The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-09

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Z Wish were dead'' o, there never was SO
rnuon reason for your living as now! BY
this ordeal you have been consecrated
priest of the Most High God. Go out and
! DO YOUR whole work for the Master.
Again, there is comfort in the Thought
that all our troubles are a revelation. have
YOU ever thought of it in that connection
The man who has never been through cnas
tisement is ignorant about thousand
things in his soul he ought TO know. For In
stance, here is man who prides himself OF
his cheerfulness OF character. He has nc
patience with anybody who is depressed IN
spirits. o. it is easy for h:-i to be cheer
ful. with his fine house, his filed wardrobe
and well-strung instruments Of music
-eupesrrteta- aarlor-- -srs9-pteuty OF money
in the bank waiting for some permanent
investment. 1t is easy for him to be
cheerful But suppose his fortune goes
to pieces, and his house goes down under
the sheriff's hammer, and the banks will not
have anything to do with his paper. Sup
pose those people who were once elegantly
entertained at his table get so short sighted
that they canrot recognize him upon the
street How then? Is it so easy to be..cheer-
ful2 It is easy to be cheerful in the home,
after the days work is done, and the gas is
turned on, and the house is ful. OF romping
little ones But suppose tne piano is :hut
because the fingers taat played on it will no
more touch the keys, and the childish voice
that asked so many questions will ask no
more. Then is it so easy: When man
wakes up and finds that his resources are all
gone, he begins to rebel, and he says, ZOO
| is hard; God is outrageous. He had no busl-
ness to do this to me-" Ny friends, those
of us who have been through trouble know
what sinful and rebellious heart we have,
and how much God has to put up with, and
how much we need pardon It Is cGly in the
light of flaming furnace thas re o,n learn
our own weakness and @s9 eSn lack OF
moral resource.
There is also a great dea! y conltort in the
| fact that there will be a family reconstrIc-
ton in better place. From Scotland. or
England, or Ireland a child emigrates to
this country 1t is very hard parting, but
he comes, after while writing home as to
what a good land it is. Another brother
comes, sister comes, and another, and after
awhile the mother comes, and, after awhile
the father comes, and now they are all here,
and they have time of great congratuia-
ton and very pleasant reunion. Well,
it is just so with our families; they are
emigrating to better land. Now, one
goes out. o, how hard it is to part with
him. Another goes. o how hard 1t IS to
part with her! And another, and another,
and we ourselves will after while go
over, and then we will be together.
o, what a reunion! Do you believe
that! eyes," you say. You do not!
You do not believe it as you believe
other things. Ifyou did, and with the same
emphasis, why, it would take nfoe-tenths Of
your trouble off your heart. The fact is,
Heaven to a great many OF US is great fog
It is away off someH nera. H1led with on Nm
certain and indefinite population. That IS
the kind of Heaven many of US dream about;
| but it is the most tremendous fact in all the
universe this Heaven Of the Gospel. Our
departed friends are not afoat The resi-
dence in which you live is not so real as the
residence in which they stay. You are
afoat, you do not know in the morning
| what will happen before night. They are
housed and safe forever. Do not, therefore,
pity your departed friends who have died
In Christ They do not need any OF
your pity. You might as well send a
letter Of coincidence to Queen Victoria
on her obscurity, or to the Rothschilds
on their poverty, as to pity those
who have won the palm. Do Ess say
Of those who are departed, "Poor
childp' ssPoor fatherl" "Poor motherw
They are not poor. You are poor-you
whose homes have been shattered-not they.
You do not dwell much with your families
in this world. All day long you are of
to business Will It not be pleasant when
you can be together all the while2 If you
have had four children and one is gone and
anybody asks how many children you have,
do not be so inddel as to say three. Say
four-oae in Heaven. Do not think that
the grave is unfriendly. You 90 into your
room, and dress for some grand en-
tertainment, and you come forth beauei-
fully appareled; and the grave is only the
place where we 50 to dress for the glorious
resurrection, and we will come out radiant,
radiant, mortality having become lmmor-
tality. o, how much coincidence there is
in this thought! l expect to see my kindred
in Heaven; expect to see them as certainly
as expect to go home to-day. Aye. shall
more certainly see them. Eight or ten will
come up from the graveyard back OF
Somerville; and one will come up
from the mountains back Of annoy, China;
and another will come up from the sea of
Cape Hatteras; and thirty viii come up from
Greenwood; and I shall know them better
than ever knew them here: And your
friends, they may be across the sea, but the
trumpet that sounds here will sound there.
You will come up on just the same day.
Some morning you have oversight yourself,
and you open your eyes, and see that the
sun is high in the heavens, and you say, 81
have oversight, and Imust be up and off," So
you will open your eyes on the morning OF
the resurrection, in the full blaze Of Gods
light, and you will say, II must be up and
away" o yes, you will come up, and there
will be reunion, reconstruction OF your
family. ike what Ealburton, think It
was-good old Mr.. HalburtQn-said In his
last moments. ~ thank God that ever
lived, and that have father in Heaven,
and mother in Heaven, and brothers IN
Heaven, and sisters in Heaven, and am now
going up to see them"
remark once more, our troubles In this
world are preparative for glory. What
transition for Paul-from the slippery deck
of laundering ship to the calm presence Of
Jesus. What transition it was for Lstimer
from the ST axe to throne What tran
sition it was for Robert Hall-from insanity
to glory! What transition it was for
Richard Baxter-from the dropsy to the
saints everlasting rest-' And what
transition it will be for you-frora world
of sorrow to world Of joy. John Hol-
land, when he was dying, said: What
means. this brightness in the room? Have
YOU lighted the candles?' NO. they rar
plied, I'VE have not lighted any candies"
tsThen." said he, welcome, Heaven" the