The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-15

real poor children. Give me class of tho
back street" That l say,-is,. beautiful.
That is -trirmphant sadness. AT three,
o'clock this afternoon in beautiful parlor
in Philadelphia parlor pictured and stat
uettsd-there will be from ten to twenty
destitute children Of the street. 1t has been
so every Sabbath afternoon at threes5o'clock
for many years. These destitute children
receive religious instruction, concluding
With cakes and dSsapdsiches. Roseedo' l
know that that has been going on for many
years2 knew it in this way:
That was tue first home in Philadelphia
where was called to comfort great sor-
row. They had splendid boy and he had
been drowned at Long Branch. The father
and mother almost iIolizcd the boy, and
the sob and shrek of that father anu
mother as they. hung over the colin re-
sound in my ears to-day. There seemed to
be mo useSof praying, for when l knelt
down to pray. the outcry in the room
drowned out all the pray. But the Lord COM
forted that sorrow. They did not forget
their trouble. If you should go on the snow
lest winter afternoon into Laurel Hill You
would find a monument with the word "Wal-
ter inscribed upon it. and wreath OF fresh
flowers around the rame. l Ithinkthere has
not been an hour all these years, winter or
summer, when there was not:a wreath OF
fresh flowers around Walters name. But
the Christian mother who sendSShose flowers
there having no child left, Sabbath after
moons mothers ten or twenty of the lost ones
of the street. That is beautiful. That IS
what call ousy and triumphant sadness.
Here is a man who has lost his property. He
does notgo to hard drinking. He does not
destroy his'owu life. He comes and says:
"Earness me for Christian work. My
moneys gone. have 10 treasures on Garth.
I nt;treasures in heaven. have voice
and hear; 70 serve Goa" You say that
that man has failed. He has not faiied-he
has triuInphed. ., I.wish could persuade.
all the people who have any kind Of trouble
never to give up. wish they would look at
the midnight rider Of the text, and that tho
four hoofs Of that beast on which Nehemiah
rode might cut TO pieces all yourd:scouragc-
ments, and hardships and trials. Give up!
Who is going TO gi.e up, when on the
bosom of God he can have all his troubles
hushcda Give up! Never think OF giving
up Are YOU borne down with poverty! y
little ctAld%was-fouE holding ner. dead
mothers hand hthe darkness Ola tenement
house and some one coming in, the little
girl Ii oked up. while holding her dead
mothers hand, ana said: 20. | do wish
that God had made more light for poor
folks" Ny dear, God will be your light,
God will be your shelter. God will be Your
home Are you borne down with the be-
reavements of life! Isthe house lonely now
that the child is gone? Do not give up
Think Of what the old sexton said when
the minister asked him why he put so
much care on the little graves in the
ce,netery-so much more care than on tae
larger graves, and the old sexton said. ''Slr,
YOU know that of such is tie Kingdom Of
II eaven,' and think the Saviour is pleased
when He sees so much white clover growing
around these little graves" But when the
minister pressed the Old sexton for more
satisfactory answer, the old sexton SAID,
''Sir, about these larger graves. don't know
who are the Lords saints and who are not;
but you know, sir, it is clean different with
the BARNS" O., if YOU have had
that keen, tender, indescribable sor-
row that comes from the loss Of a
child, do not give up. The old sexton was
right. 1t is all we'll with the BARNS. Or, il
YOU have silned, ii yoa have sinned, griev-
ously-sinned Until YOU have been cast out
by the church, sinned until you have been
cast out by society, do not give up. Perhaps
there may he - this house one that could
truthfully utter the lamentation ofanotEer:
Once was as pure as the snow, but l I, -
Fell liksa snowflake from Heaven to hcll-I
Fell, to be trampled as filth in the street
Fell. to be scofted Of. spit on, and beat
Praying cursing. wishing to die.
Selling my soul to whoever would buy.
Dealing in shame for morsel OF bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead:
onot.give up. One,like unto the.Son19
COD comesStosiyo o,isto.day, saying: @,'sGo,
and sin no rore,' while he cries out to
your assailants: Let him that is without
sin cast the first stone at her" Oh! there
is no reason why any one. in this house, by
reason:o of ANY trouble or sin, should give
up. Are you a foreigner, and in strange
land? Nehemiah was an exile. Are you
penniless? Nehemiah was poor. Are you
homesiels2 Nehemiah was homesick! Are
YOU broken hearted! Nehemiah. was
broken-hearted But Just see him in the
text, riding along the sacrileged grave Of his
father and by the dragon well, and through
the fish gate, and by the kings pool,
in and out, il and out, the moonlight falling
On the broken masonry, which throws d
long shadow at which theLorsc shies. and
at the same time that moonlight kindlinS
up the features Of this man till YOU see not
only the mark of sad reminiscence, bpt:tho
courage, the hope, the enthusiasm Of man
who knows that Jerusalem Will be rebuild
eG. Ipick you up to-day out Of your sins
and out of your sorrow, and l put you
against the warm heart Of Christ ''Tho
eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath
are the everlasting arms"