The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-10-01

clouds parted as they came near and
passed to either side Of the crowd and
then closed again, leaving the place dry
where the audience had assembled, and
the ncxt day the postponed showers
came upon the ground that had been the
day before omitted. Do YOU say it only
happened Sc? cannot see what you
keep your bibles tor. ard the God you
worship is not my God. Your God IS
an autocrat, and lie is so far of and SO
ia: up that the world cannot touch Him,
and his throne is an eternal iceberg. My
Gods a father. here and now: anda father
Will give his child what he asks for. lit
is best for him to have il. Pray
about everything that concerns you. sec
u!arities as we'll as spiritiIa!ities. Take
to God all your arnoyarces ard perDlcN-
it:es. The crooked shall bc made
straight. Some people talk as though
God controlled things in general but not
il particular; that He started everything
under certain laws and let it take care OF
itself, as an engineer might start his 10
comOtive on an IRON railroad track and
then Jump Off. What would happen to
such locomotive IS what would long
AGO have happened TO our world il God
had started it auG afterwards allowed It
To look out Eor itself, There is no such
| thing as a general providence. 1t is
particular providence. God hasno gen
eral care for forest. It is care OF
every cell, of every leaf and root IN that
forest. God has 10 general care of the
ocean. 1t is care OF every drop Of va
ter in the liquid magnitude. God has
10 general care for the human race. 1t
is d care CT every individual Of that raco.
and Of every item Of individual history.
l preach Him, a God in Dtinitesnlals, an
everyday God, Gol responsive, and
one breath ofcarnest prayer, though that
breath should not be strong enough to
make candle flicker, Will absorb mere
of the divine attention than if the arch
ersel standing at the foot Of the throne
should flap both wings.
! It is remarkable how many crooked
thugs arc in the providence OF God be-
ing made straight. About thirty years
ago or national affairs were as crooked
as Genraved American politics and bad
men, and satan could make them. From
the top of Maine to the foot OF Florida.
the nation was red with wrath. 1t was
wrancle aud fight all the way throug.
and enc Of the mildcst things that the
| North and South promised each other
was assassination. During this SIMMER
I have travelled through New York, and
Chic, and Illinois, and Indiana. and
Minnesota. and Kansas and Nebraska,
| and Missouri, and Texas, and Loulsi-
ana. and Georgia, and North and South
Carolina. and Virginia, and Pennsyl-
vania. and have shaken hands with tens
of thousands of people, aid talked with
| men of all sections and degrees, and l
have to tell you it is all peace, and in
all the states Of the Union you could not
| now marsha! military company OF 100
soldiers to fight against the United States
government, unless you got Your men
out Of the penitentiary. Did the corrupt
and gangrened political parties do this
work Of rectilication and pacitication?
No! It was BY divine interpositlon that
the crooked has been made straight.
On December ?, 1851, Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte rode down the Champs Eiysee
Of Paris, and under the hoofs OF his horse
Republic was trampled as the rider
went to take throne. 1t was the out
rage of the century. For nineteen long
wears the wrong triumphed. The will Of
one man who wanted to remain emperor
kept down a ration who wanted a Re-
public. But September, 1870, arrived,
and Sedan unrolled its crimson scroll.
The emperor surrenders with $4,000
troops, 4l9 field guns, G,000 horses and
10000 muskets. From that day the bal
lot-box was up and the throne was down.
Free institutions have been substituted
for an infamous monarchy. Thank GOD!
The crooked has been made straight.
But why 60 so far to find fulilment OF
my text. In all our lives there are
crooked things that need to be made
straight. and each hcarer or reader will
enumeratc for himself or herself. With
one it is delapidated physical health. and
you are saying, Why cannot | be in
good health when have such opDortuni-
ties and such responsibilities" Alas for
the sick headaches and the rheumatic
FONTS, and the neuralgc thrusts, and the
lame foot! But you will be well soon.
Life at the longest is an abbreviated dur
ance. There is black doctor that will
cure you. Some people call him Death.
No disease was ever able to stand before
MS touch. Use all the means afforded
.or physical recupcration. but If they fail
the hour Of release is not far away.
There need be no incurables. There is
no sorrow that heaven cannot cure.
Those who il this worlti have always
been well will not get the best part OF
heaven. The viii not have the adran-
tage OF contrast. They were well before
they left this world and why should they
be so cratnlatedat being we'll in the next
world. But TO those who on earth were
hindered or broken down in health what
a contrast IS they step into that domain
where there has never been an aching
brow or lame foot or inaamcd muscle or
disordercd nerve! For forty years there
may have been STOPPING in the back.
or & twisted muscle, or a curved spine or
a crooked limb, but the premise has been
fulfilled. The crooked shall be made
straight"
In many domestic lie are difficulties
to be removed. There are thousands OF
matches that are not made in heaven.
Some Of the lovelest women have been !
united to some of the meanest men, and
some of tie grandest men to the most
worthless woman. There may be 70
sufficient cause Of enforcement. but there
has never been any accord. For them
the wedding march ought never to have
been played. The twain divergent in
sentiment. the north pole and the south
pole might just as well have been mar
ried. \ twist of nett!es woald have been
more appropriate than a garland OF
orange blossoms. The unutterable mis-