The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-08

it and you can play on one, have an instru'
ment Of music, harp or flute, or cornet, OF
melodeon, or violin, or piano. Every morn
ing before you leave that room, pray,
Every night after you come home in that
room, pray. Make that home your Gibral'
tar, your Sebastopol your Mount Zion. Let
no bad book or newspaper come into that
room, any more than you would allow
cobra to coil on your table.
Take care Of yourself. Nobody else will
take care OF you. Your help will not come
up two or three or four flights Of stairs;
your help will come through the roof,
down from Heaven, from that God who in
the six thousand years Of the worlds his
tory never betrayed young man who tried
to be good and Christian. Let me say IN
regard 10 your adverse worldly circum'
stances, in passing, that you are on level
now with those who are finally to succeed.
Mark my words, young man, and think OF
it thirty years from now. You will find
those who thirty years from now are the
millionaires OF the country, who are the
orators Of the country, who are the poets
Of the country, who are the strong
merchants Of the country, who are the great
philanthropsts Of the country-mlghtlest
in church and state-are this morning on a
level with you, not an inch above, and you
in straitened circumstances now.
Herschel earned his living by playi:h, a
violin at parties, aud in the iuterstlces OF TIA
play be would go out and look up at tho
midnight heavens. the fields OF his lmmor-
tai conquests. Geor e Stephenson rose
from being the foreman Of a colliery to be
the most renowned Of the worlds engineers.
No outfit, no capital to start with! Young
man, 80 down to the Mercantile library, and
get some books and read of what wonderful
mechanism God gave you in your hand, in
your foot, in your eye, in your ear, and then
ask some doctor to take yoa into the dlssect-
ing room ard illustrate to you what you
have read about, and never again commit
the blasphemy of sayingg> ! haveno capital
TO start with. Equipped! Why, the poor
est young man in this house is equipped as
only the God of the whole universe could
afford to equip him. Then his body-a very
Door affair compared with his wonderful
soul-oh, that is what makes me solicitous.
I am not so much anxious about you, young
man, because you have so little to co witn'
as am anxious about you because you have
so much to risk and lose or gain.
There is no class Of persons that so stlr
nv sympathies as young men !E great cities.
Not quite enough salary to live OF, and all
the temptations that come from that deficit.
Invited on all hands to drink, and their ex-
hausted nervous system seeming to demand
stimulus. Their religion caricatured by the
most of the clerks in the store and most OF
the operatives in the factory. The rapids
OF temptation and death rushing against
that young man forty miles the hour. and ne
in frail boat headed up stream. with moth
ing but broken OAK oar to work with On-
less Almighty God help them they will so
under.
All! when tol1 you to take care OF your
self you misunderstood me il you thought l
meant you are to depend Upon human reso-
luton. which may be dissolved in the foam
OF the wine cup. or may be olown out Witn
the FIRST gust Of temptation. Here IS the
helmet, the sword OF Lord Coo Aln!ghty.
Clothe yourself IN that panoply ana YOU
shall not be put to confusion. Sin pays well
neither in this world nor the next, but right
thinking and right believing and right act
ing will take you in safety through this life
and in transport through the next
Inever shall forget prayer l heard
Young man make some fifteen years ago. 1t
YVES q very short prayer, but it was trc-
mendcus prayer: 20 Lord, help US. we
ind it so very easy to do wrong and so hard
to do right. Lord, help u.s. That prayer,
I warrant you, reached the ear OF Goa, ana
reached His heart. And there are in this
house hundred men who have found out
a thousand young men, perhaps. who have
found out that very thing. 1t is so very easy
to do wrong, and so hard 10 do right
got q letter, only one paragraph OF Whlcn
shall read: ''Having moved around some.
what have ran across many Young men OF
intelligence, ardent strivers after that Will
o'-the-wisp, fortune, and OF one OF these
would speak. He was young EnghSnman
Of twenty-three or four years, who came 10
New York, where he had acquaintance,
with barely sufficient to keep him couple
of weeks. He had been tenderly reared,
perhaps should say tco tenderly:. ana was
not used to earning his own living, and
found it extremely difficult to get any posi-
ton that he was capable OF filing. After
MANY vain efforts in this direction he touno
himself on Sunday evening in Brooklyn2
near YOUR church, with about three dollars
left of his small capital. Providence seemed
to lead him to your door, and he determined
to 20 in and hear you.
HE told me MS going to hear you lnat
night was undoubtedly the turning point IN
C., y
he felt desperate, but while listening Il your
discourse his better nature got the mastery.
truly believe from what this young, man
told me, that your sounding the depths OF
his heart that night alone brought him oach
to his God whom he was so near leaving.
The echo, that is or multitudes In the
house. I am not preaching an abstraction,
but great realty. Oh! friendless young
man. Oh! prodigal young man. Oh. broken
hearted young man, discouraged young man,
wounded young man, commend you to
Christ this day, the best friend man ever
had. he meets you this morning. You
have come here for this blessing. DeS}lse
not that emotion rising in your soul; Il is
diyiucly lifted. Look iuto the face CT Christ.
Lift one PRAYER to your fathers God, toyour
mothers God, and get tho pardonlnc o.ess
ing. Now, while l speak, you are at the
forks Of the road. and this is the right road,
and that is the wrong road, and see you
start on the right road.
One Sabbath morning, at the close OF my
service, saw gold watch of the world-re-
aowned and deeply lamented vlollnlst. Ole
Bull. You remember he died in his island
home of the coast Of Norway. That gold
watch he had wound up day after day
through his illness, and then he said to his
companion, Now, I want to wind this
watch as long as l can, and then when am
gone want you to keep it wound up until
1t gets to my friend. DR.. Doremus. in New
York, and then he Will keep it wound up
until his life is done. aud then / want the
watch to 80 to his young son, my especial
favorite.
The great musician, who more than any
other artist had made the violin speak and
sing and weep aud laugh and triumph-for
it seemed when he drew the bow across the
string. as If all earth and heaven trembled
in delighted sympatny-the great musician,
in q room looking,oi up5n the sea, and sur.
rounded by his favorite instruments Of
music. closed his eyes in death. While all
the world was mourning at his departure,