The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-11


man s Il :ool WAC never 2hluhS u tae
great I&tUr2.
Ii YOU pay Mouey you take Il receipt.
II you buy land you record the deed.
WAv: Because everything iSSo uncer-
tain. YOU want it down IN black and
white. YOU say. For Il house and lot
TWENTY-FIVE feet front by one hundred
feet deep. all security: bat tor !. soul
vast is eternity nothing, nothing. II
some man or woman standing n some
of these aisles should drop down where
would YOU go to? Which is your deS-
tiny: Suppose a man is prepared for
the future world, what difference does
it make to him whether he goes to his
home to-day or goes into glory: only
this difference-if he dies he IS bet
ter off. WherehehaG one JOY on earth he
will have million in heaven. When he
has a small sphere here he Will have
grand sphere there. Perhaps 1t would
cost YOU sixty, or one hundred, or one
hundred and fifty dollars to have your
physical life insured. and yet free OF
charge | offer you insurance on your
immortal life, payable not at your de-
cease, but now and tomorrow every
day and always.
Ny hope in Christ is not 50 bright as
many Christians, ! know, but would
not give it up for the whole universe,
il one cash payment, il it were offered
me. 1t has been SO much comfort to
me in time Of trouble, 1t has been so
much strength to me when have been
asSailed, it has been so much rest to me
when l have been perpleXed, and it is
around my heart such an incasemene
Of satisfaction and blessednesS that l
can stand here before God and say:
take away my health, take away my
life, take everything rather than rob
me OF this hope, this plain, simple nope
which l have in Jesus Christ, my LORD.
| must have this robe when the last
Chill strikes through me. l must have
this light when all other lights go out
IL the blast that comes up from the
cold Jordan. must have this sword
with which to fight my way through all
those foes on my way heavenward.
apply my subject to several classes
of people before me. First, to that
great multitude ofyoung people in this
house. Some of these young men are
in boarding houses. They have but few
social advantages. They think that no
one cares for their souls. Many of
them are on small salaries, and they are
cramped and bothered perpetually, and
sometimes their heart fails them.
Young man, tonight at your bedroom
door OF the third floor you will hear 4
knocking. it will be the hand OF Jesus
Christ, the young mans friend, saying.
"Oh, Young man, let me come in; l Will
help thee, will comfort thee, will
deliver thee" Take the Bible out OF
the trunk if it has been hidden away.
II you have not the courage to lay 1t on
the shelf or table, take that Bible that
vas given to you by some loved one,
take 1t out of the trunk and 10y 1t down
on the bottom OF the chair, then kneel
down beside it, and read and pray and
pray and read until all your disturbance
IS gone and you feel that peace which
neither earth nor hell can rob you Of.
Thy fathers God. thy mothers God,
waits fer thee, y young man. Escape
for tiny life.w Escape now. "One thing
thou lackestr'
But apply this subject to the aged
not many here-not many in any as
semblage. People do not live to get
old. That is the general rule. Here
and there an aged man in the house. l
tell you the truth. You have lived long
enough in this world to know that 1t
cannot satisfy an immortal nature. l
must talk to you more reverentl ally
than ! do to these other people, while
at the same time speak with great
plainness. 0 father of the weary step,
o mother bent down under the ailments
of life, has thy God ever forsaken thee? :?
Through all these years who has been
your best friend? Seventy years of food
and clothing. Oh. how many bright
mornings. How many glorious even
ing hours you have seen! 0 father,
mother, God has been very good to you.
Do you feel it, Some Of you have chill
dren and grandchildren; the former
cheered your young lite, the latter
twine your gray locks IN their tiny fin
gers. Has all the goodness that God
has been making pass before you pro-
duced no change in your feelings, and
must it be said of you, not withstand
ing all this, "One thing thou lackest?:''
Oh, if you could only feel the hand
of Christ smoothing the cares out of
urinkled faces, On, if you could only
feel the warm arm of Christ steadying
YOUR tottering steps. | lift my voice
loud enough to break through the
deafness of the ear while I cry out,
"One thing thou lackest." 1t was an I'M
fortunate appeal young man made IN
a prayer meeting when herose up and
said: 'Do pray for my old father. He
is 20 years Of age, and he don't love
Christ" That father passed a few
more steps on in life, and then he went
down. He never gave any intimatlon
that he had chosen Jesus. 1t is a very
hard thing for an old man to become a
Christian. know it is. 1t is so hard
a thing that it cannot be done by any
human work; but God Almighty can
do it by his omnipotent grace; he can
bring you at the eleventh hour-at
half-past lat "ne minute of II he
can bring you to the peace and the joys
Of the glorious gospel.
Imust make application of this sub
ject also to those who are prospered. d.
Have you, my friends, found that dol
lars and cents are 10 permanent consol-
alton to the soul9 You have large
worldly resources, but have you no
| treasures, no heaven? Is an embrold-
cred pillow all that you want to put
your dying head on? You have heard
people all last week talk about earthly
values. Hear a plain man talk about
the heavenly. Do you not know it will
be worse for you, o prospered man, if
you reject Christ, and reject him finally
that it will be worse for you than
those who had it hard in this world,
because the contrast will make the dis
comiture so much more appalling?
AS the hart bounds for the water
brooks, as the roe speeds down the hill
side. speed thou to Christ. Escape for
thy life, look not behind thee, neither
stay thou in all the plain; escape to the