The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-06-03

! other creation, 1t has heen supposed tina
perhaps days and nights passed between
the masculine and feminine creations
But no. Adam was not three hour
minated.
ia phycician can by anHsthetjcs pu
one into dee.' sleep in three minutes
God certainly could have put Adam int
4 profound sleep in short while tina
Saturday afternoon, and made The deel
and radical eXcision without causing dis
tress. BY manipulation Of the dus
the same hand that molded the noun
tains nodded the features and moldee
the limbs Of the father Of the human
race. But his eyes did not see, and hi:
norves did not feel, and his muscles die
not move, and his lungs did not breathe
and his heart did not pulsate. \ per
feet form he lay along the earth, sym
metrical and OF godlike countenance
Magnificent piece OF Divine carpentry
and Omnipotent sculpturing, but ne
vitality. \ body without a soul.
Then the source Of all life stopped tt
the inanimate nostril and lip, and a:
many a skilllul and earnest physician
has put his lips to patient in comatose
state and breathed into his mouth ant
nostril, and at the same time compress
cd the lungs, until that which was arti
fetal respiration became natural respira'
ton, so methinks God breathed into this
cold sculpture of a man the breath ofllfe
and the heart begins to tramp, and the
lungs to inhale. and the eyes to open
aud the entire form to thrill, and with
the rapture Of life just come the
PROSTATE being leaps to bis feet-a man
But the scene OF this Saturday is not
yet done, and in the atmosphere, drowsy
with the breath OF flowers and the song o.
bobolinks and robin redbreasts, the man
slumbers, and by anGsthetics, divinely
administered, the slumber deepens until
without the oozing of one drop OF blood
at the time OF the iaintest scar afterward
that portion IS removed from his side
which is to be built up tie Queen o.
Paradise, the daughter OF the great God
the mother of the human race, the bene.
diction ofall ages, woman the wife, after.
ward wsman the mother. And as the
two join hands and stroll down alone
the banks of the Eupnrates toward a
bower Of mignonette and wild rose and
honeysuckle, and are listening to the call
of the whip-poor-wil from the aromatic
thickets the sun sinks beneath the hori.
zon. And the evening and the morn
ing were the sixth day."
a GREAT WEEKS WORK.
What do you think Of that one weeks
work? I review it not for entertain.
ment, but because would have you join
IN David's doXology, "Great and marvel.
Gus are thy works, Lord God Almighty"
because l want you to know what a
homestead our Father built for his chill
dren at the start, though sin has des-
polled it, and because I want you to
know how the world will look again when
Christ shall have restored it, swinging
now between two Edens; because Iwant
you to realize something Of what a
mighty God he is, and the utter folly OF
trying to war against him; because
want you to make peace with this Chief
of the Universe through the Christ who
medlates between offended Omnipotence
and human rebellion; because I want
you to know 'hcw feariully and wonder
fully you are made, your body as we'll as
your soul an Omnipotent achievement;
because 1 want you to realize that order
reigns throughout the universe, and that
Gods watches tick to the second, and
that his clocks strike regularly, though
they strike once in a thousand years.
4 learned man once asked an old
Christian man who had no advantages
of schooling, why he believed there was
a God. and the good old man, who prob
ably had never heard an argument on
the subject ID all his life. made this no.
BILE reply: ''Sir, l have been here going
hard upon fifty years. Every day since
| have been in this world l see the sun
rise in the east and Get in the west. The
north star stands where it did the first
time I saw it; the seven stars and Jobs
coffin keep or the same path in the sky
and never turn cut. 1t isn't so with
mans work. He makes clocks and
watches; they may run well for awhile,
but they get out of fix and stand stock
still. But the sun and moon and stars
keep on this same way all the while.
The heavens declare the glory Of God" "
Yea, preach this, because I want you
to walk in appreciation Of Addison's
sublime sentiment when he writes:
The spacious armament on high,
With all the blue ETHEREAL sky
And spangled heav'ns, a shining frame,
Their Great Original proclaim.
In reasons ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth glorious voice,
Forever singing, as they shine.
The hand that made us is divine.
Firing on Train.