The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-01-14

GaSeS 3ecanle g tlaSeuy. Sui2 !e, ga
ruting, bnJslari,. assassinatl, 4 were
rampant. What an awful day tnat
was When the ban ks wentdowI., There
las been nothing like it in thirty years
and I pray God lere may no" be any.
thing like i. in Il e next thirt. centur.
les. Talk about your Black Fridays,
1t was Black Saturday, Black Sunday
Black Monday. Black Tuesday, Black
Wednesday. Black Thursday as well as
Black Friday.
This nation in it's extremity fell help,
less before the Lord and cried for par
don and peace, and upon ministers and
laymen the power from on high de.
Scended. Engine houses, ware rooms
hotel parlorS, museums, factories, from
y to l o'clock, while the operatives
were resting, were opened for prayers
and sermons and inquiry rooms, and
Burton's old theatre on Chambers
street, where our ancestors used to as
semble to laugh at the comedies, and
all up and down the steets. and out on
the docks and on the decks Of ships ly-
ing at the wharf people sang, All hall
the power of Jesus name, while others
cried for mercy. \ great mass meet.
ing of Christians on week day, III
Jayne's hall, Philadelphia, telegraphrd
to Fulton Street Prayer meeting IN
New York, saying, "What hath God
wrought" and telegram went back
saying, Two hundred souls saved at
our meeting to-day" a ship came
through the NarrowS into our harbor,
the captain reporting that himself and
ali the crew had been converted 10 God
between New Orleans and New York.
In the busiest martS Of our busiest
American cities, where the worshipers
OF Mammon had been counting their
golden beads, men began to calculate,
What shall it profit man If he gain
the whole world and lose his soul?"
The walters in restaurants after
the closing of their days work knelt
among the tables where they had
served. Policemen asked consent Of
the commissioner of police to be per-
mitted to attend religious meetings.
At Albany members OF the New York
legislature assembled in the room of
the court of appeals at half-past 5
o'clock in the morning for prayer and
praise. Printed invitations were sent
out to the fremen of New York saying,
Come as suits your convenience best,
whether in fire or citizens dress, but
come.comew Quarrymen kneltamong
the rocts. Fish e:men knelt in their
boats. Weavers knelt among the
looms. Sailors knelt among the ham,
mocks, Schoolmasters knelt among
their classes. a gentleman travelling
said there was line of prayer meet
ings from Omaha to Washington city ,
aud he might have added a line OF
prayer meetings from the Atlantic to
the Pacific coast, and from the st. Law
renee to the Gulf of Mexico.
Many of my heare.s to-day are what
the world calls, and what | would call
splendid felloCs. and they seem happy
enough, and are jolly and obliging, and
if werein trouble l would 60 to them
with as much confidence as would to
my father, if he were yet alive. But
when they go to their rooms at night,
or when the excitements OF social and
business life are off, they are not con-
tent, and they want .omething better
than this world can offer. l under
stand them 30 well I wo I'D, without
any fear of being thought rough, put
my right hand on their one shoulder
and my left hand on their other shoul-
der and push them into the kingdom
of God. But l cannot. Power from
on high, lay hold of them!
Years ago, at the close of a religious
service in Brooklyn Tabernacle, gen.
tleman most distinguished in appear
ance, and with remarkable cerebral
Development, came forward with his
wife I'D daughter, and said to me in a
most courteous and elegant way, LET
me introduce you to my wife and
laughter, who wish some counsel IN
regard to religious matters" and the
three sat down. After had convers-
ed with the wife and daughter l turn
I'd to the gentleman and said, perhaps
you have some interest yourself IN
;hese matters None whatever"
was the reply, polite yet firm. but be-
'ore the meeting had closed / saw his
hand lifted to his forehead and his eyes
closed, and said, 'Sir, have you not
changed your mind. and are you not
on this subject?" He said:
4 am. Since coming to this seat l
lave sought and found Christ as my
saviour, and I have but one desire
more, and that is before l leave this
louse to join my wife and daughter in
making profession of the Christian re-
igion. have been known as on the
wrong side long enough" What was
that had come upon him? It was
'ower from on high.
At the first communion after the
dedication of our former church three
hundred and twenty eight souls stood
.p in the aisles and pablicly espoused
be cause of ChIlst. At another time |
our hundred souls; at another time
We hundred; and our four thousand /
We hundred membership were but a
mall part OF those who within those
acred walls took upon themselves the
oWs of the Christian. What turned |
hem? What saved them? Power
rom the level? No. Power from on
Ugh.
But greater things are to be seen if
yer these cities and ever this world is
} be taken for God. There is one
lass of men and women in all these as
emblages in whom I have especial in
crest, and that is those who had good
athers and mothers once, but they are
cad. What multitudes of US are Or
hans! We may be 10, so, 50 years old,
ut we never get used to having father
nd mother gone. Oh, how often we
ave had troubles that we would like
, have told them, and we always felt
) long as father and mother We're
i've we had some one to whom we
,uld go! Now would like to ask if
~ think that all their prayers in your
ehalf have been answered. NO" you
y, "but it is too late; the old folks are
,ne now
l must courteously contradict you.
is not too late. l have a friend in ,
e ministry who was attending the !
st hours of an aged Christian, and my !
lend said to the old Christian, as
ere no trouble on your mind?" The
q man turned his face to the wall for
few moments, and then said: "Only