The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-04-22

our front door step! If the rcof Of all
the houses OF destitution could be lifted
so we could look down into them just as
God looks. whose nerves would be strong
enough TO stand il: And yet there they
are. The liftv thousand sewing women
in these three cities, some Of them in
hunger aud cold, working night after
night, until some times the blood spurts
from the nostrll and lips. How well
their grief was voiced by that despairing
woman who stood by her invalid hus-
band and invalid child and said to the
city missionary: Il am down-hearted.
Everything's against US; and then there
are other things.'' 'What other thins?"
said the city missionary. "O," she re-
piled, ssmy SIM" ''What do you mean
by that" 'sWeIl," she said, Il never
hear or see anything good. It's work
from Monday morning till Saturday
night, and then when Sunday comes I
can't 60 out, aud l walk the floor, and
it makes me tremble to think that have
cot to meet God. o sir, it's so hard for
US. We have to work so, and then we
have so much trouble. and then we are
getting along so poorly; and see this wee
little thing growing weaker; and then to
think we are not getting nearer to God,
but floating away from him. 0, sir, l
do wish l was ready to die"
l should not wonder if they had q good
deal better time than we in the future, to
make up for the tact that they had such
bad time here. 1t would be just like
Jesus to say; Come up and take the
highest seats. You suffered with me on
earth; now be glorifed with me in heay-
en.'' o thou weeping One of Bethany!
O thu dying One Of the cross! Have
mercy on the starving, freezing, home
less poor of these great cities.
[ have preached this sermon tor tour
or five practical reasons: Because l
want YOU to know who are the uproot-
inc classes of society. Because want
YOU to be more discriminating i'll your
charities. Because 1 want your hearts
open with generosity and you hands
open with charity. Because want you
to be made the sworn friends Of all city
evancelisation, and all newsboy's Iodg-
inc houses, and all childran's and So
cieties, and Dorcas societies, under the
skillful manipulation of wives and moth
ers and sisters and daughters; let the
spare garments of your wardobes be fit
ted to the limbs Of the wan and shlVer-
inc. should not wonder if that hat you
give should co .e back jeweled coronet,
or if that garment that you hand out
from your wardrobe should mysteriously
be whitened, and somehow wrought
| into the Savioul's own robe, so IN the
last dav he would run his hand over 1t,
and say: II was naked, and ye clothed
me.' That would be putting your gar
ments to glorious uses.
But more than than that, l have
preached the sermon because l thought
| in the contrast you would see how very
kindly God had dealt with you, and |
thought that thousands of you would
90 to YOUR comfortable homes, and SIT
at YOUR well filled tables, and at the
warm registers, and look at the round
faces of your children. and that then
| YOU would burst into tears at the re-
view of Gods goodness to you, and
that YOU would go to your room ana
lock the door, and kneel down, and say:
20 Lord, have been an migrate; make
me thy child. o Lord, there are are s. 50
many hungry and unclad and unShel-
tered today, I thank thee that all my
| life thou hast taken such good care OF
me- O Lord, there are so many sick
and crippled children to-day. | thank
thee mine are we'll, some OF them on
earth; some Of them in heaven. Thy
goodness, O Lord, breaks me down:
Take me once and forever. Sprlnkled
as was many years ago at the altar,
while my mother held me, now | conse-
crate my soul to thee IN a holler pap
tism of repenting tears,
"For sinners, Lord. thou cam'st to bleed,
And I'm sinner vile indeed;
Lord, belie7e thy grace is free,
o magnify that grace to me.