The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-01

: the Original CHURCH. "aS 'oiS pooi, dlo AIS
members were tsh dealers on the banks Of
Galilee, and had only such stock on hand as
they could take in their own net, to-day
in the hands of Christian men and women
there is enough money to print Bibles and
build churches and support missionaries
under God in ten years to save the world.
; Again, think that the worlds evangelical
ton can be achieved in the time specified be-
cause we have already the theological instl-
tutions necessary for this work. We do not
have to build them; they are b tilt and they
are filled with tens Of thousands Of young
men and there will be three sets OF students
who will graduate into the ministry before
the close Of this century, and once have them
understand that instead Of preaching thirty
or forty years and taking into the kingdom
Of God few hundred souls, right before
! them is the Sedan, is the Armageddon, and
these young men, instead Of entering the
ministry timid and with apologetic air, will
feel like David who came up just as the
armies were set in array and he left his
carriage and shouted for the battle and
cried: "Who is this uncircumcised Phil
istine that he should defy the armies Of the
living Godan And with five gravel stones
skillfully flung sent sprawling the Dragging
ten-foster. his mouth into the dust and his
heels into the air.
My friends, what but such a consumma-
tion coNld be fit climax to this century,
You notice tendency in history and all
about US to climax. The creation week
rising from herbs to fish, and from fish to
bird. and from bird to quadruped, and from
q0adruped to immortal man. The New
Testament rising from quiet genealogical
table in Matthew to apocalyptic doxoiogy IN
Revelation Now, what can be an appro-
pirate climax to this century. which has
heard the puff Of the first steamer, and
the throb of the first stethoscope, and the
click of the first telegraph, and the clatter
Of the first sewing machine, and saw the
fash of the first electric light and the reTo-
luton of the first steam plow, and the law
of storms was written, and the American
Bible Society and American Tract So
ciety were born; and instead Of an audience
laughing down DR.. Carey for advocat-
ing foreign missions, as was done IN
Northampton. in England, in the last
century, now all denominations vlelng
with each other as to who shall go the
surthest aud the soonest into the darkest o.
the New Hebrides; /; and three hundred thou
sand souls have been bora to God in the
South Sea Islands, and Micronesia and Me-
lanesia and Malayan Polynesia have been
set in the crown Of Christ, and David Living
stone has unveiled Africa, and the last bolted
gate Of barbaric nations has swung wide
open to let the gospel in. What, I ask, with
thousand interrogation points uplifted,
Can be fit, an appropriate and sufficient
climax except it be world redeemed!
Yea, I believe it can be done if we get
prepared for it, because the whole air and
the whole heaven is full of willing help.
"Are they all m:nistering spirits sent forthH'
We make an awful mistake if we calculate
only on the forces we can see. The mightiest
army is in the air. My brethren, so much OF
the sel6shness and pride and rivalry and bad
motives get into our work here that we are
hindered. But the mighty souls that have
gone up to the flying armies Of the sky
have left all impcrfection behind them, and
these souls are with Us, and without fault
and with perfect natures are on our side.
You can not make me believe that after
toiling here for long years for the redemp-
ton of the world until from exhaustion
some Of them fall into their graves they
have ceased their Interest IN the stupendous
to decline their help. Ireaeus Prime! Hon
ored on earth but now glorifed in heaven,
have you forgotten the work toward which
you gave for more than half century your
gracious life, your loving voice, and your
matchless pen! No! Then come down and
help. Alexander Duff! Have you for
gotten the millions of India for whose saliva
ton you suffered in Hindoo jungle and
thundered on the missionary platforms No!
Then come down ard help. David Brainard. !.
Have you forgotten the aboriglnes to whom
you preached and for whom you prayed un-
til you could preach and pray no more,
lying down delirious amid the miasmas OF the
ywampl No! Then come down and help.
Moncrieff aud Freeman and Campbelll Have
you forgotten Lucknow and Cawnpore! No!
Then come down and help. 1rub oua OF M
eyes the st ,pidity and unbelief, and l, the
servant of those great Elishas in the gospel,
see the mountains all round about are full
of horses Of fire and chariots Of fire; and
they head this way Hovered over are we
by great clouds Of witnesses and helpers
/ Clouds of Apostles in the air led on by
Paul! Clouds of martyrs in the air led on
by Stephen! Clouds of prophets in the air
led on by Isaiah! Clouds of patriarchs in
the air led on by Abraham! Clouds OF
ancient warriors in the air led on by Joshua,
| and that Bible warrior at whose prayer
astronomy once halted over Ajalon, and
! Gibeou seems now to lift one hand toward
the setting sun OF this century and the other
hand toward the moon Of the last decade,
saying: ''Stand thou still till the church
| of Col gets the final victory"
Then let US take what remains OF this de-
cade to get ready for the final decade Of the
nineteenth century. You and may not
live to see that decade, or may not live to see
its close, but that shall not hinder me from
| declaring the magnificent possibility. con.
| fess that the mistake of my life has been, not
that I did not work hard-for I could not
have worked harder and lived, as God knows
and my family know-but that l have not
worked under the realization that the saliva
ton OF this world was nearby possibility.
But whether we see it, the beginning or the
closing Of that decade, is OF no Importance,
! if only that decade can get the coronation,
/ and then all decades shall kneel before this
enthroned deacde, and even the gray grown
! centuries will cast their gowns before 1t and
! it will be the most honored decade between
! the time when the morning stars sang to.
gether as the libretto of.worlds was opened.
| aud the time when the mighty angel, robed
in cloud and garlanded in rainbow, shall
with one foot on the sea and the other foot
on the land swear by Him that liveth for
| ever and ever that time shall be no longer.
| Alleluia! Amen!
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