The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-06-18
lLL TROUBLES PAST.
THERE WAS a RAINBOW ROUND
ABOUT TIE THRONE"

R5OSE ) NJ ttstSNE-
The Sign of Promise from God and Whas
1t Teaches 20 Men-The Trials o. Chris
tians and Their Rainbow of Promise.
The subject of Dr.. Talnase S Sun
day discourse was. AL Troubles
Pas: and the text, Revelation ", ,:
ssThere was rainbow round about
the throne" Following IS the ser
mon:
As, after night of fearful tempest
Z at sea, one ship, more starnch than
another. rides or undamaged among
the fragments of spars and hulks that
float about, so old Noahs ark, at the
close of the ileluce, floats on over the
wreck of dead world. Looking out
: Of the window OF The ark, you see the
. planks OF houses, and the sheaves OF
wheat, and the carcasses OF cattle,
and the corpses OF men. No tower IS
left TO toll the burial: no mourners to
form IN line of procession: no ground
IN which to bury the dead. Sinking
a line twenty-seven feet long, youjust
touch the tops Of the mountains.
Ghastliness and horror, The ari;, IN
stead Q: walking the s"&, ike Il nlot-
ern ship, in rlui >Jv ail:s beauty, tos
ses helpIesslr: no helm to guide; no
sail to set; no shore to steer for. Why
9 protect the agony OF the good people
IN such a craft, when they might III
one dash OF the wave have been put
out of their misery
81 But at yonder spot IN the horizon
NE see colors gathering IN the sky; at
s Just the opposite point IN the horn
zon other colors are gathering. L
s. find that they are the two hutresses
of an arclled bridge The yellow. the
red, the orange, the blue, the indigo,
s the violet are mingled, and by invisi-
Z bic hands the whole structure IS hung
3 into the sky, and the ak has tn.
umphal arch to sail under. An angel
& of light swings lis hand across the
sky. and III the seven pl1smatlc col
ors ne plints with pencil OF sunbeam
tie everlasting covenant between
z God and every living creature. God
: lifted up that great arched bridge,
md set il over His own head III the
heavens. join saw it, for he says:
= There w.s q rainbow round about
TIE throne.
I notice ti,nt none but the people
wllo were n the lrk saw the rainbow.
1t Gus: lis SHADOW cleac down into the
9aSe9 where TIC people were buried,
and lighted CD the dead faces with q
strange radiance. but they could not
see It. So only those who arc at last
I found IN Christ, the Ark, VIII sec the
oyerspening glorles OF the throne.
I: Hence you had better get into the
ark AS you call your family out at
The close of the shower to show them
the sign in heaven, so ] want you oil
st last to see the grander rainbow
sssa,lnGl about the throne. Look
there's" says sNoah to his wife, "at that
Dow in the clouds: and, Shem and
Japhet, look! look.-thc green, the
yellow. the red, and the orange! l
should not wonder if some OF your
own childrenin the Good Land should
sssaster awhile cry out to yol, Look,
faaherl lock. mother! there is rain
bow round about the throne You
had better get into the ark, with all
your ifamlies, if you want to see it.
I notice also that the chief glory Of
God comes after the rain. No show
or, no rainbow; no trouble, no bright
ness of Christian consolation. Meav-
ers are sometimes, by reason Of their
work, dusty and rough in their ap-
parel; and so It is the couse-clad
tempest, whose hand and foot swing
apSae snuttttie, that weaves the rainbow.
MANY Christians are dull, and stupid,
and useless because they have not
had disaster enough to wake them
In The brightest surf that heaven
Inakes is thrown over the sho2aeFs
ofs The storm. You can lsG make a
thorough Christian liSaeut Of sun
shine alone. IheraareE some very
dark lines IN tbssa bbon Of the rain
bow; yogt &ve il life the blue
lie orange. M:nglng all
5rs of the former makes 8
White light; and it takes all the shades,
and sadness, and vicissitudes of life
s to make the white lustre of 6 pure
Christian character.
Your child asks you, Father, what
makes the rainbowt'' and you say,
Itis the sunlight striking through
HE raindrops." Therefore I Won
dered how there could be rainbow
heaven since there are no storms
there: but then I conclude that that
rainbow must be formed by the
striking Of heavens sunlight through
Tie falling tears of earthly sorrow:
When we see man overwhelmed
with trouble, and his health goes, and
his property goes,and his friends go,I
say, 'Now we shall see the glory OF
Sod in this good mans deliyerance." !"
As atNiagara Falls I saw, one day,
ten rafnbows spanning the awful
plunge of the cataract, so over the
abysis of the Christians trial hover
5he tzch-hued wings Of all the prom
ISIS.
aotice that the most beautiful
things of this world are to be pre-
: zevYed in heaven. When you see the
last color fade out from the rainbow
OF earth you need not feel sad, for
YOU Will see the rainbow round about
The throne. That story about the
world burning up has given me many
q panc. When Tread that Paris was
besieged, said, ':Now the pictures
and statues il the Louvre and Lux
enboug will be destroyed; all those
faces of Rembrandt, and those bold
i dashes of Rubens, and those enchant-
ments of Raphael on canvas, and
those statues of Canova.' But is it
not a more melancholy thought that