The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-02
'THE CITY STREETS"
Sermon by Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage, D. D.
He Gives His Impressions Of tho Signs
Seen In the City Streets-Scenes OF
Toll and Strugele-A Great Field
for Christian Charity and
the Study OF Mankind.

The subject of Rev. DR.. Ta.nage's recent
sermon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle was
1.-THE CITY Streets aud his text: Wisdom
crieth without ;she uttereth hervoicein the
streets i. 20 The preacher said:
We are ready to listen to the voices OF
nature-the voices of the mountain, the
voices of the sea, the voices CT the storm,
the voices Of the star. AS IN some OF the
cathedrals in Europe there is an organ at
either end of the building, and the one In
strument responds musically to the other, so
in the great cathedral OF nature cay re-
spends to day, and night to night and flower
to flower, and star to star, in the great mar
monies of the universe. The sprlngnme IS
an evangelist in blossoms preaching OF God's
love: and the winter is prophet-whles
bearded d-denouncins wee against our sins.
We are all ready to listen to the voices OF
nature; but how few of US learn any thing
from the voices of the noisy and dusty street
You so to your merchandise, and your me-
chanism, and to your work, and YOU come
back asain-and often with an Indifferent
heart you pass through the streets Are
there no things for US to learn from these
pavenents over which we pass! Are there
cobblestones, beaten with the feet OF toll
and pain, and pleasure, the slow tread OF
old age, and the quick step Of childhood!
Aye. there are great harvests to be reaped !;
and now trust in the sickle because the
harvest is ripe. "Wisdom crleth out' she
uttereth her voice in the streets"
In the first place the street inpresses me
with the fact that this life is scene OF soI
and struggle. BY ten O'Clock every day the
city is iarring with wheels and shutting
with feet, and humming with voices, ano
covered with the breath of smokestacks, ano
q rush with trafickers. Once in while
YOU find man going along with folded
arms and with leisurely step, as though he
had nothing to do; but for the most part, a
YOU find men going down these streets, Oh
the way to business, there is anxiety IN then
faces, as though they had some errand which
must be executed at the first possible mo-
ment. You are iostled by those who have
bargains to make and notes to sell. Up TINS
ladder with hod Of bricks, out OF thl:
bank with roll Of bills, on his dray with
load of goods, digging cellar, or shlnglins
roof, or shoeing horse. or building a wall
or mendirg watch, or binding book. In
dustry, with her thousand arms, and thou
sand eyes, and thousand feet, goes on sing
ing her song Of work! work! work! while
the mills drum it, and the steam whistles
fife it. All this is not because men love te
toll Some one rem arked: every man L:
as lazy as he can afford to be-" But it IS
because necessity, with stern brow anc
with uphfted whip, stands over them ready
whenever they relax their toll to make then
shoulders sting with the lash. Can 1t be
that, passing up and down these streets te
work and business, you do not learn anything
of the worlds toll, and anxiety, and strug
glea o, how many dropping hearts, how
many eyes on the watch, how many
miles travelled, how many burdens
carried, how many losses suffered,
how many battles fought, how many vic.
tories gained, how many defeats, suffered,
how mans AxasI---->:- endpred-what
losses, what hunger, what wretchedpess,
what pallor, what disease, what agony,
\ what despair! Sometimes have stopped
$<eASt the corner Of the street as the multtudes
4 hither and yon, and it has seemed tc
eat pantomine, and as looked upon
u krt broke. This: great tide Of hu.
x ~ that goes down the street IS 8
IS 5S{ III and turned aside, and dashine
ven back-beautiful in its
Rnfused in its beauty. In
ii B &es of the forest, in the
4 81 & u the eternal shadow is
Z S| shore Of the sea owe,
s. s5 n 38S2ss the tangled foam
4 ifs with baptism
u &s Il Al is the best place
IS $SB r. 3 Sing, swarming:
IS to study man
4 # i \ IS a business and
II { 8 u! fge you look
y i35y 81 i poverty, OF
|A " B q 9H5E 3SS of sin, OF be-
|&5s3 = "a Rgo through the
I n Il rough the streets,
:! gsS|j rs your prayer all
$}S 4 all the suffering,
n of those whom you
# Hem in prayer before an
II X 5pGod Then in the great
1eS 8fty there will be thousands OF
- syes Sons with whom you in this world never
exchanged one word who will rise uD and
call YOU blessed; and there will be thou
sand fingers pointing at you in Heaven,
saying: THAT is the man, that is the wo.
man, who helped me when I was hungry,
and sick, and wandering, and lost and
heart broken. That is the man, that is the
woman" and the blessing will come down
upon you as Christ shall say: II was
hungry and ye fed me, was naked and ye
clothed me. was sick and in prison and
- ,-,e;+a9 did ~ n