The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-07-01

ton, it was immediasely nut into eNcu
ton. The context says, He arose ant
came to his father" The trouble in nine
hundred and ninety-nine times out OF
thousand is that our resolutions amount
to nothing because we make them for
some distant time. III resolve to be-
come a Christian next year. that
amounts to nothing at all. If resolve
to become a Christian tomorrow. tina!
amounts to nothing at all. If | resolve
at the service tonight to become Chris
tian, that amounts to nothing at all. |!
| resolve after l 60 home today to yield
my heart to God, that amovnts to inoth'
ING at all. The only kind Of resolution
that amounts to anything IS resolution
that is Immediately put into execution.
There is a man who had the typhoid
fever. He said: "Oh. if l could get
over this terrible distress! If this fever
should depart, if could be restored to
health, I would all the rest of my llte
serve God" The fever departed. He
got well enough to walk around the
block. He got well enough to 60 over
New York and attend to business.
He is we'll to-day-aS we'll as he ever
was. Where is the broken VOW? There
is man who said long ago, "lf could
live to the year 1891, by that time |
will have nay business matters arranged,
and will have time to attend to re-
iglon, and l will be a good, thorough,
consecrated Christian"
The year 1891 has come. January,
February. March, April, May, June-al-
most half of the year gone. Where IS
your broken VOW? "Oh," says some
man: "I'll attend to that when | can
get my character fixed up. When l
can get over my evil habits. am now
given to strong drink" or, says the
man, II am given to uncleanness." or,
says the man, II am given to dishones-
ty. When l get over my present habits,
then III be thorough Christian" My
brother, you will get worse and worse,
until Christ takes you in hand. Not
the righteous; sinners, Jesus came to
call"
DANGER OF FPRoCRASTINATIoN.
Oh. but you say, Il agree with you on
all that, but I must put 1t off little
longer" Do you know there were
many who came just as near as you are
to the kingdom of God and never en-
tered it? l was at East Hampton and
went into the cemetery to look
around, and in that cemetery there are
twelve graves side by Side-the graves
of sailors. This crew, SOME years ago,
in ship went into the breakers at
Amagansett, about three miles away.
My brother, then preaching at East
Hampton, had been at the burial
These men of the crew came very near
being saved.
The people from Amagansett saw the
vessel, and they shot rockets, and they
sent ropes from the shore, and these
poor fellows got into the boat, and they
| pulled nightly for the shore, but just
before they got to the shore the rope
snapped and the boat capsiZed and they
were lost, their bodies afterward washed
up on the beach. Oh, what solemn
day it Was-I have been told of it by
nv brother-when these twelve men
| lay at the foot of the pulpit and he read
over them the funeral service. They
came very near shore-wlthin shout
ing distance of the shore-yet did not
arrive on solid land. There are some
men who come almost to the shore Of
Gods mercy, but not quite, not quite.
To be only almost saved is not to be
saved at all.
will tell you of two prodigals, the
one that got back and the other that
did not get back. In Virginia there is
very prosperous and beautiful home
in many respects. a young man wan
dered off from that home. He wan
dered very far into sin. They heard OF.
him often, but he was always on the
wrong track. He would not go home.
At the door of that beautiful home one
night there was great outcry. The
young man of the house ran down and
opened the door to see what was the
matter. It was midnight. The rest of
the family were asleep. There were
the wife and the children of this prodl-
gal young man. The tact was he had
come home and driven them out. He
said: "Out of this house. Away with
these children; I will dash their brains
odt. Out into the storm"
The mother gathered them up and
fled. The next morning the brother,
the young man who had stayed at home,
went out to find this prodigal brother
and son, and he came where he was,
and saw the young man wandering up
and down in front OF the place where
be had been staying, and the young
man who had kept his integrity said to
the older brother: Here, what does
all this mean? What is the matter
with you? Why do you act in this
WOW SH Tho nro6ioal 1ool-o6 of him
and said: "Who am Il Who do you
take me to be-" Hesaid, "You are my
brother" NO, l am not, I am brute.
Have you seen anything Of my wife
and children? Are they dead? Idrove
them out last night in the storm. l
am brute. John, do you think there
is any help for me? DO you think l
will ever get over this life of dissipa-
tion?" He said, Brother, there is just
one thing that will stop this The
prodigal ran his finger across his
throat and said: "That will stop it,
and III stop it before night. Oh. my
brain; I can stand 1t no longer" That
prodigal never got home. But l will
tell you of prodigal that did get
home.
TWO Ran AWAY, BUI ONE RE1l kNED
In England two young men started
from their fathers house and went
down to Portsmouth. The father
could not pursue his children; for some
reason he could not leave home, and so
he wrote letter down to Mr.. Griffin,
saying: "Mr. Griffin, l wish you would
go and see my two sons. They have ar
rived in Portsmouth, and they are
going to take ship and going away
from home. l wish you would persuade
them back" Mr.. Griffin went and he
tried to persuade them back. He per-
suaded one to 60. He went with very
easy persuasion because he was very
homeslck already. The other young
man said: 81 will not go. have had
enough of home. III never go home.
"WelI," said Mr.. Griffin, then if you
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