The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-02

+ Hfty there will be thousands Of
- Sons with whom you in this world never
exchanged one word who will rise uD and
. call YOU blessed; and there will be thou
sand fingers pointing at you in Heaven,
saying: THAT is the man, that is the wo-
man, ,rho helped me when was hungry.
and sick, and wandering, and lost and
heart broken. That is the man, that is the
woman and the blessing will come down
upon you as Christ shall say: II was
hungry and We fed me, 1 was naked and We
clothed mel was sick and in prison and
We visited me-: inasmuch as We did it to
these poor waits of the street. ye did it to
me-"
Again, the street impresses me with the
fact that all classes and conditions Of so
ciety must commingle. We sometimes cul-
ture wicked exclusiveness. Intellect de-
spises ignorance. Refinement will have
nothing to do with boorishness. Gloves hate
the sunburned hands and the high forehead
despises the fat head; and the trim hedge
row will have othing to do with the wild
copswood, and Athens hates Nazareth. This
ought not to be so. The astronomer must
come down from his starry revelry and help
US in our navigation. The surgeon must
come away from his study Of the human or
eanism and set our broken bones. The
chemist must come away from his lab
oratory, where he has been studying an
alysis and synthesis, and help US to un
derstand the nature Of the soils. l bless God
that all classes of people are compelled to
meet on the street. The glittering coach
wheel clashes against the scavenSer's cart
Fine robes run against the peddler's pack
Robust health meets wan sickness Honesty
confronts fraud. Every class of people
meets every other class. Independence and
modesty, pride and humility, purity and
beastliness, frankness and hypocrisy, meet
Ing on the same block, IN the SAINT
street. in the same city. Oh! that is what
Solomon meant when he said: 1.-The rich
and the poor meet together; the Lor6 is the
maker Of them all" l like this democratic
principle of the gospel Of Jesus Christ which
recognizes the fact that we stand before
God on one and the same platform. Do no,
take on any airs; whatever position you
have gained in society, you are nothing but
man, born Of the same parent, regener-
ated by the same spirit, cleansed by the
same blood, to lie down in the same dust, tr
get up in the same resurrection. 1t Is high
time that we all acknowledged not only the
satherhood Of God, but the brotherhood OF
man
Again, the street impresses me with rNe
fact that it is very hard thing for man to
keep his heart right and to get to Heaven.
Infinite temptations spring upon US from
these places of public concourse. Amid 50
much afauence how much temptation to
covetousness, and to oe discontented with
Ia lot mi 0nO0rtnNl-
ties for overreaching, what temptation to
extortion. Amid so many saloons Of strong
drink. what aIlurement to dissipation. In
the maelstroms of the street, how many
make quick and eternal shipwreck. II
nan-of-var comes back from battle, and
fs towed into the navy yard, we go down to
look at the splirtered spars and count the
bullet holes, and look with patriotic admira
ton on the flag that foated in victory from
the masthead. But that man IS more OF a