The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-04-17

clonic disturbances as he has in our day.
And am l not right in saying that one OF the
characteristics of the time in which we live
is disaster cyclou!c:
But look at the disasters oceanic. Shall
call the roll of the dead shippingE 4e mon
sters Of the deep. answer when call your
names. Vile de Havre the Schiller, City OF
Boston, the Melville, the P. e,ident, the Cim-
oria. But why should / go on calling the
roll when none Of them answer. a:d the roll
is as long as the white scroll Of the Atlantic
surf at the Cape Hatteras breakers! II the
oceanic cables could report all the scattered
life and all the bleached bones that they
rub against IN the depths OF the ocean, what
a message of pathoS and tragedy Tor both
beaches, In one storm eighty fishermen
per.shed off the coast Of Newfoundland. and
whole fleets OF them OF the coast OF En-
gland. God help the poor fellows at sea.
and give high seats in Heaven to the Grace
DarlingS and the Ida lewises, and the
lifeboat men lowering around Good
wins Sands and the Skerries. The
sea, owning three-fourths OF the
earth, proposes to capture the other fourth,
and is bombardine the land all around the
earth. The moving of our hotels at Brighton
Beach backward one hundred yards from
where they once stood, i type of what is
going on all aroun1 the world and on every
coast. The Dead Sea rolls today where
ancient cities stood. Pillars Of temples that
stood on hills geologists now find three
quarters under the water or altogether sub
merged. The sea, having wrecked so many
merchantmen and iotillas. wants TO wreck
2Seoe nv
Look at the disasters epidemic, speak
not of the plague in the fourth century that
ravaged Europe and in Moscow and the
Neapolitan doninions and Marseilles
wrought such terror in the eighteenth cen.
tury, but / look at the yellow fevers. and
the cho.eras and the diphtheriaS. and
the scarlet feve:s, and the typhoids of our
own time Hear the waiIing Of Memphis,
and Shreveport, ana New Orleans. and
Jacksonville, of the last few decades
From Hurdwar, India, where eve'y twelfth
year three million devotees congregate,
the caravans brought the cholera and that
one disease slew eighteen thousand in eigh.
teen days in Bossorah. Twelve thousand IN
one summer slain by it in India, and
twenty-five thousand in Egypt. Disasters
epidemic Some Of the finest monuments
in Greenwood and Laure! Hill and Mount
Auburn oe to doctors who lost their life
battling with Southern epidemic.
But now turn the leaf in my Subjees,
and plant the white lilies and the palm
tree amid the nightshade and the myrtle
This age no more characterized by Won
ders Of disaster than by wonders OF bless
ing. Blessing Of longevity; the avcrc8e Of
human life rapidly increasing. Forty years
now worth four hundred years once. Now
can travel from Manitoba to New York in
three days and three nights. in other times
it would have taken three months. In
other words, three days and three nights
now are worth three months Of other days.
The average of human life practically
greater now than when Noah lived his $50
years and Methusaleh lived his go years.
Blessings of Intelligence: The Salmon +.
Chases and the Ahram Lincolns and the
Henry Wilson's Of the coming time will not
be required to learn 70 read by pine knot
lights, or seated on shoemaher's bench,
nor will the FergusonS have to study astron-
omy while watching the cattle. knowledge
rolls its tides along everl' poor mans door
and his children may go down and bathe in
them. If the philosophers Of the last CEN
tury were called up to recite with our boys
at the Polytechnic, or our girls at the
Packer, those old philosophers would be
sent down TO the foot Of the class because
they failed to answer the questions! Free
libraries in all the important towns and
cities Of the land. Historical alcoves and
poetical shelves and magazine tables for all
that desire to walk through them or sit
down at them. Blessings Of quick informa-
ton; Newspapers falling all around US thick
as leaves in September equinoctial. News
three days old, rancid and stale. We SEQ
the whole world twice day-through the
newspaper at the breakfast table, aud
through the newspaper at the tea-table,
with an ''extra" here and there between.
Blessing Of gospel pr>clamatlon: Do you
not know that nearly all the missionary So
cieties have been born in this century! and
nearly all the Bible societies, and nearly all
the great philanthropic movementss Asec-
reta,y Of one of the denominations said to
me the other day in Dakota: "You were
wrong when you said our denomination
averaged a new cNurch every day Of the
wear; t ey established nine in one week so
YOU are far within the truth" A clergyman
of our own denomination said: 81 have jus
been out ;tablishing mission stations" ]
tell YOU Christianity is on the march, while
infidelity is dwinilinS into imbaciiity. While
infide.ity /; thus dwindlng and dropping
down into imb.c:lity and indecency, the
wheel of Christianity is making about
thousand revolutions in a minute. All the
COPIES OF Shakespeare, and TenuySon,
and Disraeli and of any Of the ten most pop
ular writers Of the day, less in number than
the copies of the Bible going out from our
printing presses. A few years ago, in six
weeks, more than two million copies OF the
New Testament purchased, not given away,
but purchased because the world Will have
it.
More Christian men in high official posi-
ton day in Great Britain and in the United
States than ever before. Stop that falsehood
going through the newspapers-I have seen
it in twentv-that the judges of the Sapreme
Court Of the United States are intidels ex-
cept one b. personal acquaintance know
three of them to be oldfashioned evangelical
Chlistians, sitting at the holy sacrament OF
our Lord Jesus Christ, and l suppose that
the majority Of them are stauuch believers
in our Christian rel. gion. And then hear the
diving word Of Judge Black, man who
had been Attorney General Of the United
States, and who had been Secretary Of the
United States, NO stronger lawyer OF the
century than Judge Black-dying, his aged
wife kneel;ng by his side. and he utterlne
that sublime and tender prayer: 20 Lord
God, from whom l derived my existence
and in whom have always trusted, take my
spirit to Thyse.f and let Thy richest blessing
come down upon my Mary" The most popu-
lar book to-day is the Bible, ard the might
estins.ituticn is the church, and the greatest
name among the nations, and more honored