The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-06-24
What amazes me most is that all peo.

What amazeS me most is that all peo-
pie do not see that the entire movement
at this time ali over Christendom IS sa-
tanic. Many Of the internal attacks are
sly and hidden and strategic and so IL
senious that they are not easily discov-
cred. But here is a bold and uncovered
attempt Of the powers Of darkness TO
split up the churches. to get ministers to
take each other by the throat, to make
religion laughing stock OF earth and
hell, to leave the Bible with no more
respect or authenticity than an old alma
nae Of 1922. which told what would be
the change of weather six months ahead
and IN what quarter OF the month it IS
best to plant turnips. In word, the
effort is to stop the evangelization of the
world. 1t seems to me very much like
this: There has been a railroad acci-
dent and many are Wounded and dying.
There are several drug stores near the
scene of casualty. all the doctors and
druggists are needed and needed right
away. Bandages, stimulants, anas-
thesics, medicines of all sorts. What
are the doctors and druggists doing? Dis
cussing the contents of some old bottles
on the top shelf, bottles of medicine
which some doctors and druggists mixed
two or three hundred years ago. Come
doctors!" Come druggists" cry the
people. land help these wounded and
diving that are being brought from be-
meath the timbers OF the crushed rail
train. In little while it will be too
late. Come for Gods sake! Come
right away.w No" says the doctor,
mot until we have settled whether the
medicine on that top shelf was rightly
mixed. I say there were too many drops
of laudanum N it, and this other man
says shere were to, many drops of cam
phire, and we must get this question set
tied before we can attend to the railroad
accident.
DOCTORS DISPUTE WHILE PATIENTS
DIE.
And one doctor takes another doctor
by the collar and pushes him back
against the counter, and one of the drug
sists says, IF YOU will not admit that |
am right about that one bottle will
smash every bottle in your apothecary
store," and he proceeds to smash.
Meanwhile, on the lower shelf, plainly
marked and within easy reach are all the
medicines needed for the helping Of the
sufferers by the accident, and in that
drawer, easily opened, are bandages and
splints for the lack of which fifty people
are dying outside the drug store. Be-
fore apply this thought every one sees
its application. Here is this old world,
and it is of track. Sin and sorrow have
collided with it. The groan of agony is
fourteen hundred million voiced. God
has opened for relief and cure great
sanitariun, great house of olercy, and
all its shelves are filed with balsams.
with catholic, rs, with help-glorlous
help, tremendous help, help so easily
administered that you need not get upon
any step ladder to reach it. You can
reach il on your knees and then hand it
to all the suffering, and the sinDlng. and
the dying. Comfort for all the troubled!
Pardon for all the guilty! Peace for all
the dying! But while the world is need
ing the relief and perishiug for lack of it,
what of the church? Why, it is full of
fighting doctors. On the top shelf are
some old bottles, which several hundred
years ago Calvin or Arminius, or the
members of the synod of bort, or the
formers Of the Nicene creed filed with
holy mixtures, and until we get re.
vision of these old bottles and find out
whether we must take teaspoontul Or
tablespoonful, and whether before or af-
ter meals, let the nations suffer and
groan and die. Save the bottles by all
means, if you cannotsave anything else.
Now, what parts shall you and ! take
in this controversy which fills all Chris
tendon with clangor? Ny advice is,
take no part. In time Of riot all may.
ors of cities advise good cltizeas to stay
at home or in their places Of business,
and in this time Of religious riot 1 advise
youto 60 about your regular work tor
God. Leave the bottles on the higher
shelves tor others to fight about, and
take the two bottles on the shelf within
easy reach, the two bottles which are all
this DYING world needs; the one filled
with potion which is for the cleansing
of all sin. the other filed with potion
which is for the soothing ofall suffering.
Two gospel bottles! Christ mixed them
out Of his own tears and blood. In them
is no hui nan admiNture. Spendno time
on the mysteries! You, a man only
five or six feet high. ought not try to
wade an ocean a thousand feet deep.
Nv own experience has been vivid. l
devoted the most of my time for years
in trying to understand Gods eternal de-
crees, and l was determined to find out
why the Lord letsin come into the world.
and set oat to explore the doctrine OF
the Trinity. and with yardstick to
measure the throne of the Infinite. AS
with all my predecessors, the attempt
was dead failure. For the last thlrt!
years have not spent two minutes II
studying the controverted points Of the
ology, and if live thirty years longer /
Will not spend the thousandth part OF a
second in such exploration. | know
two things, and these will devote al!
the years of my life in proclalmlng-Goo
will through Jesus Christ p ;rdon sin,
and he will comfort trouble.
KEEP OUT OF THE sQUABBLE.
Creeds have their uses, but just now
the church is creeded to death. The
young men entering the ministry are 60
! Ing to be launched in the thickest fog
that ever settled on the coasts. AS
am told that in all our services student;
of Princeton aud Union and Drew ano
other theological Summaries are present
and as these words will come to thous'
ards OF young men who are soon to en-,
ter the ministry, let me say to such and
through them to their associates, keeE
out ofthe bewildering, belittling. destroy
ing and angry controversies abroad. The
questions our doctors Of divinity are try