The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-29

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the farm come in and say: ''1s it possloIef
Why, he doesn't look natural, does he! IS
that the fair brow we used to knowf IS
that the healthy cheek we used to know! IL
can't be possible that is he" The parents
stand looking at the cash in the forehead
from which the life oozed out, and they Int
their hands and say: 80 my son Absalom,
nv son, my son Absalom; would God had
died for thee, o Absalom, my son, my son!'
Lorenzo de Medici was very sick, and some
Of his superstitious friends thought II they
could dissolve certain number Of pearls IN
a cup and then hewould drink them 1t would
cure him Of the disease. So they went
around, and they gathered up all the beautl-
full pearls they could find, and they dis
solved them in cup, and the sick man
drank them. o, it was an expensive
draught But tell you Of a more expensive
draught than that. Drunkenness puts into
it's cup the pearl Of physical health, the
pearl of domestic happiness, the pearl OF
responsibility, the pearl Of Christian hope,
the pearl Of an everlasting heaven, and
presses it to the hot lips.
tell you the dramshop is the gate OF hell.
The trouble is, they do not put up the right
kind of sign. They have great many
different kinds Of signs now on places where
strong drink is sold. One is called the res
tsurant,'' and another is called the "sa-
Loom" and another is called the 'hotel,
and another is called the "wine cellar,
and another is called the sample room"
What name to give one of those places!
A sample roomp' I saw a man on the
steps of one Of those sample rooms" the
a., 4 coiI tN
suppose that is sampled" tell you II IS
the gate Of hell.
''O," says some man, II am kind, am
indulgent to my family, am right in many
respects, am generous, and l have TOO
grand and generous moral nature to be
thrown in that way" Let me say that the
persons who are in the most peril have the
largest hearts, the best education, the bright
est prospects. This sin chooses the latest
lambs for it's sacrifice. The brightest gar
lands are by this carbuncled hand Of drunk
enness torn off the brow Of the poet and
orator. Charles Lamb, answer! Thomas
Hood, answer! Sheridan, the English orator,
answer! Edgar A. Poe, answer! Junius
Brutus Booth, answer!
o, come and look over into it while draw
off the cover-hang over itand look down IN
TO it, and see the seething, boiling, loath-
some, smoking, agoniEins, blasphemlns hell
of the drunkard. Young man, be master OF
your appetites and passions. There are hum
dreds-might 7 not say thousands:-of
young men in this house this m m
ias-young men Of fair prospects. :.
your trust in the Lord God and all is -
But you will be tempted.
you may this ~SaaUnent be addressed
oSatsSe oSa drst Sabbath Of your coming to the
great city, and give you this brotherly
counsel speak not in perfunctory way
I speak as an older brother talks to ayounger
brother put my hand on your shoulder
this day and commend you to Jesus Christ,
who Himself was young man and died
while vet q young man, and has sympathy
for all young men. o, be master, by. the
grace of God, Of your appetiies and pas
sions.
I close with peroraiop. Ministers and
speakers are very apt to close with perora-
ton, and they generally roll up some grand
i-,asary to express what they have 20 say
I close wltn d peroratlon naighticr. tban woo
ever uttered by mere human lips. Two
quotations. The first is this: ''Who
hath woe? who hath babbling? who
hath wounds without cause! They that
tarry long at the wine, they that so to seei
mixed wine. Look not upon the wine when
it is red, when it moveth itself Alright in the
cup, for at the last it biteth like serpent
and stingeth like an adder" This is the
ouner quouaron. MAKE up your mind as to
which is the more impressive. think the
last is the mightier: ''Reioice, O young man.
in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee
in the days of thy youth, and walk thou in
the sight of thine own eyes; but know thou
that for all these things God will bring thee
into iudgment.M