The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-12-05

windows. I think that when Satan haE
a Job 30 infinitely mean that in all the
pit he cannot find q devil mean enough
to do it, and all bribes and threats have
failed to get one willing for inferna
crusade, he says to one Of his sergeants
60 up to Brooklyn, and in such street.
on such corner, get that gossiping wo.
man, and she will be glad to do it.
"And sure enough, like a hungry fish,
she takes the hook in her mouth, and
Satan slackens the line and lets her run
out farther and farther, uutil after awhile
he says: 1t is time to haul IN that line,
and with a few strong pulls he brings her
to the beach of fire. What do you say
That she was member of the Church?
cannot help that. When Satan goes
a-tishjDg he does not care what schoo!
ths fish belong to, whether it is a Pres
byterian mackerel or an Episcopallan
salmon. Amid the thunder crash OF 81
mai God said: Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbor.' And in
Leviticus he says: Thou shalt not go up
and down as tale bearer.
"Take lot into your ear that scum OF
hell that people call tittle-tattle. Who
soever willingly listens to slaader Is
equally guilty with the one who tells it.,
aud an old ~riter says they ought both
to be hung-the one by the tongue and
the other by the ear. Do not smile upon
such spaniel, lest, like pleased dog,
he put his dirty paw upon you. ThroW
back the shutter of your soul, oh Chris
tian men and women, and see if there
be within you vulture with filthy talons
and cruel beak. Let not this unclean
thing roost in your soul, for my tsxt
says: 'Ye shall hold in abominatlon
among the fowls, the yulture.
CEoosE EARTH OR HEAVEN.
sBut, my friends, your worldly TO :
tunes Will not last. I will buy out now
al that you will be worth in worldly es-
tate seyenty-fye years from now. l have
the money in my pocket with which to
do it. Here it is. Two cents! It is a
large sum to offer for all you will possess
at the close Of seventy-fve years. Choose
the world if you want to, but, If not,
then choose heaven. That estate lies
partly on this side Of the river, but
mostly on the other. It is ever accumu-
lating. The prospect of it makes one
independent of earthly misfortunes, so
that Rogers, the martyr, slept so soundiy
the night before his burning they vio-
lently shook him in order to get him
awake in time for the execution, and
Paul exults at the thought OF the 10Y
unspeakable and full Of glory.
THE CHANGING CHAMELEON.
'sAgain, taking the suggestion OF the
text, drive out the chameleon from your
soul. There is some difference between
good men as to the name of this creep
Ing thing which God pronounced un-
clean, but I shall take the opinion which
seems best suited to my purpose. The
chameleon is reptile, chiefly known by
its changeableness of color, taking the
color of the thing next to it, sometimes
brown, sometimes red and sometimes
gray, but always the color of its sur
roundings, a type Of that class of Chris
tians who are now one thing in religious
faith and now another, just to suit cir
cumstancas, always taking their color OF
religious belief from the man they are
talking to. They 60 to one place and
are irst-rate Unitarians. Jesus was a
good man, but nothing more They go
to Princeton and they are Trinitarians,
almost willing to die for the divinity OF
Jesus.
ADVICE TO a DAUGHTER.
can infdel was called to the bedside
of his daughter. The daughter said:
Father, which shall believe, you or
mother2 Mother took the religion of
Christ, and died in its embrace; you say
that religion is a humbug. Now / am
going to die, and I am very much per
picked; shall I believe you, or take the
belief OF my mother?' The father said:
Choose for yourself She said: No, |
am too weak to choose for myself; l
want you to choose for me-
"sWell, said the father, after much
hesitation and embarrassment, MARY, /
think you had better taKe the religion Of
your mother The time will come when
we shall have to believe something. We
cannot afford to be on the fence in reli-
gion. Truth and error are set opposite
to each other. The one is infinitely
right, and the other infinitely wrong.
On the Judgment day We must give an
account of what We believed as well as
for what we acted. The difference be
tween believing truth and believing
error is the difference between paradise
and perdition. I beg you, in the light
of the Bible, and on your knets before
God, to form your religious opinion and
then stick to it, though business COM
panions scof, and wits caricature, and
the air crackles with the fires OF martyr
dom. Surely truths in behalf of which
Christ died, and angels Of God troopad
forth, and the whole universe is mar
shaled, are worth living for and worth
dying fer. Amidst the most unclean
things is this ever changing chameleon
of religious theory. Away with the
reptile! God abhors it with an all-con-
suming adherence.
SLOW AS A SNAIL.
"Olce more: Take the suggestion o!
the text, and drive out the snail from
your soul God has declared it unclear.
It is an animal to be found everywhere
between the coolest north and the hot
test south. There are l,500 species OF
the snail. They have no backbone, and
they are so slow that their movement is
almost imperceptible. You see snail