The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-16

clapped his hands and in his dying mo-
ment SAID: That's just the promise l
have been waiting for. The blood OF
Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sim y
On. the warmth, the grandeur, the mag
uiicence Of the promises!
COME ALL YE TROUBLED.
Come, also, to this Gospel well, all
ye troubled. l do not suppose You
have escaped. Compare your view OF
this life at fifteen years of age with what
your view Of it is at forty, or sixty, or
seventy. What a great contrast OF
opinion! Were you right then, or are
you right now? Two cups placed in
| your hands. the one sweet cup, the
other sour cup. \ cup of JOY and a
cup OF grief. Which has been the near
est to being full. and out Of which have
you the more frequently partaken:
What different place the cemetery Is
from what 1t used to be! Once it was to
you grand city improvement, aaa you
vent out on the pleasure excursion. and
ran laughing up the mound, and you
criticised in light way the epitaph.
DUl SlISC IlC va Nl-S1 ISSA -'S.kA I-iS
bell toll at the gate as you went n with
the procession, 1t is a sad place, and
there is food of rushing memories that
sutuse the eye and overmaster the heart.
Oh, you have had trouble, trouble, trou-
ble. God only knows how much you
have had. Ii is wonder you have been
able to live through it. 1t is wonder
your nervous system has not been
shattered and your brain has not reeled.
Trouble, trouble. Ii I could gather all
the griefs Of all sorts from this great au-
dience and could put them in one scroll,
neither man nor angel could endure the
recitation. Well, what do you want:
Would you like to have your property
back again? No." YOU say, as a Chris
tian man: II was becoming arrogant,
and I thiuk that is why the Lord took it
away. I don't want to have my pro-
perty back" Well, would you have
your departed friends back again? No"
YOU say; II couldn't take the response
blhty Of bringing them from a fearless
realm to realm Of tears. l couldn't
do it." Well, then, what do you want?
A thousand voices in the audience cry
out, "Comfort, give us comfort" For
that reason have rolled away the stone
from the wsll's mouth. Come, all Ye
wounded of the flock, pursued Of the
wolves, come to the fountain where the
Lords sick and bereft ones have come.
DEsoLATIoN OF THE BEREAvED.
sAh," says some one, you are not
old enough to ur derstand my sorrows.
You have not been in the world as long
as have, and you can talk to me about
my misfortunes in the time vf old age"
Well, | have been q great deal among
old people, and l know how they feel
about their falling health. and about
their departed friends, and about the
loneliness that sometimes strikes
through their soul. After two persons
have lived together for forty or fifty
years and one OF them IS taken away,
what desolation!
I shall not forget the cry Of the late
Rev. DR.. De Witt, of l'cw York, when
he stood by the open grave Of his be-
loved wife, and, after the obseQules mad
ended, he looked down into the open
place and said: Farewell, my hon
ored, faithful and beloved wife. The
bond that bound US is severed. Thou
art in glory, and l am here on earth.
We shall meet again. Farewell! Fare
WE'LL" To lean on prop for fifty years,
and then have it break under you!
There were only two years difference
between the deaths Of my father and
mother. After my mothers decease
my father used to 20 around as though
looking for something; and he would Of
ten get up from one room without any
seeming reason and 60 to another room;
and then he would take his cane and
start out and some one would say,
Father, where are you going?" and he
would answer, II don't know exactly
where l am going" Always looking
for something. Though he was ten
der hearted man. never saw him cry
but once, and that was at the burial OF
my mother. After sixty years living
together, it was hard to part.
And there are aged people today who
are feeling just such a pang as that. |
want to tell them there is perfect en-
chantment in the premises of this Cos
pei; and l come to them and l offer
them my arm, or l take their arm and
I bring them to this Gospel well. Sit
down, father or mother, sit down. See
if there IS anything at the well for You.
Come, David, the psalmist. have you
anything encouraging to offer them:
Yes" says the psalmist: 'They shall
still bring forth fruit in old age. they
shall be fat and tlourishing, to show that
the Lord is upright, he is Hly rock. and
there is no unrighteousness in me-"
Come, Isaiah, have you anything to say
out of your prophecies for these aged
people? Yes, ".saYs Isaiah: Down
to old age am with thee. and to hoary
hairs will l carry thee"
Well. if the Lord is going to carry
you, you ought not to worry much about
your failing eyeslght and falling limbs.
You get little worried for fear some
time you will come to want. do
you? Your children and grandchildren
sometimes speak little sharp at yoc
because OF your ailments. TIE Lord
will not speak sharp. DO you think you
will come to want: Who do you think
the Lord is: Are his granaries empty;
| viii be feed the raven and the rabbit,
and the lion in the desert, and forget
you? Why, naturalists tell US thai the
porpolse will not torsake It's wounded
and sick maue. And do you suppose
the Lord Of heaven and earth has not as
much sympathy as the fish OF the sea:
But you say: 81 am so near wornout,
and l am Of no use to God any more" J"
I think the Lord knows whether you
are Of any more use or not; if you were
of no more use he would have taken YOU
before this. Do you think God has for
cotton you because he has taken care OF
you seventy or eighty years? He thinks
more of Won TODAY than he ever did be-