The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-08
WASHINGTON AND HARRISON.
Bishop Eowe's Remarkable Centennial
Address at st. Philips Church, Charles

Address at St. Philips Church, Charles
ton.
CHARLESTON, April 3o.-Ispecial to
The Register. centennial day was ob.
served here by generous display OF
bunting and a general suspension OF
business. Religious services We're held
in all the Catholic Churches and IN TWO
of the Episcopal Churches.
\ decided sensation was caused oS
sermon delivered at St. Philips Church
by Bishop Howe. In the course Of his
sermon he used the following remark
able language:
II presume, my friends, that we are
here to. day in obedience to that first les
sou which, as churchmen, we learned IN
our catechiSm, TO honor and obey the
civil authority.
"a century ago. after his Inaugural
ton, General Washington walked down
to join il: prayer and hear the lie Deum
sung at ST. Paul'S Church. New York.
Washington was elected President and
was first in the hearts of his country
men, and all hailed his access to his
high office with joy and thanksgiving.
How different the aspect Of things to-
dav. If l can believe what | have read
in the daily papers, without meaning
any disreSpect to the present lncum-
bent. President Harrison; he is the
choice of party and not OF the people.
Washington was chosen with one con-
sent. | cannot but think that the pres
ent incumbent has been chosen by the
power of money.
The Bible tells Us to be thankful IN
all things, not for all things. st. Paul
and Silas sung praises to Goa IN the
prison at midnight, scourged and With
their feet set in the stocks. Paul ano
Silas did not thank God for the stocks
and for the scourges; but they thanked
God in and under the stock. So our
thanksgiving must be pitched on MINOR
kew, when we remember the late war
and what we have passed through.
II remember, while preaching IN
this pulpit, shell exploding IN
the neighboriug street. That war
has left US as legacy one
of the greatest problems any nation
of this world ever had to SoNe. Hence
| repeat, though we must be thankful
under all things, our thanktulness must
be again on that minor key. Clrcum-
stances, or as it is phrascd generally, our
environment, expresses the WILL OF God,
and we bow to His decision. We thank
Him for the preservation of life and
property, and whist the love of country
may have become dimmed in our hearts,
we pray it may arise in the hearts OF our
children. To be without love of coun-
try is next to being without God. May
He enable our children, and our chill
dren's children, to meet the grave future
that is before them"
Bishop Howe is native Of Vermont,
and not of South Carolina. He came
South early in life and has been Bishop
of this diocese for twelve years.
He has been fighting for the rights OF
the colored men in the Diocesan Conven-
ton for several years, and it was his
ruling in the convention of 1856 that
caused the secession of many Of the par
isheS.
Those Democrats who are looking to
President Harrison to appoint them to
Office feel that the Bishop has not helped
them out to any considerable extent
and are somewhat loud in their denun-
citation of his sermon. There are other
people, however, who think that it
might be as well for the Democratic
party that there should be no dicserlng
with the enemy, and that the President,
if he desires to conciliate the South,
might do so very consistently by keeping
the present officials in Office, provided
they nave discharged their duties hon
estly and eficiently.-fne idea OF build
ing up of new Republican party IN the
South by buying up discontented and
sore-head Democrats can hardly meet
with much success, at least in Carolina.