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Relini
LOUS.
Bate* fbr Hearing Poor Sermons.
n v
persons
will m[u
as th
< m
n, or
pai i
may \«i
ir iteighb >i
suite- The
lies are
and
to he modified b
remain oa
upon tfceir flwt
*re slated as follo^r
7*.I Do not go
jog dtriug the we
devotional; exerci
rer hear any other
>gnixe the follow-
they prai tice,
11 ways, hear good
ish to understand
ra achieve differ
formula of which
is as okl as the
bile it is thought
tlie years, they
uul invincible as
ipplicution. They
s:
a prayer ni»«et-
k, nor attend any
in your neigh
<•
* P»
(l.) Do not en age in iu»y relig-
that ma r need your help.
i» a me ting to attend, a
to encourage, or any special
io, keep steadily
is apt to induce
dMoJk work to
clear of itj Work
i and (levotioi
(c.) Live in as 1
My a as
nutting ^us tht
jdace or favor.
(4.) If you reiu
the week, let it be
Subscribe for the
ght, frivolous and
possible, uot i»er-
ughta to have any
history, travel, or
might put your
is a dam p within
bettor; bat if tha
try buckwheat c
of food, if
Hjties, will an
An overloaded
f$.)i Feel as so
enient till chu
VOL. 4.---N0. 49.
“ONE LORD, ONE FAITH. ONE BAPTI81T-BFHE8IA N8 IV: 5
COLUMBIA. S.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 16. 1871
OLD SKRIKS', VOL. V.-N0. 205.
anything during
light ami frothy.
xdger, boy traahy
novels or get the n from a circula
ting library. Do 90 touch a book of
biography. They
mind to earnest
thinkiBg, which is to be avoided.
(9kj Spend Satui day eveuing and $
greater part of t le night in some
styUI of sociaf dis ipation. If there
reach, nothing is
is not available,
a gay party, at wt ich t by .talk is all
light and the food pll unhealthy, will
do as a substitute.
(Jl) Rise late Sa^ibath morning. If
sluggish, all tbe
rty breakfast. If
you are doll and
betoLr. Bat a hei
you have pork, esfi Mjially in th« form
of tausage, eat h rgely of that, or
kes, though any
%kcn in snfliyieut
wer the same end.
s omach is an old
;ef iu the ct use of poor ser-
ibre and dull as
xdi time. Do not
any in the Bi >le or other good
1, thinking all
its of the e
8a
the while of the
ening before. It
is important to k« p tbe most foolish
ices of th p previous nigbt
in mind, for they go far in the
of arcnmplimiiitg the desired
Is*
‘•J Feel sore yin shall not enjoy
services. Reason with .yourself
you might letter stay at home
read some entertaining book, or
a good sleei, for ‘*ia not tbe
th a day of rest f* When at
Iasi, you do start, Jlo not i»ermit the
thought that you! are going to the
liotise of God or ti worship him, but
•neiely that you are going through a
lorlu that is the custom of the neigh
borhood.
i.) Rub your tirehead to discover
you have incipient heail-
»nd cough] slightly to know
cold. If you can
of either ailment,
ou ought to have
will help make
moo.
to give any col
ly protest against
for money. Mat-
ignaf on against missions
operations, and if
th
t-Mre is to be a ny money collected
ou are takin
made yon
thought that
ined at h
dislike the
>) Conclude
1, and iuw;
constant cal
your i
missionary
for home use o
.vchrself that y
tri rntor,
fo* the
<lql y of giving,
wii 1 not be edi
When y
stand about t
hodr, talking
j®4«, or maki
duties aud p
w «tok. This
oa npied duriu
sc tv ices.
(l-J When y
i sit straigh
tn in the
Sat is
any other, assure
will not be a eon-
selfish as you can,
may preach 011 the
agree with which
ng.
get to the church,
door lor half an
some worldly sub-
plaus for secular
res during tbe
keep your mind
a good )»art of tbe
verts the soul,” and will rouse people
np betimes to take an Interest in
holy things that they did not intend.
Therefore do not sing—do not even
look 00 a book—but watch if any
one sings out of time and harmony.
If you do detect sock a thing, either
laugh at it or sneer ; 00c will do as
well as the other.
(®-j While the Scriptures are be
ing read, study the boo nets, drew,
crania, toe., of those sealed ladore
you. It is important that you should
not hear any part of the chapter;
for the scriptures are “profitable,"
which is something yon are guarding
Hgaiust.
fj*•) After the seraton is begun go
to sleep. This is a sovereign pro
ventire. You will thea be sure to
be able to say when the sermon is
completed, “It was not worth listen
iug to," “It was not of a ktad to suit
me," toe. Or, if not convenient to
sleep, be very restive. Look at yoor
watch or back at the clock, change
yoor )>o«itioa, yawn or hang yoar
heat! in apparent effort to dose
through the tedious service*. This
will likely make tbe minister ner
vous, spoil his tfcgught*, eon fuse his
utterance, ami otherwise interrupt
the facility and completeness of the
duties of his ofhec.
ff.J Keep thinking the aertaon is
too king. Ill your own mind de
nouuce all long sermons, but this
long one in particular, and declare
that tbe one thing in the way of the
conversion of sinners and the spread
of tbe Gospel is tbe crime of preach
iug too long.
fr.) Here and there walrh the
minister's pronunciation and gram
mar; see his gestures, ami partieu
larly notice the tones of bis vote*.
If you i-atch him in a mistake, or
see him coaimit a transient impropri
ety, treasure it up, grow disgusted
with it, aud fairly scowl ii|*on Mich
inexcusable blunders.
If you will observe (hear rules,
either in whole or the main part, as
is most easy, you will have do diffi
eulty in getting sermons as poor as
you want them. Over and over
again they have been tried, with but
Mpe result. An exceptional case may,
of course, br instaired. but sorb are
rare. If you will try the plan next
Sabbath, you will find yourself sat
istted of their valor, and a Her wants
you can use them as much as you
wish. “With such service God is
not pleased," but that does not mat- ,
ter to one w ho seeks tbe better way
under another guidance.
Or if all we have suggested fail, a
supplement may be added which will
greatly help. As yon go out of the
church tell of your weariness, speak
of the want of fine imthos, freshness,
thought, strength, directness, appeal
or some other failing in the dia
course, and look as gloomy as possi
ble over your disappointment. This
works like a charm. It develops
latent disgust, and transmutes a cas
ual good impression into nrornfnl
contempt.
All of UR know hundriMU of good
Christians who never hear poor srr
1110ns at all. They are not always
equally well pleased. Sometimes,
loo, they are only partially fed and
profited. But from every discourse,
in smaller or greater measure, they
get something that teaches and
strengthens them for spiritual work
anti warfare, anti the enjoyment of
the Christian life. They do not, bow
ever, follow these rales. They live
in an opposite way . Going to church,
it is with hearts foil of the meaning
of tbe exercise, and engaging in tbs
worship, it is as under tbe infioeuoe
of a power from heaven. They are
gladdened, and go ou their way re
joicing. They seek fruit, and Hud
it. Watching and waiting, it falls
into their laps, and tasting, eating,
they go away saying, “I sat down
under his shallow with great delight,
and his fruit was sweet to my taste.”
— i’nited Presbyterian.
mmmm
I had believed this twenty yea©* 1
ago, I might have been spared»
much anxiety. If God had told ma 1
aomr time ago that ha was abont ‘
to make me as happy as I ooeld be
ia this world, sod then bad told me !
that he should begin by crippling
me In nil my limbs, and removing 1
me from my turns! aonrens of enjoy
rnent, I should have thought it n
very strange mo»!e of aocom(dishing
this parponr. And ynl how la bia
wisdom manifest avea in this?—Ar.
fbpaam
Tha J avals ia tha Cap
There was a fine touch of poetry
as well as of Christian philosophy
in the cheerfbI words of n yonng
servant of Christ who was asmr bia
last boor. “When I have the moat
pain in my body* sold be, “I hare
the most panes In my aoal I do not
doubt bat that there la leva in tha
bottom of the ewp, thoagh it la terri
bly bitter in tbe month.* It was at
the bottom of the cap that God had
placed the prerkma Messing; and it
w » whole
tdttrr h IL
Vat I. tot Chrbt
An old man of more than sixty
years, who, had, ia later It*, wan
dered for from the right way, was
led to attend oar special arc-rim*,
and his mind was arreted by tbe
phase of guopal truth presented.
The second sight foaad Mm a remote
iag believer Tbe gram of tbe Fa
thee, as exhibited la tba 16th chapter
of Lake, embracing and cordially
receiving the morning prodigal,
canard him to bare! forth ia
lorn. It was teaching to as
tag, in opfite of nM Ma
tha
laMftaa fi Help
*Har
meh of a help to
into,
At the
sf oar of
the door hy an old
who had bee* a ehareh 1
yearn, bat avid—fly had smbremd s
theology
Urea the
trred
tears,
was ti
Hut tl
been «
(slab
the di
sorb
sad c
pnm|«
The
lie si
Jes*»
bitter
was a
ro«M
a gait
re fol
rough
\ trial
lifik
Having taken the
I, he ante
I ate
U>
1 rap
•T|
“Wb«
grace
afflict
from I
aught
“As 1
b ha.*
“By
What
fiiag
1 sorb
r Inn
exrra
go to your Meat, do
id erect, but crouch
rner of the pew, or,
, put your head
lek of tbe seat before
r n on the
, or ccjverj it with your hands
handkerchief. At any rate look
dull and uninterested, aud exhibit
much df aj persecuted spirit as
ihle.
!-j Do iioti rise at prayer. That
ht excite ttome devotional fi»el-
incousist^nt with the end in
iw.
*-) not sing. The words of
l saliu luipbt be injurious; “for
law of G d is perfect and con
Trusting God.
Christians might avoid much trouble
ami inconvenience if they would
ouly believe what they profess, that
God is able to make them happy
without auythiog else. They im
agine that if such a dear friend were
to die, or such aud such bleasiuga
were removed, they should be mis
erable; whereas God can make them
a thousand times happier without
them. To mention my own case.
God lias been depriving roe of ouo
mercy after another; but as one is
removed, he has come in aud filled
up its place. Now, when 1 am s
cripple, and not able to move, I am
happier thau ever I was iu my life
before, or ewer expected to be; and if
wu m
il into
for his
fori I
tnma
I us»s
the H
tortur
ClAtJU
Of Ml
I IMS
own I
lions,
brr c
it wet
snoth
the di
rbosr
the tr
srr a
this—
Only fit srs
“e*ll« , thful."
This is certoinly s truth—whether it
fem thw true meaning of tha Blbla
text or not
These choice Christians are often
chosen for afflictions, and become
more choice, and excellent through
the regimen of severe trial. There
is an experience of the lore of Jeans
which they gain in their boars of
bereavement, or poverty, or hard
ships, which they never could have
acquired In any other way. The
“love in the I wit tom of the cap* was
only to lie reached hy drinking the
sorrows which held the jewel. Tbe
school of suffering graduates rare
scholars. To the disciples in that
school it is often given to “know the
love of Jeans which passe th knowl
edge.” Buffering Christian! be not
in haste to quit the Master’s school;
thou art fitting for the High School
of heaven. Push not away peevish
ly thy cup of sorrow j for tbe spark
ing diamond of Christ’s love for thee
is in tbe draught He gives thee to
drink.—T. L. Oxjfbr.
If peace and truth can not go
together, truth Is to be preferred,
and rather to be chosen for n com
panion than peace — TiUingkmst.
you will strive to haM
To all tl
savored of horn
, and with
I
P, VlMH A • ******* • •
the fold of God.*
nr net. ia iu reived a
truth of fhripterv, which
ft nltfUl in ressfU when
kn*»w» terete murioM
fete, Mthinktagty, briterete
a asi ri*ty|nd way of ex-
which, at Irate, ts
«s lad tain
is rely
ut, and ter jmy af sal
hy the arenas t of
in the attempt.
Christ sad hi* w«rt are arkaawl
edged, hat in rerh a way as to
hr cores nothing more than a pedes
tal fbr the errata re to show himself
as he cries, “Behold ar.*
To the brherrr, taught of the
(Spirit, and «h«* experience ia
moulded according to (Scripture tench-
tug, how different! The substance
of his confession lies Hi the exprra
toon, “As# f, 6aI f’krist.* O, to learn
in our hearts the power of that great
truth, “I am craHfiod with < 'brief;
nevertheless I lire, yet not I, but
Uhrist liveth iu me; sad the life
which I now live in the ffeah. I tire
by the faith of the Hon of God, who
loved me, and gave himself fbr me."
Thus Christ, an# irl/. becomes ALL.—
t*
“la the Isle
day walking
on the sea share, 1 remember coo
templating with thrilling interest an
old, gray, ruined tower, covered
with ivy. There wan a remarkable
history connected with the spot.
In that tower was formerly hanged
00a of the beat governors the island
ever possessed He had been a©
cosed of treachery to the king dar
iug the time of the civil wmm, and
received sentence of death, later
cession was made on his behalf, and
a pardon was seat; but that pardon
fell into the hands of bis bitter
enemy, who kept it loeked op, and
the governor was hanged. His name
ia still honored by tbe many; and
yon may often hear a pathetic ballad
sung to his memory, to the music
of tbe spinning-wheel. We mast
feel horror ^ struck at the fearftil tor
pit ode of that man wbfi, having the
(tardon fbr his fellow-creature in his
possess too, could keep it back, and
let him die tbe death of a traitor.
Hot let os res train our indignation
till we ask ourselves whether God
might not point His finger to most
of us, and say : ‘Thou* art the man I
Thou hast a pardon in thine hands
to ssve thy fellow orealures, not
from temporal, hut from eternal
death. Thou host a pardon suited
to all, sent to all, designated for all.
Thou hast oujoyetl it thyself; but
hast thou not kept it back from thy
brother, instead of sending it to the
ends of the earth V’
Hugh Htowell says
of Mao, as I was owe
ntary charities
then dead sacrifices.—
are no bet -
1 seem to be
f * said a young
half pitiftd,
n his foce.
He was quaking of a friend who
had late her rely daughter. Not
himself s beHerer, he had an ideal
of what a believer should he, sod
vaguely felt that Iu such stress of
wwwtear as sorrow brings m
pity ought to be a help.
flow Is It with you, friend V You
perhaps have lost from your home
the joy and the light A dear com
pa®km, an tdotiaed child, the son
of yoor hope, the brother of your
love, ia not, for God has taken him.
Are you cast down and destroyed,
and so numb with grief that you no
fowl the tooch of the Havioor !
apt Hull, ia your sadness,
an trust the hand that waa
to the cross. Hull you may
your hand re the “pillow of tbe
If not, your “religina*
is not the help it ought to be.
Not to bereavement alone do wo
need belief to Ghnat as s |»rarucal
help, a lever to lift over the hard
places, a leaven to lighten the lump
of care. Iu the household It is sad
a Christian who gets no aid
from a hope to Jeans; a mother who
la not. homo— of it, more patient
a father who is not
wly and teroag. Tha pntn-
the irritations, the frictions
that tarvitaMy come, when people
live together to the familiarity of
every day life, how ran they be
sweetened by the raur
the generosities that
the beat love of all!
What little things upset a day's
pleasure t The impauence of a aer
vast, the lose of a book, the scorch
lag of a garment, the breaking of
a dish, are trties to themselves, but
they ciond the brow and make the
would be met with patiener. Herein
■mffo ImSs 'I 'Xkjk
•re Iftelff ^TTWte. 1 lir ROUM’tfqMr
who ran see a ate of China broken,
or a taMertoth 1st rued, ottb unruf
•ml composure, is well ou iu Huts
Uan life. The parent who distiu
arts sod thru
learned in t'hnst's
1 a ho has Uuie to
be polite to a boy , asking, not order
tag service, sod paying it with
thanks, has felt the Gospel spirit.
Be narefhl, pilgrim to Zion. Over
nil your sorrows, the sunlight streams
from heaven, la all yoar cross
the One who was Bailed
takes the belt of tbe cross.
Yon have a hope that will stand you
instead, even at the last great day.
If year religion is not a help in
the thickets, and the
It is not * bat it may be ami
Christ means it to be. Thanks, prr
ems Saviour, that though
“There are brier* besrttiag every path
That call for pate nt care | •
There is s cmnfc hi every ln<.
And s need for earnest prayet j
A b*b heart that team m Tber
1* happy may«here.*'
“According to yowr faith be it unto
you," is a truth running all through
the kingilom of grace. If you do not
expect an immediate answer to your
prayers for a scholar, you are not
likely to have it “Ask iu faith,
nothing wavering. For be that wa-
veroth is like a ware of the sea
driven with the wiod anti tossed, lx*
not man think that be shall receive
anything of the land.” “Whatsoever
hi not of faith is sin.” It is s sin
against him who has sent you to
that scholar, and who is your advo
cate sod intercessor with the Father,
to doubt that you shall have aa
answer to your prayer for tbe imme
diate yielding of the scholar’* heart
to tbe Saviour. When the father of
tbe child with a dumb spirit came to
Jaaax, crying out, “If thou canst do
anything, have compassion on us
and help us," Jesus said unto him,
“If thou canst believe, all things are
IKieaible to him that believeth.* Aud
straightway the father of the child
cried out, and said with tears, “Lord,
I believe, help tbou my unbelief."
Then It was that Jesus cast out tbe
devil and restored tbe child. That
same Jesus says to every Sabbath-
school teacher, pleading today for
the con verston of a particular scholar,
“If thou canst believe, all things are
possible to him that believeth."
I>o not bane your expectation of
the scholar's oouvonuon on your
preparation of him, by faithful in
straetion, to be given and accepted.
No scholar can be trained into regen
•ration. “It is God which worketh”
in him, as in you, “both to will mud
to do bis good pleasure." And God
can as easily, and wHI us gladly,
receive s believing scholar into his
own lore 00 the first bonr of that
scholar's admission to the Sabbath
school, as after be has learned a
whole system ot theology, or been
instructed for years in the words and
lessons of Bcripture. Nothing that
y ou ran <lo u;m>u or in that scholar
be expected, “confusion and every
evil work*—a lore of f*mer for
good.
Persons sometimes allow their dif
fcreuoes to carry them so far, as to
lay their faith in God and the future,
their religious enjoyments and Iiojhs,
aud their sincerity, open to stisjH
cioo. They can not be, enjoy, and
believe what their profession 'implies
will increase his fitness for redemp and requires, aud allow themselves
lion ; but your simple, earnest prayer to indulge in tempers am! pursue
of faith in his behalf shall be an a course of conduct, just the up
swered as surely as God “is faithful ; pomte of the spirit of religion and
that promised.” Delay then no longer wholly irreconcilable with »L
for any growth of the scholar into What a singular method do some
godliness; but go “boldly unto the men adopt to seek reveuge. Because
throne of grace," teat yon “may j they differ with a brother, they will.
neglect the means of grace—religions
dntv, and rqin themselves to sjnte
another.
Why Is It?
Why is it that Christian |K-oj*le are
so often skeptical a I suit the early
conversion of tbeir own children ?
They present them to God in the
rite of iufant baptism. They admit
that their children are at the most
impressible ago of human life; they
confess that early piety is exceedingly
lovely ami desirable. They open
their Bibles and read how Samuel
w as called iu his boyhood to God's
service, bow Joshua served the Isjrd
from his eighth year, and how Tim
othy, “from a child,” understood
God’s Word. They pray for their chil
dren. and yet about the conversion
of these young supsceptible hearts
theey have strange doubts and mis
givings. They do not expect their
childreu to be converted, nor labor
for it as the very first aud most vital
concern of their existence. So they
let the goldeu hours of childhood
ruu by unimproved, and secretly
intend aud expect that in after years
they will be overtaken by some
special effort, or revival influence,
and then rescued and received iuto
the fold of Christ! Thousands of
pious parents are committing just
this fearful mistake.
Surely they ought not to doubt
that as soon as a child is old enough
to be a willful sinner, it is old enough
to be a voluntary Christian. As soon
as it is sufficiently old to choose tbe
wrong, it is old enough to choose the
right. If a child of seven years
knows w hat it is to commit a sin, it
knows what it is to be sorry for it
and to ooufess its sins to Jesus. No
conscience is more tender than a
little child's. No heart is more easily
touched. The Saviour has reached
out a promise. “They that seek me
early shall find me," for their y oung
souls to cliug to. As soon as a child
can love its mother, it can learn to
love Jeans. As soon as it trusts its
mother euough to swallow the un
known draught of medicine, it can
trust Christ. As soon as it begins
to obey a father's commands, io ran
obey its heavenly Father's command
ments. Now these three thiugs—
love, trust and obedience—are the
very essence of religion. The love
of Christ is the marrow and pitli of
true piety. Keuiember. too, that
(rod’s Spirit offers bis supernatural
aid in producing and confirming the
couvertiug work in our children's
hearts.
As soon as the chi hi gives good
evidcuoc of a Christian heart and
Christian conduct—as soon as he
exhibts, not- a man's piety, but a
child's piety—he should be admitted
to the family of the church. The
fold is for the lambs as well as for
the maturer sheep. Nay, more ; the
Divine Shepherd offers them especial
welcome, for he kuows how much
they ueed its shelter. Christ does
uot promise to make a little girl a
woman ; he ouly makes her a purer,
sweeter, lovelier girl. “Boys wili
be boys," but they will be infinitely
better boys, and at length better
men, if they come into the spiritual
fold in the impressible days of boy
hood. Those who come into Christ’s
school the earliest, commonly make
the greatest attainments and reach
the highest usefulness in after life.
And if they die in childhood, they
have already won the unfading crown.
—Reformed Church Messenger.
obtain merry and find grace* for him
from God, who alone has power to
change his heart. “Now is the
accepted time" for such intercession,
and Koch “boldness in tbe faith."
When you pray in faith, God will
answer ia promptnen*. Then when
your ncholar is a trusting believer,
your true work of culture will begin
for him. From that time be may
“grow In grace" through your in
struction in tbe things of God. But
first intercede believiugly for his ira
mediate '-onversion.—A S. World.
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Let u« carefully mind our duty,
which tbe Word of trod hath set
before us. and then leave our com
fort to our good and gracious God,
who will certainly dispiae it in soch
measure* as be ace* best and fittest
for us. There is mam a one who
might have tieen iu a rnnch more
comfortable state of miud than he
is if had minded his duty more, aud
his comfort lew*; if he had studied
more the pleasing of God than the
peace, pleasure, and satisfaction of
his own mind; if he had labored
more to lie a true, obedient child of
God. than to know that be was so.
Do not therefore, as tbe manner of
some ia. lie down dy ing and whin
ing for comfort and assurance, in
the meanwhile neglecting dntv; but
rise np, in the name and strength
of God, aud set thyselt in good
earnest to thy duty ; honestly ktndy
to know and do the will of God;
take heed of stifling thy conscience
with any wilful sin ; rail upon God
for his grace, by constant and daily
jwayer; and in this way of well
doing commit thy soul to tbe good
ue»s and mercy of God in Christ
Jesus; aud whilst thou dost so, be
assured thou art safe aud canst
never miscarry. Rememlier that
ordinary and abundant comfort is
the reward of faithful piety, and
therefore endeavor to grow in graces
and iu the know ledge of our Ixml
and Saviour Jesus Christ. In a word,
;iersiat and persevere iu thy duty,
ami thou canst not foil of that com
fort which is convenient for thee;
and be sure that what is wanting in
thy joy and comfort here, shall w ith
infinite advantage be made up here
after, in that fulness of joy aud
those ideasurrs which arc at God’s
right ham! forevermore.—Hishop
/lull.
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Misunderstanding
We an* uot all so constituted as
to nee thing* in the same light. Men
may honestly differ in opinion. Paul
Mid Barnabas differed in judgment
“ami the contention wan so sharp
between them, that they departed
asunder." And Paul “withstood Pe
ter to the face, because he was to be
blamed.” Differences between prom
inent members of the church are
serious draw backs to its prosperity,
and often cause the wheels of Zion
to stand still. When Christians so
far forget themselves, as to indulge
in unkind, uncharitable, and resent
ful tempers toward each other,
Christ is “wounded in the house of
his friends."
Self-interest often warps the judg
ment of men, aud when it is the
controling principle, it lays the foun
dation of irreconcilable divisions.
Conscience, duty, influence, friend
ship, in fact everything, are sacri
ficed, but selfishness. A little yield
ing—a few steps from the ground of
exclusiveness, would stifle seed in
the germ that bring forth year after
year, a crop of deadly fruit Two
prominent members of a society dif
fered with regard to the title of a
fragment of land—both claiming it
The interest involved would have
been covered by a few dollars. But
each in his own judgment was right
—neither would yield. Tbe society
was divided, siding with one or tbe
other, and the strife extended even
to the neighborhood, separating chief
friends. The result is what might
Three Great Words.—A chris
tian traveller tells us that he saw
the following admonition printed on
a folio sheet in an inn in Savho, aud
it was found, he learned, in every
house in the district: “Understand
well’ the force of the words—a God,
a moment, an eternity : a God who
sees you; a moment which flies from
you; an eternity which awaits you ;
a God whom yon serve so ill; a mo
ment of which you so little profit:
an eternity which you bastard *m>
rashly."