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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1889. VOLUME XXXIII. NO. 42. ^fjfj
Picking1 Up.
One of the time-consuming cares of
every house-keeper may be described
under tiie general bead of picking up.
She picks up after her liusbaud, after
her girls, atter Ihe babies in the nursery.
The latter strew the nursery
floor with tlicir blocks, toys, and pie-J
ture books; about oue baby in a hun-j
dred are being taught to put its little
properties away when doue with them,
while the other ninety-nine are diligently
instructed at an early age in the
art of being waited upon by their elders.
Girls come in from their pleasant
excursions here and there, flushed,
dimpled, sweet as the rose that laughs
in the hedge ; but sweet as they look,
they are thoughtless beyond belief in
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mothers. A parasol oil the piauo, a
pair of gloves oil the music-rack, a hat
on the top of a cabinet, a"wrap thrown
carelessly on the back of an easy chair,
and the youug woman drifts languidly
into the dining-room, quite oblivious
that it will take manuna or the maid a
good quarter of an hour to "tidy" the
apartment which they have set awry.
Doubtless their intention is to carry
their things to the proper places themselves,
after a period of rest, but she
who procrastinates in such au affair is
lost. In pulling away one's out-dooi
clothing, one's letters, one's books, ii
is the tiivt moment of decision which
counts, the primary indecision which
is fata). What the young person lazily
or thoughtlessly imposes on somebody
who "is older, and by reason of
hpr nrlriprl vfiars less able to bear the
strain, may be just the traditional
straw, beyond which strength and vigor
will endure no more.
For the good man of the house we
have always the most elastic toleration,
yet we think that too often he binds a
burden ton the shoulders of his wife
which, frets her unwarrantably, though
she makes no si?;n of complaint. "My
husband's progress through the
house," said a matron recently, is
marked by a litter of hats, coats, slippers,
newspapers, pamphlets, books,
boots, corkscrews, inkstands, reports,
collars, handkerchiefs, etc. He is forever
saying, "Dear, do you remember
where you put such or such a thing ol
mine '" and wondering why his wife
has so inconvenient a habit of clearing
things up.
It needs only a glance to show that
if every body were of one mind about
putting articles at once where they belong,
picking up would be reduced to a
minimum, and one labor of the housewife
greatly simplified.
Tiie Belieyer's Victory.
How is it achieved " iNot by doubting
the plain revelation God has given
us, for it has been forcibly said, "Doubt
cramps energy. It is not so far as a
man doubts, but so fur as he believes,
that be can achieve or perfect any
thing. Only so far as a mau believer
strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully,
or do anything that is worth doing.*"
"If thou canst believe, all
things are possible to him that believeth,"
said the infallible Teacher.
Manv a one will say, "I have long
desired to possess this overcoming
faith, but something seems to obstruct
the way." It is a useless repetition ol
words to urge upon such persons "Believe,"
"believe,'' "that is all you have
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gain the victory, without a more correct
view of their own hearts. It is
often the case that spiritual victory is
withheld because the heart cannot be
entrusted with the spoils of conquest.
As Mr. Spurgeon says, "It behooves us
to lay all our laurels at Jehovah's feet,
each one of us saying, 'By my Gori
have I wrought this valiant deed.:
The trophies of our conflicts we hereby
dedicate to the God of battles, and
ascribe to Him all glory and strength."
Let Him see that we are ready to take
to ourselves credit for any victory we
may gain over the world, the flesh,
and the devil, and so to boast of our
own prowess or skill, and the principles,
both of love and of rectitude,
compel Him to deny the believing
spirits to our souls. Victory over oui
foes comes only through a faith that isunostentatious
and unselfish, and
without any thought of merit, continually
falls prostrate at the mercy seat.
it is "ui iiecessary in oruer 10 posses.such
a faith that there must be a long
period of preliminary training. Nothing
is required but a just view of ourselves
; of the fact that all we are, or
ever can bo spiritually, is of grace,
and exists irrespective of personal
merit. This view may be the abiding
conviction of a soul at a very early period
of religious experience. It is for
this reason, among others, that all new
converts should be scriptually taught;
not committing the fatal error of resting
in a present emotional religion,
without giving attention to the foun<lntlnnu
nf flipir fat til.
Christ-Possessed.
"Can you tell rue," asked a clerical
friend of mine of a candidate for missionary
work, "whatjustification is?"
The man gave to the question a satisfactorp
reply. "And what," pursued
my friend, "is sanctificatian ?" "Sanctification,"
said the candidate, the fire
kindling in his look as he spoke,
"sanctification is a God-possessed soul,
sir."
jfo truer answer could be given. It
fc one thing to possess Christ?it is a
very different thing to be possessed by
Christ. In the one caBe we have life,
but in the other we have life triumphant.
If God is in possession, Satan is
cast out, for "what concord hath
Christ with Belial, and what agreement
hath the temple of God with
idols?" (2 Cor. vi. 10.)
It is to be feared that of this most
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session, many Christians know comparatively
little ; jet it is the one secret
both of holiness and of safety, for
where God is not, there sin and Satan
are, just as where light is not, there
darkness inevitably is. Amid the ten
thousand snares that beset our path
heavenward there is absolutely no security
except to obey our Lord's own
words: "Abide iu me, and I in you"
to be, as some one has put it, at once,
"Christ inclosed and Christ indwelt."
Regarding white streaks in butter,
a correspondent says : "Recently we
became convinced that by letting the
cream rise until the milk became sour
and firm the butter will be nica and
yellow, but if a part of the cream be
taken off while tne milk is sweet and
churned with the sour cream, the butter
will have white streaks every
time."
Moderation is a little stream which
flows softly, but freshens everything
L along its course.
A Secret.
BY LIZZIE M. HADLEY.
"I'll tell you something," says little Bell,
"If you're certain, sure, you'll never tell.
"Well then," whispers the little maid,
"My papa, a great, big man's afraid."
"Oh, Isn't that funny enough?" laughed Sue,
Your papa's afraid, and mine is, too."
"Not of bears or tigers or bumble-bees;
It's something a thousand times worse than
these.
It's a terrible thing, that goes up and down
Through every city, village and town.
And my papa says he almost knows
That things will bo ruined wherever it goes.
Yes, Isn't It dreadful f" says Belle, with a sigh,
"It will swear, and papa says, steal and He.
I 'spect It has horns and cloven feet;
AudSue! what do you s'pose It will eat?"
Then closer together drew each little maid
Looking about as If half afraid.
They might see this thing with cloven feet;
And And It liked little girls to eat.
And then they fancied they heard it roar,
As It gobbled them up and cried for more,
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too;
Does your papa call it 'Republican,' Sue?"
Sue shnkes her bead. "Ob, it can't be that.
For my papa calls it a 'Democrat,'"
Little Scotch Urauite.
Burt and Johnnie Lee were delighted
when their Scotch cousin came to
live with them. He was little, but
bright and full of fun. He could tell
curious things about his liome in Scotland
and bis voyage across the ocean.
He was as far advanced in his studies
as they were, and the first day he went
to school they thought him reinerkably
eood. He wasted no time in play
when he should have studied, and he
advanced finely.
At night, before the close of the
school, the teacher called the roll and
the boys began to answer "Ten."
When Willie understood that he was
to say ten if he had not whispered during
the day, he replied, "I have
whispered."
"More than once?" asked the teacher.
"Yes, sir," answered Willie.
"As many as ten times?"
"Maybe I have," faltered "Willie.
"Then I shall mark you zero," said
we leacuer meriiiy : " ami wiuu j? m
great disgrace."
"Why, 1 did not see you whisper
once," said Johnnie that night after
school.
"Well, I did," said Willie ; "I saw
others doing it, and so I asked to borrow
a book ; then I lent a slate and
pencil, and asked a boy for a knife and
such things. I supposed it was allowed."
"Oh, we all do it," said Burt, reddening.
"There is no sense in the old
rule;and nobody could keep it, nobody
does."
"I will, or else I will say I haven't,"
said Willie. "Do you suppose I would
tell ten lies iu one heap?"
"Oh, we don't call them lies," muttered
Johnnie. "There wouldn't be a
credit among us at night if we were so
strict."
"What of that, if )>ou told the truth ?"
laughed Willie.
In a short time, the boys all saw
how it was with him. He studied
hard, played with all his might in
play-time; but, according to his account,
he lost more credits thau any of
the rest. After some weeks the boys
answered "nine" and "eight" oftener
than they used to. Yet the school
seemed to have grown quieter. Sometimes
when Willie Grant's mark was
even lower than usual, the teacher
would smile peculiarly, but said no
mere of disgrace. Willie never preached
to them or told tales; but, somehow,
it made the boys ashamed of themselves,
just the seeing that this sturdy
blue-eyed boy must tell the truth. It
was putting the clean cloth by the half
soiled one, you see ; and they felt like
cheats and story-tellers. They talked
him all over, and loved him, if they
did nickname him "Scotch Granite,"
he was so firm about a promise. 1
Well, at the end of the term Willie's 1
name was very low down on the credit j
list. When it was read he had hard
work not to cry; for he was very sensitive,
and he had tried hard to be perfect.
But the very last thing that day
was a speech by the teacher, who told '
of once seeing a man muffled up in a
cloak. He was passing him without a
look, when he was told the man was
Uen. JtiiauK, me great nero.
"The signs of his rank were hidden,
but the hero was there just the same,"
said the teacher. "And now, boys,
you will see what I mean when I give 1
little "medal to the most faithful boys 1
?the one really the most conscientious- (
ly 'perfect in his deportment, among
you. Who shall have it?"
"Little Granite!" shouted the forty
boys at once; for the child whose
name was so "low" 011 the credit lisl
had made truth noble in their eyes.
Lament of Charles Lamb.
The brilliant author of "Elia" was a
sad victim of the drink curse, and his
lament conveys a terrible warning to
all. He wrote thus of himself:
"The waters have gone over me; but
out of its black depths could I be
heard, I would call out to all those
who have set a foot in the perilous
Hood. Could the youth, to whom the
flavor of the first wine is delicious as
the opening scenes of life, or the entering
upon some newly discovered
paradise, look into my desolation, and
be made to understand what a dreadful
thing it is when he shall feel himself
going down a passive will; to see
his destruction and have no power to
stop it, and yet feel it all the way emanating
from himself; to feel that all
virtue has left him, and yet not able
to forget a time when it was otherwise
; to hear about the piteous spectacle
of his own ruin ; could he see my
' airaa fovprp<l with lnat nifrht'n
drinking, and feverish looking for tonight's
repetition of the folly ; could
he but feel the body of the death out
of which I cry?hourly with feebler
outcry?to be delivered, it were enough
to make him dash the sparkling beverage
to the earth in all the pride of its
mantling temptation."
The principles of Quakerism, if they
had always predominated in America,
would have prevented all Indian wars
and all other wars. The great work of
the Quakers now, to which they are
called in the proyidence of God, is not
the temperance cause, nor missionary
work in Pagan lands; but ill unceasingly
and vigorously, in all meekness
of spirit, laboring to convert the
Church universal into the principles of
Christ, as taught by Him in His Sermon
on the Mount, so that Christians
and Christian nations shall at once begin
to learn war no more, and stop the
dishonor that rests on them by their
barbarous and hellish mutual slaughter.
J. H.
Acknowledging' Faults.
A'liere is one means of preserving
l)eace, harmony, and good-will in our
soeial relations which, although very
simple, very just, and manifestly very
effective, is perhaps more frequently
shunned and disliked than any other,
it is the frauk admission of having
been in the wrong. .Nothing so quickly
disarms resentment, calms, irritation,
melts away cold displeasure,
turns anger into tenderness, and
changes a defiant attitude to one of
sympathy, as this candid confession,
and yet few words are more rarely uttered.
The simple avowal of the trutb,
without excuse "or palliation?"I was
wrong," or "I was mistaken," or "I
regret having said or done as I did"?
is worth a thousaud elaborate attempts
at explanation, which are generally
uubelieved, unaccepted, and give rise
to argument instead of reconciliation.
The person thus addressed undergoes
an immediate change of sentiment towards
him who speaks. He no longer
desires to prove or to emphasize the
error or the offense; he rather inclines
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tiou whether he, too, may not have
been equally to blame. And the sympathy
tnus established unites those in
friendly concord who might otherwise
be always at enmity.
Of course, the primary element in
any such avowal is its absolute truthfulness.
To utter such words for the
mere sake of conciliation, without feeling
that they express the reality,
would re-act for evil, like any other
falsity. (Sometimes children are required
to do this, and it is always an
act of injustice. Unless they can be
brought to feel that they have been in
the wrong, they should not even be allowed
to say so. jSo good can ever
come to child or man by Insincerity
But when once convinced of error? i
when confession to self has been made 1
?the confession to the one who has
been wronged is a debt which justice <
demands, and which magnanimity
will hasten to pay. Very Joften it is
the only reparation that it is possible
moL-u Thorp ;<i no hesitation as to 1
the duty of restoriug what has been .
borrowed, or making good any proper- :
ty of our neighbor's that we may have
injured; yet, if we have hurt his feel- 1
ings, or injured his good name, or in
any way taken some drops out of his
cup of happiness which cannot be restored,
is it too much for us to confess
the wrong and to express whatever regret
we truly feel ? Is there not something
mean and ungenerous, as well as
unjust, in the spirit that refuses to
make the only possible atonement?
And yet how common is such a refusal
!
A Sharp Thrust.
Some men who pass for very respectable
citizens, and who really are not
without good qualities, have a habit of
not only finding fault with their wives
at every least provocation, but of doing
it in terms such as no gentleman
would think of applying to any lady
except his own wife, or possibly his
own sister.
There is a story that such a man
came home from the shop one night, 1
and found his wife much excited over
the outrageous behavior of a tramp. 1
He had begged for something to. eat, 1
nnri nnf. liitini* what the woman gave
him, had abused her iu the rudest I
terms. }'
"Johnny," said the man, thoroughly
indignant, "when you heard that
cowardly rascal abusing your mother,
why didn't you run at once to the
store and let me know ? I wouiti have 1
made abort work of him. Didn't you
hear?" 1
"Yes, pa, I heard. I was out in the 1
barn and heard what he said about the
victuals; but?" '
"But what?" ' 1
'HVhy, pa, I thought it wras you
scolding mother. He used the very 1
same words you do when the dinner 1
doesn't suit you. I didn't think any- 1
body else would dare talk to mother in
that way." *
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The best supplement of religion is '
common-sense. After having resolved '
to fulfill the highest possibilities of our
nature, the wisest course lies in attempting
to reach the mental and
physical condition which render noble i
living possible.
A serene old lady, whose daily living
was like noble music, was once (
asked by a moody young girl how she
could exercise sell-command without
one apparent failure. i
"My'dear," said she, "the first secret
of decent living is in the help and support
we receive from above; the second
lies in taking care of ourselves. ;
When I find I am more than usually
sensitive to the worries of life, I take i
half-an-hour alone and read a pleasant
book, or even take a nap. If the
'chariot-ivheels jar in the gates,' I say i
to myself. 'Come, come, Martha ! We
must stop to oil up !' i
"When I was a girl, I had a quarrel ,
with my best friend, and all because I
had been up half the night before, and
didn't know enough to take a nap be
fore finding fault with her !"
"But 1 should grow selfish if I
watched my moods in that way," said
her little friend, discouraged.
"O, bless you, it must be done with
discretion ! Regard your mind and ,
body as delicate and complicated machines
which must be kept in order.
You wouldn't expect your watch to
keep time if a bread crumb had lodged
among the wheels; why should you
demand gentleness and patience of
this human mechanism if you don't
exert yourself to see that it is kept in
repair?
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"1 Olice nuu U 1U ul mu uccpcai mur
go blues, which yielded to an orange,
eaten in a bright little room. The
orange was so sweet, and the sunlight
so dazzling, that I couldn't resist the
conviction gradually stealing in on me
that this is indeed the "best of all possible
worlds.' "
To make jests of sacred things requires
110 high order of ability, and is
no mark of superior wit. Such
achievements are within the compass
of the faculties of a fool. No man of
culture and prudence would do it. It
degrades religion in the minds of the
ungodly. It destroys conviction in
the minds of those who are not far
from the kingdom of God. It wounds
the feelings of thoee who love thp
cause and the Word of God. It dead
ens the religious sensibilities of those
who indulge in it.
A. foreign lady, to whom theEuglieh
language was somewhat strange, while
in this couutry recently, was invite;
to partake of some oysters. "O, thank
you," she replied, "a little of the juic e
none of the beasts."
The Emotional Should not bo Stifled.
When we use the understanding in
our spiritual investigations in a way
to depreciate religious emotion, serious
consequeuoes are sure to follow. Love,
warm and demonstrative, is the truest
manifestation of vital godliuess. Joy
in the Lord?a joy that expresses itseli
in a genuine manner?is always in
keeping with the best type of religion.
Peace in the soul?the peuce of Godis
one of the chief qualities of holy
character. All these belong to the
emotional part of our nature, and
when that is lightly esteemed, increase
in these heavenly graces is impossible.
Our age is one of marked intellectual
activity. The training of our
yooth, especially in the higher grades
of instruction, is conducted with this
constantly in view. Our studeuts are
warned that they will rank low in life,
if unprepared to grapple witli abstruse
problems, or to combat successfully
with haughty scepticism. But is this,
after all, the highest preparation ? We
think not. ' To develop moral sensibilities,
grow irr breadth of holy sympathy
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superior kind ; it is this that will qualify
the coming generation for high
achievement.
We plead not for mental sluggishness.
Mind, with all its wondrous
capabilities is God's gilt. Let all proper
stimulus come to it. Its far-reaching
possibilities have never yet been
measured. But the danger is, rather,
in bestowing upon the intellectual a
disproportionate attention; overlooking
the care of the emotional nature
in the strife for high rank in scholastic
honors.
Faults of Many Mothers.
American women of all classes are,
as a rule, sinfully negligent of some of
the duties which pertain to health, especially
exercise in the open air. The
excuse that their many cares engross
them, and that they, in consequence,
have but little opportunity for leaviDg
their homes is scarcely sufficient.
The number who actually cannot enjoy
each day an hour's outing mu9t be
small, indeed, even among the class
forced to work the hardest. Not only
do many women fail in this respect in
their duty to themselves, but their
young children suffer in consequence
of the same neglect. From one week's
end to another during the winter not a
few of them keep their little ones in
overheated rooms, if not huddled
around the kitchen stove, and the result
is we find them, as snrincr an
proaches, weak, puny and ailing. In
such families colds, coughs, sore
throats, and the like, are common affections.
There is scarcely a day during
the coldest season when even the
baby cannot be safely taken out of
doors. Mothers should understand
that upon the duily enjoyment of fresh
and open air depends, in a great degree,
the health of their little ones as
well as themselves ; it is, in fact, absolutely
indispensable to the well-being
of all.
We can appear at our worst without
special effort; but in order to appear
to advantage we must struggle incessantly
against temptation. The ugly
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our activities whenever we are off our
guard. It is constantly seeking a
vent. Wiili some of us, it come9 out
when we sit behind a writing-table;
with others of us, when we rise in the
pulpit, or in the superintendent's
deaL; with yet others of us, when we
are confronted by unexpected visitors
or difficulties, or when we run anew
against confirmed and ever-recurring
faults in our subordinates, or When we
open the door of home, or gather about
the dinner-table. What poison this
ugly side can put into print, or into
talk, or into debate, or into teaching or
preaching! What causes it can frus- ;
trate! What humiliation it will eventually
bring upon us ! If, indeed, we
sould keep this side of our personality
out of our dealings with others, what
a worldful of good and of happiness
would be restored to the very circle in
which we move!
A Noble School.?Mrs. Sharp (a
missionary Bent out by the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church) said one
day to her little negro scholars in West
Africa:
"A poor Congo woman wants me to
Lake her little girl."
"Take her! take her!" exclaimed all
the children in chorus.
"But I do not feel as if I could feed
more than I now have," she answered.
They thought a while and then the
eldest said, If we could work and earn
something, we could buy her food."
"Yes, but I know of no one who has
any work you could do."
After some talk in Kroo, one of them
3aid, "Take her, cook the same as now,
and we will all give her a part oil*each
one's plate till she have plenty, only
take her and teach her about God."
What made it the more touching was
that none had more than they really
wauted for themselves, and that other
tribes very much dislike Congo people;
yet they were all willing gladly to divide
what they had with even a Congo
child.
Coffee Cream.?This Is a delicate
and agreeable dish for an evening entertainment.
Dissolve one ounce and
a quarter of isinglass in half a pint of
water. Boil for two hours a teacupful
of whole coflee in about half a pint of
water (ground coffee is not so good for
the purpose); add a teacupful to the
melted isinglass. Put them into a
saucepan with half a pint of milk, an d
let the whole boil up, sweeten with
loaf sugar, and let it stand ten minutes
to cool, then add a pint of good cream ;
3tir it well up and pour it into a mold
and put it into a cool place to fix; turn
it out on a glass dish before serving
up.
A Neglected Disinfectant.?
When the household of our grandmothers
was threatened with infection
the common practice was to sprinkle
brimstone on a hot shovel or on hot
coals on a shovel and carry the burning
result through the house. But
now this simple method of disinl'ectiug
has gone out of fashion without
any good and sufficient reason. The
principle reason is neither good nor
sufficient, viz., that nobody canj patent
it and sell it in twenty-five and
fifty cent bottles.
A true perception of the gospel is
the entire' forgetfulness of self, utter
absence of any pretension, and the
complete and utter refusal to accept
the world's praise of judgment.
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The Buttermilk Diet.
The. writer of this article took the
pains to look up the man who claimed
so much for buttermilk. He proved to
be a noted D. D., aud a hard-working
editor in New York City. He told me
that the buttermilk had done wonders
for him. He drank from two (o four
quarts every day. Occasionally he ate
a small piece of dry bread. Nothing
else passed his Jips except the buttermilk.
At the end of the first week the
inflammation of his stomach subsided
aud far the first time immany months
lie slept all night. At the end of the
fourth week he considered himself well,
though he coutinued to drink some
buttermilk every day. He told me
that while on the buttermilk diet he
was s.t his desk every day and did not
lose a pound. To avoid temptation he
kept away from the table. He also
stated that his physician informed him
that he had curtsd a large number of
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after everything else bad failed. Other
physicians of his acquaintance had resorted
to the same "heroic" treatment
with like results. He mentioned the
fact that a number of prominent physicians
in Brooklyn had put their patients
who were troubled with a low
fever every day (occasioned mostly by
weak stomachs) on the buttermilk diet
with splendid results. Since the
above conversation I have heard of a
number of dyspeptics who have been
helped and cured on the tame line. 1 ,
have tried it myself, and speak with
confidence. Patients who have an excess
of acid in their systems may not 1
be benefited by its use, but the great
majority who are troubled with ordinary
dyspepsia, torpid liver, and consequent
"biliousness" will be greatly
helped if not cured.
The philosophy is simple. While
buttermilk is inferior to skimmed milk
in nutritive properties, it is still a valuable
article of food. It is already
soured and in a partially digested condition
so that the stomach has little to
do in taking care of it. Besides this it
furnishes its own "juices" in a large
measure so that the digestive apparatus
is excused from m uch of the trouble,
In a word, the lactic acid seems to meet
a want. As a food and medicine it is
simnle and within the reach of all.
What Others Say.
Protracted or Revival Meetings.?Such
meetings are a necessity.
It> sounds pious to say that there
should be a continuous revival in
every church, that sinners should be
converted at every service. Things in
this world have never been as they
ought to be. Special times of ingathering
are just as essential in this work
of the church as in the husbandry ol
the earth. Every protracted effort for
a revival should be made a success. A
teeble aud inadequate effort usually ,
leaves the church in a worse condition
than it was before the meeting began. ,
.Not that there is a positive injury done
but it discourages the church, makes
the world unbelieving or doubtful, and
in a measure, at least make success in
the future more difficult. That meeting
where the best means and methods
ar3 utilized cannot be a failure. It
must be remembered however, that
success is not always measured by the
numoer oi immediate proiessions, auditions,
or reclamatioiiB. The heralding
of a number of conversions is
sometimes disgusting. I cannot help
thinking that there is greater concern
about the results of the message delivered
t.;iau about the message itself.
Your Son.?Your sou came back
from the military school with the military
seep, head up, body erect, and
facing the front with his eyes resting
on the ground at an angle of forty-five
degrees forward. What does all this
amount to? Simply nothing, except
that it* furnished a pretext for sending
your son away from your own Church
school to one unfriendly to the Church,
if not to morals. You say that you
wanted your son to get the benefit ol
military discipline. Another dodge,
which when fully understood means
that your patriotism and party devotion
are stronger than your love for the
Church, whose institutions you have
solemnly promised to support. It is a
nrionf rmuhilru tn neirlwt t.hfl nroner
b4v,,v "" ?o,"w- X ??
training of your son at home, and then
send him oil' to a godless school and
expect military discipline to make up
for your failure. Your son keeps the
step, and carries himself erect, but
does he say his prayers?
The Bible in the Heart.?The
Bible may be in the hand or house and
not be in the heart. Physiologists say
that food is never really in the body
until it is in the blood, ami to put it
there requires the process of digestion.
The living bread of Christ must pas*
through the head and heart into the
life-blood of character before the tissues
of the soul can receive spiritual
life and growth. When the celebrated
Grimshaw first found Christ, ho told a
friend that "if God had drawn up His
Bible to heaven and sent him down
another, it could not have been newer
to him." Yet the only difference was
that between the word in the hand
and the word in the heart; but howvast
that difference !
A direct word to a young person,
spoken in sincerity, in sympathy, and
in onrnpsfness. costs less time than the
writing of a sermon, a story, or an editorial,
and it may compass more.
Such words are not spoken as often as
they ought to be, and the world has
lack accordingly. "It may be a little
thing for yon," said Mr. Gougli, "to
sneak the one loving, earnest word
tnat turns a young man from the
wrong way to the right one,?a little
thing to you, but it's everything to ,
him.1' Such a word may be waiting
for you to speak it to-day.
It is a pity?it is a wrong?that men
should be nominated and elected to
the stewardship year after year for
fear of hurting their feelings, even
when they do not perform faithfully
or effectually the duties of the office. !
"By their fruits ye shall know them."
If they do not the work, whether
through indifference or incompetency,
let them be retired to the private
ranks, and more energetic and skillful
men be given their place. ,
"Let Southern Methodists remem- J
ber that they have a great and good
work to do to preserve the essential
features of Methodism intact, and to
offer a shelter to all who do not wish ]
eithef politics or political methods 1
brought into the Church of God."
Baked beans and beau soup are rib
stickers and very healthy for old and
youug. I
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The Weapons of Peacc.
The weapons that we wield to day
Are mighty in the press and pen;
Wc do not seek our foes to slay,
But only ask the rights of men.
No burning town or widow's tears
Spring frosn the triumph of our cause;
But peacc and love in coming years,
Equal, Just and righteous laws.
With earnest faith I hope and wait,
The coming of that promised time;
When truth "and love shall conquer hate,
And reign supreme through every clime.
The race shall hear that song again.
Which rang through Bethlehem 8 starlit
sky;
Sweet peuco on earth, good-will to men,
And glory to our Gou on high.
GRAINS.
There is no worse thief than a bad
book.
He loses least in a qrarrel who keeps
his tongue in check.
Attempts at reform, when they fail,
sirengmeu uespousm.
The best proof of apostolic succession
is apostolic success.
They must be strong legs that can
support prosperous days.
Laziness travels so slowly that Poverty
soon overtakes him.
Shame comes to no man unless he
himself help it on the way.
The love of our neighbor is the only
door out of the dungeon of self.
Not to enjoy lifr, but to employ life,
ought to be our aim and inspiration.
Tho next thing to having wisdom
ourselves is to profit by that of others.
Power multiplies flatterers, and flatteries
multiply our delusions by hiding
us from ourselves.
If every person would be half as
good as he expects his neighbor to be,
what a heaven this world would be!
It is with nations as with individuals
: those who know the least of others,
think the highest of themselves.
Conscience, like any other faculty,
should be carefully cultivated, especially
as the light of nature is so imperfect
and public opinion is so much .debauched.
vv nen you uesire uonnees more iuuu
anything else in this world, it is near
at hand. "And ye shall seek me, and
find me, when ye shall search for me
with all your heart."
Religion is in its essence an inward
and spiritual holiness. Outward aetioas
can be considered but two ways?
either as the means and instrument,
or else as the fruits and ellects of holiness.
The divinest attribute in the heart
of man is love, and the mightiest, because
the most human, principle in the
heart of man is faith. Love is heaven
; faith is that which appropriates
heaven.
Tomato Fritters.?One quart
stewed tomatoes, one egg, one small
teaspoonful soda. Stir in flour enough
to make a batter like that for griddle
cakes. Have some lard very hot on
the stove, drop the batter in a spoonfull
at a time and fry.
It is a great comfort to people of com*via?im1aaa
sviftei nnH folonfo lrnAIV
iiIUupiauc 51110 auu u4ivuvj w xiwv/M
that the measure of success, in the
Master's sight at the last, will not be
largeness of result, but faithfulness in
the use of what the Master has entrusted
to us.
Spiritual account-keeping is much
neglected, and many Christians drift
along year after year without taking
account of stock, or even reckoning up
gains and losses. The books go unbalanced,
and no care is taken to guard
against spiritual bankruptcy.
Oh, Christian, the God whom you
serve is so excellent that 110 good can
be added to him; aud so infinite that
no good can be diminished in him ! {
He makes happy, and yet is not the
less happy; he shows mercy to the
full, and yet remains full of mercy.
How many professors are there who
have light enough to konw what
should be done, but have not love
enough to do what they know! Such
people have no advantage from carryj
ing a bright candle in a dark lantern.
Give me the professor who perfectly
sees the way he should go, aud readily
goes the way he sees.
Stringing Seed Corn.?A Western
farmer advises to tie the ears together
with husks in some place where
the grain can be saturated with coal
smoke. The odor, he says, repels
squirrels and worms from eating the
seed. The seed comes up quicker,
the plants grow more vigorously, and
ripen several days earlier than from
seed not so treaica.
Wouldest tliou know the lawfulness
of the action which thou desirest to
undertake? Let thy devotion recommend
it to divine blessing; if it be
lawful, thou shalt perceive thy heart
encouraged by thy prayer; if unlawful,
thou shalt find thy prayer discouraged
by thy heart. That action is not
warrantable, which either blushes to
beg a blessing, or having succeeded,
dares not present thanksgiving.
Be certain of this; that no misery
can be equal to that which a man feels
who is conscious that he has proven
unequal to his part, who has deserted
the post his captain set him, and who,
when men said, "Such and such a one
is there on guard, there is no further
need to take further heed," has left his
watch, 01* quailed before the foeman,
to the loss, perhaps the total ruin, of
the cause he had made his choice.
Strive always to do justice. Never
make an unkind speech or express
yourself in a manner calculated to do
injury, unless you are sure that you
know what you aie talking about. |
Truth of the matter is, there is toon
much idle, unprofitable talk going on
in this world anyway. Better a thousand
times not to say anything than ,
to carelessly misrepresent anyjone.
It still seems to Ihi an unsettled question
whether wood can be ignited by
the heat of a steam pipe in contact
with it. It is admitted theoretically,
that it is impossible for wood to take ,
fire at a temperature of 212 degress, or
somewhat higher; but it is well
known that there have been a larger
number of cases of fire reported as occurring
from this cause, and the evidence
is very conflicting.
The total railroad mileage in the
state is 2,07G miles. One hundred aud
3ixty-two miles have been opened
since June last.
Father O'Conner, a converted priest
living in New York, is said to have been
the means of the conversion of eight
hundred Catholics during the past five
years.
The Lowndesville (S. C.) Advertiser
has been suspended.
Birth Rnte In Different Sections. j
The well known fact that the birthrate
litis been decreasing steadily in :l
New England for years past leads the -Jw
New York Herald to inquire. "Is Maternity
Failing?" In several of the *-jsi
New England States the native population
is nardly holding its own. The
old blood in that region has already
become very rare and is fallinginto - M
smaller proportions constantly. There ^18
is remarkable disparity between the
birth rate in New England and the ' ^3
South. The highest rate in the union ;J|
is found in Arkansas, and the lowest in ^
New Hampshire. In Arkansas there - 'yM
are born annually to every 1,000 women
between 15 and 50 years of age ^
198.9 children, while in New Hampshire
to the same class are born only . - J?
71.6, or about one-third as many as in
Arkansas. The six States with the
highest birth rate are all in what is
called the South. They are Arkatraas, JHM
Texas, Mississppi, South Caroliu, Tennessee
and Albaraa. The combined
population of Arkansas and Texas is'
barely half that of the six New Eng- . fjs
land States, and yet these two Southern ~ y?k
States give to the country an annual ^
average of 99,952 babies against 91,134 ??g
in the six New England States of twice ~
the population. Of the total annual
births in this country the South, With
only about one-third the population of
the country, furnished 708,610, while *--g
the two-thirds of the population north
of Mason and Dixon's line are gladdened
annually by only 895,112 babies.
The number.of births annually to
every 1,000 people in New England is
22.1, while in tne South it is 38.7. In
New York State the number is 25.7 on
the 1,000. In England the rate is '. .^2
34.2; in Swedea30.2; in Switzland '- m
31.3; and in Belgium 32. The South is ^
not only by far the most proliflg part
of this country but the birth rate in
these States is greater than any civillized
country on the globe. When the
census of 1880 wns completed there was
much surprise that the South, withoht .'Jt
the aid of immigration, had gained a %
greater proportion of population than
any section of the country. A fh 11 and J
fair count in the census of next year, "'-''JS
we are conaueiii, win buuw a nmmar
proportionate growth in the South. v*|
It is true that the negroes increase y'M
very rapidly, but statistics will v' ; ;a|
show the annual increase of white
births alone in the South can not be.
matched by the North or West.
Changes at the Express Office.
Mr. Walter Bucker, who was appointed
to succeed the late Col. T. Ik
Gillespie as Columbia agent of the i
Southern Express Company, has been /
promoted to the position of route agent '<JM
for the Atlantic Coast Line Division f
of the company. Mr. J. J. . Croswell. Jfl
has been appointed as Agent in Col- tjsfl
umbia, Vice, Mr. Buckner promoted.
?Register,
" Mr. Crosby says, in reference to New |?|
York's gifts to Rom6, that:?
The Roman Catholic Church has ob- ;r3
tained from the city donations of real
estate to the amount of $3,500,000.
In eleven years the Boman Catholic ^
Church has received from the Public .
Treasury $6,043,626.45. It received in 'SfSM
1878 $710,350.98; in 1879. $693.1816.29. , , ?M
In seventeen years this cnurch re- 7
ceived from the city $10,915,37i.81.
Are the Boman Catholic Church
and the State united in the treasury of $
this city?
The murder of Mr. Clayton, a Re- " '
publican candidate for Congress in - J
Arkansas, while getting up eyidence
to contest the election of his opponent, ^
Mr. Brecbenride, has been conaemneu
and deplored by citizens and newspa- 'M
pers of both political parties with great
unanimity in that State and all over As
the South. There can be little doubt
that it was a political murder, commit- iOjj
ted to prevent his obtaining evidence
to convict the parties who stole the
ballot box in the town where he was 'la
killed.
San Francisco, Feb. 22.?The China
steamer which arrived last night
brought news of a great snow storm in ' |
chftft Foo. Over a million and a half
people iti the province are starving and riots
occur daily. Missionaries nave
been attacked by mobs of Chinese, led . ': ]
by the gentry.
On February 2 a great fire broke out
inShidsuoki, Japan, extending down
fourteen streets and destroying 1,000
houses, including temples, schools and
hospitals. On the following day fire
at Yokosaka gutted fifty houses aud
burned to death three men. On the
same day ten houses were destroyed at 3
Joshiu and fifteen at Toklo.
Rev. Ebenezer Brown died recently
in Baltimore, sged ninety-four years.
He is said to have been the first missionary
sent out by the Methodist
Church, Bishop George sending him
as missionary to the French inhabitants
of the South, with headquarters at
New Orleans. So says Zioria Herald.
There is great excitement in Northern
Georgia, about sixty miles southeast
of Chattanooga, over the discovery
of a vein of quartz four feet wide,
500 feet deep and three miles long,
whicli is very rich in silver. The
quartz has been thoroughly tested, and
yields $30 in pure silver to the ton.
A brother gives us the information
that the first Woman's Missionary
Society ever organized was organized
in Natchez, Miss., in 1834, and collected
that year $309 to educate a young
Choctaw woman. So Mississippi was
first in a work which promises to influence
for good all the future of the
Church.?Ncio Orleans Christian Ad- .
vocate.
Judge E. H. East, of Nashville,
Tenn., will have direction of the financial
aflfuirs of Vanderbilt University
until the late Bishop McTyeire's successor
as chairman of the board of trustees
is chosen.
Robert Ingersoil was proposed for
membership in the Players' Club of
New York, founded by Edwiu Booth.
He was black-balled by the actors on
account of his irreligious priuciples.
Oh, how much we all need good,
square, bard solid common sense in
our ministry?the common sense that _
will tell a man when to be silent, when
to spoak, how to do the right thing in
the l ight place at the right time!
Further advices from Shanghai by the
China steamer state that the famine in
Anhui and Kiang-Su is worse than at
first reported. In one province 3000
families are starving, and altogether
several millions are suffering from a
famine caused by drouth two years iu
succession;
The Court House of Williamsburg
County at Kingstree was burned Feb.
22. Loss $10,000. The Records wer#
saved.