The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-05-30

| IL Is II your nlSLOry anu mlue. L'euE
that you thought OF no importance a
all have been OF very great moment
That casual conversation, that accidenta
meeting-you did not think of it again
for long while; but how it changed al
the phase Of your life!
cit seemed to be matter of no i'm
portance that Lutherfound Bible in g
monastery; but as he opened that Bible
and the brsss-bound lids fell back, they
Jared everything, from the Vatican to
the farthest convent in Germany, and
the rustling Of the wormed leaves was
the sound of the wings of the angel OF
the Reformation. It seemed to be 8
matter of no importance that woman,
whose name has been forgotten, dropped
8 tract in the way of q very bad man by
the name of Richard Baxter. He picked
up the tract and read it, and it was the
means of his salvation.
ssIn afterdays that man wrote book,
called a Call to the Uneonverted, that
was the means Of bringing 8 multitude
TO God, among others Philip Doddridge.
Philip Doddridge wrote book, called
The Rise and Progress of Religion,
which has brought thousands and tens
of thousands into the kingdom of God,
and among others the great Wilberforce.
Wilberforce wrote book, called "A
Practical View of Christianity, which
was the means of bringing great multi
tude to Christ, among others Leigh
Richmond. Leigh Richmond wrote 3
tract, called The Dairyman's Daughter,
which has been the means Of the saliva
ton of unconverted multitudes. And
that tide of influence started from the
fact that one Christian woman dropped
a Christian tract in the way of Richard
Baxter.
ssThrough the gate of Incidence how
many men and women have marched,
useless on earth, to destroyed eternity!
Spinola said to Sir Horace We're: OF
what did your brother die?' OF having
nothing to do, was the answer. tAh,,'
said Spinola, that's enough to kill any
general of u.s. Oh, can it be possible
in this world, where there is so much
suffering to be alleviated. so much dark
ness to be enlightened and SO many
burdens to be carried, that there is any
person who cam ot find anything to do?
ssMme. de Stsel did world of work
in her time, and one day, while she was
seated amid instruments of music, all OF
which she had mastered, and amid
manuscript books which she had written
some one said to her: sHow do you find
time to attend to all these things? 'Oh,
she replied, these are not the things l
am proud OF. My chief boast is in the
fact that I have seventeen trades, by any
one of which I could make livelihood
if necessary And if in secular spheres
there is so much to be done, in spiritual
work how vast the field! We want more
Abigails, more Hannahs, more Rebeccas,
more Marys, more Deborehs, conse-
crsted-body, mind, soul-to the Lord
who bought them.
81 learn from my subject the value of
cleaning. Ruth going into that harvest
field mi ght have said: There is'a straw
and there is straw, but what is straw?
I can't get any barley for myself or my
mother-in-law out of these separate
straws.' Not so said beautiful Ruth.
She gathered two strsws and she put
them together, and more straws, until
she got enough to make a sheaf. Put
ting that down she went and gathered
more straws, until she had another
sheaf, and another, and another, and
another, and then she brought them all
together, and she threshed them out,
and she had an ephsh of barley, nigh a
bushel. Oh, that We might all be
cleaners"