The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-22

| u VIII icNel IeaNe Unee, Will never
forsake thee" Like rs father
pitieth his children, so the Lord
pitieth them that fear Him" Can
II woman forget her sucking child,
that she should not have compassion
on the son of her wombt Yea, they
Iaay forget, yet will L not forget
thee"
Or is it the grief of u dissipated
companion! There are those here
who have it, 80 am not speaking in
the abstract, but to the point. You
have not whispered it, perhaps, to
your most intimate friend; but you
see your home going away gradually
from you, and unless things change
soon it will be entirely destroyed.
Your grief was well depicted by a
woman, presiding at woman's meet
ing in Ohio, when her intoxicated
husband staggered up to the plat
form, to her overwhelming mortifica-
ton and the disturbance of the
audience, and she pulled protrud-
ing bottle from her husbands
pocket, and held it up before the
audience, and cried out, "There is
the cause of my woc There are the
tears and tho life blood of a drunk
ards wife, And then, looking up to
heaven, she said, "How long, o Lord!
how long," and then, looking down
to the audience, cried, ''Do you won
der feel strongly on this subject!
Sisters, will you help met" and hun
drcds OF voices responded, "Yes, yes,
we will help you
After fourteen thousand six hun
dred consecutive days of falling
manna--Sundays eXcepted-the man
na ceased. Some of them were glad
of it. You know they had complain
ed to their leader, and wondered that
that they had to eat mamma instead
of onions. Now the fare is changed.
Those people in that army under
forty years OF age never seen n corn
field, and now, when they hear the
leaves rustling and see the tassels
waving and the pillows of green
flowing over the plain as wind
touched them, it must have been u
new and lively sensation. Corn"
cried the old man as he opened an
ear. Corn cried the children as
they counted the shining grains.
Corn" shouted the vanguard of the
host, as they burst open the graneries
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grancrics that had been left in the
possession of the victorious Isreal-
ties. Then the fire was kindled. and
the ears of corn were thrust in it.
| and. fresh and crisp and tender, were
devoured OF the hungry victors and
bread was prepared, aud many things
that can be made out of flour regaled
the appetites that had been sharpen
ell by the long march. And the
mamma ceased on the morrow after
they had eaten of the old corn of the
land"
The intdel scientists of this day
are Offering us different kind of
soul food; but they are, OF all men,
the most miserable l have known
many of them, but never knew one
OF them who came within thousand
miles of being happy. The great
john Stuart Mill provided for him
sci new kind of porridge; but yet.
when he comes to die, he acknowled
res tmt, his philosophy never gave
him any cuI1,0it in days of Dcrcavc
ment, and in roundabout way he
admits.that his life was failure. So
it is with all scientists They are
trying TO live on telescopes and cruel
bfes' and protoplasms, and they charge
lruS with cant, not realizing that there
lis no such intolcrable cant in Ill the
I worh M this perpetual talk we are
hearing about positive philosophy"
and the absolute, and the great
! to be, and 1.-The everlasting no" and
the higher unity and "the latent
Rtentialitics. and 1.-The cathedral of
the immensities.' l have been trans
4 laying what these men have been
%riting, and have been translating
| what these men have been doing,
4 and Will tell You whnt 1t all means
it means that they want to kill God.
And my only wonder is that God
has not killed them. l have, i'll other
| days, tasted of their confcctions. and
] come back to day and tell you there
is no nutriment of life or health in
anything but the bread made out of
the old corn of the gospel. What do
l mean by that! mean that Christ
ls the bread OF life, and taking him
YOU live and live forever
But. YOU say, corn is of but little
practical use unless it is thrcshedu
ground and baked. / answer. this
gospel corn has gone through that
process. W hen on Calvary all the
hoofs of human scoIn came down on
the heart of Christ, and all the fails
of satanic fury beat Him long and
fast, was not the corn threshed !
When the mills of Gods Indignation
against sin caught Christ between
the upper and neither rollers. was
not the corn ground When Jesus
descended into hell, and the flames
of the lost world wrapped Him all
about.Nwas not the corn baked! Oh
yes Christ is ready His pardon all
ready; everything ready in Christ
Are you ready for Hint
You say. That is such simple
gospel = l know it is. You say
you thought religion was n strange
mixture OF elaborate compounds
No; it is SO piuin hat any abcccdari