The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-25

do not Ietus 90 another stroke OF WORK untl!
! we have settled one matter. What IS going
! to be the final issue of this great contest be-
tween sin and righteousness. Which Is so
ing to prove himself the stronger, God or
| Diabolus? Is this world going to be all
garden or all deserti Now let us have that
matter settled. If we believe Isaiah and
| Ezekiel and Hosea, and Micah and Malachi,
and John and Peter, and Paul and Christ,
we believe that it is going to be all garden.
But let US have it settled. Let US know
whether we are working on toward sue.
cess or toward dead failure. If there is
child in your house sick, and YOU are sure
he is going to get well, you sympathize with
present pains. but all the forebodlnSl is gone
| If YOU are in cyclone off the Florida coast,
and the captain assures you the vessel IS
stauIch and the winds are changing
| for better quarter, and he IS sure
he will bring you safe into the harhor,
YOU patiently submit to present dis
tress with the thought Of safe arrival. Now,
| want to know whether we are coming on
| toward dismay, darkness and defeat, or on
| toward light and bleSsednesS. You and l
believe the latter, and if so, every year we
| spend is one year subStracted from the
worlds woe, and every event that passes,
whether bright or dark, brings us one event
nearer happy consummation, and by all
that is iueXorable in chronology and mathe-
matics commend you to good cheer and
| courage If there is any thing IS arlth-
| metic, if you subtract two from i've ana
leave three, then by every rolling sun we
| are coming on toward a magnificent ter
minus. Then every winter passed IN one
severity less for our poor world. Then ev.
cry summer gone by brings us nearer un-
fading arborescence. Put your algebra
down on the top of Your Bible and rejoice.
If it is nearer morning at three o'clock
than it is at two, if it is nearer morning at
four o'clock than it is at three, tLcn we are
nearer the dawn of the worlds delivcrance.
God ; clock seems to so Tery slowly, but
=: pendulum swings and the hands move,
end it will yet strike noon. The sun and
the moon stood still once; they will never
stand still again until they stop forever. If
YOU believe arithmetic as we'll as Your
Bible, you must believe we are nearer the
dawn 1.-The day is at hand"
There is I; class Of phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and the
heavenly world may, after awhile, make
demonstration in this world which Will
bring all moral and spiritual things to eli
max. Now, am no spiritualist: but every
intelligent man has noticed that there are
strange and mysterious things which indl-
cate to him that perhaps the spiritual world
is not so far off as sometimes we conjecture,
and that after awhile from the spiritual and
heavenly world there may be demonstra
ton upon our world for its betterment. We
call it magnetism, or we call it mesmer-
ism, or we call it electricity, because we
want some term to cover up our ignorance.
I do rot know what that is. never heard
al audible voice from the other world.
am persuaded of this, however, that the
veil between this world and the next is
getting thinner and thinner, and that per-
haps after a while, at the call OF God-nol
at the call of the Davenport brothers, or
Andrew Jackson Davis-some OF the old
Scriptural warriors, some OF the spirits OF
other days mighty for Coda Joshua, or
David, or a Paul-may come down anu
help US in this battle against un-
Righteousness. o. how would like to have
them there - him OF the Red Sea.
him of the Valley of Ajalou, him of Mars
Hill. History says that Robert Clayton, OF
the English cavalry, at the close OF war
bought up all the old cavalry horses lest they
be turned out to drudgery and hard work,
p
heath and turned these old war horses into
the thickest and richest pasture to spend the
rest Of their days for what they had done IN
other days. One day thunder storm came
up. and these war horses mlstook the thun-
uer VI snieo .irv UiiunucI u u"VIic, du"
they wheeled into ine-no riders on their
backs-they wheeled into line ready for the
fray. And Idoubt me whether, when the
last thunder of this battle for God and
truth goes booming through the heavens,
the old Scriptural warriors can keep their
places on their thrones. Methlnks they
will spring into the fight and exchange
crown for helmet, and palm branch for
weapon, and come down out of the Kings
galleries into the arena, crying: make
room! must fight III this great Arranged
dom"
Nv beloved people, preach this sermon
because l want you to toll with the sun
light in your faces. / want you old men to
understand before you die that all the work
YOU did for God while yet your ear was
alert and your foot fleet is going to be
counted up in the final victories. l
want all these younger people to un-
derstand that when they toll for God they
ALWAYS win the day; that all prayers are
answered and all Christian work is in some
way effectual, and that the tide is setting in
the right direction, and that all Heaven is
on our side-saintly, cherubic, seraphic,
throne, doxology and procession, principal
tiles and dominion, he who hath the moon
under his feet and all the armies Of heavei.
on white horses.
Brother! brother! all / am afraid of is
not that Christ will lose the battle but that
YOU aud will not getintoit quick enough to
do something worthy of our blood bought
Immortality. o, Christ, how shall l meet
Thee Thou Of the SCARED brow, and the
SCARED back, and the SCARED hand. and the
SCARED foot, and the SCARED breast, If !
have no scars or wounds gotten il Thy
service! 1t shall not be so. ! step
oueo to-day IN front of the battle
Come on, YOU foes of God, | dare
YOU to the combat. Come on, with pens
dipped in maignancy. Come on with
tongues forked and viperine and aderous.
Com, on, with types solked in the scum of
the eternal pit. defy you! Come on! !
DEFY YOU! Come on. l bare my brow, /
uncover my heart. Strike! l can not sea
nv Lord until have been hurt for Christ
If we do not suffer with him on earth We
can not giorify with Him in Heaven. Tai e
good heart On. On. On, See! the skie
have frightened! See. the hour is about TO
come! Pick out all the cheeriest Of az
thems. Let the orchestra string their est
instruments ''The night IS far spent, lhe
day is at hand"
TLo