The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-23
CHRISTIAN WORKERS
&skeas6 70 the CONSULTATIONS IS
tho Eeavens.
q Tribute TO the Ehe1sands OK Balieve-'
"a the DIvinisy-Dr Talnosse Preaohes
at Great Outdoor Meeting
In winfield. Kan.

Sunday at great outdoor meeting in Win
SeA, Kan, to an immense audience. The
text wss: ''TSey that turn many to right
eeasness shall shine as the stars for ever
aa6 ever."-Daniel xii 8; and the subject:
s'The Conssellstions OF the Redeemed"
The eloquent Brooklyn divine spoke as 1ol-
lows:
= EYery-aanh has Thousand roots and
thousand branches. his roots reach down
through all the earth; his branches spread
through all the heavens. Ee speaks with
voice, with eye, with hand, with foot. BIS
silence often IS thunder, and his life is an
anthem or doxology. There Is nc such
thing as negative influence. We are all
positsye IN the place we occupy, making the
world better or making it worse, on the
Lords side or on the DEVILS, making up
reasors for our bisssedness or Danish
meat; and we have already done
. mighty work in peopling Heaven or
hall Ihear people tell Of what they are
going 30 do. a man who has burned down
city might as well talk Of some evil that
he expects 10 do, or man who has saved
"a empire might as well talk Of some good
aaat no expects to do. By the force Of your
evil influence you have already consumed
in6nite values or you have, by the power Of
right influence, won whole kingdoms for
Sod.
It would be absurd for me to stand here,
and by elaborate argument, prove that the
world Is OF the track. You might IS well
stand at the feot Of an embankment, amid
ths wreck OF capsizeo rail-train, proving
by elaborate argument that something Is out
oS order. Adam tunbled over the enbank-
Ment sixty centuries ago, and the whole
2acA In one long train, has gone on tumbnng
i1 the same direction Crashl Crash! The
ealy question now Is, by what leverage can
sAs crushed thing be lifteda By what ham
mar may the fragments be recoastructedl
Iwans 70 show how we may turn many to
righteousness, and what viii be our future
pay for % doing.
First-We may turn them by the charm
o. a right example. A child, coming from
/, <hy home, was taught at school to wash its
: Saas. It went home 30 much improved N
appearance that its mother washed her fecs.
and when the father Of the household came
home and saw the Improvement IN domestic
appearance, he washed his face. The neigh
:Hors happening IN saw the change and tried
he same experiment until all that street
lwas purified, and the nsxt street copied its
ssSemess, and the whole city felt the result
o. one schoolboy washing his face. That
l. fable By which we set forth that the
best way to get the world washed OF
iss sins and pollution IS to have our
.oRr heart and life cleansed ano purified
4 man wE5E grace II n1S hears aita Csaris--
tan cheerfalaess in his face and holy
consistency in his behavior Is perpetusl
sermon; and the sermon differs from others
- L. = A..I Nd he
& runs tho bettee. There are Aonest men
who walk down Wall street, making the
esesh Of iniqrtty chatter. There are happy
man who go into q sick room, and, by
look, help the broken bone to knit, and
tShs excited nerves dSop TO calm beating.
rEnace are pure men whose presence silence
SAs tongue Of unclesnness. The nightiest
sSenA Of good on earth Is consistent
Christian. IfAs the Bible folded between
lids Of cloth, Of calfsldn, or morocco, but
Glce It better when, in the shape Of man,
aS goes OCT into the world-a Bible isus-
Arsted. Courage Is beautiful to read about;
n1S ratheg would I see q man with
al the world againss him confident as
though al the world were for him Pat
isnce Is beautiful to read shout; but rather
would sec bufsted soul calmly waiting
for the time Of teIvepzroe. Faith is beaoti-
1ni to read about; but rather would ind
Ean IN sae midnight walking straight on as
taongh he saw everything. 0, how many
senls have been turned to God by the charm
soS bright ezamplel
When, IL the Mexican war, the troops
were wsvering, General rose in his stirrups
and dashed into the eneuy's lines, shout
sins, Slsen, Sollow!" They, seeing his
courage and disposition, dashed On after
him and gained the victory. What men
want to rally them for God is an example to
Lead them. All your commands to advance
amount to nothing 50 long as you stay be-
hind. 70 affect them Alright you need to
sssrt for Eea7en yourself, looking back only
20 give the stirring cry Of "Meu, folow!"
Asein: We may turn many to righteous
,ess By prayer. There is no such detective
.ss prayer, as no one can hide away from It
Il puss its hand on the shoulder Of q man
ten thousand miles of. It alights on ship
rsd-Aslantic. The little child can not under
ssaod the law OF electricity, or bow the teie-
graphic operator, by touching the Inseru-
hent here, may dart message under the
sea TO another continent; nor can we, with
our email intellect, understand how the
touch Of Christians prayer shall instantly
the nthacSids-o of the earth.
You cao take ship and go to some oCrsz
soaatry and get there at eleven o'clock IN
she morning. You telegraph to New York,
.saa the message gets here at six O'Clock in
2She same morning. IN other words it seems
10 arrive here Eve hours before it started.
Like that Is prayer. God says:
'xBefore they call, viii hear" To
,oyertake loved one on the road, you may
sspcr I'D q lashered steed until he shall out
race the one that brought the news to Ghent;
but prayer shall catch 1t at one gallop. a
boy running away from home may take the
midnight train from the country village
and reach the seaport in time to gain the
ship that sails On the morrow; but q
nother's prayer will be on deck to meet him,
and IN the hammock before he swings into
It, and at the capstan before he winds the
rope around it, and On the sea, against the
DIV, SIS the vessel plcws on toward it. There
is o Mighticess In prayer. George Muller
prayed Q company Of poor boys together,
and then he prayed up an asylum in which
they might be sheltered. He turned his face
toward Edinburg and prayed, and there
came g thousend pounds. he turned his
Eass toward London and prayed, and there
came thousand pounds. He turned his
face toward Dublin and prayed, and
there cane q thousand pounds. The
breath Of EEjah's prayer blew all the clouds
81 the sky, and it was dry weather. The
breath of EIjah's prayer blew all the clouds
.toSetha-, and it was wet weather. Prayer,
IN Daniels time, walked the cave Is q ton-
tanner. Is reached up. and took the sun By
lSs golden BIT and stepped 1t. We have ali
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