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

erase Congregation Can Boast OF, Vet
Too Many Lack THAT which IS Best of
All.
BROOKLYN. Feb. 1.-The deep religi-
Gus feeling manifested IN DR.. ,ralmages
congregations since his recent arous-
ing appeal to Outsiders" has appar-
emily encouraged him to continue
preaching Gistinctively evangelistic
sermons. To-day he delivered another
discourse Of the same gospel type, both
at the morning service IN the Academy
of Music, in this city. and at Ihe
Christian Herald service at night in
the New York Academy OF Music. HIS
text was taken from Mark X, y: "One
thing thou lackest.'
The young man Of the text was
splendid nature. Wefall III love with
him at the first glance. He was ami
able and frank and earnest and educat-
ed and refined and respectable and
moral, and yet he wes not a Christian.
And so Christ addresses him in the
words that I have read to you, "One
thing thou lackest.' | suppose that
that text was no more appropriate to
the Young man of whom have spoken
than it is appropriate to a great multi
tude of people in this audience. There
are many things in which you are not
lacking. For instance, you are not
lacking in a good home. 1t is perhaps
no more than an hour ago that you
closed the door, returning to see wheth-
er it was well fastened, of one of the
best homes in this city. The younger
children OF the house already asleep,
the older ones, hearing your returning
footsteps, Will rush to the door to meet
you. And in these winter evenings
the children at the stand with their les
sons, the wife plying the needle and
5ou reading the book or the paper, you
feel that you have good home.
Neither are you lacking IN the refine
ments and courtesies OF life. You un-
derstan6 the polite phraSeology Of In
yitation, regard and apology. You
have on appropriate apparel. | shall
wear no better dress at the wedding
than when ! come TO the marriage OF
the kings son. If l am we'll clothed
on other occasions will be so in a re-
ligious audience. However reckless l
may be about my personal appearance
at other times, when l come into
consecrated assemblage shall have on
the best dress l have. We al under
stand the proprieties of every day life
and the proprieties Of Sabbath life.
Neither are you lacking in worldly
success. You have not made as much
money as you would like 10 make. but
you have al income. While others are
false when they say they have no in
come, or are making no money, you
nave never told that falsenood. You
have had q livelihood, or you have fall
en- upon old resources, which is just the
same thing, for Goo is just as good to
US when ne takes care OF US by a sur
plus Of the past as by present success.
While there are thousands Of men with
hunger tearing at the throat with the
strength Of a tigers paw, not one OF
you is hungry. Neither are you lack
ing n pleasant friendship. You have
real good friends. If the scarlet fever
should come tonight to your housey you
know very well who would come IN
and sit up with the sick one; or, if
death should come, you know who
would come in and take your hand
, tight in theirs with that peculiar grip
which means ''Ill stand by you,' and,
after the life has fled from the loved
one. take you by the arm and lead you
into the next room, and while you are
gone to Greenwood they would stay in
the house and put aside the garments
and the playthings that might bring
TO your mind too severely your great
loss. Friends? Yoa all have friends.
Neither are you lacking in your ad-
miration Of the Christian religion.
There is nothing that makes you so
angry as to have a man malign Christ.
You get red in the face, and you say,
Sir, ! want you TO understand that
though am not myself a Christian, l
don't ike such things said aS that in
my store" and the man goes off, giving
you parting salutation, but you hard
ly answer him. You are provoked be-
yond all bounds. Many OF you have
been supporters Of religion and have
given more to the cause of Christ than
some who profess his faith. There is
nothing that would please you more
than to see your son or daughter stand
ing at the altar of Christ, taking the
: VOWS of the Christian.
It might be little hard on you, and
might make you nervous and agitated
for a little while, but you would be
man enough to say: "My child, that is
right. Go on. am glad you haven't
been kept back by my example. 1hope
: some DAY to join you" You believe
all the doctrines of religion. A man
out yonder says, q am sinner" You
respond, $50 am L" Some one says, II
believe that Christ came to save the
world" You say, $50 do l." Look
ing at your character, at your sur
rounding, find thousand, things
about which to congratulate you, and
yet I must tell you IN the love and fear
OF God, and with reference to my last
account, "One thing thou lackest."
Yod need, my frieddS, in the first
place, the element of happiness. Some
day you feel wretched. You do not
know what is the matter with you.
g You say, II did not sleep last nj ight.
/ think that must be the reason Of my
restlessness;' or, Il have eaten some
thing that did not agree with me, and
think that must be the reason" And
you are unhappy. On, my friends,
happiness QOeS not QepenQ upon pnySl-
, cal condition. Some Of the happiest
peopleI have ever known have been
those who have been wrapped in con-
sumption, or sturg with neuralgia, or
burning with the slow fire OF some fe-
ver.'"
I could call upon the aged men il
this house to give testimony. There
are aged men here who tried the world,
and they tried religion, and they are
willing to testify on our side. 1t was
not long ago that an aged man arose
in praying circle and said: "Breth-
ren, lost my son just as he graduated
from college and it broke my heart:
but am glad now he is gone. He is
at rest, escaped from all sorrow and
ali trouble. And then, in 1857, l lost
all my property, and you see am get