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

cheek? Was he not pursued all the days
of his life? Did they not expectcrate
upon him? Or, to put it in Bible Ian
} gusge, ''They spit upon him.. And
cannot he understand what persecution
is? "Cast thy burden upon the Lord,
and he shall sustain thee.''
Third-There are others who carry
great burdens of physical ailments.
When sudden sickness has come, and
fierce choleras and malignant fevers take
the castles of lite by storm, we appeal
to God; but IN these chronic ailments
which wear out the strength day after
day, and week after week, and year af-
ter year. how little resortlng to God for
solace! Then people depend upon their
tones and their plasters and their cor
dials rather than upon heavenly stimu-
lants. Oh, how few people there are
completely well! Some OF you, by dint
Of perseverance and care, have kept ii7-
ing to this time; but how you have had
to war against physical ailments! An
tediluvians, without medical college and
infrnary and apothecary shop, multi
piled their years by hundreds; but he
who has gone through the gantlet Of dis
ease in our time, and has come to seven
ty years Of age, is a hero worthy of a
palm.
THE BURDEN OF ILLNESS.
The world seems to be a great hospi-
tai, and you run against rheumatlsms
and consumptions and scrofulas andneu-
ralglas and scores Of old diseases bap-
tized by new nomenclature. Oh, how
heavy a burden sickness is! 1t takes
the color out Of the sky, and the sparkle
out of the wave, and the sweetness out
of the fruit, and the luster out Of the
night. When the limbs ache, when the
respiration is painful, when the mouth
is hot, when the ear roars with unhealthy
obstructions, how hard it is to be patient
and cheerful and assiduous! "Cast thy
burden upon the Lord" Does your
head ache? His wore the thorn. Do
your feet hurt? His were crushed Of the
spikes. Is your side painful? His was
struck by the spear. Do you feel like
giving way under the burden? His
weakness gave way under cross.
While you are in every possible way
to Try to restore your physical Vlgor,
YOU are to remember that more soothing
taan any anodyne, and more vitalizing
than any stimulant, and more strength
ening than any tonic is the prescription
Of the text: Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, and he shall sustain thee" We
hear great deal oftalk now about faith
cure, and some people say it cannot be
done and it is q failure. do not know
but that the chief advance Of the church
is to be IN that direction. Marvellous
things come to me day by day which
make me think that if the age Of mira
cles is past it is because the faith OF mir
acles is past.
A prominent merchant of New York
said to member Of my family. My
mother wants her case mentioned to Mr..
Taimage." This was the case. He
said: "My mother had a dreadful ab-
scess, from which she had suffered untold
agonies, and all surgery had been ex-
hausted upon her, and worse and worse
she grew until we called in a few Chris
tlan friends and proceeded to pray about
1t. We commended her case to God and
the abscess began Immediately to be
cured. She is entirely well now, and
without knife and without any surgery"
So that case has come to me, and there
are score Of other cases coming to our
ears from all parts Of the earth. Oh. ye
who are sick, 20 to Christ! Oh, ye who
are worR out with agonies ofbody, "Cast
thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall
sustain theev'
THE BURDEN OF BEREAVEMENT.
Another burden some'have to carry is
the burden of bereavement. All! these
are the troubles that wear US out. If we
lose our property, by additions industry
perhaps we may bring back the estrang-
ed fortune; if we lose our good name,
perhaps by reformation Of morals we
Lay achieve again reputation for lntegri-
| ty; but who will bring back the dear
departed? Alas me! for these empty
cradles and these trunks of childish toys
that will never be used again. Alas
me! for the empty chair and the silence
in the halls that will nevev echo again
those familiar footsteps. Alas! for the
cry Of widowhood and orpanage.
What bitter Marahs in the wilderness,
what cities of the dead, what long black
shadow from the wing Of death, what eyes
sunken with grief, what hands tremulous
with bereavement, what instruments OF
music shut now because there are no fin
gers to play on them! Is thele no relief
for such souls? Aye, let the soul ride
into the harbor of my text.
The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for re-
| pose,
l will not, l will not, desert to its foes:
That soul, though all hell shall endeavor to
shake,
I'll never no Dever no never forsake.
Now, the grave is brighter than the
ancient tomb where the lights were
pecpetually kept burning. The scared
feet OF him who was "the resurrection
and the life" are on the broken grave
hillock, while the voices of angels ring
down the sky at the coronation ofanother
soul come home to glory.
THE ONLY CURE FOR SIN.
Then there are many who carry the
burden of sin. All, we all carry it until
in the appointed way that burden is lift
ed. We need no bible to prove chat the
whole race Is ruined. What spectacle
it would be If we could tear of the mask
of human deflement, or beat drum
that would bring up the whole army Of
the worlds transgressions-the decep-
ton, the fraud, and the rapine, and the
murder, and the crime OF all the centuries!
Aye, if could sound the trumpet Of res
direction in the >al of the best men in
this audience, and all the dead SINS OF
the past should come up, we could not
endure the sight. Sin, grim and dire,
has put it's clutch upon the immortal
soul, and that clutch will never relax
unless it be under the heel of him who