The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-06-17

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make her comfortable in her last days.
Grip, Gouge & Co. do rot do all the busi
ness of the world. All! my friend, d.
you say that God does not care anything
about your worldly business? l tell yol
God knows more about it than you do
He knows all your perplexities; he knows
what mortgages IS about to foreclose
be knsws what note you cannot pay
he knows what unstable goods you have
on your shelves; he knows all your trials
from the day you took hold of the frs
yardstlck down to the sale ofthe last yarC
ofribbon, and the God who helped David
to be king, and who helped Daniel to be
prime minister, and who helped HavelocI
to bea soldier, will help you to discharge
all your duties. He is going to see you
through. When loss comes, and you
find your property going, just take this
Book and put it down by your ledger,
and read of the eternal possessions that
will come to you through our Lord Jesus
Christ. And when your business part
ner betrays you, and your fribeds turn
against you, just take the insulting let.
ter. put it down on the table, put your
Bible beside the insulting letter, and then
read of the friendship of him who ''stick.
eth closer than a brother"
THE LORD SUSTAINED HIM.
A young accountant in New York city
got his accounts entangled. He knew be
was honest, ,.nd vet he could not make
his accounts come out right, and he toll
ed at them day and night until he was
nearly frenzied. It seemed by those
books that something had been nlisap-
proprlated. and he knew before God he
was honest. The last day came. He
knew if he could not that day make his
accounts come out right he would so
into disgrace and into banish-
ment from the business establish
lishment. He went over there very early,
before there was anybody Ill the place,
and he knelt down at the desk and said:
"Oh, Lord, thou knowest have tiled
to he honest, but I cannot make these
things come out right! Help me today
help me this morning!"
The young man arose and hardly
knowing why he did so opened book
that lay on the desk, and there was a
leaf containing a line Of figures which
explained everything. in other words,
he cast his burden upon the Lord
and the Lord sustained him. Young
man, do you hear that? Oh, yes;
God has a sympathy with anybody
that is in any kind Of toll! He knows
how heavy is the hod Of bricks that
the workman carries up the ladder OF
the wall; he hears the pickax Of the MIN
er down in the coal shaft; he knows how
strong the tempest strikes the sailor at
masthead; he sees the factory girl among
the spindles and knows how her arms
ache; be sees the sewing woman in the
fourth story and knows how few pence
she gets for making garment; and loud
er than all the Gin aud roar of the city
comes the voice of a sympathetic God,
''Cast thy burden upon the Lord: and
he shall sustain thee"
Second-There are great many who
have weight OF persecution and abuse
upon them. Sometimes society gets a
rudge against man. All his motives
are misinterpreted, and his good deeds
are deprecated. With more virtue than
some Of the honored and applaudeG, he
runs only against raillery and sharp
criticism. When a man begins to 60
down he has not only the force of natu-
raj gravitation, but a hundred hands to
help him in the precipitation. Men are
prosecuted for their virtues and their
successes. Germanicus said he had just
as many bitter antagonists as he had
adornments. The character sometimes
is so lustrous that the weak eyes ofenvy
and jealousy cannot bear to look at it.
1t was their integrity that put Joseph in
the pit, and Daniel in the den, and
Shadrach in the IRE, and sent John the
Evangelist to desolate Patmos. and
Calvin to the castle of persecution, and
John Huss to the stake and Korah after
Moses, and Saul after David, and Herod
after Christ. Be sure if you have any,
thing to do for church or state, and YOU
attempt it with all your soul, the light
ming will strike you.
INTEGRITY ALWAYS BRINGS ABUSE.
The world always has had cross be-
tween two thieves for the one who comes
to save it. High and holy enterprise
has always been followed by abuse. The
most sublime tragedy Of self sacrifice
has come to burlesque. The graceful
gait of virtue IS always followed by
grimace and travesty. The sweetest
strain of poetry ever written has come
to ridiculous parody, and as long as
there are virtue and righteousness il the
world, there will be something for
inlquity to grin at. All along the line
the ages. and in all lands, the cry has
cen: Not this an, but Barabbas.
Now, Barabbas was roboer."
And what makes the prosecutions Of
life worse is that they come from people
whom you Lave helped, from those to
whom you have loaned money or have
started in business, or whom you re-
scued in some great crisis. I think it
has been the history ofall our llves-the
most acrimonious assault has come from
those whom we have benefited, whom
we heve helped, and that makes it all the
harder to bear. A man is in danger Of
becoming cynical.
A clergyman OF the Universalist
church went into a neigborhood for the
establishment OF a church Of his denom-
ination, and he was anxious to find some
one of that denomination. and he was
pointed to certain house and went
there. He said to the man of the house.
II understand you are Uniyersalist; l
want you to help me in the enterprise"
''Well," said the man, II am a Univer-
salist, but l have peculiar kind Of
Unive. salism." What is that" asked
the minister. 'Well," replied the other,
II have been out in the world. and I
have been cheated and slandered and
outraged and abused until I believe in
universal demnaGon!"