The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-08-19


Christ's Blood Eill Buy Hor Back.
TOPEKA. KAN. August 9.-Dr. Tai
mage reached THIS city yesterday in The
course Of his Western trip. lie was
warmly welcomed by the citizens who
came in lar:e Eum bers to hear the fa-
nous Rrooklyn divine. The subject of
the sermon for this week is: "A poor
investment" aud the text Isaiah lii: 8:
''Ye have sold yourselves for nouHht;
and ye shall be redeemed without
money"
Tie Lords people had eoue head
loug into sin, and as a punishment they
had been carried captive to Babylon
They toun& t..at ipiquity did not pay.
Cyrus seized BABY lon. and felt so sorry
tor these poor captiyes that, without a
dollar Of compeus alton, he let them go
home. So that, literally, my text was
fulfilled: ''Ye have sold yourselves for
noush,; and ye shall be redeemed with
out money"
There is eroush Gospel in this T fifty
sermons. There are PERSONS here vino
have, like the people ot,he text, SOLD
out. You GO moi seem to belong either
toy turselves or 10 God. The titleleeds
bave been passed over to 1.-THE world,
the flesh, and ;he devil" but the pIr-
chaser never paid up. ''Ye have sold
yourselves Tor nought."
When man passes himself over TO
the world lie expects to get some ade-
Quale compensation. He has heard the
great lhln.s that the world does for q
man. and lie believes it. He wants two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That
Will l'e horses and houses, and j summer
resort. andjol!y companionship. Toget
1t lie parts with his physical health
by over work. He parts with his con-
science. He parts with much domestic
spjolmep.. He parts with opportuni-
ties Tor literary culture. He parts with
his soul. and so be makes oyer his
entne nature 10 the world. He does 1t in
tour ins,a !ments. He pays down the
first lns;a!lment, and one fourth of his
nature is goue. He pay down the Sec
ond insIal!ment. and one-half Of his
nature is gone. He pay down the third
lnstallment. and three quarters Of his
nature are gone; and alter many years
have gone by he pays down the fourth
inslallment. and 10! his entire nature
IS soae. When he comes up to the
werld aud says. Good morning. have
delivered TO ycu the govds. l have pas
ed over TO you my body, my mind, and
my soul aud have come down to collect
The TWO hundred and fifty thousand
dollars" Two hundred and ifty thous-
and dol!ars:" says the world. What
do you mean?" ''Well' you say, Il
come 10 collect the money you owe me,
and expect YOU 10 fulfill your part OF
the contract" But" says the world,
Il have failed. l am bank rupt. lean
not possibly pay that debt. I have not
for lcng While expected 10 pay it."
.'Well." yea then say, give me back
the goods" 'Oh, no." says the world,
they are all gone. cannot give them
back to you" And there you stand on
the corhneS Of eternity, Your spiritual
character gone staggering under the con-
sideration that you have sold yourself
tor nought.'
tell you the world is liar; it does
not keep its promises. 1t IS a cheat,
and i; feeces everything it can put it's
hands on. 1t is LOCUS world. 1t is
si&-thousand-year-old swindler. Even if
ii pays the two houndred and fifty tnous-
and dollars for which you contracted. it
pays them in bonds that will not be
worth anything in little while. Justas
man may pay down ten thousand
dollars in hard cash and get for itworlh-
less scrip-so the world passes over to
lcu the two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars IN that shape which will not be
worth a iarthing to YOU thousandth part
OF a second after YOU are dead. "Oh,"
You say, 1T will help TO bury me any
how" Oh, my brother! you need not
worry about that. The world will bury
YOU soon enough for sanitary con>idera.
tlOnS.
Pos;mortem emo!umenls are ofuo use
TO you. The treasures of this worlc will
not pass current in the future world; and
if all the wealth of the Bank of Eng
land were put in the pocket OF Your
shroud, and you in the midst OF the
Jordan of death were asked to pay three
cents Tor your terrlage, you could not do
it. There comes moment in ! our tN-
istenee beyond which all earthly values
lail; and many man has wakened up
in such a tine 10 find that he has sold
out tor eternity. anil has noihlu@ to show
tor ii. l Should as soon think of going
10 Chatham street 10 buy silk pocket
handkercElefs with no cottou il them,
as TO 90 TO This world expecting to lind
any permanent happiness. II has de
ce.vel aid deluded every man who has
every put his trust in it.
History tells US OF one who resolved
that be would have all his senses graft
ted at one at.d The same time, and lie
eXpende' thou>an0s of dollars on each
sense. He entered a room, and there
were the first musicians OF the lald pleas
ing his ear, aud there were fine pictures
fascinating his eye, and there were costly
aromatics regalng his nostril, aad there
were the richest meats and wines and
fruits. and con;eclions, pleasing the ap-
petite, and there was a soft couch Of SIM
tul Indulgence on which he reclined;
and the man declared afterward that he
would give ten times what he had given
if lie could have one week of such enjoy
ment. even though he lost his soul by II!
All! that was The ruo! He did lose his
soul byit. Cyrus The Conqueror thought
for little while that he was maAluy a
tine thing out OF this world, and Yet be-
lore he came TO his grave he wrote ouI
this pltiiul epltaph for his monument,
Il am Cyrus. l occupied the Persian
empire, L Nas king over Asia. Besrrdge
me not this mo- ument." But the world
in alter yeals plowed up his seru!chre.
The world ciapped its hands aud
stamped its feet n honor ot Charles
7 o;nt hut What does he saw II walk