The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-15

storm scaYYcQ, ;s:;nccT Spit rocE
brval,iag mo ibayAs Of bright wate'.
!yess. IS into y:,.iu:I l,l>,.;.sC.;,...as :LrGsi
t,la:s nostci!$. ooy~;;sa l:.cy were
We &;4,id 9. t!.e a:.s.ou1-G>acr,S
blooming i.to c,trNs,tiUn roses anu
silver tipped lilies.
1t is tho old stury. Everybody tells
IL Isaiah told it, john told it, Paul
told It. Ezekiel told it, Luther told it.
Calvin told it, John Milton told it
everybody tells Il; and yet-and yet
when the midnight shall fly the hills,
and Christ shall marshal his great
army. and China, dashirg her idols
into the dust, shall hear the voice OF
God and wheel into line; and India,
destroying her Juggcrnaut and snatch
ING up her little children from the
Ganges, shall hear the voice OF God
and wheel into line; and vine covered
Italy, and wheat crowned Russia, and
all The nations OF the earth shall hear
the voice of God and fall into line;
then the Church, which has been toll
ing and struggling through the CEN
turics robed and garlanded like a
bride adorned for her husband, shall
put aside her veil and look up into the
face Of her Lord the King and say:
The half-the half was not told me-
Well, there is coming greater sur
prise to every Christian-a greater
surprise than anything have depict
ed. Heaven is an cid story. livery
BODY talks about it. There is hardly
HYMN in the hymn book that does
not refer to it Children read about
it in their Sabbath school books. Aged
men put on their spectacleS to study
il. We say it is a harbor from the
storm. We call it home. We say 1t
is the house Of many mansions. we
weave together all sweet beautiful,
delicate, exhilarant words; ne weave
them into letters, and then we spell It
out in rose and lily and arnaranth.
And yet that place is going to be q
surprise to the most intelligent CHRIS
tan. Like the queen Of Sheba, the
report has come to US from the 1ar
country, and many Of us have started.
It is desert march, but we urge on
the canels. What though our feet be
blistered with the way? We are has
tening to the palace We take all our
loves and hopes and Christian ambi-
tons as transincense and myrrh and
cassia, to the great King. We must
not rest We must not halt The
night is coming on, and it is not safe
out here in the desert Urge on the
camels. see the domes against the
sky, and the houses Of Lebanon and
the temples and the gardens See
the fountains danco in the sun and
the gates fash IS they open to let IN
the poor pilgrims
Send the word up to the palace that
we are coming, and that we are weary
Of the march of the desert The King
Will come out and say: Welcome to
the palace: bathe in these waters; re-
cline on these banks Take this Gin
namon and fraokincense and nnyrrh
and put :. upon a censer and swing 1t
before the altar And yet, my friends,
when heaven bursts upon US it will DC
greater surprise than that-Jesus on
the throne, and we made like him!
AL our Christian friends surrounding
US in glory! AL our soTows and
tears and sins gone by forever! The
thousands of thousands, the one hun
dred and forty and four thousand, the
great multitudcs that no man can
number. will cry, world without end:
1.-The half-the half was not told mel