowed in
the man whom he has made, and endowed
with intellect, and will and
conscience, and whom he has made to
feel, in the depths of his soul, the importance
of "Individual responsibility
to God."?Hastings.
Weighty Words and Trnc.
Mr. Wesley's apprehension as to
Methodists came from their material
thrift. Their frugality, industry, economy,
begot prosperity, and prosperity
begot sloth, ease, worJdiiue9s. weignty
words are used by Dr. Herrick
Johnson on this subject.
"The church Is rich, and growing
richer. She has gathered large stores
of the 'loaves and fishes' of this material
life. The millionaires appear
among the sons of God. "Purple and
fine linen," rather than 'raiment of
camel's hair, and a leather girdle,' arc
the apparel of the elect.
"Self-indulgence is begotten of this
increase of gain. If luxury can be
commanded, luxury is likely to be had.
Men will not walk a rough road if
wealth can velvet it.
"The church has never yet in an tne
Christian ages, withstood this peril
from material prosperity. She has
withstood peril from hunger, and
grown fat with want and desertions.'
She has withstood peril from Neronian
wild beastn, and the blood of her
martyrs has been her fruitful seed.
She has withstood peril from false doctrine,
and, repudiating the spurious
admixture, has flung her faith with a
clearer articulation and emphasis, to
the sight of men.
"But it is yet to be seen whether the
church can get rich and keep her
riches, and keep her Lord. Thus far
in history she lias gone down before
this peril. She is face to face with the
peril of to-day. It is instant, imminent,
chief of all."
War is not only the crime, it is the
lunacy of nations, a contagious, epidemic,
madness. But this evil would
not continue in Cnristian communities
u day longer, if the good Christian
men of every country were once to
recognize and acknowledge its monsiroiis
criminality. I. therefore, do
solemnly arraign the professed Church I
of Christ, in all its divisions save a
few small bodies who have borne aj
faithful testimony in this regard. 1 ,
arraign the churches of-Christendom
as guilty of all the crime and woe
which the continnance of this barlar- (
ous institution entails upon the world. (
The while robes of the bride of Christ ),
should be pure and spotless; but they h
have been draggled in blood. Wan
<terns to aim at setting up the king-|j
ilom of Satan in the earth; and yet j ^
the Church is its very bulwark. Jtj,
says God speed to the warrior as hej,
sets out on his mission of death. On ! j
this subject it in not Christian, out:,
Pagan. I charge upon tho professing |,
Church the responsibility for all tliej,
rvils which war inllicts upon soriety ;! j
for one word from her would stop them ,
nil. I make this charge with no bit-"
ternessand in perfect charity. But I,
make in all seriousness and solemnity, i
The heights of earthly promotion
c.nd glory lifts us no whit nearer heav-j
sii. It is easier to step there from the
lowly vale of humiliation aud sorrow, j
Wbat Others Saj.
(St. Louis Christian Advocate.) m
The great pains aud expense taken
by many city papers to gather and
publish reports of various crimes of
various degrees, from almost every
part of the country, iias no tendency i
to make men better nor in any way to
advance the interest of Bociety. On
the contrary it has the opposite effect.
It panders to a vitiated and debased
taste which grows and strengthens on
that which it feeds, and becomes morr :
and more debased. Familiarity wit!
crime tends to lessen abhorrence, am
as Pope has said, "We first endure,
cnen pity, tnen embrace." Buch pub
licHtions often stimulate the bad passions
of youth and excite in them a secret
desire to become participants in.
scenes and acts which they foolishly
regard as heroic, and urge them forward
in ihe commission of crime.
The fact that such things are sought -j
after?and this is the principal reason
why they are published?is itself, evidence
of a low and debased taste, ^nd
mnnv nf niip nnnnlai- nonara inofoo/l a/
being leaders of public opinion, are
merely its exponents, when in reality
they should seek to be both the one
and the other?both a guide and an exponent.
iStS
?
(Dr. J. W. Alexander.)
On Amusements. -As I grow older
as a parent, my views are changing , J
fust as to the dpn-rpp n( / nnfnrmlfir tn
this world which we should aUow to
our children. I* am horror-st#jck to
couut up the profligate chil^pKof pious
persons, and even njinnJcfre. Tne
door at which those influences enter
which countervail parental instruction
and influence, I am persuaded is
yielding to the ways of good society;
by dress, books, and amusements, an
utmosphere is formed which is not
Christianity. More than ever do I
feel that our families must stand in a
kind but determined opposition to the
fashions of the world, breasting the
waves like the Eddystone Lighthouse.
And I have found nothing yet which
requires more courage and independence
than to rise even a little, but decidedly
above the par of the religious
world around us. Surely, the way we ^ -"if
commonly go on is not the way of
self-denial and sacrifice and cross-bearing
which the New Testament speaks
of. Our slender influence on the circle
of our friends 19 ofteu to be traced
to our leaving so little difference between
us.
(Times and Democrat)
Nipped in the Bud.?It was proposed
to have a game of base ball in
Charleston last Sunday, but, to their
honor ue it saiu, the authorities nippea
the matter in the bud and gave the
base ballists to understand that they
would be arrested-4f any game was attempted.
While we do not believe in
blue laws we agree with the Charleston
Sun that "the decorous observance
of Sunday is a matter of supreme importance.
It is a foundation stone of
the conservative religious sentiment
that makes the strongest safeguard this
country has against political and intellectual
anarchy. It carries back the
people once in every week of the year
to nratit.ical reoocnition of aternal
truth and acceptance of the doctrines
and the spirit of the fathers." We
thauk the Charleston authorities for
the promptness with which they acted
in the matter. Let us one and all remember
the Sabbath Day and keep it
holy
(Texas Christian Advocate.)
Some of our contemporaries have
been too severe on Dr. Kelley. Itcannot
be denied that ho has made a seiious
mistake, that his course cannot be
defended, and that the doctrines of hie
letter are pernicious. It is not onlv
the right, but the duty of the Churcn
press, to show the evil of his teaching
and defend the Church and the ministry.
It is not proper, however, for the
Church press to turn itself into judge
and jury to try any man. A Cnurch
newspaper is not a proper court of trial
for a Methodist preacher. A Church
newspaper, in our opinion, oversteps
the bounds when it suggests thet Dr.
Kelley "resign his office" and "retire
from the notice of the Church."
lite atiipping-jiope rvn.
The skipping-rope fever usually begins
early in the fall. It attacks Indiscriminately
girls of all ages. When
the thermometer drops from ninety to
sixty degrees, there is not one young
girl out of a hundred but feels the natural
and inherited hunger for the
skipping-rope.
Now there are two ways of jumping
the rope. One is for the girl to turn it
herself, going forward, as if on a run,
instead of jumping always in the same
nlace. This wav. in moderation, is
healthy, for it is an easy, natural motion,
straining no Dart of the body unduly.
The other way to jump the rope is to
gel one girl atone end and another at
the other, and then to jump until tripped
or tired out. The latter method is
always the favorite?first, because it
becomes a game iustead of an exercise,
and, secondly, because the girl has
nothing to occupy her hands and cam
devote all her energies to jumping.
Here is where the danger comes In.
The steps are all up and down, up and
down, for three and even four minutes
on a stretch. Every time the girl
allfi' Ills HI tor a spring sue piuuuvn.a
slight?very slight?brain concussion.
The action of the heart is greatly increased.
After a full meal, indulgence
in rope-skipping, particularly with
other girls to turn, means dyspepsia
and misery in a few years.
Every one of these dangers is increased
tenfold by that momentarilyuccelorated
jumping-jack game of
"Salt, vinegar, mustard, pepper," in
which the turner tries to turn faster
than the jumper jumps, and thejump?r
tries to jump as fast as the turner
turns, until both are ready to urop
from exhaustion.
"How many turus can you jump?"
;s prolific of more evil to girls than
;heir mothers dream of. The determined
rivalry with which two children
will jump up and down till gasping
for breath, their pulse at one hunIred
and twenty a minute and the
ivell-nigh invisible blue veins in their
foreheads are swollen outby the quick,
irregular pumping of the heart, is
tA Qno
..
Go. find that heart less blest than thine,
And pour within his ear
Sweet words of peace, and comfort, too,
With sympathizing cheer;
Then shall thou rind ahapplnesn
Around thy being thrown;
The peace diffused mothers' hearts
Khali make more blessed thine own.
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