The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14

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But my text takes further step and 1t
saws, s'Go into the mountain and tetch ollSs'
branches, and pine fc6ss, and palm
branches Now, the palm tree was very
much nQnored by the ancients. 1t had three
hundred and sixty ditferentuses. The fruit
was conserved; the sap was beverage; the
stems were ground up for food for camels;
the base Of the leaves was turned into hats,
and mats, and baskets; and the leaves We're
carried in victorious professions; and from
the root to the top of the highest leaf there
was usefulness. The tree grew eighty-hve
feet in height sometimes, and it spread
broad leaves four and FIVE yards long; 1t
meant usefulness and it meant victory;
usefulness for what it produced, victory be-
cause it was brought into celebrations Of
triumph And o, how much we want the
palm branches in the churches OF Jesus
Christ at this time! A great many Chris
tians don't amount to any thing. You have
to shove them out of the way when the
Lords chariots come along. We don't want
any more of that kind Of Christians in the
church.
The old maxim says: ''Do not put all
your eggs into one basket" but have to
tell you in this matter of religion you had
better give your all to God, and then get in
yourself ''O,' says some one, 'my busl-
ness is to sell silks and cloths" Well, then,
nv brother, sell silks ana cloths to the glory
of God. And soue one says: ''My business
is to raise corn and carrots" Then, my
brother, raise corn and carrots to the glory
OF God. And some one says, 'My business
is to manufacture horse shoe nails" Then
,r1O
,od. There is nothing for you to do that
you ought to do but for the glory OF God.
Usefulness is tvpihed by the palm tree.
All, we don't want in the church any more
people that are merely weeping willows,
signing into the water, standing and admir-
ing their long lashes in the grassy spring.
No wild cherry, dropping bitter fruit We
want palm trees, holding something for God,
something for angels, something Tor man.
am tired and sick OF this fiat, !nslpld, satin
slippered, namby- -pamby. highty- tightly re-
ligion! It is worth nothing for this world
and it is destruction for eternity.
Give me five hundred men and women
fully consecrated TO Christ and we will
take any city for God in three years. Give
me ten thousand men and women fully up
to the Christian standard; in ten years ten
thousand of them would take the whole
earth for God. But when are we going to
begin?
Ledyard, the great traveller, was brought
before the Geographical Society of Great
Britain, and they wanted him to make some
explorations in Africa, and they showed
him all the perils, and all the hard work,
and all the exposure, and after they had
told MIN what they wanted him to DO IN
Africa, they said to him: ''No1V, Ledyard,
when are you ready to starts" He said:
ITO morrow morning." The learned men
were astonished; they thought he would
take weeks or months to get ready. Wen,
now, you tell me you want to be earnest for
Christ; you want to be earnest In Christian
service. When are you going to begin. O.,
that YOU have the decision to say, To-day!
nowr' Go now into the mount and gather
the palm branches. But the palm branch
! also meant victory. In all ages, N an
| lands, the palm branch means victory. we
| are by nature the servants Of Satan. He
stole US, he has his eye on US, he wants 10
| keep Us. The words come from our Father
that if we will try to break loose from THIS
| doing Of wrong, our Father will help u.s.
and some day we rouse up, and we look the
black tyrant in the face, and we fly at him,
and we wrestle him down, and we put our
heel on his neck, and we grind him in the
dust, and we say, Victory, victory, through
| our Lord Jesus Christ! o, what a grand
| thing it is to have sin under foot and
wasted life behind our backs. BLESSED IS
he whose transgression is forgiven, and
whose sin is covered" But" says the
man. II feel so sick and worn out with the
| ailments of life" You are going to be Eaore
than couQueror ''BUt," says the man, u
am so tempted, am so pursued In hfe.''
| You are going to be mere than conqueror.
81, who have so many ailments and heart
! aches, going to be more than conGueror:
Yes, unless you are so self-conce!ted that