The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-02


sickness she may tell all the crets OF her
lifetime but She will not tell that
Not until the books of eternity are
opened on the thrones OF luosmea5
will ever be known what she mas SUI,
fered. o, ye who are twisting gariano
for the victor, put it on that pale prov!
When she Is dead the neishbjrs Will oes
linen to make her shroud, and sne VIII OE
carried out in plain box with no silver
plate to tell her years, for she had hveo
thousand years of trial and anguish. Inc
gamblers and swind,ers who destroyed her
husband will not come to her funeral. one
carriage to carry the orphans ana the TWO
Christian women who presided over the
obseouies. But there is a flash, and the
opening of celestial door, ard a shou9:
81 lift up your head, ye everlasting gate.
and let her come inI' And Christ WILL
step forth ana say: eCome IN! ye
..cs-va-rrVu NC TTorIueu WIN
me in Heaven What is the highest throne
in Heaven2 You say: 'The throne Of the
Lord God Almighty and the Lamb" No
doubt about it. What is the next highest
throne in Heavena While speak, it seems
to me that il will be the throne Of the
drunkard's wife, if she with cheerful pa
tience endured all her earthly torture. lie
roes and heroines.
find also in this roll the heroes Of Chris
tan charity. We all admire the George
Peabodys and the James LenoXes OF the
earth, who give tens and hundreds OF thou
sands of dollars to good objects.
But am speaking this morning Of those
who, out of their pinched poverty, help
others-of sach men as those Christian
missionaries at the West, who are living on
$3.50 year that they may proclaim Christ
to the people, one Of them, writing to the
secretary in New York, saying: Il thank
YOU for that S25 Until yesterday we have
had no meat in our house for three months
We have suffered terribly. Ny children
have no shoes this winter" And OF those
people who have only half loaf OF bread,
but give piece Of it to others who are hun
grier; and Of those who have only scut-
tie of coal, bat help others to fuel; and G.
those who have only q dollar IN their
pockets. and give twenty-five cents to some
body else; ana of"that father who wears
shabby coat, and Of that mother who wears
q faded dress, that their children may be
well apparele6. You call them paupers, Or
raeamuffins, or emigrants. I call them
heroes and heroines You and l may not
know where they live, or what their name
is. God knows, and they have more angels
lowering over them than you ;sAa | have,
and they will have higher seat ID Heaven.
They may have only cup Of cold water
to give poor traveller, or may have only
picked splinter frc-: under the nail OF
child's finger, or haze put only two mites
into the treasury, but the Lord knows them.
Considering what they had, they did more
than we had ever done, and their faded
dress will become q white robe, and tle
small room will be an eternal manson. ano
the old hat will be a coronet OF victory,
and all the applause of eartn, ana 81.
the shouting Of heaven will be drowned
out when God rises up to give His reward
to those humble workers in Bis kirSoon,
and to saw to them: ''Wen done, gooe
and faithful servant" You have all seen or
heard Of the ruin Of Melrosc Abbey. sup
pose in some respects it is the most exquisite
ruin on earth. And yet, looking at 1t was
not so impressed-you may set 1t down to
bad taste-but was not so. deeply stirred
as 7 was at q tombstone at the foot OF that
abbey-tue tombstone placed by Waiter
Scott over the grave OF an old man VINO hao
served him for good many years IN MS
touse-the inscription most significant. and
I DEFY any man TO stand there and read II
without tears coming into his eyes-the ep-
itaph: s:Well done. good and faithful serV-
anti Oh! when cur work is over, Will 1t be
found that because Of any thing we have
done for God, or the church, or suffering
humanity, that such an inscription is appro'
pirate for us2 God grant 1t.
Who are those who were bravest and de-
served the greatest uonument-Lord CLAW
erhouse and his burly soldiers, or Jonn
Brown, the Edinburgh carrier, and his
wife? Mr.. Atkins, the prosecuted minister
Of Jesus Christ in Scotland, was secreted oy
John Brown and his wife, and Clayerhouse
rode up one day with his armed men, and
shouted in front of the house. John Browns
little girl came out He said to her: "Well,
miss. is Mr.. Atkins here?" She made no
answer. for she could not betray the minis
ter of the gospel. sHa" Claverhouse said,
ssthen YOU are. chip Of the old block, are
you2 have something in my pocket Tor
YOU. It is nosegay. Some people call 1t
thumbscrew. but call it noseSay." And
he got off his horse, and he put II on tne
little girls hand, and began to turn it until
the bones cracked, and she cried. He sald:
"Doo't cry, don't cry; this isn't thumb
screw; this is nosesay." And they heard
the chil6's cry, and the father and the
mother came out and Claverhouse said,
ssEa! It seems that you three have laid your
holy heads together, determined to die like
all the rest of your hypocritical, canting,
sniyeling crew; rather than giye.up good
Mr.. Atkins, you would die. l have tele-
scope with me that will improve your
yision,'' and he pulled out pistol. ''Now,"
he said, ssyou old agmatical, lest you should
~~al =. <I-s- ~eI1 .--erAi.s of E-otland.
and for the honor and safety Of the king, to
say nothing Of the glory of God and the
good Of our souls, I will proceed simply and
in the neatest and most stexpeditic style pos
sible to blow your brains out" John Brown
fellupou his knees and began topray. "Ah!"
said Claverhouse, "look out, If you are
going TO pray; steer clear Of the king, the
council, and Richard Cameron" 70
Lord" said John Brown, ''since it seems to
he Thy will that should leave this world
for a world where can love Thee better and
serve Thee more, put this poor. widow
woman and these helpless, fatherless, chill
dren into Thy hands. We have been to-
gether in peace good while, but now we
must look forth to better meeting in
Heaven, and as for these poor creatures,
blindfolded and infatuated, that stand be-
fore me, convert them before it be too late,
and may they who have sat in Judgment IN
this lonely place on this blessed morning
upon me, poor, defenseless fellow Great
ure-may they, in the last Judgment find
that mercy which they have refused me,
Thy most unworthy but faithful servant.
Amen" He rose up and said, Isabel, the
hour has come of which Snnkn. TO Norl ON