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| " " " ~ . . . x I* "Wish to thank the trading popnlace of Abbeville and vicinity for their liberal patronage , dnring the past; and as we have been nnable to dispose of our store, we shall put on sale the most magnificent line of SPRING DRY GOODS and SHOES ever seen in this section. Have just received a line of Kai Ki and India Silks from 39 to SQ Cents. Also a beautiful line of WOOLEN DRESS GOODS, etc. Nothing' gives us more pleasure than serving- our many friends, and we guarantee "NO MATTER WHAT PRICES QUOTED ELSEWHERE, WE WILL ALWAYS BE LOWER." | Corner Store, Rosenberg's Block JAS. DALY & CO. I THE SECRET OF LONG LIFE, Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire, the fa raous French scholar and politciau [who recently entered on his niuelietl year full of physical and intellectuu vigor, has been telling the inevitable interviewer how it is his days hav< been so long in the laDd. It is, we an told, the effect of strict adherence t< the old precept, "Early to bed am early to rise," with steady work dur ing waking hours. Every grand old man seems to hav< a secret of his own. Mr, Gladstone we believe, attributes his longevity to his habit of taking a daily walk ii ail weathers and to his giving thirtytwo bites to every morsel of food. Oliver Wendell Holmes pinned his faitt on equability of temperature. Tlx late Major Knox Holmes swore oj the tricycle, which, in the end, was the cause of his death. Dr. P. H Van der Weyde, an America oetog enarian, not long ago offered himsel "asan example of the benign iullu ence of the study and practice of mu sic." The Origin of It. The practice of kissing upon the the lips originated with the Itomans It is said that when drinking of alco holic liquors became very genera amongst them, they became alarmed, and passed stringent repressive laws Drunkenness in a wife was punishable by death, and it became customary 01 men who suspected their wives of in dulgence in the forbidden drinking custom to salute them with a kiss upon the lips; this kiss was not prompted by affection, as are kisses on the lips in these more sentimenta I Tfli^nnr ,i-,K limes, UUt u.y nuspiuuiu 11 nvjm/i ??. smelt by the husband, he enacted tlu full penalty from the offender, an I severe chastisement, and sometimes death, was meted out. If all the men whose loathsome breath has to be endured by wives, iu these days, had to be severely chastis ed for their drinking, a whipping posi would be needed for every neighbor bood. Sixteenth Amendment. Representative Linton, who ha! been prominently connected with tin contest against sectarian Indiat schools, has presented a joint resolu tiob for a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution iu the following terms Neither Congress nor any State shal; pass any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting tht free exercise thereof, or use the proper ty or credit of the United States oi any money raised by taxation, or authorize either to be used for the purpose of founding, maintaining or aiding by appropriation payment foi services, expenses or otherwise, an} church, religious denomination or re ligious society, or any institution society or undertaking which is wholly or in part under sectariau or ecclesias tical control. C'olnmbia Female <'olleee. The mid-year examinations are now in progress at the Columbia FemaU College and the young ladies are work ir.gasif nothing baa nappenea. j<,v ery thing is moving along smoothly. Plans and specifications have beer prepared for the repairs and Dr. Ric* is now receiving bids for the work acting for the executive committee The building will be greatly improvec: and everything will be in fine condi tion. New students are already coming it for next session. The financial agent is receiving con tributions from the friends of the col lege toward the repairs.?Columbii State, February 1. Thy will be done. This is the praj or of every Christian, it is a lessoi of a lifetime. Jt cannot be learned to( soon. So we must keep repeating ii from day to day and from year t< year. Every repetition ought to deep en the impression made upon tin heart, that God's will, not ours, is tin thing to be done. Many a time w< say, "Thy will be done on earth as i is heaven," when we don't reulh mean it or understand fully what i means. How cheerfully those parent: said in their morning "prayer. "Thj will be done." At evening time when a loved one has been takei away, how hard to feel submission t< the very thing they prayed for in th morning! "Thy will be done" is ea> ily said when everything is bright :m< cheerful in all our relations in th world ; but when the beautiful Howe is taken to bloom in a better land, fa from the disturbing winds and storm of this life, it is hard to say, "Th liord gave, and the Lord hath takei away, blessed be the name ol tli Lord." JJuttosay it in faiih show the Christian spirit that is ehildlikt There is a trust in God's wisdom an< goodness and love expressed in thi that is most honoring to him, and fill of solace to a bleeding heart. He that is habituated to deception and artificialities in trilles will try ii vain to be true matters of importance for truth is a tiling of habit rathe than of will. You canuot in an; given case, by any sudden and sinyi effort, will to be true, if the liabi of your life has been insincere. ! RELIGION AND THE HOME. I ! We are not angels ; we are only men ; , land women,.ami we share the imper-i ? fectiou of manhood. We are not per-j 1 feet apples ; we are speckled apples. i all of us. I do not care how deep and | sweet and tender and accordant love ; > | may render the home life, it cannot > ! but happen that in the close contact, j 1 in the every day openness and disclos 'ure of the home, our bad points will j come out. No family is made up of ? iwrtent.lv straight sticks, but crooked] , ones. And when they are piled to-i ,*!gether in the closeness of home life; 1 t tie crookedness will appear. Tliej -Jinan and woman married the most, . j utterly, married along the whole line; 11 of their natures, must yet tind some 2 point where there is not complete] 7 contact. There isdissimilarity of tern-: i per, there has been dissimilarity of ed-j . ucation. Before musicians can pour) - forth a perfect harmony, they must f bring their instruments into tune, j Before two hearts can perfectly strike j -I together, they must be keyed to the I 1 same note, and that cannot be alto-' Igether done before marriage. The ! exact real self does not appear in court-' ship. It is the best self, the self dress-! ed in the best wardrobe of manners j ' I and sentiment and sacrifice that up-; pears then. After marriage the self j puts on its common habits for what it is. Then each real self must adjust it?j self to each real self; then must each ' bear and forbear. Then must any in:.! compatibility be met and mastered by 1 a mutual charity which suffereth long "%,i " HUUUl* foilfetll : ;iuu is imiiu, ?viiiv;n uv?vi imiivvm. ? Now it is just here in this closeness ' aud disclosure of the home that reli^ gion is most needed. One muH enter | j into the Christian method of finding [ life by losing it; the soul must possess | itself with the sweetness of a Christian | love must put its foot upon the neck \ of any miserable pride of self-assertion 5 and keep it there. A Christian confession of wrong must be as fjuiek and J i spontaneous as the breath. Christ in ' (raininess, in tenderness, in self-saeri" tiee must dwell in the heart of each. H Then shall that home be Christian.? Wayland Hovt. I.nte Suppers. ? The old tradition that to eat anyj thiug just before going to bed was j sure to produce indigestion and ren. der sleep impossible is now happily , exploded. It is not good, as a matter < ---? * l-.wlll,u OI JilUl, IU IW UCU nuu VUV OIUIUUVII r [ so loaded that the undigested food! . should reuder one restless, but some-1 , thing of a light, palatable nature in ; . the stomach is oue of the best aids to ? quietude and rest in bed. The process I . <?{' digestion goes on in sleep with as, . much regularity as when one istak-l . ing violent exercise to aid it, and soj r something in the stomach is a very de- j si ruble condition for the night's rest, j . .Some physicians have declared, in-, deed, thai a good deal of the prevalent: } insomnia is the result of unconscious, . craving of the stomach for food in per-! sous who have been unduly frighten-j ed by the opinion that they must not eat before going to bed, or who have,' like many nervous women, been keep-! r ing themselves in a state of semi-star-! ? vation. j 1 Nothing is more agreeable on retir. ing for the night than to take a bowl of hot broth, like like oatmeal gruel i , or clam soup. It is a positive aid to ! > nervous people, and induces peaceful i slumbers. This is especially the case , ou cold winter nights, when thestom-j j ach craves warmth as much as any j other nnrt of the bodv. Even airlass! of hot milk is grateful to the palate on j , such occasions, but a light, well-cook-1 ed gruel is better, and, in our climate I . during the cold months of winter,! . should be the retiring food of every! t woman who feels, as so many do, j the need of food at night.?Tribune, i Itclixioii in Politics. I j in a recent issue of the American i Journal of Politics, Jlenry Randall I , Waite discussed "Religion carried j . into Polities." Among other things ? he said: "The representatives of reli-j j gionare beginning to understand that I 1 a chief cause of their inability to 'reach 1 j the masses' is heceause they havt-j . sought to do the reaching too much by i t talk and too little by hand. That a | s drowning man win rrjai me j*iui-j . tudes in favor of a rope, that a slarv! ing man will prefer bread to a confes-! j sion of faith, and that one homeless or t> overborne l>y calamities will welcome) e the baud-clasp of a sympathetic ami helpful fellow-man more readily than j Scripture texts, ought never to nave| e j needed demonstration. As the fotimlr!er of Christianity ministered to bodily; r!as well as spiritual needs, interested! s| himself in the betterment of temporal; e as well as provision for eternal condi-[ tl j lions, and sought to introduce into Iuje, man society divine ideas, it would j gIseem that these things should be sol , i undeniably amoug the chief concerns j i of his nineteenth century disciples as I BI lo secure for them due attention with- J .. I nut n iiouf imt " Ill""" t"? Jurifcioim lilvfrlisins. 8 * (I Creates many a new business; Enlarges many an old business ; ' Preserves many a large business; Revives many a dull business; Keseues many a lost business ; ^1 Saves many a failing business; ! Secures success in any business; Are the I'eHrcmHUcr*."' A Rood man, eminent and beloved as a teacher of the young, says that jj that many years ago lie adopted the ^ following for of the rules of his life as a teacher : "I will be blind when I might see, (leaf when I might hear, N and dumb when I might speak. I .V will put out all the tires I can, and never kindle an*Associated almost I r constantly with young people, earnest- =. ly desiring not only to instruct them, but also to help them to become noble, unselfish, peace-loving, and peacemaking men and women, experience had taught him it was one of ttie best rules /or him to follow. Would not his rule be a good one for anybody, old or young, to adopt who aims to be a peacemaker? is there ^i- o 4J r n i P any ininj? un-v/urissii'?ic 111 ii-; j wm ^ be blind when I might see." That t-( does not mean that our eyes should be closed to anything we ought to see, not tj even to evil when we ought to see it. 'Deaf wheu J might hear." That (> does not mean that our ears should be stopped when language is used iu our j hearing of which a Christian should be prompt to manifest disapproval. c "Dumb when I might speak." Nor does that mean that our tongues should B be tied when our eyes have seen or y our ears have heard that which no t] Christian could see or hear without rebukiug it. "Put out all the tires I cau, and never kindle any." That would show Christ's spirit. To do ^ that would make one a peacemaker. If a quarrel is beginning, or a misuu- a derstanding, or an estrangement, that t| fire may often be quenched by the peacemaker, and thus Christ's work j, be done. But it is easy to fan the fire to fiercer flame, and thus devil's work ^ l\o ilnno tpnnhpr'u riili? is n text on which any ol* us can think out|^ a long and a good sermon. Once in my boyhood, I was playing rj around the workshop of a builder who| was largely interested in a water-pow-j er mill on the river near up. The ma- j jj ehinery of the mill was out of orderly and needed repairs. This builder had _i secured two men, millwrigiits, from gJ another towu to do the repairing. They were at their employment in his ' work-shop withiu my sight and hearing, and from some cause had got into r a loud and hitter controversy. They | rr were very angry with each other.' Their employer was a neighbor a.nd f friend of ours-a Christian man. Hej0| was soon drawn to the spot by their loud voices, it was near the close of , day, and the sun shone in at the win- j p. (lows from the west. He drew near to the excited aud angry disputants, and 0 in a kindly, calm, aud gentle voice, ( hut so distinct that I heard every word, said, "My friends, let not the J-* sun go down upon your wrath." The altercation ceased in a moment. t There was a brief silence, and then one jof the men replied in a subdued voice, "The sun shall not go down upon my wrath." JJ The man who might have fanned the flame had put the lire out. It was Pj more than fiftv years ago. But it |(' made an ineffaceable impression upon (j my young neart. Our old neighbor and friend long since went 10 that other world, where peacemakers tire welcomed, and where, like the pure in heart, they see God. i do not know how often he practiced j? the grace, but he did 4t then so naturally, and so well that it could hardly u( have been unfamiliar work, and he has, no doubt, long since learned the ^ fuJl meaning of the beatitude, "Bless- 1 ed are the peacemakers: for they shall w be called the children of God."?Congregationalist. "Cio<l 4>iiHr<l tin* \i^)n ** | 'I There is a tender sweetness :iboui|:l1 some of our common plm.ses of jiIIV-c-'11 tionate greeting, simple and unobtru- (>l siveas they are, says a writer in Har- el per's Bazar, whiclTfalls like dew upon the heart. Good nighi! The little ol one lisps it as, gowned in white, with shining face and hand-, and prayers " said, she toddles oil' in oed. Sisters y1 and brothers exchange the wish, pa- *J rents and children; friend* and (>l friends. Faniilli >r use lias robbed i? of its significance to sinic of us; w* repeat it automatically without much l' thought. But con-ider. We :uv, ii> j'1 voyagers, putting oil'from time h |:,i to time upon an unexplored sea. Out i . barks of life set sitil and go onward J 'J innrthe darkness, and we, asleep onj'1 our pillows, take no such care as I ",J we do when journeying by dayiiuht J1 Of the perils of the night, whatever j they may be, we take no heed. Ai , unsleeping vigilance watches over us. j but it it is the vigilance of one strontrei and wiser than we, who isilie Kt"i mi" j... (Jood. (<001 land God spring 'in L, same root, are the same in iih aiiiiie.: w "GtHid-by" is only '"God be with y?m." . "(iood night" is really "(??>d n nilr," | ,(| or "iami guard mi? nigiii. i< mimmu (1, 1 <} a churlish household in which K| these gentle forms of speech whv ?tc- < nored or did not.exist. Alike 11 h* l?s?i?-' py and sorrowful, day by day, mayj say "< Jood night." Little Millie's papa and grandpa pa were Republicans ; and as tin- cU-Hi-m drew near, they spoke of ?>ppon?'in^ with ever-increasing warmth, ii'-ver' heeding Millie's attentive ears and ' wondering eyes. One night, h awevi r, j"? as the little maid was preparing l'??i bed. she cast a tearful glance acnys . the room, and whispered in a frinMen ed little voice: "O, mamma. I'in' afraid to go to bed. Im afraid iln-n-Vj a l)emocratin the closet." iot tl c Soul-II linger. When once a human soul learns for ^ .self, by living experience, the satis- ?UI ydng nature of divine things, there it or wakened a great hunger and thirnt 'P1 within which the world cannot satisfy ,ar Jor could the world satisfy it before vet 'he soul may starve along on husks, Qai nd not realize that it is starving lov Jut the heart was made for God, and the ; is restless until it rests in Him; chi nd if it haa been in the wilderness, motig the swine, away from the Fa- ?', lier's home and love, it is not and can- his ot he happy. Only as it comes back, cal nd receives Hi* welcome and pardon f?r nd smile, does it know the meaning f hapiness and rest. Th? Mtirlinr nf f.h#? ?itrht v-frmrt,h on salm was no stranger to God. He '?? ad known and loved Him, and jund delight in Him and in his ser- "ai ice. But he hud been deprived, for a tal line, of the privileges of being in sto Jod's house, and his heart had cried nel ut in longing for that joy which had t'1' d often been his portion. In great co.1 esire for the spiritual privileges, so tri< ften desired in other days, his heart !ma ried, in homesickness and soul-huu-1 rac er. JW<1 What Ins particular circumstances i le><: fere at this time we can only conjec-1 wa Lire. It is not absolutely important; An hat we know exactly. Hut in what-;*'.1 ver way prevented from being in his d'8 ccustomed place for worship, whether'9?8 y sickness or exile, he remembered j r'K ow he had been there in other days, a* nd voices his desires for the return of ''ft liat which lie had lost. The psalm i j a wonderful one. Each verse near-j Y is a gem. It may be read.over and \ j ver again. Its language expresses! tie feelings of God's people in all agesi up( nd in all lands. Tliev love the tilings! w.# f God. I ha I Hunger is healthful and natural. wo 'he body demands physical food with ^ longing which is closely allied to wj, ain, the gratification of'which is a (j0j jostmarked pleasure. It isproviden- f()r aly ordered that ii shall l>e painful to (j(> bstain from the food, which is neces- <lU( lry to sustain life, and that it shall hp ltlj Iea9urable to partake of it in a prop-! j r manner. wh kSo it is with a converted soul as to wjj eligious duties und obligations. ,|le 'here must be prayer, and the reading wo f God's worn, aud the attendance (Wj pon God's house. These have been fuj rdained, and no one can neglect them, j r any one of them, without resultaut wa isaster. Jiut such is the force of spirual hunger, aud such is the power of , uritual habit, that the performance j()0 f these duties comes to be a pleasure tht > every soul that is in a healthful pec jiritual condition. Being hindered tui om them is a deprivation, and wa, iuses paiu. Let us seek to be in that j,e' ate of health, and with the habit 8aj( irmed, which will demaud that, in rder to our hapiness, we do that arjc hich is right and wise and good. If ,,Uc e are in this healthful condition, hap- 7n? y is It for lis. Let us guard well our jia? liritual health, that it may not be an( ist through our neglect or inatten- me on? to t thii PURITY OF CONVERSATION. w< Exalt virtue in golden speech. Ivery-where and under all cireumanees lei us not suffer the tongue to 3 made the ally of Satan. lJespise / is work in this and in all things. 0f how by sealed lips or open rebuke was deep abhorrence of scandal. Jf all ijje ere to do this, what a change would ,ny )ine over the face of society ! He "Whatsoever things are true, what- fei| ever things arc honest, whatsoever for lings are lovely, whatsoever things so. e of good report; iftherebeany vir ? ie, and if there be any praise, think tG c i these'things." Let Christian art a,i(j ill>oilv in forms of beauty these in- knt riivd ideals. Reject the works of art for r.mii opposite character from private ii i national galleries. Let the blight- " pc etry of Byron and Shelley be sjle i warded. Let the exalted poetry of are onglVllow, Whittier, Bryant, and cha her worthies elevate and refine our [ it Dines. Above all, let us seek to puri- ,)OV tin* springs of American society by ti)a i ( spel of Jesus Christ. Here i> tie j o.ily safety of the individual and (|ow the nation. "Behold, how great a matter a little Ki0i re kinnleth ! And the tongue is a re, a world of iniquity : and it is kne t on fire of hell. It is an unruly evil to i ill ofdeadly poison." jng hop I hon (Kp worth News.) Someone Ims truly said, 'To form id prosecute our plum* without eonilting CJoil if to net as though there)' . <*re no (jod." We may, unwittingly, * acting infidels. Don't think unyL,,,? isiness too small or unimportant to;^.., ansact without consulting with th*:' iaker of the rniwr*e. !'< U n*' inch intens.cd in y<<u, as icsi^nili- i ol' i ml as you may reganl yourself, as lu . it a in the formation of a worhl. I) pay i NhsIivllle A<lvncnt?*,5 Will Kear not to ask largely of our Lord? {i| en for all things. That is what he wj(| uirou nu in iln notl for whleh he has ii?, rovided in the atonement. "He that I >ared not his own Son, but delivered! ^ im up for us all, how shall he not J a go ith him also freely give us alii ^ " _ J ling lie who declares prayer in the timej prosperity, will not tind it easy in; . in day of adversity. jllon 1 Tried to Beat. Anyway." )ne of the beautiful days we had rirm the past October, as I turned a ner in our quiet village, I came| Th t>n a group of boys. Tbey were ar- j jyt jf lginjr a foot-race between two live-| dpsir ir old boys. One, who bore the.<>fth me of Willie, was aslight little fel-jthee ir, all muscle and no meat, while divic i other was a solid little round-faced j guid< ild, and bore the name of Ray.: putb, t that he was anything like a ray \ souls sunlight, still that was the name essar . iv>/\f It/\H maifa Uiivi n r> /] cia urA tl* ill ' i iiji'LUi-i ^tvvc UlUi, auu mi nu " "i i iiuij 1 him. Ray and Willie were pitied 1 edge a race to the uext street corner, i teliig ii at the signal from the starter I does illie sprung as though he was huugitiotn wires, while Ray moved off like a disci : rolling up hill. Of course Willie sorro is at the corner by the time Ka>- stant 1 got his fat body one-half the dis- right ice, but still he kept on and never desir ipped until he had touched the cor- Rea<i r he had started for, and then after a me ; cheers and shouting ceased, so h? a litt lid be heard, -he called out: "I lettei ?d to beat, anyway"?and he walked jses. tnfullyaway. f bad watched the, ;e, anil after hearing Ray's cheering j >rds, I said to myself: "Here is a| j() son for me." "I tried to beat, any-; ne y.,f Many times we never try.} j^Vei id if we do try and fq.il, we too often j down and cry, faint-hearied and ' ut)(j conraged. Such pluck as Ray pos- j. se<?, governed oy a principle 01 10f th hf, is the kind that nil boys, as well! a all men, should possess, to makejf|{fd : a success. i )on't Notice Every Little Thing.?| ich lias been said about and written ; jii the subject of watching the I le ones while they are forming! In aits, either good or bad, and I! foree uld advise tnat we look well to "I s? fir Associates, and always know | that 1 ere they are and what ihey areiaccou ng. But don't always be chiding! ment every little thing that a child may | mat IN um quiie IU eu-| itte, Remember they have many ^ ; ngs to learn, and they will learn meetj observation. I knew a little girl SOme 0 learned to nay "thank you" thiui; en anything was "passed to her at an(j j 1 table, before she could speak the a niej id. She would make a little bow aich was more cunning than grace- piea's< laud say, "ae'm." ttieu< knew another child, and, by-the Woul< y, it was ihe first-born, and whom 0I)iy parents were very anxious should tjie \ ii model of perfection, who grew to ^nd, k frightened and troubled when Speak ; dinner hour came, because he ex- the itedtobe kept under the most care- aI1(] , restraint, but before his young life see th 3 entirely crushed out of him and j? ol hopelessly spoiled, a kind friend , 1, ''Don't notice every little thing." tlfuj ( nt sentence to me is a magic one, 1 I would have. all parents and irdiaus read it with its true meanI aru now over fifty years old, Let nng raised four children of my own kiss. 1 can say they fire a great delight to with , and I feel that it is partly owing take t his timely advice. we lo' 'he golden rule is a9 applicable in no Ioi s case as any where. '"Do by them seem you would be done by." Let u small J hecau "Tlmnk Him." J??k 1 have kfteroneof the hard-fought battles |mve the war, a confederate chaplain ge' ?t i called hastily to see a dying sol- wealt r; taking his hand, he said, Well, Uou brother, what can I do for you?" stran| supposed, of course, the young j-ept j ow would want him to cry to God [)e a j, help in his extremity: It was not have i Chaplain," he said, "I want you :ut a lock of hair for my mother ; I then, chaplain, I want you to 'p01 el down and return thanks to God (|ie w me." ened I For what ?" asked the chaplain. couut< Forgiviug jnesucha mother; oh, 8jep ) is a good mother ! Her teachings sharp my comfort now. And tlien, i ti 1 tt?e plain, thank God that l?y his graee judiai machiistian. What ..ould I do heart. v if I were nota Christian. And , l0 the nk him for giving me dying grace ;1 suu] , lias made this hard beit feel 'soft as vexati ,'ny pillows are.' And, <) chaplain, i,esl j, nk liiin tor the promised norne iu consta y?I'll soon be there." t heir And ho," said the chaplain, "I homes eled by his bed with not a petition ()f sou ltter : only praises and thanksgiv- rest j tor a good mother, a Christian. gtrain e, <lying grace, and an eternal 10f j? , le in glory." 'bile the potter is molding clay, he if i make it any shape he please*, but | Ineat*u after it is "tired." In this life weijfhei molding an eternal diameter and i so enl e. Death makes change impos-' ,,ueni j on the alumny would soon starve and die! 'n mu lself if nobody took it in and gave, retried lodging. " "? or Oil tU'P 0 not adver ise your fear of short j * ,jt to th*-* congregation. "He thatL. ' 1 save his life shall lose it." i cere r iless a Christian's walk corresponds ' made li his talk, the less he has to say by a ci better. I ever g i . i. .(failure o evil means ever yet wrought out!?re,ra( ml Pint. i IJ'"" iessings come where agonies have ered. j rr y< I is reasi i sure your sermon brings eon vie-, with h to your own heart. apt to j What Others Say. ' ( (Northwestern Advocate.) e Hi hie is a Book to be read quiet- I possible, thoughtfully, and with | es God ward fur the illumination e Holy Spirit every (Jay. It is lource of spiritual strength, the le manna for the soul. It in the ' i of our steps, the lamp for our , provided by the creator of our ( . It gives peace, serenity, so nec < y to the proper performance of . It contains the highest knowland wisdom, and makes men in- 1 ;ent aud sagacious as no other book < or can. It is the strong consola:>f men in a world where divine pline is administered ; where los*, ' w, sickueis aud death are con- ' ;ly present. Clear-<eeiug aud -thinking, and lofty ideas and es, are promoted by the ftible. I1 I every day in faith and love-asj' ssage from God to tlie reader, as! Je child reads a beloved father'sl r?it will give us all that it prom- ( i (^. S. Time?.) the conservation of forces there sver a word lost iu the universe. ? "idle words" have their results 1 r may be spoken thoughtlessly, 1 forgotten quickly, by the speaker, hey have entered i 11 to the forces e uuiverse, and they shall be do. work that we and others shall 1 Lhe consequences of eternally. ( 'Never a word Is spokeo, But It trembles In the air, Vnd the truant voice has sped, ' , To vibrate everywhere; ^Dd perhaps far off In eternal years The echo may ring upon our ears." < view of this truth, what added there is in the saying of Jesus, ty unto you, that every idle word men shall speak, they shall give int thereof in the day of judg!?? 3 (H. S. Chronicle.) lapanese girl said in a missionary ing: "One spring my mother got flower seeds, little uuly, black w nnd i>lsinti?d them. Thev irrew blossomed beautifully. One day $hbor, seeing tbe flowers, said, how beauiiful? Wont you ?give me some seeds? Now if ?ighbor bad just seen I lie seeds, die Jn't have called for them. ' I'vvas 1 wbeu she h;iw bow beauiiful was! jlossotu she wauled tue seed, so with Christianity.^ When we to our friends of the truths of ible, they seem to them so hard! uninteresting. Hut when they; esesame truths blossoming out! ir lives into kindly words and j acts, then they say. 'How beau-| ;hese lives.' (Christian Herald.) us take time for the good bye We shall go to the day's work a sweeter spirit for it. Let us line to speak kind uord>? to those ire. By and by, when ihey no jger bear us, our foolishness will more wise than our best wisdom, stake time to be pleasant. The . courtesies which we often omit J se they are small will some day arger to us than the wealth we coveted or the fame for which we | stru^led. Let us take time to > quaiuted with our families. The1 h you are accumulating maybe btful blessing to tbe son who is a j jer to you. Your beautifully louse, busy mother, can never! mine to the daughter whom you i no time to caress. (A. R. Presbyterian.) >e a Christian at home is to have ' hole tlaily life softened aud sweet-; jy the spirit of the gospel, the silence made more cheerful, the ighter, the voice more tender, and bitter words suppressed un-j iy no longer come to the lips, all! iting a purified and softened | ^ The spirit of the gospel applied i IY daily life is a?pirit of gentleness! jatience. And because of the j ions ami little trials of even tbe; omes the graces eed to be in iut exercise. If they only had perfect work how differeut our j i would be! For peace and rest 1 they would be fore fas tes of that hat renmitieth. And the re-' tsof religion would he lost sightI the happiness that is brought. (Chrlsti.m Standard.) four preacher is not up to the, ire of the stature of your ideal ;! snot so elegant as Roberson, or tertaing as Jleecher, or so eloas Jt:ooks; if he lacks somewhat * social side, and is a litile slow king friemls, the poorest of all ies is criticism or censure. Fori ilinary ministerial failings, an j of co-operation is worm a pound | icism; a gill of sympathy morei a gallon ?>f censure. Any sin-i nan or ordinary talents can be j into ellicient, successful pastor | >ugregation, and any man, howood and gitted, can be made a by the congregation. A conion may be known by the sort tors it makes. >u can not talk for (iod, therej unto doubt whether you walk I im. The spiritually dumb are! he lame and halt as well. No theology is right that gives God a character children cannot love. Not to forgive Is a sign of hardIieadedue9s. There is no good principle involved in carrying a grudge. We cannot afford to do or sajr any- , thing which we woulit ohject to" being lone or said by our childreu. Nibbling at sin is the sure method if getting caught on Satan's hook. Pouch not, taste not, handle not. When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart. Prayer is the golden key which should open the morning and lock up the evening. F.vprvthinc that, hannens to us leaves <ome trace behind ; everything contributes imnerceptibly to make us what we are. It is not merely those who arc in. lauger, buttho*e who are lost, whom Christ comes to save. Of whom, then, need we despair ? Training up a child in the way we would have it go is not necessarily the aame as training it up in "the way it 3hould go." It is the little things that make up life, and (he little mistakes have as much tffVctns the little good deeds. There is no thought oract, but has its effect for good or ill. It is easy to make assaults on the Bible. Read one or two book* in which the alleged inaccuracies of the Bible are discussed, ana you are equipped for making your assaults. ? ? Advice *,Boys * Xi?\ jV. mtr i||w ^ ?rt vW i V Russell Sage The great financier, gives tha follow* log good advice to boy*, vhidi Barents nirht alio read wth nrnrtt w Boys, go to school aiVtig u yoa on, and remember ev;ry hour spent ia ftudy ia your youth will bo wrth raoney to you in after Hfe. Read good books; make yourself acquainted with history; study the progress of nations and the ' careers of men who have a ad* batons great " Study religion, science, statecraft and history. Leara to read tntdSgcntly, so that yoa can tum t? practical me la after life 6m reading of your youth. Be sure you betfa right Do not waste tiaao ia reading trashy books." ir. Sage further says: ** The boy who is wanted in tho business world of today must be educated. If hts parents cannot afford to give him a college or a high school eduucatiou ho must leara to study without the aid of a teacher. In the early mornings before f ashless begins, and In the evenings alter business hours. It can no longer be truthfully said th at an education Is out of any one's reach." This !s the advice of a man who Is one of tho most conspicuous business successes of our time, and who has araassod one of the largest fortunes (a America. It cannot possibly be charted that he is in the pay of THB Columbia State, and yet these words given as the conviction of a Ufe of unusual observation and experience advises as strongly as words can that voo hasten to accept the offer of The State and secure this greatest of popular eduustors, Tha Encyclopaedia Brttannlcn. The H tton offered by The State tills every requirement of 14r. Sage's sadpe far mmam. It OTQft 1. ^Cll>. Ikli UM?. i UJL _ s*my wjuvw wmi wu. 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