The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-01-31

truth, and therefore ell the worlds that
The telescope ever reached or Coperni.
Gus or Galllei or Kepler or Newton or
Laplace or Herschell or our own Mitch
eli ever saw were,so easily made that
they were made with the fingers. AS
easily as witt. your fingers you uold the
wax, or the clay, OF the dough to par.
ticular shapes, SO he decided the shape
of our world, and that it should weigh
six sextillioo tons, and appointed for all
worlds their orbits and decided their
col, The white to Sirius, the ruddf to
Aldebaran, the yellow to Pollux, the
blue 10 Altar, marrying some OF the
stars, as the 2,400 double stars that
HerscheD observed administering to the
whlus Of the variable stars as their
glance becomes brighter or dim, prepar-
ing what astronomers called "the glrdle
Of AnGromeda" and the nebula in the
sword handle Of Orieu. Worlds on
worlds! Worlds under worlds! Worlds
above worlds! Worlds beyond worlds!
So many that arithnetics are OF no use
in the calculation! But he counted them
ss be made them, and be msde them
with bis fingers! Reservation OF power!
Suppression of omaipotence! Resources
- vet untouched! Almlghtlness yet
urdenonstratan! Now, I ask for the
benefit of all dishearteaed Christian
workers, if God accomplished 80 much
with bis fingers, what can he do when he
PUTS out all his strength and when be
unlimbers ali The batteries of his o1nplp-
otence3 Tue Bible 80 ks az >iu and
again of Coos outs. 2:cned arm, Int
only once, and that in the text, OF the
bare arm ofGod.
NV text makes it PLAIN that the rectl.
fca,iun of this. world Is stupendous un-
Ger!aking. It takes uore power to make
this world over again than 1t took to
make it q. first. A word vas onl7 ne
cessary for the 6rsI creation, but Tor the
new creation the unsleeved and uuhlr
dered fore arm of the Alnisht,! The
rea ,on OF that can understand. Ia the
shipvards OF Liverpool or G assow or
New York a great vessel is constructed.
The architect draws out the plan. the
length Of the beam, the capacity OF tom
mage, the rotation Of whell Or screw, the
cabins, the nasts and all the appoint
menls of this great palace of the deep.
The architect finishes bis work without
any perplexitv, and the carpenters ano
art'zaDs toll on the craft so many hour.
g ds,. each cne doing bis part, untll
with flags and thousands OF pe ople huz.
z,lpg on The docks he.vesselis is launched
But out % The sea that steamer breaks
her shaft aud Is linpltg slowly sh'ug to
ward harbor when Caribbean whlrl wlnos
those mighty bunuers Of the deep, look
ing out Tor prev Of ships, surrouod that
wounded vessel and pitch it on a rocky
coast, ard she lifts and falls 10 the
breakers until every joint is loose, and
every spar Is do~n, aud every wave
sweeps over the hurricane deck as she
parts midships. Would it not require
s,ere skill and power to get that splin.
.,red vessel of the rocks andrecoDstruct
1t .ban it required originally to build her?
Ave! Our world that God built so beau
arul, and Which started out with all the
Ejenic foliage and with the chant OF
paradisaicai bowers, has been 90 centu.
ries pounding 10 tho skerries of sin and
sorrow, and to get her ou:. and to, get
Der of, and to get her on the right way
again will req uire more of omnlpotence
than it required to build her and launch
her. So lam not surprised that though
il the drydock ofone word our world was
made it will take the unsleeved arm OF
God to lift her from the rocks and put
her on the right comse again. It is evl.
dent from my text and its comparison
with other texts that 1t would not be so
great an undertaking to make whole
constellation of worlds, and whcle gal.
axy OF worlds, and a whole astronomy
OF worlds and swing them in their right
orbits as to take this wounded world,
this stranded world this destroyed world
and make it as good as Tben it started.
Now, just look at the enthroned diff
:culties in the way, the removal OF witch
the overthrow Of which seem to require
the bare right arm of omnlpotence.
There stands heathenlsm with its $780,
600, 900 victims. do not care whether
you call them Brahma1s or Buddhists,
Confucians or fetch ldolaters. At the
Worlds fair in Chicago last summer
those monstrosities Of religion tried to
make themselves respectable, but the
long hair and baggy trousers and trlnk-
ete6 robes Of their representatives can
not hide from the world the facts that
those religions are the authors Of iuner-
eral pyre, and juggernaut crushing and
Ganses infanticide, and Chinese shoe
torture, and the aggregated massacres
of many centuries. They have their
keels on India, on China. on Persia, on
Borneo, on three-fourths of the acreage
of our poor old world. 7 know that the
missionaries, who are the most sacrlhc-
ing and Christlike men and women on
earth, are making steady and glorious
inroads upon these built up denominations
of th. centuries. All this stuff that you
see in some of the newspapers about
he missionaries as living In luxury and
idleress is promulgated by corrupt
American or English or Scotch mer-
chants, whose loose behavior in heathen
cities has been rebukeo by the mission
aries, and these corrupt merchants
write home or tell innocent and unsus.
pecting visitors in India or China or
the darkened islands of the sea these
falsehoods about our consecrated mis-
sionaries, who, turning their backs on
home and civilization and emolument
and comfort, spend their lives in trying
to introduce tho mercy of the gospel
among the ioWntrodden of heathenism
Some of those merchants leave their
families in America or England Or
Scotland anG stay for few years IN
the ports of heathentsm while they are
making their fortunes in the tea OF
rice or OPIUM trade, and While they are
thus absent from home give themselvs
to orgies of disso!uteness such as nc
pen or tongue could, without the abo,
iition of al! decency, attempt to report.
The presence of the missionarle.
with their pure and noble house