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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1889. VOLUME XXXIII. NO. 47. jj
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Loriwer's ^'Institutes of the Law of
Nations.''
Tho Pmf(?;?nr next nroceeds to coil
sider what he calls the economical .solution
of this problem. It has been
thought by Mr. Seebohm and others
that Free Trade and the ever-increasing
independence of States will one
day put a stop to war altogether. Pu>fessor
Lorinier, however, does not
share in this hope. He points out
that, however close the relationship
between States may one day become,
and however interdependent they may
one day be, this closer relationship
and increased interdependence will
not prevent them from going to war so
long as positive law and jural organization
are absent. The close relationship
and interdependence even of a
husband and wife, or a father and son,
or a mother and daughter, is not a sufficient
guarantee in itself against an
.outbreak of folly, passion, or lawlessness
between them. Even these close
relationship* require positive law and
jural organization to control thorn.
As Siates ate no better and no worse
than individuals, however close their
interests may one day become through
the influence of Free Trade and extended
commercial rights and obligations,
yet positive law and jural organ
izauous win sim ue re<|iiiivu uvimt mv
ultin.ate problem is solved. An international
legislature, judicature, and
executive must be established to lcgis- \
late, administer, and execute in inter-1
national affairs, notwithstanding
closer relationships and more reciprocaland
co-extensive commercial obligations
may arise between Slates from i
the spread of Free Trade. Some, J
again, have thought that the progress
ol civilization brought about by rclig-l
ious and secular education will at
length put a stop to war. Some carry
this argument so far that they consider
diplomacy and arbitration some day
will render all further organization for
legislative, judicial, or executive purposes
superfluous. No doubt the progress
of civilization does tend to narrow
the sphere of positive legislation,
just as when the nubile health increases
there will be less need of medicine.
But these are the ( fleets, not the
causes, of legislation. They are the
ends, not the means. A legislature, a
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do produce civilization, and education,
but education and civilization never
did produce them. We must not,
then, rely altogether upon civilization
and education to put a stop to war, and
solve our nroblem, because they are the
effects of legislation, jurisdiction, and
execution, and not its causes. The
way, then, to lessen the probability of
war is to increase the potency and efficacy
of our international jural organization,
and. supply it with the three
absent factors of legislation, jurisdiction,
and execution. The "balance of
power." voluntary arbitration, the
economical solution, have all failed to
solve the Professor's ultimate problem,
and it only therefore remains to establish
an international jural organization
analogous to the municipal juial
organization which we have in civil
life, with its three factors of a legislature,
a judicature, and an executive.
It was the want of this which caused
the Amphictyonic Council and the
wise men of Greece at Thermopyhe to
fail in their efforts after peace, ft was
the absence of this which caused the
failure of the Aehieau League and the
Lyciau Confederacy. The League of
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; the Hanse Towns, and later on that of
i the Helvetic Union proved failures
j from the same cause. Henry IV.'s
I scheme, Abbe St. Pierre's efforts,
Ilousseau's, Kant's, and Bentham's
1 noble endeavors to solve this problem,
par cxcclkncc, of international law all
proved failures also from the same
cause. They failed chielly because
they aimed at tlie tinality of nations
and the equality of States, and bci
cause, in aiming at this, they violated I
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I changeable. Tliey did not succeed,
I moreover, because, under the old disj
pensation of diplomacy, the will of the
! nation represented was little thought
of tit all. The nations formerly rarely
1 heard of international transactions until
their faith had been plighted, and
until it was almost next to impossible
to get them out of the dilliculties into
which their representatives hail drawn
them. All this is now changed.
Even the Kussian monarch does not
lmw carry the national will in his
[ pocket. In our own country in the
present day every act of the executive
' is watched by a ubiquitous press. Inj
ternational legislation, then, in our
! day, must be the immediate result of
I the will of the nations represented.
| We have now endeavored to give a
short and brief epitome of Professor
Lorimer's views 011 this all-important
question. The space at our disposal!
has necessarily rendered our sketch of|
this great work very imperfect. Wei
would therefore ask such of our read-J
ers who have the time and leisure to
procure the work itself. It will well!
repay their most earnest thought and j
study, both 011 account of its ardent
sympathy with the cause of Peace,
and also 011 account of its outspoken}
and manly criticism of the mistakes j
[which tlie Professor conceives that the
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into. C. D.
Any one who has the ability to ask a
question that, to him, is worth asking,
has tlie capacity to receive an answer
that, to him, is worth receiving. A J
thoughtful chihl, on inquiring about >
. the location of Heaven, was told bv j
his mother that he could not understand
her even if she explained it. j
She was probably right in so tVr as the]
i child's ability to understand her wasj
concerned; but she was wrong in not j
.telling him that the fault was with
I herself, and not with him. Had she
known as much about answering him j
as he knew about questioning her,!
| there need have been no trouble about j
his understanding her explanation,
j There is no question that a child can
, seriously and fairly ask, that cannot be
I as seriously and fairly answered. To!
j tell ii fluid, or 10 leaa u 10 iiuur, mail
| il is "Loo littles" to kuow anything more.
011 any subject about which it already ;
i knows enough to frame a question, is
to deny its capacity for further growth.;
Jt is to thrust the child's minu into a!
dungeon instead of opening it to the!
| liqht. It is to bind it in fetters instead ,
of giving it freedom of action. Ability
to ask, presupposes capacity to receive.
And no questions are better
worth answering and worth better answers
than a child's.?6'. *S'. Times.
Nice table cloths and napkins should
not be allowed to become much soiled,
so that they will require vigorous rubbing
with soap or in hot water.
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Out of the Current.?Said a
Christian lady sadly : "I feel that my
religious life is empty and joyless. I
still read my Bible daily, and say my
prayers morning and evening, but the
peace and joy I possessed before changing
my residence are gone."
The kindly answer was: "What
you need is to get into the current
again?the current of the Christian
life of to-day."
Critical, caviling brother, this is
| wiiai ans yuu. xuu are nut uuuauiuua-i
I ly hard or unjust, but your attitude as)
a mere spectator of what your breth-i
reu are doing is not favorable to right
views or charitable judgment. You |
cannot appreciate the dilliculties they I
meet, nor can you rejoice in the sue-!
cesses in the achievement of which j
you have taken no part. Claim your
privilege as a Christian worker, keep
step with the marching hosts of Israel,
and soon a carping critic will be-1
come a happy and fruitful servant of!
Christ. Get into the current.
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A minister relates: "A friend ofj
mine spoke to a lady about her soul.
'Are you a Christian?' he asked.
'Oh, yes; we are all Christians. We
were born Christians in a Christian
land,' was the reply. 'But you are a
sinner,' my friend continued. 'Yes,
we are all sinners, every one of us,'
she said. Determined to corner her,
he said, 'Do you believe in Christ?'
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am? Why do you ask such a foolish
question?' We all believe in Christ,'
replied the lady, becoming slightly annoyed
at the questions put to her.
How hard it was to make anything of
a person like that. Careless and llippant,
full of head knowledge, yet destitute
of any particle of any saving belief.
The Spirit of God at last pierced
the polished surface of contented selfsulliciency
and blind belief in safety,
and showed tiie lady that she stood on
the brink of a precipice, over which,
if she had fallen, she would have met
with eternal death. She came to
Christ.^
If people ill their benevolent inipulses
could realize that their gifts
were to be made to Christ, whom they I
dearly love, their alms would assume
an entirely dill'erent aspect from -ordinary
charities. Generally there are|
only two persons concerned in benevo-'
lent deeds?the benefactor and the J
beneficiary; and the considerations!
are purely human. The latter is an j
unthrifty family, a beggar, an unde-{:
serving tramp, an unpretentious audi
needy Church, a poorly paid minister
of the gospel, and hence along with |
the benevolent impulse there is a feel- (
iug of reproach, or self-complacent!
merit 111 tno comparison, uiau oiuj
half opens the hand, and throws in aj
grudge with the gift. Hut let these!.
Christian benefactors understand the!i
words, Doing to tlie least of these, yej]
do it to me. Tlien they confront ,
Christ; then the consideration would j,
he, How much shall I give to Christ?
He was rich, and became poor for me.
[ cannot stint my gifts.
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Let not the man with only one tal- '
ent try to use five. Aaron was an ex- 1
cellent orator, but he was not an or- j
ganizer. One day, when Moses was 1
cone, he undertook to mauage the '
government. In a little while he had j
all Israel worshipping an image of a 1
calf.
The gifts of God satisfy the heart. i
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A Smart Boy.
I'm glad I have a good-sized slate,
With lots of room to calculate.
Bring on your sums! I'm ready now:
My slate is clean; and I know how.
Hut don't you ask me to subtract,
I like to have my slate well packed;
And only two long rows, you know,
Make such a miserable show;
And, please, don't bring me sums to add;
Well, multinlying's just as bad;
And, say ! I'd rather not divideBring
me something I haven't tried!
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In Time of Need.
Yes, you may do without your Bibles
in the heyday of prosperity;
when the suu shines, and the birds
sing, ana not a ureatn rurnes tne surface
of your summer sea. You may
then, possibly, afford to rest satisfied
with barren theoretic views, or the
chill of sceptic creed?to regard the
Sacred Oracles as the effete record of a
by-gone economy?antiquated sophistries?some
writings of Palestine peasants
and fishermen, which the superstition
of an after age has palmed upon
a too credulous world. But wait
till the sky is clouded, and the wind
moans, and the hurricane of trial is let
loose; and where are you without
these discredited pages then i Iso poetry,
no philosophy can hush the sorrows
and satisfy the yearnings of the
crushed and broken spirit, as that
Book of books has done. When no
other panacea is of any avail, it has
put courage into fainting hearts, and
peace into troubled hearts, and hope
into despairing hearts. Greece and
Kome! Socrates, Cicero and Plato!
You have, we allow, served us heirs to
many golden maxims?beautiful fantasies,
which read pleasingly in the
sunshine, lulled by the ripples of the
brook and the music of the grove?life
all ecstacy and rapture.
Jint for the soul which, in its hour of
bitter desolation, craves for realities,
commend me to the Psalms of David
and the promises of Isaiah?above all,
to the living, loving balm-words of
Him who said, "Come unto me, all ye
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null Jiiuui" uuu are Heavy uiucu, auu a. i
will give you rest." Every other
world oracle is a Delphic one. It is
either dumb, or its utterances are perplexing,
dubious, misleading. But
"Thy "testimonies are very sure."
"The Word of the Lord is tried."
"This is my comfort in mine affliction,
for thy Word hath quickened me!"
"Read, read the Bible," said William
Wilberforce on his death-bed.
"Through all my perplexities and distresses
I never read any other book,
and I never feel the want of any other."?
J. 11. Macduff, D. D.
It is easier to follow the world's
counsel than to adhere to our own convictions
of right. But if we do right
we shall never have cause to regret it;
whereas, if we fail to do right, we
shall never be without a cause of regret
for our failure. And God will approve
our right doing, even though all
che world should deem us foolish or
over-particular.
A life spent in brushing clothes,^and
wasuiug crocKery, ami sweq'my uwio
?a life which the proud of the earth
would have treated as the dust under
their feet; a life spent at the clerk's
desk ; a life spent in the narrow shop ;
i life spent in the laborer's hut, may
yet be a life so ennobled by God's loving
mercy that for the sake of it a
king might gladly yield his crown.
He who faces the sun of truth leaves
ill shadows behind them.
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"Besetting Sins."
[Extract from a recent sermon, by
Rev. Geo. H. Means, Nicholasville,
Kentucky.]
Very few persons, if any, are given
to all kinds of sins. Each sinner has
some particular way of sinning?a sin
that besets him. What is yours ?
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one you secretly hate.
Is it an avaricious spirit? A harrowing
lust for gold.
Is it a licentious spirit? A corrupt
ng lust of the flesb.
Is it a worldly spirit? A love of the
world and its pleasures.
Is it an ambitious spirit? An inordinate
love of fame.
Is it a vain spirit? An undue love
of admiration and applause.
Is it a discontented spirit? Dissatisfied
with your lot in life.
Is it a deceitful spirit? Lips that
speak flattering lies.
Is it a proud spirit? A love of vain
and empty show.
Is it an envious spirit? That builds
on the ruins of another.
Is it a contentious spirit? Striving
for simple victory, regardless of truth.
Is it an indiffereut spirit? Prayerless
and neglectful of your soul.
Is it a faithless spirit? Untrue to
the moral and sacrea relations of life.
Is it a man-fearing spirit ? Dread of
the world's opinions.
Is it a dishonest spirit ? Dealing un
fairly with men.
Is it ail uncharitable spirit? Making
no allowance for others.
Is it an irreverent spirit? Treating
sacred-things with contempt.
Is it an unsubmissive spirit? Murmuring
at the wise dispensations of
providence.
Is it a presumptive spirit? Sinning
against light and knowledge.
Is it a doubting spirit? A spirit of
skepticism or unbelief.
Is it an egotistical spirit? That
which undervalues virtues in others,
and exalts those that belong to your|
self.
Whatever it may be, it is your "besetting
sin," and the text says "lay it
aside," lay it aside and "run," get
away from your old haunts, old associates,
old companionships; run with
"patience," patience with yourself,
your persecutors, your God. And
"look unto Jesus" for deliverance and
courage, and comfort.
I must testify from experience that a
temper of peace, thanKtuiness, iove
and afFection is much more the proper
frame for prayer than that of terror
and discomposure; and that under the
dread of mischief impending a man is
no more lit for a comforting performance
of the duty of praying to God
than he is for repentance on a sickbed,
for these discomposures affect the
mind as the others do the body, and
the discomposure of the mind must
necessarily be as great a disability as
that of the body, and much greater'
prayer to God being properly an act of
the mind, not of the body.
To prevent the smell of paint put a
handful of hay in a bucket of water and
let it stand in the room over night. (
Professor Ramsey thinks that color- <
blindness is a defect of the brain instead
of the eye.
Silverware can be kept bright for I
months by being placed in an air-tight
case with a gooa-sized piece of camphor.
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All Xlglit in Prayer.
The writer does not refer to the wellknown
case of our divine Redeemer as
recorded by one of the evangelists, but
to that of an humble follower of his.
A precious revival had burst, as it
were, upon one of our churches, to the
surprise of most of the members of it.
They were not expecting it, or prepared
for it. If they had been praying
for it in a cold, formal way, they hard
ly expected their prayers to be answered.
But now the Lord was manifestly
amoner them, reviviusr His people
and convening the impenitent. * How I
should they acconnt for it? True, He
has graciously said, "Ask, and it shall
be given you but they have not
been asking in a way tbat authorized
them to expect such a blessing. But
some one has been praying, if no
more, was the reply. And so it was.
It was ascertained that one humble
woman had spent a whole night in
prayer for the very revival that God
was then giving them. How precious
her reward! And have we none
amoncr us at this day to feel enough for
the impenitent, enough for the glory
of God, to spend all night in prayer?
One night? We have preaching, and
that which is good, and perhaps
enough in general of it, but what the
Church now seems to need especially
is praying on the part ol' the members. "
May they become so burdened with
the worth of souls perishing in sin
that they cannot rest, by night or by ,
day, but as they cast their burdens upon
the Lord, then the windows of
heaven will be opened, and blessings
abundant will be showered down upon
us .?Presbyterian Journal. (
What to Read when the Day is Over. <
It is wise at night to read but for a <
few minutes, some book which will I
compose*" the and sootbemind|; which <
will bring us face to face;with the true I
facts of life, death and eternity; i
which will make us remember that '
man doth not live by bread alone; 1
which will give us, before we sleep, a
few thoughts worthy of a Christian I
man with an immortal soul in him. J
And, thank God ! no one need go far i
to find such books. I do not mean 1
merely religious books, excelleu-; as <
they are iu these days; I mean any 1
books which help to make us better
and wiser and sober, and more charit- i
able persons; any books which will
teach us to despise what is vulgar and <
mean, foul and cruel, and to love what ?
is noble and high-minded, pure and i
just. In our own English language
we may read by hundreds of books t
1 ' ' ' " " H '-1 1 - I? ~ 1 I t
wmcn ten us 01 an virtue anu 01 an i
praise. The stories of good and brave t
men and women ; of gallant and hero- i
ic actions; of deeds which we our- e
selves should be proud of doing; of c
persons whom we feel to be better, c
wiser, nobler, than we are ourselves, a
Stockings.?If a lining of firm cloth t
is sewed inside the heels of stockings s
when they are new, or when they begin
to show signs of wear, they will
last much longer than if this is omit- d
ted. Rather better than lining them >
with cloth is running them up and i
down with double yarn of darning a
cotton. Stockings defended in this r
way require little attention each week x
when they come from the laundry, e
Show this to your wife. T
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Decision.
A teacher in one of the large colleges
for women in the Eastern States
lately told a little incident which maybe
of use to some of our girl-friends.
At recreation hour on one Sunday evening,
a large number of_girls had as
semujea in me panor. They began to
talk and laugh, quietly at first; then j
the conversation ran into gossip, and
the laughter grew more boisterous and -^S
frivolous.
"I felt," said the teacher, "that the
effect of the calm of the day, and of its
soleuSn services, was being wholly destroyed.
It was not the way in whioh
girls who professed to serve Christ
should spend his day, if they hoped tocome
closer to him; but there was no
actual infraction of school laws, and I
had not the courage to interfere.
"At last, a very young girl, a member
of the lowest class, came in. She glanced
around, with a startled, pained
look ; then, after a moment's hesitation,
she walked to the piano, and began
to touch the keys softly. As the '
music stole through the air, the noise
was hushed.
" 'Why not have a little singing?'
she said to those nearest her, and struck
uie mat cuius or -j^ean, j\inaiy Jjignc.'
"In a few moments every voice nad
joined in the hymn so dear to us all.
The girls are fond of sacred music.
One hymn after another was sung
with fervent feeling, uutil at last they
separated for the night. Not one of
them guessed how firmly and gently
they had been led by a child into the ;
right path."
The story recalls a similar anecdote
of a member of the New York Exchange,
who was present at a conference
between half-a-dozen men who
controlled the market. A certain action
was proposed which would prove
sf enormous advantage to themselves,
but which would result in bankruptcy
nid misery to a great many people who
were not informed of this plan of the
leading speculators.
The gentleman who had just joined
:he conference looked about him and
saw in every face an inuer consciousness
of wrong-doing. Then he said,
ivithasmile, "It would be advisable, */'
jf course, if it were right. But it is
nif liAnocf " -V ' '.*5
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Not a single man bad the courage to
nsist upon carrying out the project.
The time will come to every reader
>f these lines when, by a firm word
jently spoken, he can lead his fellows
nto the path of right.
If it should seem impossible for him
o speak to them, if the.heart fails and
he voice chokes, let him remember
hat the words he would utter are already
spoken in the conscience of
very one present. In all probability
ach one is waiting, hopeful to hear the
:all to do right, but without the courige
to speak it.
He will only give voice to their beter
natures if he utters the word in
eason.? Youth's Companion.
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It is well to keep in mind that! no * ~Jf
lay leaves us just wnere it louna us.
Ve are with each departing day older
n time and nearer to the grave. Sojne
ddition for good or ill is made to the
ecord of life. We are made better or
vorse. Habit becomes a little strongr.
Our opportunities in life lessen.
?he need of dispatch in the work of
ife increases. AVe have less time to
vaste. The danger of delay augwewtz.-Independent.
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