The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-11-21

bats or put little dynamite in his offic'
and blow him and his factory all mp Will
the same explosion
"Look out there on the night sky
Great fire somewhere. What is it: 'Ch
night is cold and Satan has made bls
bonfire Of that factory to warm hlmse!
by. The capitalist has lost heavily ant
the workmen and their families arr
without bread and clothing. sWhenct
comest thou, Satan?' From going to ant
fro among employers and employees, ant
walking up and down among them. Ha
ha, I WAS the only one that made any
thing out of that strike. What splen
did fire and lots of smoke! Ia! ha! L lk;
smokel'
ssAncther route Satan is apt to take il
his active travels is through the mercan
tile establishments. He steps in anc
says to the clerks: sHow much salary dc
you get? Is that all? Why, you cam
live on that! You have right to enough
for livelihood. A few quarters out OF
the money drawer will never be missed
or here and there is remnant Of good.
you could take home without being
found out. Or you could change those
account books little, and you could
make that figure eight naught and
that figure five three, and if you dc
not feel exactly right about doing that
you can some day pay it back, which
YOU can do perfectly easy. Don't feel
like running the risk? Well, then, you
can't so to the theatre, and you can't
so on that round with the boys, and you
viii have to wear that plain coat, whereas
you could have your overcoat furllned,
and take board at tip-top place, and
walk amid plush and tapestries positive
ly Oriental. While you are making ur
your mind I Will just go through the
different parts of this great commercial
establishment and try every one, from
the wealthy firm down to the errand
boy1z;'' 49,. s.; u:. ;.
that one of the partners has drawn Sc
much out of the concern that the whole
business is crippled, and bright and
promising boy is sent home to his
mother in disgrace and young man is
in jail for embezzlement. Three lives
ruined and three eternities. Whence
comest thou, Satan? Satan would rather
have one young man than twenty old
ones. If he won the sep!uagenarians
and the octogenarians he could do but
little harm with them. But ne says:
Give me young man, especially If ne
be bright and generous and social. He
sees that the young men have for good
or bad been the mighties5 in this world.
fernando Cortes conquered Mexico st
80. Gustavus Adolphus became immor-
tai in history SO early that he died at
80. Raphael, the most famous of paint
ers, died at 81. William Pitt was Prime
Minister of England at q. Jesus Christ
completed his earthly life at 80. Five
years in young mans life are of more
power for good or evil than the las!
fifteen of an old mans life. So Satan is
especially greedy for young men, and
in going to and fro n the earth he has
especial temptation for them.
"Another route that Satan on lis
active travels is apt to take is for the
dispoil!ng Of the peoples souls. It does
rot pay him merely to destroy the bodies
of men and women. Those bodies
would soon be gone anyhow; but great
treasures are involved in this Satanic ex-
cursion. On this route he meets a man
who is aroused by something he has
seen in the Bible, and Satan says: Now
I can settle all that. The Bible is an
imposition. 1t has been deluding tine
I world for centuries. Do not let it de.
lude you. It has no more authority
than the Koran of the Mohammedan OF
the Shastei of the Hindoo, or the Zenda.
Vesta Of the Pergian!' He meets another
man who is Fastening toward the king:
dom OF God and sas: why al this pre-.
cipitatiop? Religion is right, but auy
time within the next ten years Will be
soon enough for you. A man with 6
stout chest Ike yours and such muscular
development, need not be botherin2
himself about the next world But
Satan says nothing to him about the fact
that the professor who gave his whole
life to TIC study of health and could lif'
more po&udS than any American, died
at about 40, and that another learned
man who proved concluSively that if we
observed aii the laws of health we need
never die, expired before lie got his book
on that subject published.
Satan meets another man who naG
gone throug: long course of prohigacy
and is beginning to pray God for for.
giveness, and Satan says to the man
You are too late; the Lord viii not help
such wretch as you, you might as well
BRAY up and fight your own way
through And so with a spite and an
acuteu, IS and !. velocity that lave been
gaining for 5000 years, he ranges up
and down bstfling, disappointing, de.
featins, aflicsing, destroying the human
race. He has instigated every war. he
has rcjoiceii in every pe>tilence. He
has start; d every groan. He has pressed
out every sigh. He has hurled every
ship wreck. Lararettoes, insane asyluns,
commercial panics, plaques, destroying
angels, continental earthquakes, and
world wide disasters are to him o
perfec! glee. Can you look upon
the Communism and the Mormon
ism, and the NIohammeianism, and
the wide sweep of drunkenness and
fraud aud libertiniSm, the Francc-Ger-
man War and Crimean War, the North
and South United States War, and rivers
of blood flowing across continents ot
misery into oceans of wretchedness, with
out realizing the power OF the evil one,
who reported to the Lord Almighty,
and when asked: Whence comest thou:
answered: sFrom going to and fro IL
tho earth. and from going up and dowr
in it.
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