The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-07-08
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along without God to comfort YOU, ant
a God to deliver you, and God to hell
you, and God to save you? You tel
me you have been through, enough busI
ness trouble almost to Kill you. know
it. l cannot understand how the boa
could live one hour in that chopped sea
But do not know by what process yor
got astray; some in one way, and some
in another, and if you could really see
the position some OF you occupy before
God this morning, your soul would burs
into an agony of tears and you would
pelt the heavens with the cry, ''God have
mercy!!" Sinai's batteries have been
unlimbered above your soul, and al
times you have!heard it..thunder: "The
wages of sin is death" ''All have sin
ned and co ne short of the glcry OF God
by one man SIN entered into the world
and death by sin; and SO death passed
W on all men, for that all have sinned.'
The soul that sinneth it shall die"
When Sebastopol was being lombard.
ed, two Russian trigates burned all night
in the harbor throwing a glare upon the
trembling fortress, and some of you are
star ding in the night ofyour souls trou'
BILE. The cannonade and the conhaSra.
lion, the multiplication of your sorrows
and troubles l think must make the
wings Of Gods hovering angels shivel
to the tip.
But the last part of my text opens a
door wide enough to let US all out and
to let all heaven in. Sound it on the
organ with all the stops out. Thrum ii
on the harps with all the strings atune.
With all the melody possible let the
heavens sound it 10 the earth and let
the earth tell it to the heavens. THE
Lord hath laid on him the iniQuity ofus
ALL" am glad that the prophet did
not stop to explain whom he meant by
chin" Him Of the mauger, him of the
bloody sweat, him OF the resurrection
throne, HIM of the crucifxion agony.
"On him the Lord hath laid the lniquity
of US ALL"
CHRIST COMES TO THE FALLEN.
"Oh," says some man, that is not
generous, that is not fair; let every man
carry his own burden and pay his own
debts" That sounds reasonable. If /
have an obligation and have the means
10 meet it. and I come to you and ask
YOU to settle that obligation. you right
ly say, PAY your own debts" II you
and I walking down the street, both
hale, hearty and well, ask you to car
ry me, you say, and say rightly, "Walk
on Your own feet!" But suppose you
and I were ia a regiment and l was
wounded in the battle and fell uncon-
scious at your feet with gunshot fractures
and dislocations, what would you do?
You would call to your comrades say
ing, ''Come and help, this man is help
less; bring the ambulance, let US take
him to the hospital" aad l would be a
dead lift in your arms. and you would
lift me from the ground where l had
fallen and put me in the ambulance and
take me to the hospital and have all
kindness shown me. Would there be
anything mean in your doing that?
Would there be anything bemeaning IN
my accepting that kindness9 Oh, no.
You would be mean not to do it. That
is what Christ does.
FIVE could pay our debts thenit would
be better to 60 up and pay them, saying,
Here. Lord, here is my obligation;
here are the means with which I mean
to settle that obligation; now give me
receipt; cross 1t all out" The debt is
paid. But the fact is we have fallen in
the battle, we have gone down under the
hot fire Of our transgressions, we have
been wounded by the sabers of sin, we
are helpless. We are undone. Christ
comes. The loud clang heard in the sky
on that Christmas night was only the
bell, the resounding bell, of the ambu-
lance. Clear the way for the Son OF
God. He comes down to bind up the
wounds, and to scatter the darkness, and
to save the lost. Clear the way for the
Son Of God.
Christ comes down to see US, and We
are dead lift. He does not lift US with
the tips OF his fingers. He does not lift
US with one arm. He comes down upon
his knee, and then with a dead lit he
raises US TO honor and glory and immor-
tality. The Lord hath laid on him the
iniouity Of US ALL" Why, then, will 20
man carry his sins? You cannot carry
successfully the smallest sin you ever
committed. You might as well put the
Apennines on one shoulder and the
Alps on the other. How much less can
you carry all the sins Of your lifetime!
Christ comes and looks down in your
face and says: II have come through
all the lacerations Of these days and
through all the tempests of these nights.
have come to bear your burdens, and
to pardon Your sins, and to pay your
debts. Put them on my shoulder; put
them on my heart" ''On him the Lord
hath laid the iniquity of US all.
NO REST FOR THE WICKED.
Sin has almost pestered the life out Of
some Of you. At times lthas made you
cross and unreasonable, and it has spoil
ed the brightness Of your days and the
peace of YOUR nights. There are men
wlo have been riddlea Of sin. The
world gives them no solace. Gossamer
and volatile the world, while eternity,
as they look forward to It, is black as
midnight. They writhe under the stings
of conscience which proposes to give
40 rest here and no rest hereafter; and
yet they douotrepent, they do not pray,
they do not weep. They do not realize
that just the position they occupy is the
position occupied by scores, hundreds
and thousands OF men who never found
any hope.
II this meeting should be thrown open
and the peopl. who are here could give
their testimony, what thrilling expert
ences we should hear on all sides! There
is man in the gallery who would say:
Il had brilliant surroundings. l had the
best education that one Of the best col
legiate institutions Of this country could
give, and l observed all the morallties of
life, and I was self righteous, aud l