The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-29

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with 20 lie 70 sEsa': tt? N!:en the
holidays cnin@: and The gifts ar: dis
trihuled, s:iall I aGd 10 JOY to the
Merry Christmas or the Happy
New Year All, do not poi,,. down
20 the !ie in the g9onud the grave,
and cal it a beautiful place; ualc<s
there ne som" supernatural il!umiDa-
lion, | shudder back from it. Ny
wnuie nature revoits u, it, Bat a"w
this glorious lamp is lifted above The
grave, a. jLe darkness is gone ard the
way is clear. look into il now with
out 81 sinsie snudder Now my ankle
~ is not about death; my anxiety is
that l may live Alright. fer Know that
II my life is consistent when come TO
the last hour, and this voi;e is stint,
and these eyes are closed, and hauds
with Which l beg for your eternal sal
ya,ion today ere folded over the still
heart, that then shall only begin to
live. What power is there il anything
70 chill me in the last hour if Chlist
wraps around me the skirt of his own
garment? What darkness can fall up
on nay eyelids then, amid the heaven
ly daybrea!S? O death, I will not fear
thee theu! Back TO thy cavern of
darkness. thou robber of all the earth.
Fly, thou despoi.er of families. With
this battle axe hew thee in twain
from helmet to sandal, the Voice Of
Christ sounding all over the earth,
and trough the heavens: 20 death, I
will be thy plague. O grave, will be
thy destruction"
TO be saved is to wake up iu the
presence of Christ. You know when
Christ was upon earth how happy he
made every house he went into, and
when he brings Us up to his house
how great our giee. His voice has
more music III it than is % be heard in
all the oratories u eternity. Talk
not about banks dashed with etflores-
cence. Jesus is the chief bloom of
heaven. We shall see the very face Of
that beamed sympathy in Bethany.
and taEe the very hand that dropped
its blood from the shcr; beam of the
cross. 90, l want 10 sand in eternity
with him. Toward that harbor l steer.
Toward that goal | run. / shall be
satisfied when awake in his likeness
Oh, broken hearted men and women,
how sweet it will be in that good land
to pour all your hardships, and be-
reavemenss. and losses into the loving
ear Of Christ, aud then have him ez-
plain why it was best for you to be
sick, and why it was best for you to be
widowed, and why it was best for you
to be prosecuted. and why it was best
for you to be tried, and have Hin
poin. to en- elevation proportlonate to
your disquietude here, saying: "You
suffered with me on earth, come up
now and be glorifed with meiu heav-
en-:
Somo one went into house where
there had been good deal of trou.le,
aud said to the woman there: You
seeu. to be lonely" YES" she said,
ssI ana lonely" "Eow many in the
family?" "Only myself" ''Have YOU
had any children" Il had seven
children. "Where are they?" Conc" "
"All gomez" "All." "All dead?" GAIL"
TheD she breathed a long sigh into the
loneliness and said: 80, sir, I have
been good mother to the grave. "
And so there are hearts here that are
utterly broken down by the bereave.
ments of life. point you to tbs eter-
ual balm of heaven. Are there any
here tha. l am missing this morningl
o! you poor waiting maid. your hearts
sorrow poured in no human ear, lone
! ly and sad! how glad you will be when
Christ shall disband all your sorrows
and crown you queen unto God and
the Lamb forever. O. aged men and
women, fed by His love and warmed
by His grace for three score years and
ten! will not your decrepitude change
for the leap of hart whea you come to
look face to face upon Him whom, hav-
ing not seen, you love? O, that will
be the good shepard, not out in the
night aud Watching to keep oil the
wolves, but with the lambs reclining
on the sun lit hill. That will be the
captain of our salvation, not amid the
roar, and crash, and boom of battle,
bul amid his disbanded troops keeping
victorious festivi:y. That will be the
bridegroom of the church coming from
afar, the bride leaning upon his arm
while he looks down into her face and
says: Behold thou art fair, my love!
| Behold thou art fair"