The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-14

mate, but to get to the influence Of the pine.
There is health in it, and this pine branch Of
the text suggests the healthfulness of our
holy religion it is full Of health, health for
all health for the mind. health for the soul.
knew an aged man, who had no capital
of physical health. He had had all the dis
eases YOU could imagine; he did not eat
enough to keep child alive; he lived on a
beverage Of hosannas. HeliveG high, for he
dined every day with the king He was
kept alive simply by the force Of our holy
religion. 1t is 4 healthy religion; healthy
for the eye, healthy for the hand, healthy
for the feet. healthy for the heart, healthy
for the liver, healthy for the spleen,
healthy for the whole man. It gives
a man such peace, such Quletness, such
independence of circumstances, such holy
eQuipoise. o that we all possessed it,
tha: we possessed it now. mean that it is
healthy if man gets enough Of it. Now,
there are some people who get just enough
religion to bother them, just enough re-
ligion to make them sick; -but if man
takes a full. deep, round Inhalation Of these
pine branches of the gospel arbor, he will
find it buoyant, eNuberant, undyinS, i'm
mortal health.
gests the simple fact that it is evergreen.
What does this pine branch care for the snow
on its brow! 1t is only crown Of glory.
The winter can not freeze it out This ever
green tree is as beautiful in winter as in
summer. And that is the characteristic OF
our holy religion; in the sharpest, coolest
winter OF misfortune and disaster it is as
good a religion as it is in the bright summer
o1
truth. For if should go up and down these
aisles, would not find in this house fifty
people who had had no trouble. But there
are some Of You who have especial trouble.
God only knows what you go through with.
o, how many bereavementS: how many
poverties, how many prosecutions! How
many misrepresentation! And now, my
brother, you have tried every thing else, why
don'tyou try this evergreen religion! 1t is
just as good for you now as it was in the
days Of your prosperity; it is better for you.
Perhaps some of you feel almost like Muckle
Backie, the fisherman, who was chlded one
day because he kept on working, although
that very day he buried his child. They
came to him and said: ''It is indecent for
you to be mending that boat when this af-
ternoon you buried your child" And the
fisherman looked up and said: "Sir, 1t is
easy for you gentlefolks to stay in the house
with your handkerchiefs to your eyes in
grief; but sir, ought to let the other five
children starve because one of them is
drowneds No, sir, we maun work, we
maun work, though our hearts beat like
this hammer"
You may have had accumulation Of sor-
row and misfortune. They come in focks,
they come in herds upon your soul; and yet
have to tell you that this religion can con-
sole you, tn sk it can help you, that it can
deliver YOU if nothing else will. Do you
tell me that the riches and the gain of this
world can console yous How was it with
the man who had such fondness for
money that when he was sick he ordered
basin Of gold pieces to be broughtto him,
and he put his gouty hands down amongthe
gold pieces, cooling his hands off in then,
en- cssz fSszse> rolling of these gold
and entertain