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The Abbeville Press and &iimH ? ?? - _ ' ?. I " - m i ????? BY HIJGH WILSON ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1888. VOLUME XXXII. NO. 51,5|Sj Xaughtj Little Why. BY K. T. KARKIX. Whatever the request she made, If mamma but deny, The ready question always came, "I wish you'd tell me why." If she were suffering from a cold, And to go out would cry In snow or rain, and was refused, 'Twas still, "I don't see why." If just recovering Jrom disease She'd still her questions ply; "Can't I eat this?" "Oh, no, my dear!" "Mamma, I don't see why." She'd ask for things she must not eat Nor wear, and still would cry, When kind mamma her child refused, "I'm sure I don't sec why." We hope that when she's older grown, Age will her need supply With wisdom's spectacles, so she No more will cry, "Why?" "Why?" What Chris Liked. Chris had bright red hair and blue eyes. When he came into the streetcar, the March wind had blown a rosy color into his cheeks, so that he looked like a very bright boy. He went to the front end of the car to put his fare into the box, and when he came back, a young lady was entering the door. Chris sat down opposite her, and waited uutil she had drawn from her purse the little black circle which was the ticket used on the line. Before she had even time to raise her eyes, she saw a red mitten held out before her, and dropped the ticket into it with a pleased "Thank you." But before Chris could get back agaiu, his seat was taken. Three or four passengers had come in, and the i car was now quite full. The pretty young lady now bad for a neighbor au old womau with a brown veil tied around her head, and who wore a shiny alpaca dress, with coarse black lace sewed in the sleeves. She had placed on the flloor a thick, brown paper bundle, fully two feet long; and ol course, with such a thing at her feet, she could hot get up very easily. So Chris offered to carry her fare for her, and she thanked him with a grateful smile: she had a very pleasant face. It took her sometime to tind her pocket, and while Chris was waiting, he collected tickets and five cent pieces, quite like a young conductor. The old i lady finally handed him a quarter, ? ^ Vv** 4- /\ raAf />l>artrro f r/vtl 1 fh<J uuu, iw u? uau iu get iiiaugE 11 u.u mv driver, he was away so long that the car had stopped again before he return? ed. This time it was to let some of the passengers out; and the young lady looked up at Chris, and motioned to him to take the vacant place at her side. "I am very glad that you have a seat at last," she said, "for you lost yourtby your kindness to me; and you have heen kept busy ever since." "Oh!" said Chris, "I like to put money iu the box." "I think you like to be obliging, don't you?" asked the young lady. At this, the red color in the boy's cheeks, which bad grown a little paler since he was sheltered from the wind, became bright again. He did not know what to say, but was sure he ought to make some reply. ' I guess so," he answered ; and then tried to let the young lady see that he was looking verj' earnestly at the storewindow in front of which tbey were stopping. But for all that, he saw a thin-faced gentleman come slowly in, ? -?* ? orraiit UUU was JUSIUUU^ <JU ilia itcu ugim., saying eagerly: "Here is a seat, sir." The gentleman looked very tired and pale, and Chris thought he must be just recovering from a sickness. 01 course, there was now another fare to be paid, and he did it with a businesslike air, as of one accustomed to his work. "Have I taken your seat?" asked the gentleman. "It was very kind in you to give it up to an old man." Now Chris had not thought him old, though he looked feeble; and he was all at once afraid that in his haste he ? i * u? 4-- "EVv*. IDigui nave lorguuuu iu up pmc. i w without knowing how to put it iuto words, he knew that we are seldom really kind when we act as if we thought ourselves so. "I like to stand and hold on to a strap," said he. Tben, his eye happening to fall ou the old woman's big bundle, he began to wonder whether it were heavy and she had far to carry it, and whether, if he should get off' where she did, she would not let him take it a little way. All at once he became aware that they were crossing the street in which he lived, and that it was already supper time. He gave the bell-rope a quick ierk. and the car stopped. Three faces looked up as he passed, and gave him three bright smiles. One was the gift of the pale gentleman, one was from the pleasant-faced old woman, and one was from the pretty young lady. Al though it was six o'clock in the evening, he had a feeling as if the sun were shining on him, and he always liked to be in the sunshine. Reminders. If the iron wedge will not draw, build a fire of chips and heat it. There is one Dart of the farm that is not benefitted by draiuage, the manure heap. Politeness pays in a cow stable. A gentle man gets more milk than a harsh man. Straw and corn fodder are best worked into manure by putting them through good animals. The best preventive of trouble at lambing time is daily exercise for the ewes during winter. Separate the weaker animals ; they need extra feed, whereas with the stronger they get scant feed. Profit in farming comes from the maximum crops, the products of win xer mougut auu ?uiuui? wvir. Harness hung in a stable is damaged as much by the gases and dampness there as it is worn by use. If you do not wish c.jddy and lifeleas ground in the spring, keep the cattle off the field when the pr ;1 is soft. A fire burns better in a x.ot than in a cold furnace; it is equally true that an animal well winter is half summered. If open, outdoor feed troughs are turned over at night they will not be filled with snow and ice in the mornincr. If you place the axe near the stove for fifteen minutes it will cut better and not be so apt to break along the edge. The flavor of the fuel used for smoking meat is somewhat imparted to the meat, hence the fuel should be selected carefully. You have no right to feed a dog so long as you have not the mouey to provide your family with good papers a?d books. ' Sunday Rumatiz. I've been a lookin' over a 40-page catalog uv patent medicines an' don't see enny cure for Sunday runiatiz. Now, I think that Sunday rumatiz is the wust kind uv rumatiz, and I'm 'stouished to find that nobody haz got out a patent fur a Sunday rumatiz remedy. I think it is wun uv the wust dizeazes that ever racked a human konstitution; an' it's awful here in Sutheru Calaforny. I never heerd uv a saloon-keeper that ever had it, nor uv a theater actor; but its awful in the churches. I don't think it is Icauzed by the climeight, an' it don't iippeerio be a fleck ted by the weather. I will menshun suiu uv its simptums: 1. Sunday rumatiz keeps .phokes | from goiu' to meetin'. Week-day rumatiz wont keep a man from walkiu' a mile to the post-orifice, an'standin'an hour "in the line," till hiz turn kums. It won't keep him from goin' 'round the corner to "see a man," an' standin'a half houra look- , in'at him over the counter. It won't keep him from goin'down town uv a rainy day to duu a man that oze him a quarter. It won't keep him from climbin'a twenty-foot ladder to chink u d a hole in the roof; nor from stoopin' two hours a settin'-out kabbige. But when he brakes out with Sun- | day rumatiz, its awful to see hew seldum he can go to meetin'. A very bad ( attack uv Sunday rumatiz won't keep a man from coin' to the 'lection, nor < the theater;" but it kums on awful , when the bell wrings fur church. An' | it's strange, too, but a bad case u v Sunday rumatiz nearly always lasts long , enufi" to keep a man away from the | \Ve119day-nite prayer meetin'. I 2. Sunday rumatiz keeps phokes j from kueelin' down in time uv prayer, j Week-day rumatiz won't keep a man j from stayin' on his knees an hour a ( lookin' fur a lost nickel; an' he can | crawl under a barn after a settin' hen, | or a guse nest. But if he haz Sunday , rumatiz he can't kneel down to join , the congregoshun in prayer. An' snmtimes I've seen a woomun all < broke out with Sunday rumatiz. An' j T notice witnmen hav it wus when , they hav on their best close. J've seen , awoomanina ragged dre9, an' uv u week-day she cud get down on her j knees, an' scrub the floor; but when , Sunday kum, an'she wus all ciressea < up, she had such an awful case uv \ Sunday rumatiz bhe waz just able to , bow Lier bed a little when she prayed, j Oh, it wuz awful to see how the wuz a < sufferin'! _ 3. Sunday rumatiz keeps phokes j from enjoyin' religun. It keeps 'em from pheelin' humble. , Nobody can pheel humble with a bad ( case uv Sunday rumatiz. Humility is , about the fust letter in the alfabet uv , true religun, an' it's a capitle letter at ' that. But Sunday rumatiz iz a stranger to liewmility. It keeps 'em from j pheelin' sympathy. When a man haz , Sunday rumatiz he haz no sympathy fur a poor sinner at the penitent form. , An' I notice when a man iz a sufferin' ( with Sunday rumatiz, he don't shake , hands very warm with the preecher. i It keeps 'em from bein' soshible. It , shuts up the phountain uv pheelin', an' makes the poor sufferin' victim , pheel very fond uv hiz own society. Now, Messrs. Editurs, do you, .or enny uv yore pacific readers, kno uv , euny remedy fur this fashunable an' unkumfortable dizeaze. It's mighty ( thick here in Sutliurn Ualaforny, an' it stiffens up the people, an' thins out the prayer meetin' most awfully. It's az kontagus az the meezles, an' az disfigurin' az the smallpox. I don't beleev , "Saint Jacobs Oil" will do Sunday ru- ' matiz pashents enny good. But I do beleev if we cud have a phu dozzen cases uv real, old-fashioned, konfluent , religun, it wud limber up this Sunday rumatiz amazin'ly. Yours in kompasliun, . I "Cousin Betsey." ; Woman in the Printing Office. i It id a matter for surprise that so ( many girls and women flock into stores and shops where the service is irksome < uuu ywny rcuuiupvudtru, wiuic mc ; printing office opens to th?m a means of livelihood so much more agreeable, lucrative, and what is more important, 1 improving in its impress. The wo- ( man wlie has spent a year clerking in a dry goods store is probably no better off mentally at the end of that time, except in having her memory crowded with the prices of goods and the ( shades in which they come; while the urniv>nn ujIia 1?ocs honn o v?nr 111 a nrlnf- , U11JUU nuv/ LiUO U^Vll U JV?* 1UU J/**UV I ing office, especially if'she be working on a daily or weekly newspaper, has, , besides having earned better wages tliau her clerking sister, lived all that time in contact with ideas and with an outlook into the world of events. Aside from the avenues of mental progress which are thus open to her, she , has promise of financial advancement as well. If she be neat, methodical, and painstaking in her work, devoted to it, and not regarding it as a mere stepping stone to matrimony or a stand-by until the fairy prince drops iu and carries her away, these facts will soou be apparent, commending her to her employers, and their propor- , tionate financial appreciation. Many points mark woman's fitness for work at the printer's trade. She seldom goes on sprees, is not given to decorating the premises with nicotine essence, and is, as a rule, deft-fingered and nimble-minded. The prophetic eye can forecast the model printing office of the future, which is to be manned (if the expression is admissible) by women printers, and to whom the model employer will take pride in disbursing wages in just proportion to their labors, and on a par with those paid to men.?Southern Trade Gazette. Millions Owe Him Gratitude.? Argand, a poor Swiss, invented a lamp with a wick fitted into a hollow cylinder, up which a current of air was permitted to pass, thus giving a supply of oxygeu to the interior as well as the exterior of the circular flame. At first Argand used the lamp without a glass chimney. One day he was busy in his work room, and sitting before the burning lamp. His little brother was amusing himself by placing a bottomless oil flask over different articles. n 1.1 1 ? 1. ? ?nnn tliA OUUUCIlIty lie fjiuucu it uuuu uic naiuu of the lamp, which instantly shot up the long neck of the flask with increased brilliancy. It did more, for it flashed into Argand's mind the idea of a lamp chimney, by which his invention was perfect. How shall we dare to behold that holy face that brought salvation to us, and we turned away and fell in love with death, and kissed deformity and sin ? V 4. . . .V ... s. .... ... - Duty. BY ANNA TEMPLE. I lieltl a flower In my hand; "f was night, I could not see; And Judging from the perfume, thought The flower must ugly be. But when the morning came, and light With Its transforming power, I did forget all else, except The beuuly of the flower. God placed a duty in my hand, Before mine eyes could see Its rightful form, that duty seemed A bitter thing to me. The Sun of Glory rose and shone: Then duty I forgot, And thought with what a privilege The Lord has blessed my lot. Eyery Dny Duties. Emma C from her cradle was Kiiuwiius a uci vuu?, fr^iiainvc ^imu. Her parents in her presence declared that she was "different from other children ; too highly organized to be interested in the small details of affairs ; unfit for the practical drudgery of life." Atschool she wrote and committted to memory poetry, and was regarded as a genius by her companions. Her old teacher shrewdly pronounced her to "have every sense but commonsense." She went out into the worJd making the grievous mistake of supposing that the ordinary rules by which other people should properly govern their conduct were not for her. As a middle-aged woman she had tender feelings, fine sympathies, and fervent religious faith. But her dress, though clean; was untidy; her house was disorderly; being ignorant of work, she demanded impossibilities from her servants, and discharged them every week. She forgot to pay I x J -t- - 4. i.. /IaIa ner U'Haesmen; Kiits iuiguu i<j uuio uci letters; she forgot to order coal when it was needed, or meat for Sunday's liuner. Then when her husband and boys sat down, shivering and grumbling, she retired to pray that they might have grace to subdue their bad tempers. With a sublime confidence in friendship, she would arrive with two or three children, uninvited and unexpected, at houses where she had no right to make herself a guest, for a visit of weeks; or she would keep her icquaiutauces in the city busy shoppin i for her with a mere hint of instructions and no money. She showered tracts on every side, without the slightest reference to their suitability. She preached in season and out of season. with no idea of adaptation to the individual character, 'suffering, or needs of those to whom she spoke. One poor lad, who had gone astray, and now lay dying at the house of a friend, was struggling to come nearer to his Saviour, when she suddenly besieged him with arguments, maudlin verses and hackneyed appeals. "She inakes religion hideous to me J" lie exclaimed, and refused to bear a word further from her on the subject. After having, for sixty years, with the best intentions and the sincerest faith, worked much evil in the world, 3he died; and all who knew her, through theic tears, drew a breath of relief. The highest virtues fail of their errand if the homely qualitie3 of comtnon-seuseand discretion are lacking. "Keep your eyes fixed on the stars," " ^ im..i *3* ?ays ine uerman provwru. oui uu not forget to light the household caniles by the way." Suicide aud Self-Control. The frequency of suicides is notable, and it is believed to bo very often due to the sudden impulse of those who have never learned to control their feelings or passions. These persons often meet with great and sudden disappointments, or suffer from great revulsions of feeling, and the effect of an imperfect control of the will is that the dogs of passion slu> their leash and lead the way to self-destruction. The control of the will is one of the great things to be done by any one, and it is one of the things to be done in childhood. The example of a mother is fnmmended who Dluncred the head of a rebellious child into cold water when lie persistently disobeyed her. The fight for liberty was sharp and strong. The mother kept the head under water as long as she dared to, but the moment the child could grasp for breath * he breathed defiance. Three times did the head go under, and it was only the third time the mother secured an obedient son. She taught him to obey her, and in doing that he learned to control himself. It is believed that there would be far fewer suicides, excepting those which come from insanity, if young people were rigidly taught at home to practice the art of self-conTt lnoka ns if n. larcfl number of tbe suicides of younger persons could be traced to their lack of self-control and of training in moral responsibility. ? Praise the Boy. It often costs me quite a struggle to do this simple duty; and when one does his simple duty, in spite of his temptation to do differently, he deserves credit for his doing. One has no need to live long in this world before finding out this truth. A bright little boy about two and a half years old, recently showed that he apprehended it He was on the eve of do ing something that was very tempting to him. "No, my son, you mustn't do that," said bis father. The little fellow looked as if he would like to do it in spite of his father's prohibition; but he triumphed over his inclination, and answered resolutely, "All right, papa; I won't do it." There was no issue there, and the father turned to something else. The boy waited a minute, and then said, in a tone of surprised inquiry, "Papa, why don't you tell me, 'That's a good boy!'" The father took the hint and said an encouraging word. Perhaps some other father may need the same hint, and may profit by the suggestion. It is not wpII to keen all kind words until our friends are dead, and then put them on the gravestones. If an apple tree ha9 a sound trunk and roots, it is a pity, says the American Cultivator, to destroy it under most circumstances. It takes many years to get a young tree into bearing, and when it does bear it will not furnish nearly so much fruit as one fully grown. By grafting with the Northern Spy and liberally manuring, an old apple tree may be made much more Certainly productive thau young trees of this variety, which are usually shy and tardy bearers. n Growth In Gracc. Growth in grace is generally slow. Christians often become discouraged in their attempts to make higher attainments in the divine life. They read or hear of distinguished saints, and in comparison they seem but pigmies. It would be a remedy for discouragement, if they would follow these distinguished saints in their struggles, and note the steps by which* they leached their high position. This is one reason why the word of God is so full of examples, and one reason why these examples should be carefully studied. The life of Peter furnishes a case in point. It is interesting to follow him from the day when he was called to be a disciple on the banks of the Jordan, to the time when in his old age, he wrote his episi ties in Babylon. No one can study his history without noting his spiritual growth. The author of the epistles does not seem to be the same man who followed the Master up and down through Galilee; he speaks in a different tone and with a different accent. On the night in which Jesus waa arrested, Peter drew his sword and struck with all determination, at the head of one of the officers of the law ; in his epistle he says, "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's take." On that night, he fled, like a coward, from Christ and from suffering; in his epistle he says, "Rejoice. inasmuch as yeare partakers of Cnrist's suffering." On one memorable occasion he said, and he thought in this saying he had gone to the extreme limit of required charity, "How often shall my brother trespass |against me, and I forgive him? Till seven times?" But after he had passed through the experiences and tiials of along life, could write, "Aboveall things, have fervent charity, among yourselves." He who once rebuked the Lord for speaking of his death makes that death one of the prominent themes iu his later writings. The rude and impulsive fisherman, before his death, became even more gentle than some of his fellow apostles. Jamessays with deserved severity, "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ?" Peter speaking to the class, uses a tenderness of which those who knew him only in his earlier years would liaruiy oeneve mm possessed, "Dearly beloved, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul." Peter grew in grace. The troubles anp persecutions through which he parsed were sanctified to him; he came out of the furnace "as gold that had been purified." Bo will it be with all believers who imitate Peter's faith and faithfulness. As long as we have his ezample and the many similar ones which are to be found in the inspired word, we need never be discouraged in our efforts to grow up into the stature of perfect men.? United Presbyterian. How Can We Lov? Onr Enemies? RY THE REV. WILBUR F. C'RAETS. Tn mu oorlw fVirtafian lifa this rill' S tion greatly troubled me, as I doubt not it does many conscientious young Christians to-day. Some thiuk of it as a part of a "higher life" which only a few Christians are ever expected to attain. Others think it impracticable ?something that no one but Christ ever did or ever will do. How can one love his enemies as he loves his friends and his God ? The difficulty is at least diminished by distinguishing three different kinds of Christian love : first, the love of es teem, that looks up?the love which we feel toward God ; second, the love of sympathy, that looks straight out? the love with which wo love congenial fellow Christians; third, the love of compassion, that looks down in tender pity, rather than contempt or hatred on all we think to be in the wrong, including not only the corrupt but all we dislike or count as enemies. mis last is tne most uisiiucuve "Christian love"?"the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit," making us love the unlovply, making us love others as God loved us; because every human being is a son of God, however way ward ; because each human being is a brother or sister of Christ, for whom he died; because every human being is also an immortal being; because every one who wrongs himself still more, and so is to bo pitied and saved rather than despised or 1 i..J JULBieU. There is little credit in the love of esteem, in loving the altogether lovely or in the love of sympathy?"If ye love them that love you, what reward have ye ?" The only form of love that proves us Christians, with new hearts that love like God, is the love of compassion, that loves according to ueeds, not according to merits. It is this love that Paul pictures in xi?i ..j?a.1 i/Liat wuiiucnui niixieeiiiii uuupuji ui First Corinthians?the love that "suffers long and is goodnatured," that is greater than faith or hope. He who lacks it may have begun to be a Christian in the will, but he is not a Christian at heart. It was this love that opened heaven to Stephen. It opens to no other key. "He thatJoveth not, knoweth not God, for God is love."? Christian Intelligencer. ????? .i Stand Together. It is easy to object to the theological views or personal character of peace men. But can we not consent to ig- j nore differences on other points and unite to promote the one on which we agree? This has been done for war. 1 Why not for peace? In the civil war no soldier volunteering to fight for his j country, was rejected because he was | not a Christian, or an abolitionist or a i total abstinence man. Those who i united to foster a public seutiment in ] favor of prosecuting the war, laid j aside for the time being, altercation as to things on which they differed. ( "Ye have agreed together to lie unto i the Holy Ghost," was the capital crime of Ananias and Sapphire. If i persons combine for evil," let others j uuite for good purposes.? Am. Ad. < Peace ci'id Arbitration. j In cases of alcoholic poisoning?the < comatos? condition of intoxication? the promptest recovery of consciousness will follow the subcutaneous in- j jection of a mixture of one part of ammonia with two to six parts of water. ] Police snrgeons who deal with cases of , unconsciousness will find this a con- ] venient method of determining wheth- I er a given case is due to whisky, com- 1 pression of the brain, or nervous dis- < order. I - . v ' - ?*>-<' ' 1 u- _ :-y. ; This Life is What ire Mnke it. Let's oftcner talk of noble deeds, And rarer of the bad ones. And sing about the happy days, And not about the sad ones. We were not made to fret and sieh. And when grief sleeps, to wake It; Brliiht happiness Is standing by? This life Is what we make it. Let's find the sunny side of men, Or be believers in it; A light there is in every soul That takes the pains to win it. O, there's the slumbering good In all, -And we perchance may wake it; Our hands contain the magic wand? This life Is what we make it. Then here's to those whose loving hearts Shed light and joy about them! Thanks be to them for countless gems We ne'er had known without them. O. this should be a happy world " To all who may partake It; The faults our owr. If It is not? This llle 1h whut we make It. i'oncornluK Kc?(nsy and Rapture In Prayer. (Francis De Sales.) As Iberc is nothing nearer to the Saviour's heart than gentleness, humility, and charity, we must diligently cultivate these graces?love to our neighbor, humility toward God. True satisfaction consists in a capacity for the enjoyment of God, rot. in imaginations and raptures, which only foster self-conceit, aud drive out obedience and humility. It is a mere abuse to aim at ecstnsy. Let us practice true, hearty meekness and submission, self-renunciation, love of abjection, kindness to others, and we shall have attained the best and safest kind of ecstasy granted to God's servants. When you see a person go into raptures and ecstasies in prayer, who at the same time knows np ecstasy in his life?I mean whose life is not lifted up and raised to God by renunciation of worldly desires and the natural inclination and will; who is devoid of interior gentleness, simplicity, humility, above all, of coniinu al chrity?you may be sure that all hid raptures are very questional and dangerous; they are raptures which may excite the wonder of others, but which will never sanctify those who experience them. Whatgain is there to a soul in being rapt and ravished in praver if his ordinary life and conversation are wrapped up in low. earthly things? Surely, to live above one's self in prayer, and yet to be low in life and action ; to be augelicin meditation, and earthly conversation, is to swear both by God and Baal I. Nor can there be any reasona ble doubt that all such raptures and ecstasies are mere deceits and delusions of Satan. Belssed, indeed, are tbey who live a supernatural life, raised altogether above themselves, although they have never been carried away with any rapture in prayer. There are many saints in paradise who never tasted any rapture or ecstasy in contemplation?many who never knew any greater privilege in prayer than that of demotion and ferver?but there was never pet a saint whose life was devoid of those active raptures which consist in victory over self aud natural disposition. VAAIImII "Avoid foolish questions."* (Titus, ili, 9.) - Our days are fe\*, and are far better spent iu doing good than in disputing over matters which are at best of minor importance. The old school men did a world of mischief by their incessant discussion of subject of no practical importance; and our Churches suffer much from petty wars over abstruse points and uuimportant questions. Ar'ter everything has been said that can be said, neither party is any the wiser, and therefore the discussion no more promotes knowledge than love, and it is foolish to sow in so barren a field. Questions upon points wherein Scripture is silen, upon mysteries which belong to God alone, upon prophecies of doubtful interpretation and upon mere modes of observing cere1? a ma nil icl-* on rl ttrioo man UiUlimiS) aic an iuuiioii, ?tiu mow ujvu avoid them. OttT business is neither to ask nor answer foolish questions, but to avoid them altogether. And if we observe the apostle's precept (Titus, 18,) to be careful ^o maiutain good works, we shall find ourselves far too much occupied with profitable business to take much interest in unworthy contentions and needless strivings. There are, however, some questions which arc the reverse of foolish, which we must not avoid, but fairly and honestly meet, such as these : "Do I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ? am I renewed in the spirit of my mind? Am I walking after the flesh or after the Spirit? Am I growing in grace? Does my conversation adorn the doctrine of God my Savior ? Am I looking for the coming of the Lord, and watching as a servant does for his Mr.ster ? What more can I do for Jesus?" Suoh inquiries as these urgent-) , 1 1 ...i ?.i?J :( ?,n iy utuimuu dui uneuuuu ; uuu n have been at all given to caviling, let us now turn our critical abilities to a J service so much more profitable.?Let us be peacemakers, and endeavor to lead others, both by our prayer and example, to "avoid foolish questions." "Study those things which make for peace."?Spurgeon. Reverence. There is no virtue, no grace, in postures and attitudes. This truth we do not question. But if we refuse to express reverence, we shall soon cease to feel reverence. * This also is a truth. It is not enough to be interested, in a genernl sense, iu the services of the sanctuary. "God is greatly to be feajed (reverence) in the assembly of the saints audio the congregation." True reverence, real worship, will express itself somehow, as long as we lire compounded of body and spirit. Starve expression, and how long will the feeling endure. We are persuaded that it has declined in many if not in most of our congregations. It is greatly (o be wished that it might be revived. But in order that it may become a fixed habit of our souls, we need to adept suitable methods of ex praying if we adopted some proper attitude of prayer. By kneeling, bowing the head, cevering the eyes?by some bodily action ar attitude expressive a reverent rdoration?we shall be far more likely to cultivate the true <ptrit of devotion .?Exchange. The example of the Jews affords no justification of the wars of Christians. We are under another and a better dispensation, even that of Christ, the Prince of Peace, whose object was to promote peace on earth; and the practice of theJews will no more justify war than it would polygamy, sacrifices >r circumcision. Christ is our master; phrist is our example. * - ir. _ Sackcloth nnd Ashes. There are some calling themselves "evangelists" and others who are not evangelists who seem to think it a part of their mission in the world to regulate how women shall dress. The veiy "evangelists" who make themselves ridiculous by railing against .women's "fashions" follow men's fashions. They w?ar good clothes, that look like the clothes of the"worldly" man and the "sinner." They wear starched linen aud standing callars, and silk cravats, and nice hats, and hand-sewed shoes, and neat and "fashionable" suits?sometimes silk beavers and gold watch chains. They try to look neat and presentable. Then why should not the women look neat and presentable also?especially when it cost them no less to ao so than it costs the men? If these would-be dress re formers (for women) mean anything, why do they follow the "fashions" ? A suit of jeans is very comfortable In the Winter, and costs much lees than diagonals and broadcloths. A comfortable Summer suit can be had for live dollars. There is a great deal of service in anienty cent brogan and a dollaj wool hat, and an osnaburg shirt with a tucned down collar, which saves the expence of crayat and gold collar button. Before preaching sackcloth and ashes for the women, let the "evangelists" try a little sackcloth and ashes ou themselves.?Newberry Observer. Rev. A. B. Cabaniss. of the Western Recorder, is responsible lor what follows, and we suggest that where churches are divided on the cygan question it might be well to carry out the suggetion of the preacher: "A ohurch, in a certail town in Kentucky, was much divided on the orgau question. Cne of the members was in the, habit of going iuto the saloon and taking a drink whenever he felt like it, but had a holy horror of an organ in church. In a discussion of the subject he said: 'If you bring that organ in here it will split the church. I and a number of others will leave.' The pastor then spoke, saying; 'I can preach either with or without tne organ in the church. It is a matter of indifference to me. But, as the church is divided about it, and some say it will drive them out of the church, I think the wisest course for U9 is to put the !- 1L - J XI* t. IX organ in me saiuou, unu u see it won 1 keep our members out of that place also.'" A christening took place sometime ago iu a Cougregational churcli iu Providence whose minister stands very high in his profession. It happened that the infant cried lustily during the ceremony, much to the mortification of the parents. In tbe course of his sermon the minister paused, twirled his glasses in his hand, as was his wont and said : - "An incident earlier in the service calls to mind a story I once heard. At a christening the child had cried, and after the service the parents apologized to the officiating clergyman. 'There is not the slightest oause for any apology,' said he; 'for where should a chUd feel at liberty to cry if notinhis Father's house?'" What a delicate way this was to soothe the momentary sorrow of the parents in his congregation whose child bad, to their minds, disgraced them.?boston Times. ^ Col. T. W. Higginsou, who occupies the front rank among literary men, writes in Harper's Bazar, "I felt like taking down the sarords from above my fireplace and hiding them away forever, when first called upon to explain to my little girl what they meant and for what they stood." Bet ter take^hein down and beat them into plow-shares or some smaller im plemeni of husbandry. Those swords stand for patriotism and self-sacrifice for the natiou's sake. But to reach these objects, so dear to good men, they must cut and stab and hack and wound aud kill. We would rather put above the fireplace the hoe with which a father tilled the ground. There is no necessity that loving fathers or loving mothers should open to the tender minds of little girls and boys such horrors, except they would horrify them. When Peter of Cortona was engaged on a picture for the royal palace of Petti, Ferdinand II. particularly admired the, representation of the weepiug chiUi. "Had your majesty," said the painter, "a mind to see how easy 1? 4.k:? 97J ii 13 iu IIIUKC tuia vki j viu iu luugn . The artist merely depressed the corners of the eyebrows, when the little urchin seemed in danger of bursting his sides with laughter, wbo a moment before seemed breaking his heart with weeping. Lives worth living belong to the soul artists whose untiring consecrated hands are always wielding their brushes in changing tears into smiles, and sorrow into joy, brightening dark pictures, and retouching dim and faded ones?in His name. It is recorded of a Chinese Emperor that, upon being apprized of his enemies having raised an insurrection in one of the distant provinces, he said to his officers, "Come, follow me, and we will quickly destroy them." He marched forward, and the rebels submitted Apon his approach. All now thought he would take the most signal revenge, but were surprised to see the captives treated with mildness and humauity. "O!" said the first minister, "is this the manner in which you fulfil your promise? Your word was giveu that your enemies should be destroyed." "I promised to destroy my enemies. I have fulfilled my word; for, see, they are enemies no louger. I have made friends of them. Reading is generally a harmless oc cupatiQii, uui reading in nscn is en uu special benefit to man. The persons who are tlie greatest readers are not likely to bo the closest thinkers, nor yot to be the best informed persons. If one reads for a purpose, with a desire for knowledge in a specified line for an hour a day, he will, as a rule < gain more from his reading than the person who reads miscellaneously ill i the latest magazines and the newest , hooks, and iu literature generally, five times as much as that. If you read,! see to it beforehand that you know ' why you read, in order that you may i know afterward what gniu you have i from your eeading. ? i Some people are morose and dull and i disagreeable among strangers who ar? i always bright and cheerful tfnd obliging at home. Hold on, though ! That doesn't sound exactly right. We can't < sgy what the matter is, but there is something wrong about the statement somewhere. -J. What Others Sajr. \~Zz 'H Adoniram Judson on War. The one hnndreth anniversary of Jadson's Birth wiil be 1688.; This is what he wrote to Dr. Noah Worcester. "I hail the estabHsbtnort of peace societies as oue of the*iiost;<MBpiciou8 sigusof the present e-ventfnl era of the world. Siiwe -war- bits been tml? versarlly advocated and applauded by nearly, all cbaws of men, it appears to \ > me, that i&fe not optional ~wfth any to. j remain silent on this great question. Thus .remaining,-*hey nMwt be considered as<belon^iQg. to the'.war party. I have for seme time determined to make whatever efforts were weceseary to comply with the. dMtates of conscience, and wash my hands ot the blood that is-shed in> war. I "beg the privilege of being a -member of the MassatHiusetts Peace.ftoeiotv. rolling of one's name amorcg-the members of a peace soetety, I consider as virtually saying I regret 4 h&ericse and . bJood with whieh-itae^miteraWe-race of / man has been?deluged'from age to age. I repent of whatever exfrtwstoas or acts in my past life may have cherish- ^ led the war-spirit in myself or others. ^ I repent that I have so longdelay^dto enter any protest agHiiret; the practic of war by some overt act?a meaaare | which appears to be, in the pvesept ' , ' '.r, state of things, the iadiepen sable--duty '? of every Christian ; and I Vesolve that hereafter I will endeavor to dflfhee the sentiments of peace asfara^ltefr.n my power." (Bprinafleld Republican.) ' Jw "It iswell to pereuade men to quit drinking intoxeating Hqaors, but a man may be all the greater semittdrel % ?he-may be all the wore *abfdiy vi- J4 cious? for havinga braiu unaffected by thefumee of atcoboL Wh^t--drink- ' iug men need 4s Christianity; "what _ rrumKUra ntiH 'Wfctri .'iidiJ-ta ~ fhrla. tianity;what licentious men need is Chrisiianity. It is the radical, ..y* thorough and complete remedy-for all the real evils of'society: rndtr-practi- a|s cal application of Christian ty "to all social, political, labor and Other pro^ blems, wouM inaugurate the-reign of u the kingdom of heaven ~npon earth. It would bring men at onee Into hea- ^ venly conditions, so that at the hour of death they wouldonly be pAssing into a large and freer rangeof the same sort of spiritual Hfe, and *wotild-scarce- . ly besurprised or astonished as thtey p touch the further shore." (Exchange.) ' A Change fok Worse in Evan- . gelical Christendom. The extreme - .< % attention now-paid to mere *personal, sensual comfort in places Of 'worship. - -m How easy are the hours, how soft the naaln ?f?> wfci- #1% a a(? V a ?rt?%0lfi .. scaiD, uvir wjiiui vuc ait i iuc uiuoiv must be without a mistake. The sermon, whatever its snbject, must be *j short. If it is "beautifal," no inquiry $ is made as to whether 1t isusdft& The ^ old idea of meeting together to wor- ; ship God is giving place to thenew '/$ idea of hearing man. And thlsmufct . ' 3 be a change for the worse.. (Boston Transcript.) Mayor Hewitt is getting himself -fl very much liked it) this country by his unflagging purpose to -discountenance the existence of associations ' which foster an alien rather tbahau American feeling. ^ i . Tile Best ?frta. . ? Peter Cartwright, the backwoods '% Methodist preacher,'once uttered the . ? following sentiments: UI would rather have the gift of a devil<dislodging power than-all the college lore or Biblical Institute knowledge that can be obtained from mortal man. When God wants- great and learned men in the ministry,-how easy k is lor mm to overcasts i earned sinner, and as Saul of Tonus, ?hake him awhile over hell, then knock the scales from his eyes, and without any previous theological training, send him out straightway to preach Jesus and the resurrection! When God . ~ calls any man to preach HfeGosp?I, If he will not reason with flesh and blood but do his duty and live* faith- "3 fully, my experience for it, God will qualify him for the work if he never saw a college." Hilllnc flh Ptnt'JfaB. . - :: The killing of a brother in- fcattiete a painful thing to remember. A fcoldler " '>s, of the late war thus tells Ms*tory. My first man I saw but twe*ty -seconds, but I shall remember him forever. I wasstauding by myrguc when , c : a Confederate infantry soldier rushed up, and made a lung* wi,th his bayonet at one of the horses. I took out my revolver and ah at hiin through the breast. ?ie tossea up nis arms, gave me the strangest look In the worjd, and fell forward upon hie ' face. He had blue eyes, brown, curling hair, a dark mustache, and a hand- ' some face. I thought the moment I fired, that I should have loved that man if I had / known him. Hell you this tear is terrible business.? Youth's Companion. Parting With Chrtwt'For Honey. , . - \'y.?a A young man engaged iu scoffing, ~ in a bar-room, offered to sell his interest in Christ for Ave dollars. Astranger quietly took out five-dollar bill, with pen aud paper, and asked the young man to write: "I, , do ^ * -Si hereby renounce, both now and forever, all claim I may have in Jeans Christ, for the sum of ? His hand trembled and stopped. Ashy pale, he said, "No.' I may need him by^and by."-Ez. . .4 " t , r * - VvV-TS The in jury done to breathing apparatus and the whole system thereby, in working ann living in dry furnaceheated or steani-overlreated rooms without ample ventilation, oaa be partly and quite comfortably Tepafred by eacn individual at night, ill contriving to have the lungs sirppHed during sleep with ample quantities of cold, crisp air. A warm room to dreaa in nnd undress in is a good thing, but a cool room to sleep in is better, wfcea you cannot have both, do not sacrifice the one chance you have In steep far securing good nourishing fresh air. There is no danger if there is no draft; and that can readily be provided against. The man who locks his door agalust all strangers will nover entertain an angel unaware*; the man who shut* his mind and heart by entire engross* mentin daily toil, by unArittifniiiessto duty, by neglect of prinsipte, by any kind of unrighteous action will never be visited by divine visions cf higher things. - :m ' > ' '-V- " i