The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-23

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not think that the greedy, wide open jaws
of the grave ought to be satisfied if filed by
natural causes with hundreds of corpses a
year, Do you not think we can do some
thing better with men than to dash their life
| out against easements, or blow them into
! fragments by torpedos, or send them out
into the world where they need all their
faculties, footless, armless, eyelesS2 Do
You not think that women might be ap.
pointed to an easier place than the edge of a
grave trench to wiring their pale hands and
weep out their eyesight in widowhood and
childlessness! Why, the last glory has
| gone out Of war.
There was time when it demanded that
| quality which we all admire-namely, cour-
age-for man had to stand at the hilt OF
his sword when the point pierced the foe,
and while he was Staying another the other
might slay him; or it was bayonet charge.
| But now it is cool and deliberate mur-
| der, and clear out at sea bombshel
| can be hurled miles away into
city, or while thousands of private soldiers,
| who have no interest in the contest,
for they were conscripted, are losing their
| lives, their general may sit smoking one of
| the best Havana cigars after dinner Of
lu1ll Ou UOtlSl- IL LID OC NCll CuOOSu 1OL
graduating students of colleges on COM
mencement day to crate about the poetry
of war, but do not talk about the
poetry of war to the men of the
Federal or Confederate armies who
were at the front, or to some Of US who,
as members of the Christian Commission,
saw the CHASTITY hospitals at Antietam and
Hagerstown All! you may worship the
7 or T ~, ha oS of
who brought again from the dead our Lord
Jesus Christ, that great Shepherd of the
Sheep
War is an accursed monster. and it was
born in the lowest cavern Of perdition, and
pray that it may speedily descend TO the
place from which it arose, its last sword and
shield and mueket rattling on the bottom of
the red hot mari of nell. Let there be called
a peace convention for 1892, with delegates
sent by all the decent governments of
Christendom, and while they are in session,
if you should some night 60 out and look
into the sky above the exposition buildings,
YOU may find that the old gallery of crystal,
that was taken down after the Bethlehem
anthem of eighteen centuries ago was sung
out, is rebuilt again in the clouds, and the
| same angelic singers are returned with the
SAINT uUteLlOS VI w SudAg "
God in the highest, and on earth peace, good
will to men,"
Again suggest in regard to the worlds
fair that, while appropriate places are pre-
pared for all foreign exhibits, we make no
room for the importation of foreign vices.
America has enough of its own, and we
| need no new installments of that kind.
| worlds fair will bring all kinds of peo-
prepare to welcome. and the bad we must
prepare to shun. The attempt will again
be made in 1892, as in 1876, to break
| up our American Sab baths. The at
| tempt was made at the Philadelphia
| Centennial, but was defeated. The Ameri-
can Sabbath is the best kept Sabbath on
earth We do n. e'want it broken down,
| and substitutednns the place thereof the
Brussels Sabbath, the Vienna Sabbath, the
ST. Petersburg Sabbath or any of the for
eign Sabbaths, which are no Sabbaths at
all. think the Lord is more than gener-
Gus in asking only ffty-two days out Of the
365 for his service. You let the Sabbath go
and with it will go Your Bible, and after
that your liberties, and your children or
your grandchildren will be here in America
| .lnder despotism as bad as in those lands
| and frolic
Among those who come there will be, as
at other expositions, lordly people who will
| bring their vices with them. Ameng the
dukes and duchesses and princes and prin-
cesses of other lands are some Of the best
men and women Of all the earth. Remem-
Der Earl of Kintore, Lord Cairns and
! Lord Shaftesbury But there is snob-
c;ety that runs after grandee, a duke,
| lord, or a prince, though he may be walk
| ing lazaretto and his breath plague. 1t
! makes the fortune of some of our queens Of
society to dance one cotillion with one of
| these princely lepers. Some people can not
| get their hat off quick enough when they
see such foreign lord approaching, and
they do not care for the mire into which
| they drop their knees as they bow to wor-
| ship. Let no splendor of pedigree or any
pomp and paraphernalia of circumstances
| make him attractive. There is only one set
of Ten Commandments that ever heard OF,
] and no class of men or women in all the
world are excused from obedience to those
| laws written by finger Of lightning on the
! granite surface of Mount Sinai Surely we
! have enough American vices without max
| ing any drafts upon European vice for 1S92.
By this sermon l would have the nation
made aware of its opportunity and get
ready to improve it, and Of some perils, and
| get ready to combat them. I rejoice to
| believe that the advantages will overtop
| every thing in the worlds fair What an
| introduction to each other Of communities,
| of States, Of republics, OF empires, OF zones,
| of hemispheres! What doors of informa.
| ton will be swung wide open for the boys
| and girls now on the threshold! What
| national and international education! What
ccowning of industry with sheaves of grain,
and what imperial robing of her with en-
! broidered fabrics! What scientific appara-
tus! What telescopes for the inhnitude
above and microscopes for the inhnitude
! beneath, and instruments to put nature to
| the torture until she tells her last secret!
| What display Of the magnifcence of the
| God who has grown enough wheat to make
a loaf Of good bread large enough for the
! human race and enough cotton to stocking
every foot, and enough timber to shelter
oyerv head, making it manifest that it's
not Gods fault, but either mans oppression
| or rindolence or dissipation if there be any
| without supply.
Under the arches of the chief building Of
that exposition let Capital and Labor, too
long estranged, at last be married, each
taking the hand of each in pledge OF eternal
fidelity, while representatives Of all nations
stand round rejoicing at the nuptlals and
saying: What God hath Joined together
let not man put asunder." Then shall the
threnody of the needle woman no longer be
heard
Work, work, work.
Till the brain begins to swim;
| Work. work. work.
| Till the eyes are heavy and dim.
Seam and gusset and band,
Band and gnsset and seam.
| Till over the buttons fall asleep,
! And sew them on in q dream.
0, Christian America. Make ready Tor
the grandcst exposition ever seen under the
sun! Have Bibles enough bound. Have
churches enough established, Have scien-