The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-04-15


have to tell you that all the German
universities to-day are under positive
Christian influence, except the Universi-
ty of Heidelberg, We're the rufianly
students cut and mau! and mangle and
murder each other as matter Of pride
instead of infamy. Do you mention
Grard college, Philadelphia, as an ex-
ceptIon, that college established by the
will of Mr.. Girard, which forbade relig-
ious instruction and the entrance ofcler-
gymen within its gates: Ny reply is
that lived for seven years near that
college and knew many Of its professors
to be Christian instructors, and no bet
ter Christian influences are to be found
in any college than in Girard college.
There stands Christianity. There
stands infdelity. Compare what they
have done. Compare their resources.
There IS Chrintianity. prayer on her
lip; benediction on her brow; both hands
full of help; the mother Of thousands Of
colleges; the mother ofthousands of asy-
lums for the oppressed, the blind, the
sick. the lame, the imbecile; the mother
of missions for the bringing back Of the
outcast; tbs mother of thousands of re-
formatory institutions for the saving Of
the lost; the mother of innumerable Sab
both schools bringing millions of children
under drill to prepare them for-res-
pectability and usefulness, to say moth
inc Of the great future. That is Chris
tie nty.
Here is infde!ity; no prayer on her
lips, no benedlction on her brow; both
hands clenched-what for? To fight
Christianity. THAT'S the entire business.
The complete mission Of infidelity is to
fight Christianity. Where are her schools.
her colleges, her asylums of mercy?
Let me throw you down whole
ream of foolscap paper that you may fill
all of it with The uames of her benefcent
institutions, the colleges and the asy-
lums, the institutions of mercy and Of
learning, founded by intidelity, and sup
ported alone by intiedlity, pronounced
against God and the Christian religion
and yet in favor of making the world
better. "Oh," you say. "a ream Of
paper is too much for the names Of those
Institutions" Well, then, l throw you
quire of paper. Fill 1t all up now. 1
will wait until you get all the names
down. "Oh," you say, that IS too
much" Well, then, l will just hand
YOU sheet Of letter paper. Just fill up
the tour sides while we are talking Of this
matter, with the names of the merclful
institutions and the educational institu-
tions founded by Infdelity and supported
all along by Inidelity, pronounced
gainst God and the Christian religion,
vet in favor of humanity.
oh" you say. that is too much
room; we don't want whole sheet OF
paper to write down the Names" Per-
haps had better tear out one leaf from
my memorandum book, and ask you to
FIJI up both sides OF it with the names Of
such institutions "Oh," you say, that
would be too much room; l wouldn't It
want so much room as that" Well,
then. suppose you count them on your
ten fingers, 'sOh," you say, mot quite
so much as that" Well, then, count
them on the fingers of one hand. oh"
you say, ''we don't want quite so much
room as that" Suppose, then, you
halt and count on one finger the name
Of any institution founded by inidelity,
supported entirely be in6delity, pro-
nounced against God and the Christian
religion, vet toiling to make the world
L Not opa1
Is infdelity so poor, so starvelIng, so
mean, so unless? Get out, you misera-
bic pauper of the universe! Crawl into
some rat hole ofeverlasting nothingness.
Inidelity standing to-day amid the suf-
fering, groaning, dying nations, and yet
doing absolutely nothing save trying to
impede those who are toiling until they
fall exhausted into their graves in trying
to make the world better. Gather up
all the work, all the mercifnl work. that
in6delily has ever done, add it all to-
gether, and there is not so much nobility
10 it as in the smallest bead of that SIS
Ter of charily who last night went up
the dark alley Of the town put jar of
Jelly for an invalid appetite on a,broken
stand, and then knelt on the bare floor,
praying the mercy Of Christ upon the
dying soul.
Intidelity scrapes no lint for the
wounded, bakes no bread for the hun
CRY, shakes up no pillow for the SICK
rouses no comfort for the hereft, gllds
no grave for the dead. While Christ,
our Christ, our wounded Ch1ist, our
ri isen Christ, the Christ of this old fash
ioned Bible-blessed be his glorious
name forever!-our Christ stands this
hour pointing to the hospital, or to the
asylum saving: II was sick and ye gave
mea couch, 1 was lame and ye gave me
crutch, was bind and ye physician
ed my eyesight, I was orphaned and ye
mothered my soul, | was lost on the
mountain and ye brought me home;
inasmuch as ye did it to one of the
least of these. ye did it to me-"
But I thank God that this plague of
in6delity will be stayed. Many OF those
who hear me now by the Holy Ghost
upon their hearts will cease to be SCOT
fers and will become disciples, aid the
day will arrive when all nations will
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going to keep right on until the fires OF
the last day are kindled. Some of them
will begin on one side and some on the
other side of the old book. They will
not find bundle Of loose manuscripts
easily consumed like tinder thrown
into the FIRE. When the fires of the
last dsy are kindled some will
burn on this side, from Genesis toward
Revelation. and others will burn on this
side, from Revelation towards Genesis,
and in all their way they will not find
single chapter or single verse out of
place. That will be the first time we
can afford to do without the Bible.
What will he the use of the book of
Genesis, descriptive of how the world
was made, when the world is destroyed !?
What will be the use of the prophecies
when they are all fulfilled? What will
be the use of the evangeiistic or Pau
line description of Jesus Christ when
we see him face to face? What will be
the use of his photograph when we have
n, of hin, in olorv2 What will he the