The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-21

OF Il grog shop ur~lng him TO go IN, ne re-
sistinc. violently resisting until after awhile
they forced him To go in. 1t was I summer
night, and the door was left open, aud | saw
the process. They held him fast. and they
put the cup to his lips, and they forced down
the strong drink What chance is there for
such a young man:
counsel YOU also seek Christian advice.
Every Christian man is bound 10 help you.
First of all seek God; then seek Christian
counsel. Gather up all the energies Of body,
mind and soul, and, appealing to God for
success, declare this day everlasting war
against all drinking habits, all gambling
practices, all houses Of sin. Half and half
work will amount to nothing; it must be
Waterloo. Shrink back now and you are
lost Push on and You are saved. A Spar
tan general fell at the very moment of vic
tory, but he dipped his finger in his own
blood and wrote on rock near which he
was dying, Sparta has conquered" Though
your struggle to get rid Of sin may seem to
be almost death struggle, YOU can dip
your finger in your own blood and write on
the Rock of Ages, Victory through our
Lord Jesus Christi
o, what glorious news it would be for
some of these young men to send home to
their parents They go to the post-ofice
every day or two to see whether there are
any letters from you. How anxious they
are to hear.
Some one said to Grecian general: what
was the proudest moment in your Efe!" He
thought moment, and said: ''The proud2St
moment in my life was when l sent word
home to my.parents that had gained the vic
tory" And the eproudest and most brilliant
moment in your life will be the moment when
you can send word to your parents that you
have conquered your evil habits by the grace
of GOO and become eternal victor. O, de-
spise not parental anxiety! The time will
come when you will have neither fathcrnor
mother, and you will go around the place
where they used to watch you and find them
gone from the house, and gone from the
field, and gone from the neighborhood Cry
as loud for forgiveness as You may over
the mound in the churchyard, they will not
answer Dead! Dead! And then you will
take out the white lock of hair that was cut
from your mothers brow just before they
buried her. and you VIII take the cane with
which your father used to walk, and You
will think and think and wish that You had
done just as they wanted you to, and would
give LQe WOrlu l. you HSh
a pang through their dear old hearts
God pity the POOR young man who has
brought disgrace on his fathers name! God
pity the young man VINO has broken his
mothers heart! Better if he had never
been born-better if, in the first hour of his
life, instead of being laid against the warm
bosom of maternal tenderness, he had been
cofined and sepulchered. There is no balm
powerful enough to heal the heart OF one
who has brought parents to sorrowful
grave, and who wanders about through the
dismal cemetery, rcnding the hair, and
wringing the hands: and crying, Mother!
motherr O, that to-day by all the memo
RIGS of the past and by all the hopes of the
future you would yield your heart to God.
May your fathers God and your mothers
God be your God forever!