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The Press and Banner. ABBEVILLE, S.C. Wednesday, October 2,1889. Twelve Pages. A Vigorous Campaign. After a Summer's rest, the editor of tbe Press and Banner is in condition to enter the Winter's campaign with renewed energy. Large additions to our already large stock of type, and a new engine to run our printing presses, give u.s superior advantages, and better fit us for successful work than we have ever been at any time in the previous history of the paper. Know ingthat the great public heart will support an honest newspaper, and that the great mass of the people will subscribe for and pay for a good newspaper, we shall always be honest iu thought, independent in expression of opinion, and just to all men. In the practical conduct of the paper, we shall spare neither labor nor money to make tbe Press and Banner come as near as possible to the highest demands of the public. We have large fonts of small tj'pe, au army of active, efficient aud faithful type setters, and an able corps of corresponding editors, while liie generous support which the public has always given to this newspaper will furnish the sinews of war, and enable us to make a newspaper of which no County in the State of South Carolina need be ashamed. In the past, the Press and Banner has been in many a storm, but?like the ancient oak, whose roots are sent deeper into the earth because of the violence with which it is assailed?this newspaper has always been materially benefitted, and never failed to find a deeper hold upon the hearts of the people after each successive assault. Believing that the people of Abbeville County will support a newspaper which can be neither bull-dozed nor swayed from the honest expression of its opinion upon any subject whatsoever, we shall strive for the attainment of the highest objects and noblest aims of the best newspaper in the land. If, however, there is a man is Abbeville County, who wants a newspaper that has no opinions of its own, and will suppress conviction of principle, so that thrift may follow fawning, let him look to some othef tource for his ideal newspaper. If there is a mau in Abbeville County, who may assume to dictate the policy and business conduct of this newspaper, let him understand that he is undertaking a fruitless job. If auv good man has thoughtlessly surrendered the heaven-born right of personal freedom as guaranteed under this form of government, and has sub miUed to the indignity of being directed as to what newspaper he must or must not take, we will note the fact aud erase his name from our books in sorrow more on his account than on our own. If there is a mau within the limits - - - " ? - ? - - 1^ ?i? of Abbeville county, wnu wuuiu sccrv to suppress and deprive the public of a knowledge of our opinion on any practical subject which may come before the people, let him not subscribe for the Press and Banner. If there is any man so intoleraut iu his own opinions as to require a newspaper to have no opinion, which differs from his own, let him not read the Press and Banner. We intend to serve the public faithfully. We intend to make a good newspaper. We intend, with due and proper respect for the opinious of others, to express our own, openly aud above board. We do not intend to be constrained in our effort to serve the public. With a firm reliance on the intelligence of Abbeville County, and a determination to work with all the energy that a worthy object can inspire, we look to the future, in confidence. Death of Gen. D. IV. Hill. Charlotte, N. C? September 25.? General D. H. Hill died yesterday in this city. The funeral and interment took place at Davidson College to-day. Here is a whole sermon in a sen tence by Hannah Moore: "He who cannot tind time to consult his Bible, will one day find (hat he has no time to be sick ; he who has no time to reflect is more likely to find time to sin; he who cannot find time for repentance will be of no avail; he who cannot find time to work for others, may find an eternity in which to .suffer for himself." Few rightly estimate the worth Of joys that spring and fade on earth; They are not weeds we should despise, They are not fruits of Paradise; Hut wild flowers in the Pilgrim's way, That eheer vet not protract his stay; Which he dare not too fondly clasp, Lest they should perish in his grasp: And yet may view, and wisely love, As proofs and types of joy above. A man's moral being is concentrated in every second of his life ; it lives in the tip of his fingers, and the spring of his in-tops. A very little thing tries what a man is made of. Ability does not depend upon the volume of acquirements one may possess, but, instead, it depends upon an honesty of purpose and courage, derived from one's common sense. I A Word to the Girls. No jiirl with a muddy complexion can clear it by any external application. She must begin with dieting. Leave off lea and coffee, which make the skin muddy, and drink milk or lemonade instead. She must adjure fat meats and greasy foods of all kinds. Fruits, vegetables, eggs, lean meats and cereals may be freely partaken of; cakes, candies, pies and pickles must be tabooed. The daily bath must be taken, and the skin kept in a healthy condition by vigorous rubbing after bathing, and by abundant daily exercise in the open air. Early and long sleep will aid materially in giving a healthy tone and glow to the complexion. Late hours and late suppers quickly tell upon the loveliest face. Compression of the waist turns the most exquisite peach-blossom complexion muddy. So do high heels and tightlyfitting fashionable shoes. Dame nature is patient and long-suffering, but she is also just. Violate her laws if you choose; she will not prevent you ; you may even fancy for a time that you do so with impunity ; but the day of reckoning will come, inexorable as fate; and health gone and beauty gone, what is left by way of compensation ??i\r. Y. Tribune. Always finish work that you begin. One thing finished is worth a hundred half done. The completion of an undertaking yields more pleasure and profit then dozens of plans. The man who is always planing or scheming is rarely, if ever, successful. He often furnishes idea? for others, who go per. sistently to work and finish what his ideas suggested. "That was my idea? ?1 ? " fVrvo, nonfl IT hflor flnmp my, piaii, v> c nci[uvnwij ??v*??. one say; but the man who carried it out was the one who benefited himself and others. Do not begin what you caunot finish. What j*ou undertake to do, do, and reap the reward of your own ideas and skill. This restless spirit is seen in the lit tie boy9 and girls. "The child behaves himself proudly against the aucient? and the base against the honorable." Disobedience to parents, however ugly a thiug it may be, i9 well nigh universal. The spirit of the age is set against averything, no matter how venerable or how sacred. The fruits of this restless spirit is "God is giving us up to a reprobate mind, to do those thing? which are not convenient." Oui oountry "is full of all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness." Men are fast losing confidence in each other, and the foundations of society are apparently ready to be razed. Even the visible Church is being converted into a secular body in which parties are plotting against each other. The pastoral relation has, to an alarming degree, ceased to be regarded of divine origin and the |pastor is regarded as a mere hireling who may be dismissed at anytime. There isT perh^s, not a single congregation in tfywfair land of ours but which is in g discontented condition. A feverish restlessness seems to be universal. It has already done much which has resulted in disturbing the peace of society at large and the Church in particular, and threatens the overthrow of all our institutions both civil and divine. A. (R. Presbyterian. Pi'ty often takes the place, in a large soul, which indignation would have in astnalloue. The smaller minded man grows indignant when he finds himself slighted or treated unjustly by another. The man of broader views and of higher manhood has, in such a case, real pity for the one who can bear himself so unworthily. "I sometimes feel," says Dr. Holmes, "as if w ought to love the crippled souls with a certain tenderness which we need not waste on noble natures une wuo is born with such congenital incapacity that nothing can make a gentleman of him, is entitled, not to our wrath, but to our profoundest sympathy [or pity]." It is not pleasant for a wise man to be jeered at by a driveling idiot ; but how much better it is to be the one thus jeered at than the one who jeers! ' S. S. Times. Not what a preacher says to his hearers, but what his hearers say to themselves, is of the valve in influencing those hearers' lives. The mere utterance of truth in the ears of a listener is of itself powerless, either for good or evil. "What shall it profit a man," says the preacher impressively, "if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" Ninety-nine of his hearers nod appreciatively, and listen to hear something else equally good. The hundredth hearer stops in his listening, repeats over to himself, "What shall it profit?what shall it profit me?" and receives an impress upon . his life as the result of his self-preaclied sermon. He is not yet a master! j workman in the craft of soul winners,! i who lyis not learned the art of making: ; his hearers preach to themselves. The Christian may innocently in-! iduliri* his taste to a great expense, for {the tine arts and the soft luxuries of; the world, when all the temporal audj spiritual wants of every human being are fully supplied. Tfhat Others Say. Catechism Rending:. I see that Dr. Messick suggested at the last Preachers' Meeting that it might be a good plan to read the catechism instead of part of the singing. If you please, I will give my experience. In one of my late pastorates I conceived of that very plan. I supplied the congregation with the catechism and told them that we would read about twelve qu estions at each * morn ing service?I reading the questions and they the answers. It was generally acceded to and the exercise was commenced. I read a short Scripture lesson or lessons, and then the catechism. It proved to be a much pleas anter exercise than some feared. I was delighted with it and kept it up as inner a* T was Dastor there. It is aston ishingand lamentable how little real catechetical knowledge there is among the people! How great a proportion of our people, doe9 any one suppose, would fail to give any intelligent out. line of the doctrines of our church ! Any one would be astonished if he knew the facts ! How then can this great and serious want be met? Certainly, not by mourning over it. It is not probable that any considerable part of the people would seek for this information at home. It can be done in the way referred to above. And it may become a pleasure to do so- One of the hardest things is to get men to acknowledge their want of information. Many would live on in ignorance before they would let it be known to their fellows. In this method all join in the public reading of these questions and answers. If the catechism be a true exponent of Gospel truth, a congregation would soon run over the form and have it before them. It being thus publicly read, the individual would be quite ready to think of and study more or less at home and at his leisure. Soon the entire congregation would be far advanced in the doctrines of the phurch, and be able to give a reason of the hope with in them with meekness and fear. Mr. Editor, I am sure there is much more In this thought than many are ready to acknowledge. I would most earnestly advise any pastor to try the plan. Exhort kis people, all, pld and young, rich and poor, to engage in this exercise, and I am sure they will be benefited. I delight in the exercise and would like to be in such a congregation each Sabbath morning, both to hear the people all together, repeat these great God-given truths, and repeat them daily myself. We need more Scriptural knowledge! War means immediate taxes lain on with a heavy hand. It means restora tion of tax of five cents on coffee and twenty-five cents on tea, and the entire list of internal excises; it means a multiplication of the tax gatherers. War is the downfall of public credit, and ours is already strained. Instead of selling more bonds for what they will fetch, we will lay a direct tax of $300,000,000 a year, to be collected through the regular state machinery. The expenditures of such a war will be made by a few eastern cities ; the taxes will be drawn from the whole country. War will destroy confidence and paralyze industry. They are fools as well as knaves who argue that we should go to war to make good times. Traders and speculators who are weak and shaky now would be wiped out by a war. It is well for us to know that the emotions cause more unhappiness and crime than any other function of the brain. It is its emotions mat wear away the brain, and not intellectual work. Very few people suffer from intellectual work, and, if my memory serves me, I do not recollect ever having a mathematician for a patient. It is not intellectual work that causes nervous dyspepsia, but the emotions, such as anxiety, fear, sorrow and love. Activity. God never meant to create a single thing to remain just as He made it. Growth and development are a needful feature of every form of life. Even the very rock3 by the wayside grow. The physical stature is gained by activity. The moral and spiritual development is gained by observing certain laws of the Creator. Activity is in all cases the fundamental principle of growth and development in the moral and spiritual world. By usin^ the means that is given to our keeping, we become strong and stalwart. If we remain idle, we becoima helpless dwarfs, incapable of doing anything of any importance. God gave us reason. and He meant that this should be kept in constant use. The active mind will always accomplish something. It will set in action other principles of work and movement. In the spiritual life a great deal of activity is required There ought to be no idlers in the Muster's vineyard. Action is the very ruling principle of spiritual life. We become spiritual dwarfs when we become idlers. Let us be active then, and never sit down to dream by the wayside. Jf we do, it may be an eternal dream, from which we shall never awake. Others will do our work and take our crowns. Sunday Papers and Their Content*. The New York Mail and Express cites these figures, as the result of careful examination made of recent Sabbath editions of the leading New York dailies, confessedly the best specimens of the American newspaper: The Tribune published eighty-one columns of political, special, sensational, crimiu* al and gossipy matter, and three-fourths of a column devoted to religion ; the J^eraldh&A eighty-four columns, with three-fourths of a column devoted| to religion ; the World, ninety columns, with one-half of a column given to religion; the Sun ninety seven columns with one and three-eighths columns devoted to religion ; the Times, sixtyeight columns, and one-eighth of a column devoted to religion! Let a man, on Sabbath morning, wade through all the miserable stuff in anyone of our great dailies, or even skim it and what must be hi s religious frame of mind ? Gorged with his highly spiced newspaper dishes, what room has he in head and heart for Scripture lesson and sermon? With the world's panaroina, presented by the newspaper, moving along beforo his eyes, in its sensational colors) while he is in the sanctuary, how can he worship God "in the beauty of holiness?" The only difference between the week-day paper and the Sabbath paper is in size, the latter being larger, the character of the contents being the same in both. Now it is hard enough on our morals to read the average newspaper though the week. During his visit to America, Canon Farrar expressed his amazement at the coarseness and indelicacy to our daily press. In the penitentiary at Joliet, Illinois, a reader goes through the papers and clips from the mail records of crime, before the prisoners see them. Would thai; some such service could be rendered for our homes so that only the "expurgated" newspaper might enter. Says Scribner}8Magazine : The familiarity with vice, and crime, and social shame, thathau been acquired in this country during the last few I years, through tne newspaprrs, una bad the effect of a moral^courge." This being the "moral and religious cast" of the newspaper, we need not expect that those who take it for Sabbath reading will "grow in grace,") or be good "hearers of the word" at church. Says Joseph Cook: Sabbath journals of to-day displace thereligious mood of thoughtfulness and worship., which is also the deepest rest, without which no civilization can be maintained at a high level. And says Dr. Howard Crosby : No Christian can yield to such an influence without deadening his piety, chilling his faith aud destroying his in fluence? Cumberland Presbyterian Quarterly. Efletlve Reproof. In one of the nu mbers of the Christian Advocate, C. C. McCade calls the attention of Christians to the Scripture command, "Thou shalt not in anywise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him." He remaks, "how it would diminish profanity for instance if every time a man should swear on the streets on the cars, or in depots, he'should be sure to call up some witness for Jesus; and he mentions a case in which he says, "I knew John E.'. Vincent to reprove a swearer so powerfully, and yet so tenderly, that he not only subdued him, but melted him to tears. It I 1 was in a railway station. The room was full of passengers waiting for a , belated train. A man, probably slightly intoxicated, was shocking everybody with his profanity. Suddenly Dr. Vincent began to sing : "Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, Whllo l Ha toinnPsUtlll IS high? I Hide me, O ray Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past; i Safe into the haven guide, O receive my sonl at last!" The song. Perfect silence reigned. The swearer was reproved. After a time he came to Dr. Vincent and said "Could I see you a moment outside ?" They went out together. "How came you," said he, "to sing i that hymn just now ?" The doctor replied : "I heard you swearing, and I thought I would let you know there was somebody there who loved the name of Jesus." "That's very strange," said the man "My sister, when she was dying, sang that very hymn, and she made me promise to meet her in heaven. Could you pray for me?" Down in the snow they knelt together, and the doctor prayed for the penitentjmau, and asked that he might have grace and strength to keep his vow. The train came. They were separated, to meet no more, in all probability, till they meet in eternity. Disciple of Jesus, stand up for your Master. Bear His reproach. Confess His name before nu*u. The hour is rapidly approaching when a glance of recognition from Jesus will be more to you than all the wealth aud honor of this world. And He has said, If ye I confess me before men, I will confess you before my Father and his angels. Parental Responsibility. Parental la one form of personal responsibility than which nothing is more solemn. Whom among us does it not concern ? Who can escape coming face to face with it at last? Not a single ono who is capable of reading this paper. There is no condition, no pretext by which any human being, endowed with a rational mind and opportunity, can evade the fact and re-, suits of personal responsibility to God. Hence it come9 to parents with great force. Your chilren are not walking in the ways of the Lord as you had hoped. They are shy, restive of leligion ; they wish to hear of anytkig but the church. They will not go, and you grieve about it. Yes, it is grievous. It is an evil omen. The weeping of an eternity may be in it. Where is the fault ? Look back! Has your example always been on the right side? When these children were young and impressible did you go to church yourself? Did they never hear you say: "Just as good peo pie out of the church as in it" ? "I'll not go to church to-day. I am too tired. The preaching is too long. We will go to the woods, to the park. We can worship God just as well by communing with nature." And now, you j lament that your children will not go to church. What wonder Have you not barred the doors of the sanctuary against your child with your own hands ? Undoubtedly some parents have done just this, and tbo gate of heaven, too?God grant that it may still open to their wandering feet, when at last they weary in the ways of sin, if they ever do. The page of God's record is filling up, and it will soon be unrolled for our reading and for his just decision. All about us is changing, but God's word abides. Like himself, it changeth not. We must meet it'one day. Blessed be those only who so live that this solemn truth shall become a note in the final song, and not a voice of reproach. Eoery one of ua shall give account of himself My Scrap-Book?i.Yo. 52. | Mr. Spurgeon has just issued a new dook, enmiea "rue oaic-\jejiars," a collection of proverbs, together with homely notes thereon. Not caring to lose the numerous proverbs which he has collected aDd used in his annual sheet almanacs, he has decided (according to his preface) to arrange them in two small volumes, the first of which is just published. Our readers will doubtless be interested in the following selection of the proverbs, some of which are general, and others "sayings of a more spiritual sort A bargain is a bargain. "See what is said of the just man in Ps. 15: 4 : "He sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not." A boy untaught will be taught by the devil. A faithful preacher is a rare creature. "And, like a diamond, precious as he is rare." A hammer of gold will not open the gates of heaven. "Money opens many of the gates o^ earth, for bribery is rife; but it has no power in the world to come. Money is more eloquent than ten members of parliament, but it cannot preyail with the Great Judge." A leaden sword in an ivory scabbard is still lead. "You cannot make a man of one who is no man, though you may make him a magistrate, or a minister, or an emperor." A man of prayer is a man of power. "But he must not be of the same kind as the Berkshire farmer, who said, 'It was no use praying for rain as long as the wind was in the north.' " "If nature is restrained and not renewed, its sinful propensities will break out sooner or later." An old dog does not bark for nothing "Warnings from men of years and experience ought to be respected; though, alas ! they are not." Be in the right way, but in nobody's way. "Neither spend all, nor grasp all; neither draw all out, nor kaep all in. Follow wisdom in all her ways." Bear the ben's cackle for the sake of the eggs. How Christ Should be Received. One evening Charles Lamb and some of his friends were conversing on the probable effects upon themselves, :t n.~,r ii'oro lirnilirht. tf> fkfte with 11 UICJ n tit uiwug... .?? the great and wonderful dead. "Think," said one, "if Dante were to enter the room ! How should we meet the man who had trod the fiery pavement of the Inferno, whose eyes had pierced the twilight and breathed the still, clear air of the mount of the 'fuffa/orio, whose mind had contemplated the mysteries of g:ory in the highest heavens?" "Or suppose," said an" other, "that Shakespeare were to come?" "Ah!" cried Lamb, his whole face brightening, "how I should fling my arms up ! how we should welcome him, that king of thoughtful men!" "Andsuppose," said another, "Christ were to enter?" The whole face and attitude of Lamb were in an instant changed. "Of course," he said, in a tone of deep solemnity, "we should fall upon our knees." ' $ . "Mpolllur Children." "The worst injury any parent can inflict on society is to pet and spoil their children in such a way that when they grow up the world will regret ? that they did not die in infancy. A mother allows her boy to 'answer her 1 back' and treat her rudely. Years after she has gone to her account another person will reap the bitter harvest of her weakness. The spoiled son will have taken to himself a wife, whom he treats in the same rude manner that he w as permitted to adopt toward his mother. A spoiled boy may possibly become a worthy, religious man, but the effect of his having been spoiled will be seen in the large amount of dross that will overlie the gold. He will be ill-mannered, overbearing, selfish, and generally disagreeable. Mothers, you can prevent this! When a boy is given to you, accept him, not as a plaything merely, but as a most sacred trust?a talent to be put to the best account. Train him to be pure, truthful, unselfish, independent. Teach him to hate cruelty, to take the j part of the weak, to recognize the , special gentleness and respectful consideration due to a woman, particular! ly to his mother and sisters. In this way you may prevent your pets from 1 ever becoming pests." The above extract is from "The Five Talents of Women," and most heartily will it be endorsed by even those who offend against its ideas most. The need of cam for children is an undisputed question; and sometimes one is forced to questiou if the results for the great mass of children would not have been better if we had learned to use the word culture instead of care when speaking of their training. Caring for \ a child seems to be purely physica land financial, the two responsibilities of a child's guarding that can be trusted to honest servants. Culture recognizes more in a child than the body. It recognizes a mind and a soul; it recognizes a future for which the present is a preparation working to positive results. Yesterday, that well-dressed mother who quietly put a ruggea, healthy boy In a vacant seat in a Fourth Avenue car, ostentatiously paying full fare?though the boy was under age?while an elderly gentleman stood up, certainly was takiog a care of the child that was sadly lacking in culture. The possibility of gentle consideration for others in the future of a boy so trained is hopeless. Culture means care, but far more than care. It means the study of the future citizen in all his relations; it means the constant pruning of disagreeable habits; it means the imposing of burdens that will develop , thought and consideration for others. Bad table man nerd in a child are the reflex of ignorance or carelessness of the parents, and, when developed till they become habits, are bonds taat were woven by the parent. Selfishness and disregard of the rights of oth?rs are but the natural fruit of a childhcnd that may have had care, but lacted that which is far higher, culture. Tie time to begin culture is in the crade, when the baby lies plastic to every hfluence about him. The Power of Grace. we Llitve KUUWU u uiau nuu uuv u? discovered that through the treachery of a trusted friend and business asso ciate his business had been ruined and his accumulated property nearly if not absolutely, swept away. Yet i f although his face became graver thai usual, his cheerfulness of manner wai not otherwise altered ; general confi?^^Kn dence in his fellow-men did not seem^^H to wnver; none but kindly and even^^H excusable words fell from his lips cen-^Hjf cerniug his betrayer; and he faced the^^B world as gal'antly", and set to work to reconstruct his shattered fortunes as^^B energetically, a.s if nothing discourag-^H ing had befallen him. He exhibited genuine Christian heroism of a high order and as impressively as modestly. Such examples of strong and noble H character make one thank Qod and tafce courage.?Congregationalist. * ThlnvN Good to Keep. ^ .Keep thee from a false matter. Keep yourselves in the love of God. He that keepeth his mouth keepeth ^?;~ his life. . /S Little children, keep youra^Ivei from idols. My son, keep sound wisdom and discretions. My son, keep thy father's commandments. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Tuke heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently. Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Keep thy heart with all diligence, i fnr nnt of it are the issues of life. | Daniel Webster in one of his speeches said there were three things j be wished to impress on the minds of [pupils. First, you cannot learn with1 out your own efforts. All the teachers , in the world can never make a scholar of you if you do not apply yourself with all your might. In the second I place, be of good character and good ! behavior?a boy of strict truth, and honor and conscience, in all things. Have but one rule, and let that be always to act right and four nothing but wrong-doing. i.