The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-03

not know what mighty man may yet
be developed among them" At that
instant the eyes Of one of the boys
flashed fire. Who was it? Martin Lu-
ther. A lad on his way to school pass
ed a door step on which sat lame and
invalid child. The passing boy said to
him, "Why don't you go to school,
"Oh, l am lame and | can't walk to
school" Get on my back said the
we'll boy, "and will carry you to
school," And so he did that day and
for many days until the invalid was
fairly started on the road to an educa-
ton. Who was the well boy that did
that kindness? I don't know. Who
was the invalid he carried? 1t was
Robert Hall. the rapt pupil orator of
al Christendom. Better give to the
boys who come up from Nazareth to
Jerusalem a crown instead of a cross.
CANA IN GAL1LEE.
In about two hours we pass through
Cana, the village of Palestine where the
mother of Christ and our Lord attended
the wedding OF poor relative, having
come over from Nazareth for that
purpose. The mother of Christ-for
women are first to notice such things
found that the provisions had fallen
short and she told Christ, and be to
relieve the embarrassment Of the
housekeeper, who had invited more
guests than the pantry warranted,
became the butler OF the occasion, and
out of acluster Of few sympathetic
words squeezed a beverage of hun
dred and twenty-six gallons Of wine in
which was not one drop of intoXicant,
or it would have left that party as
maudlin and drunk as the great cen
tennial banquet in New York, two
years ago, left senators, and governors,
and generals, and merchant princes,
the difference between the wine at the
wedding in Cana and the wine at the
banquet in New York being, that the
Lord made the one and the devil made
the other. We got off our horses and
examined some OF these water jars at
Cana said to be the very ones that held
the plain water that Christ turned into
the purple bloom of an especial vim
tage. l measured them and found
them eighteen inches from edge to
edge and nineteen inches deep, and de-
clined to accept their indentity. But
we realized the immensely of a supply
of hundred and twenty-siX gallons Of
wine. What was that for? Probably
one gallon would have been enough, for
it was only an additioned lnstallment
of what had already been provided;
and it is probable that the housekeeper
could not have guessed more than one
gallon out of the way. But hundred
and twenty-six gallons! What will
they do with the surplus? All, it was
just like our Lord. Those young peo-
pie were about to startin housekeeping
and their means were limited, and that
big supply, whether kept in their pan
try or sold, will be a mighty help.
You see there was no strychnlne or
| logwood or nux vomica IN that bever-
age, and, as the Lord made it, it would
keep. He makes mountains and seas
that keep thousands of years, and GER
tainly he could make a beverage that
would keep four or FIVE years. Among
the arts and inventions Of the future l
hope there may be some one that can
press the juices from the grape and so
mingle them and without one drop OF
damning alcoholism that it will keen
for years. And the more of it you
take the clearer will be the brain and
the healthier the stomach. And here
is a remarkable TACT in my recent
Journey travelled through Italy and
Greece and Egypt and Palestine and
Syria and Turkey, and how many in
toxicated people do you think saw in
all those five great realms? Not one.
We must in our ChristianiZed lands
have got hold of some kind OF beverage
that Christ did not make.
GLAD HE WAS THERE.
Oh, am glad that Jesus was present
at that wedding, and last December,
standing at Cana, that wedding came
back. Night had fallen on the village
and its surroundings. The bridegroom
had put on his head bright turban
and a garland of flowers, and his gar
lnents had been made fragrant with
frankincense and camphor. an odoT
which the oriental especially likes.
Accompanied by groomsmen, and pre-
ceded by band of musicians with
flutes and drums and horns, and by
torches in full blaze, he starts for the
brides home. This river OF fire is met
by another river of fire, the torches of
the bride and bridesmaids, flambeau
answering flambeau. The bride is in
white robe and her veil not only covers
her face but envelops her body. Her
trousSeau is as elaborate as the re-
sources of her fathers house permit
Her attendants are decked with all the
ornaments they own or can borrow;
but their own personal charms make
tame the jewels, for those oriental
! women eclipse in attractiveneSS all
others except those of our own land
The damson rose is IN their cheek, and
the diamond in the luSter Of their eyes
and the blackness of the night in their
long locks, and in their step is the
gracefulness of the morning. At the
first sight of the torches of the bride
groom and his attendants coming over
! the hill the cry rings through the home
of the bride: They are in sight! Get
ready Behold the bridegroom COM
eth! Go ye out 10 meet him." As the
two professions approach each other
the timbrelS strike and the songs COM
mingle, and then the two professions
become one and march toward the
bridegroom's house, and meet third
procession which is made up of the
friends of both, bride and bridegroom
Then all enter the house and the dance
begins and the door is shut. And all
this Christ uses to illustrate the JOY
with which the ransomed of earth shall
meet him when he comes garlanded
with clouds and robed in the morning
and trumpeted by the thunders of tie
last day. Look! There he comes down
off the hills of heaven, the bridegroom
And let US start out to hail him sound
ing: Behold, the bridegroom cometh!
And the disappointment Of those who
have declined the invitation to the
gospel wedding is presented under the
figure of a door heavily closed. You
hear it slam. Too late. The door is
shut!
Do you see how the Holy Land and
the Holy Book fit each other? God
with his left hand built Palestine and
with his right wrote the Scriptures