The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-22

hand on his pocket book. and dare not go
out nights What will the hundreds of
thousands of foreigners who como here to
live think Of Us? What disgust they
must have for the land Of their adopt on!
The only good thing about it is, many Of
! them can not understand the English lam
euage. But l suppose the German and
Italian and Swedish and French papers
translate it all AMI peddle out the Internal
stuff to their subscribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever stop
such food OF indecency. The Christian
religion will speak after while. The Bill
iingssate and low scandal through which
we wade every year or every folr years,
must be rebuked by that religion which
speaks from its two great mountains, from
the one mountain intouing the command,
:sThou shalt not bear false witness against
thy neishbor," and from the other mount
making p.ea for kindness and love and
blessing rather than cursIng. Yes, we are
going to have national religion.
There are two kinds Of national religion.
The one is supported by the State, and is
matter Of human politics, and it has great
patronage, and under it msn will struggle
for prominence without reference to quail
iticatioas and its archbishop is supported
by salary OF $4,000 a year, and there are
great cathedrals, with all the machinery
of music and canonicals, and room TO:
Thousand people, yet an audience Of fifty
people, or twenty people, or ten, or two.
We want no such religion IS that no
such national religion; but we want this
kind Of national religion-the vast ma
iority Of the people converted and evange'
l.zed, and then they will manage the secu.
! lar az We'll as the religious.
Doyou say this is impcacticah,e: No.
The time is coming just as certainly as
there is a God and that this is His book
and that He has the strength and the hon
esty to fulfil His promises One OF the
ancient emperors used to pride himself on
performing that which his counselors said
was impossible, and have to tell. you TO-
day that mans impossibles are Gods
easies. "Hath He said and shall He not
do it? Hath He commanded, and will He
not bring it to pass!" The Christian re-
Ii. zion is coming TO take posses
sion of every ballot-box OF every
school house of every home, Q? every
valley, Of every mountain, Of every acre
Of our nations al domain. This nation, not
withstanding all the evil influences that
are trying 10 destroy it, is going to live.
Never snce according to John Milton,
when sSatan was hurled headlong flaming
from the ethereal skies in hidsous ruin
and combustion down." have the powers
of darkness been so determined to win this
continent as they are now. What jewel
it is-a jewel carved in relief, the cameo Of
this planet! On one side ofus the Atlantic
ocean, dividing us from the worn out gov
ernments Of Europe. On the other side
the Pacific ocean, dividing US from the
superlitions Of Asia. On the north of Us
the Arctic sea, which is the gymnasium in
which the explorers and navigators de-
-elop theic courage. a continent 10, 500
miles long, 1900 00Jsquare ,,,,-ess. ,,,i,les en- oil
of it but ebout oae-seYenth capable OF rich
| cultivation. One hundred millions OF
| population on this continent Of North and
| South America-one hundred millions,
and room for many millions more. AZ
| precious woods, and all grains an i,fruits,
The Appalachian range the backbone. aad
the rivers the ganglia carrying life all
through and out to the extremities.
Isthmus of Darien, the narrow waist
OF giant continent, all to be under one
government, and all Free and all Chris
tian, and the scene Of Christ's personal
| reign on earth if, according to the expec-
| tation of many good people, he shall at
last set up his th1 one in this world. Who
shall have this hemisphere, Christ or Sa-
| tan? Who shall have the shores Of her in
land, seas, the silver OF her Nevadas, the
T gold of her Coloralos, the telescopes Of
| her observatories, the brain of he: uni
versities. the wheat OF her prairies, the
rice Of her savannas, the two great ocean
beaches-the one reaching from Baffin's
bay to Terra del Fuego. and the other
from Behring straits to Cape Horn-and
all the moral and tempo al and spiritual
and everlasting interests OF population
vast bey ond all hum1n computation? Who
shall! have the hemisphere? You and /
will decide that or help to decide it, by
| conscientious vote. by earnest prayer, by
maintenance of Christian insttu tioas, by
support of great philanth.opies, by put
ting body, mind aud soul on the right
side OF all moral, reli sious an national
movements.
All! lit will. not be long before it will not
make any difference to youior to me what
becomes OF this Continent so far'as earth
| " comfort is concerssed. All we want OF
| it will be seven feet by three, anu 1ana4 Tnsse
will take in the largest and there will be
room and to spare. That is all of this
country we will need very soon-the
youngest Of US But we have an anxiety
about the welfare and the happiness OF
the generations that are coming on, and
! it will be a granl thing if, when the
archangeps tcumpet sounds, VIC find thai
our sepulchcr. ike the one Joseph OF Ari-
mathea provided for Christ, is in the
midst or'a garden.
l -or cole Ie,io1 SorT1.