The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-10-31

WOlSe1ey, WHO cdIue w Couoo4o WILL AAA
lied them straight; didn't lead then
straight, .-Geseral?" God has put u
ministers SIS captains in this battlefield
of truth against error. Great at last vii
be our chagrin if We fail leading thu
people the wrong way; but great will be
our gladness if, when the battle is over
we can hand our sword back to our grea
Commander, saying: Lord Jesus! We
led the people straight; didn't We leae
them straight"
ssThose ministers who 60 off at tan
gent and preach some other gospel are
not stars, but comets, and they flash
across the heavens little while aud make
people stare, and throw. down q few mete
oric stones, and then go out of sight, il
not out of existence. Oh, brethren II
the ministry, let us remember that Goo
calls as stars, and our businessis is to shine
and to keep our own sphere, and ther
when we get done trying to light up the
darkness of this world, we will wheel IN
to higher spheres, and in us shall be full
filed the promise: 'They that turn many
to righteousness shall shine as the stars
forever and ever.
"Ah! the ministers are not all Peck
shifts and csnting hypocrites, as some
would would have you think! Forgive
me, if having in your presence at other
times glorifed the medical profession
and the literary profession and the
literary profession, ! glorify my own. ]
have seen them in their homes and heard
them IN their pulpits, and a grander array
of men never bresthed, and the Bible
figure is not strained when it calls them
stars: and whole constellations OF glorious
ministers have already taken their places
on high, where they shine even brighter
than they shone on earth; Edward n.
Kirk of the Congregational Church,
Stephen II. Tying Of the Episcopal
Church, Matthew Simpson Of the Metho-
dist Church, John Bowling of the
BAPTIST Church, Samuel Z. Talmsge OF
the Presbyterian Church, DR.. De Witt
Talmage of the Reformed Church, John
Chambers of the Independent Church;
and there stop, for it SO happens that !
have mentioned the seven stars OF the
seven churches.
"The future of all of US is a sealed
SCROLL" said the preacher, in speaking OF
the seven seals, 'sand am glad that no
one but can open it. Do not let US join
that class of Christians in our day who
are trying to break the seven seals of the
future. They are trying to peep into
things they have no business with. They
try to forsten what is going to come to
them and what is going to come on the
earth. They know nothing about 1t.
Christ is the only one who can break
the seal of the future. Bible prophecy
was not written to help US to tell things
in the future, but to have US, when the
things actually do come to pass, compare
them with prophecy and so learn Gods
fore-knowledge and the inspiration Of
the Scriptures. But you go into the
study of the prophecies in order to ind
out what is going to happen year from
now, or twenty years from now, or one
thousand years from now, and | will
make prophecy Of my own, and that Is
that you Will have your brain added If
yon do not positively get into q public
or private insane asylum. where the
greatest of expounders and preachers OF
prophecy ended his life a few years since,
a.4d where you may regale the visitors Of
the institution by incoherent mumblngs
over something Daniel or Revelation
about the leopard which means Greece
and the bear which means Medo-Persla.
81 would not give two cents to know
how long lam going to live, or in what
day of what year the world is going to
be demolished. would rather give q
thousand dollars not to know. Suppose
some one could break the next seal IN
the scroll of your personal history and
should tell you that on the 4th OF July,
1890, YOU were to die-the summer after
the next-how. much would you be good
for between this and that? It would
from now until then be q prolonged
funeral. You would be counting the
months and the days, and your family
and friends would count them, and next
4th of July you would rub your hands
together and whine: sOne year from to-
day am to go. Dear me! L wish no one
had told me SO long before. l wish that
necromancer had not broken the seal of
the future And meeting some under
taker you would say: 4 hope you will
keep Yourself free for an engagement
July 4, 1890. That day you will be need
ed at my house. TO save time. you
might as well take my measure now, tive
feet eleven inches. lam glad that Christ
dropped, thick veil over the hour OF
our demise and the hour OF the world $
destruction when He said: 'Of that day
and hour knoweth nc man; no, not the
angels; but My Father only. Keep your
hands off the seven seals.
DR.. Talmsge then spoke OF the seven
thunders. "What is needed, he said,
sis thunderbolts, and at least seven OF
them. There is the long line OF fraudulent
commercial establishments; every stone
in the foundation, and every brick IN the
wall, and every nail in the rafter made
out Of dishonesty skeletons OF poorly PAID
sewing girls arms in every beam of that
establishment; human nerves work into
every figure OF that embroidery; blood IL
the deep dye of that proffered uph holstery
billions of dollars of accumulated fraud
intreuched in massive storehouses
and stock companies manipulated
by unscrupulous men until the monopoly
is defiant of ali earth and all heaven
How shall the evil be overcome? by
treatises on the maxim: Honesty is the
best policy? Or by soft repetition OF the
golden rule that we must do to Others
as We would have them do to US? No, II
will not be done that way.
"What is needed, and what will come
;s noua, tlnnllar. There is drunkenness