The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-03-19


our life may have been uafer:urste
mo uncorsecrated Yo'E cave got on 50
ar to!erab!y well, if ucthiog more
han tolerebje. As for nys3,t: though
nv life has been IA from Beg rs con-
secratea as I would like to have had
it, Iwauld not want to try it over
ssain, lest next time would do worse.
Why, just look at the temptations We
hsve all passed through and just look
at the multitudes who have gone COM
pletely under. Just call over the roll
of your schoolmates and college mates,
tae erks who were with you IL tne
same store or bank, OR tho operatives
in the same factory, with just as good
prospects as you, who have come 10
complets mishap. Some young man
tnxt told you that he was going to be
q millionaire and own the fattest trot-
re:s on the Westchester turnpike and
retire by the time he was thirty five
wears of age, you do not hear from Tor
eaanv years, and know noIning about
him until some day be coaes into your
store, asking for FIVE cents to get mug
csbear. You, good mother ofs house
hoid and all your children rising up to
cali you blessed, caa remember when
yrrl we're quite Jealous OF tie bei!a OF
: village who was 80 :ransCe'!deat:y
~ and popular But while You have
these two honorable and Queen;y
..ac.as of wifs and mother, she became
:. pGor waif Of the street, and went into
~, blackness OF darkness forever.
live life over again? Whv,if many OF
NOS. WHO are Row respectable
were permitted to experinent, the
next Journey would be demolition.
You have go: through, as too says, by
he skin OF the te>'ll. Next time
you might not set taToush at all.
Ss:an would say: Il !;row him now
bette. than cid beftre, and have for
eiity years been studying MS we.k-
.esSes, aud | will Weave = stronger
web cf circumstances 10 cAtch am
next time" And Satan would cos
center his forces on this ne man, and
tae last state of that man would De
worse than the first. My friends, our
faces are in ,be right direction. Bet
ter so forward than backward, even ii
we had the choice The greatest Gisas-
ter I can thiak Of would be for sou 10
return to your boyhood in 1890. Oh,
If .;Ss were 3 sRoolh LIzerne or Cay
uga lake, would like 70 get toto .
yscat and sail over it, not occe, but
iw;ce,-yea a taouss-nd times. Bu:
,iis is an uncertain sea, and sone ol
the ships crash on the iceburgs, OF
cald inditfere-ce, and some take fire
Of ay;l passion, and some lssa their
bearings and run inso the ssarries,
and some are never heard Of. Surel9
N such a .reacherous sea as that one
VOYAGE is enough.
Besides all this. do you know tnat
if you could have your wish and live
lie over again it would put you 50
much further fron reunion with your
friends in heaven? If you are ia the
noon of life or in the evening of lie
vcu are not very far .rom the gate at
which YOU are to meet your transport
ed and emparadised loved ones. You
are now, let US say, twenty years, or
en- wears or one year eff from celes-
,iai conjunc ion Now suppose you
went back in your earthly life thirty
years or forty years or fifty years,
what an awful postpenement of the
time of reunion! It would be as
though you were going to San Fran
cisco 20 great banquet aud you got
10 Oakland, four or i've miles this side
oft, and then came back 10 Hoboken
or Harlem to get better start; as
though you were you were going to
England. to be crowned ard having
come in sight of the mountains OF
Wales YOU put back to Sandy Hook in
orcer 20 make better voyage. The
further on you getin life,ifa Christian,
the pearer you are to the renewal OF
broken up companionsnip No; the
wheel cf time turns in the right direc-
ton, and il is well it turns so fast.
Three hupGssd- and sixJy-hEe reVelu,
v;ops "a year and forward, rather
shan three hundred and sixty FIVE rev.
olusions ia year and backward. But
near We! hear ye! while tell you how
you may practically i've your life
over again and be ali the better for it..
You may put iuso the remaiping years
Of your life all you have learned of
wisdom, in your past life. You may
make the coming ten ysars worth the
preceding forty or fifty years. When
$. man says he would like to live his
life ever again because ne wouid do 30
much better, and yet goes right on
living as he has always lived, do you
rot see that be s.ultiies himself? He
proves that it be could go back he
would do almost the same as he has
done. If . man eat grsen apples some
Wednesday IL cholers time, and Is
.arown into fearful cramps and says
IN Thursday: Il w;sl had been more
pruienS in my Giet; oh, if 1 could live
Wednesday over again" and then on
Friday eats apples just as green, he
proves that it would have been no adj
vantage for nim to live Wednesday
over again. And if We deplore our
past life and with the idsa of improve
inent, long for an opportunity to try it
over again, yet go on making the same
mistakes and committing the same
sins, we only denonssra that the
repetition of our existence would af
ford no improvement 1t was green
apples before and it would be green
apples over agsin. As soon as a ship
captain strikes rock in the lake or
sea, he reports it and buoy is swung
over that reef and mariners henceforih
sand of from that rock. And all cur
mistakes in the past ought to be buoys
warning is to keep ia the right chan
mel.
Besides that:we have all these years
been learning how to be useful, and
in the next decade we ought to accom-
plish more for Gol aud the church
aud the world than in any previous
tour decades. The best way to atone
for past Incidence or past trasseres-
sion is by future assiduity Yet you
cftan find Christian men who were