The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-05-20

waits for his delayed guests, the meats
smoking, and the beakers brimming, and
the minstrel with his finger on the string
ready to strike at the first clash Of the
hoofS at the gateway. Waiting as a
mother waits for boy that ten years
ago went off dragging her bleeding
heart after him. Waiting. Oh, can you
not i've me some comparison intense
enough, importunate enough high as
heaven, deed as hell, and vast as eter.
nifty: Not expecting that you can help
me with such a comparison, 1 simply say
he is waiting only as an all-sympathetic
Christ knows how the wait for wander
ing soul.
Bow the knees and kiss the Son,
Come and welcome, sinner, come.
But remark again, not molly Christ is
waiting, but the Holy Spirit is waiting.
Why are some sermons dead failure:
Oily are there song that do not get their
wing under the people: Why are therc
players that 90 no higher up than
hunters halloo? Because there's miss
inc link that only the Holy Spirit can
make. If that Spirit should come through
this assemblage this morning, there
would be power felt like that when
Saul was unhorsed on the road to Da.
mascus; like as when Lydla's heart was
broken in her 6ne store like as when
5000 souls were lifted out of midnight
into midnoon at the pentecost. Do you
notice that sometimes that spirit takes
an Insignificant agency to save soul? I
think it is very often that at just one
passage of Scripture, just one word OF
Scripture, soul is saved becaused the
Holy Spirit gives it supernatural power.
Do YOU know what it was that saved
Martin Luther 1t was that one verse:
The just shall live by faith" Do you
know what 1t was that brought Angus
line from his horrible dissi .,ations? 1t
was that one verse: Put ye on the Lord
Jesus Christ. and make no provision for
the flesh. to fulfil the lusts thereof" Do
YOU know What it was that saved Hedley
Wears, the celebrated soldier? 1t was
the one passage: believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved" "
Do you know what II was that brought
Jonathan Edwards to Christ? 1t was
the one passage; Now unto him be
glory for ever aud ever"
One Thanksgiving morning IN church
l read my text, 20, give thanks unto the
Lord, for he IS good" and young man
stood in the gallery and said to himself;
II have never rendered one acceptable
offering of gratitude to God IN all my
life. Here, Lord, 1 am thine foreyere." :"
By that one passage of Scripture he was
brought into The kingdom, and i'll might
tell my own experience, I might tell how
one Sabbath afternoon l was brought tc
the peace of the'Gospel by reading of the
Syro-Pheniciar's cry to Christ where
she said: Even the dogs eat OF the
crumbs that fall from the masters table,
Philosc phic sermons never saved any.
body. Metaphysical sermons never saved
ANYBODY. An earnes: plea going right
out Of the heart blessed OF the Holy
Ghost, that is what says, that is wha1
brings people into the kingdom of Christ
II suppose the world thought thai
Thomas Chalmers preached great ser
mons in his early ministry, but Thomas
Chalmers says he never preached at al
until years after he had occupied pul.
pit he came out of his sick room, ane
weak and emaciated. he stood aud tolt
the story Of Christ to the people. An
in the great day of eternity 1t will b.
found that not so much the eloQuen
sermons brought men to Christ as th'
story told, . erhaps by those who were
unknown on earth, the simple story O.
the Saviour's love and mercy, sent by thu
power Of the Holy Ghost, straight to the
heart. Come, Holy Ghostr Ay, h'
IS here this morning. He fills all the
place. I tell you the Holy Ghost il
ready.
Then I go n and tell YOU the church
is ready. There are those here who say
No one cares for my SOUL" We d.
care for it. You see man bowlng hi
head in pray and you say: That mar
is Indifferent" That man bows his hsat
in prayer that the trute may 90 t.
every heart The air is full ofprayers
They are going up this morning from
this assembly. Hundreds Of prayer
stralg t to the throne of a ltsteding God
The air is full Of prayers-prayers as
cending noon by noon from Fulton stree
prayer meeting. Friday night by Frlda.
night all over this land, going up iron
praying circless. Yea, there is not
minute of an hour OF any day that there
are MT supplications ascending to thu
throne Of mercy. The church is read.
And if YOU should this moning star
for Your Fathers house, there would b'
hundreds and thousands in this assem-
blage who would say if they knew 1t
Make room for that man, make room
for him at the holy sacrament; bring thu
silver bowl for his baptism; give hin
full right to all the privileges OF th'
church Of Jesus Christ.
On. know there are those who say
the church is mass OF hypocrltes, bu
they Go not really think so. 1t is
glorious church. Christ purchased it
Christ built it. Christ swung all ii:
gates. Christ .cur,ained it with uphol
sterv, crimson with crucihXion carnage
Come into it. I do not pick out thl
man or that man and say: You ma.
conc" l say all may come-whove
will. Come with Us and we will dt
you good. The Lord had promised goo'
concerning Israel"
We are garden walled around
Chosen and made peculiar ground,
a little plot enclosed by grace
Out of the world wild wilderness.
DO not say YOU have Dever been IN
vited. | invite YOU nov to the King
feast. One and all. AL! All! But / g
further aud tell you that the angels ar
ready. Some people think when w
speak about angels we are getting int
the region of fancy. They say it is yer.
well 70, a man when he has just entere'
the ministry to preach about the an
yels of heaven, but after he has some OF
t;,-tI,er II is hardly worth while M