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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1895. ESTABLISHED
THE ABBKFILLE OIL?FERTILIZER 00.
J ALLEN SMITH. J. M. HARDEN*. W. 1?. FERGUSON.
President. Manager. Superintendent.
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Tblfl Cotton plnnt wan fertilized with oar No notion s^ed meal
cotton need meal. ' whs used on tbl* plant.
The above cut i9 an exact reproduction of photograph of two
nlanta from same plantation this reason.
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WE ARE PREPARED TO SUPPLY
Hulls and Meal for Cattle Food.
And will GIN your Cotton at current rates.
frW Pay Highest Market Price for Cotton Seed.
I NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS.
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For tbe purpose of accommodating the public iu the matter of taking tax re-!
turns, I will fulfill the appointments below mentioned, either in person or by
deputy. Note the dates and save yourself a trip to Abbeville.
Remember when you sign a return, for yourself or for another, you take an
oath that you have returned the property therein named at its true value.
" 1 lit . ....J nnno npnnlw o amull frunlinri
Kememoer auo u you uavc umnwt ouu icium ?iv?.v, ?uV ? ......?
thereof, you lay your^glf liable to an investigation by the Assessing Board and
to prosecution before the Auditor. We wish only a fair and honest return.
The appolntmeqfb are as follows:
Ninety-Six, from 2 o'clock p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, until 1 o'clock p. m. Jan. 10
v Greenwood, fron? 2 o'clock Wednesday 16th until 2 o'clock Friday 18th.
Coronaca, Jan. 19tb, Saturday, until arrival of down train.
Hodges, Saturday and Monday, 19th and 21st of January.
Verdery, Monday, Jan. 21st.
Bradley, Tuesday, Jan. 22d.
Troy, Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 23rd and 24th.
MeCormick, Frldaj and Saturday, Jan. 25th and 26th.
'v Bordeaux, Monday, Jan. 28th.
Willingtor, Tuesday, Jan. 29th.
Mt. Carinel, Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 30th and 31st.
Calhoun Falls, Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 4th and 5th.
Lowndesville, Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 6th and 7th.
rv*"" 1 An Tiisoitnu an/4 WcHnosHov Vth MH nnH fit h
JA/UmilOt i UVOMPJ MUM If * VW. - W ?
Due West, Thursday and Friday, Feb. 7th and 8th.
Mountaio View, Jau. 11th and 12th at Alliance Ginnery.
Antreville, Jan. lltb and 12th at McAdams store.
Cedar Springs, Jau. 12th at Hunter* store.
Long Cane, Jan. 11th and 12th at residence of A. F. Calvert.
Abbeville, from 1st of January uutil 2Uth of February, 1895, except Wednesday,
Jan. l(Hh, Thursday, Jan. 17th, Friday, Jau. 18, and Saturday and Monday,
Jan. 19ih and 21st, and Feb. 4tb, 5th, Gtb and 7th. On these dates the
Auditor and his Assistant will be absent Ailing the above appointments.
Tax pay era will observe the following instructions :
Where you have land in more than one township don't fall to make separate
returns, giving the exact number of acres in each.
Present your plats and deeds to the Auditor where you have detected an er
ror in your former return, in order to verify a correction.
W. W. BSADLET, Auditor.
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"Our Fighting Force."
"Only 20,000 Men Available."
So says General Ruggles in his report
to the Secretary of War. The
law as defined in the United States
Revised Statutes allows ns to have
! 155,000 men, but tor the last five years
the average number of enlisted men
and officers has been only 20,488, and
deducting those on the sick-list we
have 20,0o0 available men ready to be
called into the field on an emergency.
General Reggies earnestly recommends
to the Secretary of War that
the Regular Army be increased to 30,fwtfl
mon in thnt fhern mnv iilwnvs 'be
an available force of 25,000 men. This)
number includes cavalry, artillery und |
infantry. I
General Iluggles further reports that
the Indian as a ?uldier is not a success,
und he does not encourage further Indian
enlistments.
If ihe autonomy of our country were
Jo be preserved, and its government
sustained by purely brute force, or if
the protection of our 13,000 miles of
unforlfied sea coast was to be defended
bodily by these25,000 men, we should
consider this recommendation good,
but entirely inadequate for so greutan
undertaking. It would give 555 men
to each of the forty five states, omitting
the territories.
The mockery of a standing army !
Our security depends upon the justness
and equality of our laws; our
policy of neutrality ; our remoteness
from any enemy, or rather the want of
f'* ntfu/iL- na u nrl tho nonprnil
U1I CUCUIJ IV Hvvavn u9( miiv* vuv ^
law-abiding character of our citizens?
in short, the native, practical common
fense of the American people.
We know that war means a destruction
of life and property, of manufacturing,
com merical and financial interests,
of death and poverty to the common
people, while religion and education,
the arts and the sciences remain
at a standstill. It were better Congress
appropriate money for a great national
institution of learning than for an increase
to the standing army.
B. A. L.
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The Fleet ins: Yenrw.
The close of any one year ought to
awaken, not melancholy, Jut serious,
thought. The swiftly passing hours,
days, and months of life suggest lessons
which we may ponder with protit.
Earthly pursuits or pleasures
should not to preoccupy the mind during
the holiday season us to displace
quit meditation.
The year just now closing has
furnished each one a history, every
page of which is full of deepest meaning.
There have been joys and sorrows,
sunshine and shadow, that have
made life real to us. We cannot pass
again the same highway ; tbe record
has been made, a record that is in
many respects unlike that of any
other year of our life, and quite dissimilar
to the experience of any other
person.
One thing, however, all have exl>erienced
in cimraon, namely, the loving
care of our heavenly Father.
There has not beeu an hour without
His gentle hand to guide us if we were
willing to be directed by Him. He
has been all the while intent upon our
instruction in the tilings of supreme
value?the things that make for peace
and for the perfecting of character.
Even our unanswered prayers have
been the token of His care; for the
withholding the best gifts is .His way
oftentimes to secure our affections- ana
spiritual enrichment.
Mistakes have marred the record.
We cannot in one sense erase them;
but in another and higher sense we
can count them forever buried. Our
blessed Saviour asks us to bring every
error ol judgment, ami every evu
thing, and lay them down at His feet,
He can counteract the effect of all;
He will forgive all; He will smile and
accept every contrite, believing heart,
however unworthy.
Let us not, therefore, commit the
error of dwelliug with a morbid
sensitiveness upon the unfaithful past.
Kather let us turn our faces toward the
future with new purpose and hope.
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"I didn't know yo' could read, JJre'r
Dowue3T." Downey (apparently much
interested in his paper): uO yes, I'se
read ebber since 1 wus: er boy." "Den
how how comes it dat you'se readin'
dat paper upside down ?" "I always
reads dat way, den I'se got a de bottom
facts without habing ter read
down the whole column."
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How Ertriio Prrnclicil.
"When T get big enough. I'm going
to be a preacher," said Eddie one
day.
"What is a preacher," asked
grand-ma.
Eddie looked surprised. "Don't you
know what a preacher is? A preacher
is Ihe man that tells peoples what the
Bible means. And be says, 'Thirdly,
my brethren,' and every body listens to
him. It's nice to have people listen to
you."
Grand-ma smiled. "I think you are
big enough to preach now," she said.
"Really and truly, grand-ma?" asked
tbe little boy eagerly.
"Yes, realy and truly."
I'm '(raid not," said Eddie, after a
few minutes of thought, "or I'd
know how, and I don't."
What does tbe preacher do first?"
asked grand-ma.
"He takes a text, and then he
'splains it. I can't do that."
"Oh yes, you can," said grandma.
"Here is a good text for you to explain:
'He ye kind one to another.' "
"There's nothing to 'splain 'bout
that," said Eddie. Von just lie kind
to everybody, and that's all there is
about it."
"A good text, though, for my little
prcacher's first sermon. I should like
to hear him preach from it for a
week."
"Preach a week ? Why grand-ma,
r nnnlf ? "
Can't you be kind to everybody you
meet for one week-?"
Eddie looked thoughtful. "Would
that be preaching?" he asked.
"It would, and the very best kind.
A good preacher bus to preach that
way, or people will not listen to what
he says in the pulpit."
"Well," Raid Eddie with a sigh, "I
suppose I can try ; but I wasn't thinking
'bout that kind of preaching."
"You'll be showing everybody what
that verse in the Bible means, you
know," said grand-ma.
"It's Dot Kina to tne reacner i<> whiht
per in school," said Eddie, th?? next
day ; and he did not whisper once.
"It's not kind to Bridget to play
along the road and keep my dbinor
waiting, and he hurried home jrom
school.
"It's not being kind to mamma not
to do errands promptly." he said ; aud
he did quickly and well whatever he
was bid.
Everyday and all day he thought
about what wa* kind, and tried to
do it.
The end of the week came. "How
do you ]ike preaching?" asked
grand-ma.
"Why, J like it; but, grand-ma, I
guess everybody has been preaching
about that text. For everybody has
been so kind to me."
The Hard Lesoon,
"I can't do it. It's so hard."
"O. ye.s you c.in, my bird. You
know very well that mama would
not give you anything to do whicb
you could not do."
"But I want to go and see ray little
birds."
"And I waut to go to my garden.
I'm sure it wants watering. All the
seeds are coming up."
"They can wait, dear. They are
busy about their own work."
"O, mama, little plants don't have
to work, do they?"
'Everything, which Ciod has made
has work of some kind."
"Are you going out, mama?" asked
Lula, she saw her puttiug her
linnet, nn.
""Yes."
Here wag an end of all hope of help
in the hard lesson. Lulapul the end
of her pencil iu her mouth as ?ho
looked forlornly after her.
''I hope," said mama as she went
out of the door, "that you will do
your lesson before you do anything
el9e. 'Duty before pleasure' is a good
old saying. I heard it wheu I was a
little girl. And it is Just as guod
for little girls now as it was then."
"Dear me!" said Lula, with a
sigh as her mama closed the door.
"I wonder why we have to do hard
things wheu there are so many easy
things to do. I wonder why we have
to study when we want to play. Jt's
nice out in the sunsbiue. 1 want to
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see II my JIlMtJ unua mc ail buic. t
wonder where kilty is. I guess I'll
just go for a little while and do my lesson
afterwards."
Lulu passed an unt hole which she
had not seen before.
"How soon they have made it," she
said. "How hard those little mites
must have worked."
| Yes, things were busy. The morning
glory vine was doing its bet-t to
hurry uu to the top of an old trellis, to
cover it with beauty. Tbc apple blossoms
were just putting out, doing their
share, Lulu knew, in the making of
the rich fruit. The bees were buzzing
around the lilrc bushes, gathering tbeir
store of honey.
"I wish I hadn't left, my lesson,"
said the little girl. "Wliai will mama
say when she comes and finds it not
done? She will think [ um not ?-o
good as the birds and the bees and blossoms.
But it* I try hard perhaps I can
get it done before she comes."
"Better late than never," is another
good old Buying. Back at her slate
with bright eyes and quick wits, Lulu
put her whole heart in her lesson.
And she had her reward in mama's
pleasant smile and in the delightful
feeling of duty done. And how sweet
was the play which came afterwards.
Try it for your.-olves, little ones.
Visitor?"What bright eyes you
have, my little man. Yon yet plenty
of sleep, I presume." Little Man ?
"Yes'm. Mamma makes me go to
bed every uight at eight o'clock."
Visitor?"So you will keep strong and
healthy?" Little Man?"No'rn. Ngo
she can mend my pains."
As our body cast* a shadow, so does
our character cast an influence. Asa
shadow may he either hen ling or hurtful.
so does influence either Mess or
damn.
It costs niuedollars for five minutes'
conversation by telephone between
Jfew York and Chicago.
ftppve you made your contribution of
cern for the hungry folks in Nebraska?
not, wh v not
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DeHcrtiiitf Christ Jesun,
I J5Y KEV. THEODORE U. CUY1>ER, I). I).
From a Roman prison Paul writes of
Demas as his "fellow-prisoner in Christ
. Jesus." From the same place he sadly
! writes to Timothy some time alteri
ward: "Donas hath forsaken me.
! having loved this present world."
i There is the secret of this lamentable
j desertion hy a man who had won a
! good name "as a soldier of Jesus Christ,
i What was true of Demas is true of
every one who has backslidden and
brought reproach on hisOhristiau profession.
There is always a secret reason.
If we could get at the inside history
of every backsiidder, or of every
open apostate, we might find such indictments
as these written beside their
names : "Deserted from inordinate
greed for moneyor "Deserted from
love of the wine cup, or soire other
sensual Just;" or ".Deserted through
neglect, of his Bible and his cloi-et;"
I or "Deserted through the enticements
!of godless associates or "Deserted
from tampering with skeptical books
or kindred poisons of faith."&\Ve are
not Jeft to conjecture as to the reason
of poor Denias's desertion ; lie forsook
his post of duty from "loveof this present
world."
Was Demas a genuine Christian at
the start? Did he sink into utter apostasy
? The Bible narrative does not
give a point blank answer to either of
these questions. There is, indeed, a
tradition that he fell away utterly from
the faith and became a priest in a
heathen temple. But without attaching
any weight to this tradition, it is
enough to know that his loyalty to his
Master gave way under strong temptation.
It ought to be known also
that every Christian is liable to strong
temptations, aud that our Master
never promises to keep any man who
ventures out of the path of duty aud
over into the enemy's territory. No
Christian is safe when he voluntarily
yields to any seductive influence, ami
I"'" o uinfnl affpnrirm irrnw until It
roots Jeaun Christ out of the heart.
We are not mere passive machines;
we are responsible free agents; and
there is a deeply true sense in which
it depends upon every professed Christian
whether he is saved or not. "1
say unto you all, Watch!" "Be ye
not conformed to the world ;" "Lei
him tbat thinueth lie s'andeth take
heed lest he fall;" "He that eudureth
to the end shall be saved." What do
all these solemn admonitions mean except
to keep us from presumption, and
to teach us that no Christian is absolutely
&afe unless he holds fast to his
Lord and Saviour?
JJemas felj. So may you or to
Demas began to love the world.
When that love began to work into
his heart it ate out his spirituality aud
his loyalty to his Master. Let the
same false, sinful love begin to eat into
our hearts, and it will produce the (
same result. It i9 a subtle, silent process,
this pushing Christ off of the ,
heart-throne, and sometimes it is a \
slow process. Very few Christians go ,
to pieces sudden ly.
Everything depends upon the heart.
Christian brother, the vital question
with us is, do we keep up a close ,
heart-fellowship with our Saviour?
Do we maintain this by prayer, by ,
watchfulness, by Bible study, and by ,
aggressive Christian activities for the
good of others ? Does the love of Christ
con-train us, as the master-purpose of
our lives ? It is the people of low vi
tality that?as Dr. Maclaren says?
"catch all the fevers that are going."
Let us be ou our guard. He who be- <
comes worldly-minded is soon drawn i
away from loyalty to Christ. When i
we begin to love the world, the love ol I
Christ cools off. When we begin I. I
worship gold, we noon cease to wor- I
ship God. When we begin to relish i
haunts of sinful pleasure, we lose our <
relish for the place of prayer. When I
we take to irreligious books we drop <
the Bible. When the greedy lusts of
the flesh or the lusts of the world are
iallowed to eat into the heart, they
! weaken conscience, and deaden the
spiritual ^flections, and grieve away
the Holy Spirit, and then we are ready ;
to desert. "Demus hath forsakeu me,'' j
cries the grand old caged hero in '
fern's prison. Anu jcsuh unrisi says
ol" every backslidding Christian, '
' Thou liast forsaken Me, and art lov- 1
ing this present world !" <
j Desertions of Christ begin with occasional
neglects of duty, and occasion- 1
I ul yiel<iing to what we may regard as 1
small sins. "'This once only" is what (
; we whisper to ourselves. "This once '
I only" lias made all the tipplers, and *
'all the gamblers, and all the adulter- !
jers, and all the Sabbath bereakers? 1
ye*, and all the backsliilers froma pure, s
i'lean, honest, andgoiily life. When a *
Christian deserts Christ, he soon iinds '
that Christ has deserted him. Peace '
is gone. purity is gone, power is gone, 1
and be scion learus that it is an evil (
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| and U tutter inmg 10 utrpuri innu iui- I
living God. If any reader of this ari
tide is in such a state of backsliding ; ^
! I entreat him to "repent and do his a
first works." It will be awful to die
in such a condition. Hasten back to a
Christ ! Hasten to thy desei ted post c
of duty ! Seek reconverting grace, and i:
: then, like the deserting Peter, thou v
i may est be restored, and saved as a t
"brand from the burning !"?The Lon- 0
j don Freeman. 1
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j I'ra.yilia: Always. I
We are not like little children, who v
liroforth from their father's house in j
| the morning to spend the day away|r
from him, and only return at evening ,
to find rest ami a shelter. No, we are (
with Him all the while, and He is t
with us. We never leave His pres- l(
ence. He is with us through all our ;]
weariness and work to help us. We \
! may tell our needs and look for Plis f
laid just as often as we please to ask
Him. He will never weary of our j
|asking; hut we often grow weary in i(,
Celling Him things. Many, many j
I times, as we go through our daily L
j tasks, we may look up to Him, and h
the hrief ejaculations may convey onr L
!i inmost desires. Sitting at tiie desk!
t;.? write?if that he our occupation?
Imw delightful to speak to Him ; or.
doing business with others, sonm of,
them sharp-witted, some of them dull 1i
and stupid, how niuch easier to con
tl'ol our temper because of an^tfpi- l
i....i ..? l Innt nt'iii'up 1 TI r
lUill IlilUit? WI rnvuv pinj'.! a< w (
would influence others for go&d, 1'{>W|
much better lo (Jo it by the way of:
the throue of grace! Ic
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Why Not Dance?
BY REV. J.E. MARVIN, PRESBYTERIAN.
1. T cannot dance with a clear confidence,
before God, and therefore I
should abstain.
All branches of the church have
condemned dancing as carnal and immoral,
inconsistent with the Christian
profession.
3. Even the sacred books of the
Pugans declare it an immoral amusement.
4. Pagan moralists, like Cicero, call
it indlcent and voluptuous. '
5. Dancing was one great meant by
which Nero corrupted Rome.
(i. It has a bad name for professing
Christians, and it dishonors the
cause.
7 I'lio Imct nnrt nuia^ i1?vnnt f'liris.
tians do not want to dance.
8. None but slide-backers and unconverted
persons are found dancing.
0. It is not a favorite arausetnent
even with conscientious worldlings.
10. It is one of the most favorite
amusements with the vile everywhere.
11. The world has no confidence in
the piety of church members who
dance. .
12. It is a distinctive badge everywhere
of worldlinessand worldly conformity.
13. Jt destroys a professing Cbristian'fc
testimony, influence and usefulness
everywhere.
14. The dancing of sexes together,
as in modern times, was never practiced
by the virtuous in Bible times.
15. Dancing grieves and offends all
faithful pastors and devout Christians.
10. It is a comnanion vice with
driukingand many other Hints.
17. It dissipates the mind, corrupts
the heurt, and sears the conscience.
18. The decollette dress of the
dance is an immoral invention of harlots.
l'J. The "German" and other round
dances are favorites in brothels.
20. The liberties indulged in dancing
are nowhere else allowed in deeent
society, and under other circumstances
they furnish ground for divorce.
21. It brings virtue into close connection
with vice at late hours and under
excitement, in which virtue is
well-nigh powerless.
22. Meu do not choose to dance
with tnemselves, nor even w?th their
own wives and sisters.
23. Beyond the thrill of music; and
poetry of motion, it seems to have a
sex reference.
24. Indeed it is so allied to licentiousness
that the vilest places in our
cities are called "Dance bouses."
25. The police report shows that a
very large proportion of abandoned
women are ruined in connection with
the dance.
20. T cannot dance in modern society
to the glory of God, nor can anyone.
27. If Jesus Christ were here I am
3ure He would not go with me to a
dancing party, and I cannot ask or obtain
His blessing upon it.
28. I would not like to meet death
it a dance and in a ball dress.
5W. 1 would nouiKe 10 oe iouuu m
a ball-room when the Lord comes.
30. And finally: I have no desire
to dance, because my soul is filled with
the joy of God's salvation, aud my life
with the privileges of His service.
"IF."
Such a little word, and yet it includes
so much! Hours, days, years?yes,
a whole lifetime?may be shrouded
in clouds, thwarted in happiness, and
turned away from true success ^by
that seemingly insignificant monosyllable
hiding in the heart's core, like
i worm in the petals of a flower. A
Joubting spirit!?how it has trou
oled and hindered us during the days
3f the year just gone.
"O, bow much more glorious record
Had the ungels of me kept,
Had f done, instead of doubled.
Hud I warred, Instead of wept
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*"111 (]UICII1CSS UUU V>"ll Ilucutc ir?
itreugth; in anxiety and questioning;,
weakness and failure. Let us
eave our doubts with the old year,
iiid take with us into 1895 the cheerful
hope and courageous assurance
which is the birthright of every
jhild of God. As to the question,
'Am I truly His child?" surely
;here should be no hesitation. That
'act may be settled fully and foriver.
"If we confess our sins, He
aithful and just to forgive us our
;ins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
"fie that heaieth
My word, and believeth on Him that
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lent Me, ham everlasting me, auu i
ball not come, into comdemnation ;
)ut it passed from death unto life."
[fa doubt remains as to our true reation
to (Jod. the wisest tiling we
:an do is to be honest with ourselves,
md see whether there is not some
iccret sin cherished in the heart
vhich we have not frankly, and with
i full desire to have it eleaused away, .
'confessed" to Him. The only "it"
[bout the clearisiug is in our part of
onfessiou. "If our heart condemn
is not, then liaye we confidence toward
tJod." Settled, then, the quesion
as to being truly His child, why
arry a burden of doubt as to any- i
hing concering our spirtual or tempiral
welfare? To doubt is disloyalty.
'Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer,
he Holy One of Israel; I am the
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it profit, which leadeth then l?y the
vay that thou shouldest go;" "For
! the Lord thy God will hold thy
ight hand, saying: unto thee, Fear
lot; I will help thee; ''And
jiod is able to make all grace abound
oward you ; that ye, always having
ill suliiciency in all tilings, may
ibouud to every good work." Now,
f we have a question which robs us
?f peace, let us take heart from these
ind many more such assurances in
lis word; let this be our rest and}
:onfidence for the future, because it:
s God who speaks; and no good I
hing which He has spoken concer-j
ng His people has failed. All has, j
ind will forever, come to pass.?X- Y.
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The law of the harvest is to reap
nore than you sow. Sow an act, and
ou reap a habit, sow a habit, and you
cap a destiny.?George Dana Boardnan.'
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It takes a braver man to forgive an j
meruy than to make one
ThnnjrhtA for the
The beginning of a n^w
good time for many tbi^HH^HH
good time to lay plans 'hHHH
enterprises, to pay oflo^^^HHHa
settle up outstanding accounts^E^^B
gin a new, clear set of books.
Business men make an era oflHH
ginning of the New Year;Wr^^M
want to make a change in ^Wir-t^H
ployes, or in their mode of carrytfiflH
their affairs, this, they fold, is
time to make it. j2fl|
11 is a good time for prospect andi^H
trospect in morals as well as -in bu^H
ness. It is a good time for us, as Cbrfl[
tians, to take account of stock, and
sure bow we stand toward our Mat^H
and our fellow-men.
Are we?we will not say doii^H
but?trying to do our duty, aa lj^H
down for us in the life and teaobing^HS
our SaVior, Christ? Are we any n^HM
er that beautiful standard of life
love which he gave, than we we^^^9
year ago, or have we fallen bacl^HH
one or the other?which ? J9m|
There is no standing still^yBS
Christian life ; remember we
forward or we slip back, ifl H
easier for us to do right than
year ago, it must be harder, a^B^ES
wrong act or word must come I^B H
readily than before. If we
broken the thread of evil
held us, it has grown strode*
each passing week, and the tia^^Hfl
coming when it will hold us as wi^^B
chain that a giant's strength coal^HH
break. gBttH
A traveler, iiiakiag a
murlro Sf Vv?t
luaius IKUU ujf lUC Uiliep(/JUs~^i^^0B
pauses. New Year's days are^RH
uiileposts on the journey of life^^n|
is well to mark, as we reach
bow far we have traveled.
never tell how many mlleposts tHflfl
may be; but we may be sure HH
tbe number is lessening with eVBj
fresh one we pass. Lord, thou knHH
est.
There are many questions to as^HH
selves at these milepoets. ^Hg9
First, are we on therigbt
For there are ma*jj-/T)y-pSth^E^H
cross ways from the straight road^B^H
we have set out to walk iu, AH
moment's idle straying might leal H
into' one, where we might wand^^EH
days and months before we disc^^^f
ed our error. "Examine vourael^HB
Tben we find there is no way oflHH
ting back into the right road
cross-track ; we must retrace our
uo matter bow slow and pain&^Hfl
effort, before we can again treH H
right path. Kev.2:5.
Another traveler might rest/roiB^H
journey at some friendly hotoe orl^Hfl
tor rnauy days together ; but on HHSflj
pathway we can not rest even for a<u^H
The ceaseless march of years bears ^9
on, some whither ; either we journ^B
onward on the heavenly rood, oralo^^B
the dangerous pathway that lead*A9
misery and death.
Whither is my daily walk and c^^H
wersfltion IpftrMnor mp nni/anl nr
ward ? is a good tbough/t for
of us at this New Year'?
90:12?Southern Christian
The Military SpiriKHH^SS
sign HUH
The most daTi^^
free country is ^ferSfll^BKHflNM
War at the best ismmton^^^H^H
No nation should encourajS^SHH
spirit among its people.
for war often precipates a
is cheap. It costs neitheflBH^HH|
treasure?at least no blood
traordinary outlay of treasHB^^HBj
thing that tends toward w^HjH^BH
discouraged. At present^^^^HB^B
spirit dominates nearly
society. Those who pi]^HB|^HHH
God and follow the tejflraffigHSH
Nazarene have gone wiJ^BHB^^Sfl
training. Higher inaHM^^^Hgg
learning subordinate
which elevate, refine
to those which degradflM^^^HK^H
all the baser passions JHdRHHHH
tions were suggtfitedfn^HH^H^H
last aunual report" oT Gen^PI^HffH
to the secretary of war. He
mends^an increase of the army
navy, auu lucreaoeu uumu|jitti???u?n|i
fortifications and arms so tbat'we
be prepared for an invasion from BH
eign powers. Gen. Schofleld flj Bj
not earn his living by the sweat oflBB
face to direct the movements of aiHEH
gauization that has done
since the last shot at ? Appomatto^B
than trench upon the-liberties of
people and eat out their substanceH
He draws a princely salary and glve^H
no thought of from whence it coum^|
or through what channel it pro^^H
ed. The average reader would ? H
pose that, from his expressed
he regards the normal conditio^^^B
this people as one of war: that tneJH
should not relax their diligence, but^
enlarge their paraphernalia of war
and equipment for the field and hospital.
Were it not for (to coin a new f
title) Darnal salvation warriors, the 1
bloodthirsty professed followers of I
Christ, hi' would be slow
Hoviliah schme. He*^^H^9Hfl[
through a professed iutej^^^^^^H
country. War is not to^BSfl^^^H
of the wageworkers of^J^w^aHHH
Prepraation for for war
whoever^^^^^^^^^H
ther
purpose of increastafHHH^flS^HB
enlarging the navy
ciou that it is for the purpose^^^HHH
iug easy places for a few hun<^H^^9
social an<l military parasites^^^^H
men to C'ougress who have
to uip all such schemes at
tion.?Kansas Agitator
(Jiin>Flriiii; on a Baltlc^^Hfl^^^N
ltefore guns are uieoh^^HflB^^I
decks are cleared for aotioo^BflE^B^^H
chairs in tne cauiu are uuWmNHUI
tied together, whilst movaHKBH^^B
is secured. The doctor ma^HHnSBKfl
every man has had
cotton wool. jHHHHH
the charges
dous, the
to stern. TJ^R99HHngRH9|
is so grea^B^H3NQ|BM9
and
woodwork is^HnHM^H
resembles wree^JBSEngMRB^HH
ed her practice/
standing
heay across
men become BHR^9HHH|
Health, H|n|n|