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

Rome q great many years ago. there
xer eighty men who chantcd them
selves 20 death with the litanles Of Grey
orv the Great-literally chanteG them
selves to death, and yet it did not stop
The plague. And all the music Of this
world cannot halt the plague OF the hu.
ii III heart.
| come TO some one whose ailments
are chronic, and say, In heaven you
vii never be sick" That does not
give you much comfort. What you
want is a soothing power for your pres
cnt distress. Lost children, have you:
come to you and tell you that in ten
years perhaps you will meet those loved
ones before the throne Of God. But
there IS bur little condolence in shat.
One day is year without them. len
wears IS Il small eternity. What YOU
want is sympathy now-present help.
l come to those of YOU who have lost
dear friends, aud say: Try to forget
them. Do not keep The departed al
ways in Your n,;nd" How can You tor-
get tlleul when every figure III the car
pc, and every book and eyerv picture
and every room calls out cir name.
Suppose l come To you and say by
way of coincidence, God is wise. "Oh,
YOU say, that gives me no help. Sup
pose I come TO YOU and say, God, from
al eternity, has arranged this trouble" "
"Ah.' you say, that does NE no good.
Theu | say. with the swift feet OF
PRAYER go direct to the corn crib for a
heavenly supply" You go. You say:
Lord, help me, LORD, comfort me:
But no help yet. No comfort yet. II
is ali dark. What is tue mat er: |
have found. You ought to go to God
and say: "Here, o Lord, are the
wounds OF my soul, ami bring with
me the wounded } Jesus. Let his wounds
pay for my wounds, his bereavements
Tor nv bereavements, his Loneliness for
nv loneliness, his heartbreak for my
hearthreak. O God. for the sake Of the
/ Lord Jesus Cnrist-the God, the man,
the Benjamin, the brother-deliver my
agonized soul 0 Jesus of the weary
loot. ease my fatigue. o Jesus Of the
aching head, heal my aching head. y
Jesus of the Bethany sisters, rol! away
the stone from the door of the grave
That is the kind of prayer that brings
help; and yet how many OF you are get
ting no help at all, for the reason that
there is in your soul, perhaps, secret
trouble. You may never have men
toned it to single human ear or you
NAV have mentioned it to some one
who is now gone away, and that great
sorrow is still in your soul. After
Washington Irving was dead they
! found a little box that contained
braid of HAIR and a miniature and the
name of Matilda Hoffman, and mem
orandum of her death and a remark
something like this: "The world after
that was a blank to me. went into
the country, but found no peace in SOL
itude. | tried TO go into society. but
| found no peace iu society There has
been horror hanging over me By night,
and bv day, and | am afraid to be
| alone.
FALSE AND FOOLISH PROMISES.
How many unuttered troubles! NO
! human ear has ever heard the sorrow.
Oh, troubled soul. want to tell you
| that there is ole salye that can cure the
| wounds Of the heart, and that IS the
salve made out of the tears Of a sym
pathetic Jesus And yet some of you
VIII not take this solace; and you try
chlorsl, and you try morphine, aud you
try strong drink, and you try change OF
scene, and you Try new business asso-
Citations, and anything and everything
rather tnan take the Divine companion
ship and sympathy suggested by the
words of my text when 1t says, You
shall not see my face again unless your
brother be with you" Oh, that you
might understand something OF the
height and depth and length and
breadth and immensity and intiuity of
Gods eternal consultations.
l go further, and find IN my subject
:. hint as to the way heaven opens TO
the departing spirit. We are told that
heaven has twelve gates, and some peo-
pie infer from that fact that all the
people will 60 in without reference to
their past life: but what is the use OF
having a gate that is not sometimes TO
be shut? The swinging Of a gate I'M
plies that our entrance into heaven IS
conditional. 1t is not monetary con-
dition. If we come to the door of an
exquisite concert We are not surprised
that we must pay fee, for we know
that fine earthly music is expensive;
hut all the oratorioS OF heaven cost
nothing. Heaven pays nothing for its
music. 1t is all free. There is nothing
to BE- paid at that door for entrance;
but the condition of getting into heaven
is onr bringing our divine Benjamin
along with u.s. Do you notice how
often dying people cali upon Jesus? II
is the usual prayer offered-the prayer
offered more than al. the other prayers
put toge;her-''Lord Jesus receive my
spirit.
Que Of our congregation, when asked
in the closing moments of his life, "Do
YOU know u.s." said: "Oh. yes, know
you. Coo bless you. Good-by. Lord
Jesus, receive my Spirit and he was
gone Oh, yes, in the closing moments
OF our lite we must have Christ TO
call upon. If Jacobs sons had gone to-
ward Egypt, and had gone with the
very finest eQuipage, and had not taken
Benjamin along with them, and to the
question they should have been Obliged
TO answer: "Sir. we didn't bring him,
as father could not let him go; we dldn't
want to be bothered with him." a voice
from within would have said: go
away from US. You shall not have any
of this supply. You shall not see my
face because your brother is not with
YOU
MANS EXTREMITY, GODS TINE.
And if We come up toward the door
of heaven at last, though We come from
all luxurianee and brilliancy Of sur
roundings, and knock for admittance
ami it is found that Christ is not with
us, the police OF heaven will beat us
back from the breadhouse. saying:
depart, never knew YOU" Ii Jacobs S
sons, coming toward Egypt, had lost
everything on the way; II they had eX-
pended their last Shekel; if they had
come up utterly exhausted to the corn
cribs of Egypt, and it had been found
that Benjamin was with them, all the
storchouses would have swung open
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