The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-25
THE DAY is AT. HAND.
Sermon by Rev. T. De Witt Tai
mage, D. D.
The World About to See the Dawn OF
Better TimeS-The Sunrise OF Nor
ality - Arbitration Taking the
Place of War, and Civil
ization the Place of
Barbarism.


Barbarism.
Upon his return home recently, Rev. DR.:
Talmage was welcomed by an overfowing
congregation in the Brooklyn Tabernacle.
The subject Of his discourse was: THE
Sunrise" and his text: 1.-The day is at
hand" Following is the sermon:
Back from the mountains and the seaside,
and the springs, and the farmhouse, your
cheek bronzed and your spirit lighted, l hail
you home again with the words Of Gehazl
to the Shunamite: us it well with thee?
is it well with thy husband? is it well with
the child!'' On some faces see the mark
of recent grief, but all along the track OF
tears see the story of resurrection and re-
union when all tears are done; the deep
blowing of the keel, followed by the fash OF
the phosphoresence.
Nos that have asked you in regard to
your welfare, you naturally ask how am.
Very well, thank you. Whether it was the
bracing air of the Colorado mountains,
twelve thousand feet above the level OF the
sea, or the tonic atmosphere of the Pacific
Coast, or bath in the surf of. Long Island
beach, or whether it is the Joy Of standing
Tht this great group ofwarnl- hearted friends,
or whether it is new appreciation of-the
goodness o. God can not tell. Isimply know
am grandly and Slo-iously and inexpressi-
bly, happy II was said that John Mohat,
the great Methodist preacher, occasionally
got fast in his sermon, and to eNtrlcate him.
self would cry "Halleluiah.'- am in nc
such predicament to-day, but arr full OF
the same rhapsodic ejaculation. Starting
out this morning on 4 new ecclesiastical
year, / want to give You the key note OF my
next twelve months ministry. want to
set it the tune of Antioch, Ariel and Coro-
nation Some time ago we had new stop
put in this organ-a new trumpet stop-and
I want to put new trumpet stop into my
sermons.
In all our Christian work you and want
more of the element of gladness. That
man has no right to say that Christ never
laughed Do you suppose thas he was glum
at the wedding in Cana of Galilees Do you
suppose Christ was unresponslve when
the children clambered over His knee and
shoulder at His own invitations Do you
suppose that the evangelist meant nothing
when he said of Christ: ''He reioiced in
spirit?" Do you believe that the Divine
SutISG WIZ pOOIS CuO "SaNC4 Nv u SAAS
rocks at Vernal Falls, Yosemite, does not
believe in the sparkle and gallop and tunul.
tuous Joy and rushing raptures Of human
life? believe not caly that the morning
laughs, and that the mountains laugh, and
that the seas laugh, and that the cascades
laugh, but that Christ laughed. Moreover,
take laugh and a tear into an alembic, and
assay them, and test them, and analyze
g. y, 80
the pure gold Of religion in a laugh as in
tear. Deep spiritual Joy always shows
itself in facial illumination. John Wesley
said he was sure Of good religious i'm
preston being produced because of what he
calls the great laughter he saw among the
people. Goddess merriment is blasphemy
anywhere, but expression Of Christian JOY
is appropriate everywhere.
Moreover, the outlook of the world ought
to stir US to gladness. Astronomers recent
~ disturbed many people by telling them
that there is danger of stellar collision. We
have been told through the papers by these
astronomers that there are worlds coming
very near together, and that we shall have
plaques and wars and tumults and perhaps
the worlds destruction. Do not be scared.
II you have ever stood at railroad center,
where ten or twenty or thirty rail tracks
cross each other, and seen that by the
movement Of the switch one or two inches
the train shoots this way and that, without
colliding, then you may understand how
fifty worlds may come within an inch Of
disaster, and that inch be as good as
million miles. If a human switchtender
shoot the trains this way and that without
harm, can not the hand that for thousands
Of years has upheld the universe keep our
little world out Of harms way? Christian
geologists tell us that this world was
millions Of years in building. Well, now, I
do not think God would take millions Of
years to build house which was to last
only 5000 years. There is nothing in the
world or outside the world. terrestrial or
astronomical, to excite dismay. Iwish that
some stout gospel breeze might scatter all
the malaria of human foreboding. The sun
rose this morning at about half past five,
and think that is just about the hour in
the worlds history. 1.-The day is at hand"
The first ray of the dawn see in the
gradual substitution Of diplomatic skill for
human butchery. Within the last twenty
five years there have been international
differences which would have brought a
shock Of arms in any other day, but which
were peacefully adjusted, the pen taking
the place of the sword.
That Alabama question in any other age
ot the world would have caused war be-
tween the United States and England. How
was it settled! By men-of-war of the Mar
rows, or off the Merseys By the Gulf
Stream of the ocean crossed by gulf
stream Of human blood? BY the pathway of
nations incarnadined? No. A few wise men
90 into quiet room at Geneva, talk the
matter over, and telegraph to Washington
and to London: '.All settled" Peace.
Peace. England pays to the United States
the amount awarded-pays really more than
she ought to have paid. But still, all that
Alabama brol is settled-settled forever.
Arbitration instead Of battle
So the quarrel eight or nine years ago about
the Canadian fisheries in any other age
would have caused war between the United
States and England. England said: Pay
me for the invasion OF my Canadian fish
cries" The United States said: II will not
pay anything" Well, the two nations said:
81 guess we had better leave the whole mat
ter to a commission. The commission is ap-
pointed, and the commission examines the
affair, and the commission reports, and pay
we ought, pay we must, ana pay we 90. Not
a pound of powder burned, not cartridge
, bitten OF, no one hurt so much as by the
scratch Of pin. Arbitration instead Of
battle
;. So the Samoan controversy in any other
sce would have brought Germany and the
United States into bloody collision. But all
is settled. Arbitration instead Of battle
/: France will never again, think, through
peccadillo Of ambassador, orlng on oa1tte
with other nations. She sees that Cod IN
r,nisbmeut of Sedan, blotted out the French
empire, and the only aspirant for that
throne who had any right OF expectation
dies in war that has not even the dignity
of being respectable. What is that blush
on the cheek Of England to-days What IS
the leaf that England would like to tear out
of her history: The Zulu war Down
with the sword and up with the treaty.
We in this country might better nave