The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-08-22

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progress, and the crack of suicides
pistol would be no more alarming than
the rumble of a street car.
All. intidlity, stand up and take thy
sentence! In the presence of God and
angles and men, stand up; thou mon.
ster, thy lip blasted with blaspemy. thy
cheek scared with lust, thy breath foul
with corruption of the ages Stand up.
satyr, filthy goat, buZzard OF the La.
tions, leper of the centuries, Stand up,
thou monster inidelity Part man part
panther, psrt reptile, part dragon,
stand up, and take thV sentence. Thy
hands red with the blood in which thou
has washed, thy feet crimson with the
human gore through which thou hast
Wadded, stand up and take thy SEN
teDce. Down with thee to the pit and
sup on the sobs and groans of families
thou hast blasted, and roll on the bed of
knives which thou hast sharpened for
others, and let thy music be the ever
lasting miseries of those whom thou
hast damned. l brand the forehead of
;nfdelity with all the crimes of self i'm
notation for the last century on the
part of those who had their reason.
Ny friends, if ever your life thought
its abrasions and it's mole5tations
should seem to be unberable, and you
are tempted to quit it by your own be.
hest, do not consider yourselves as
worse than others. Christ himself was
tempted to cast hi nself from the roof
of the temple, but as he resisted 50 re-
sist ye. Christ came to medicine all our
wounds. In your trouble l prescribe
life instead Of death. People who have
had it worse than you will ever have it
have gone songful on their way. Re-
member that God keeps the chronology
of your life with as much precision as
he keeps the the chronology of nations,
your death as well as your birth your
grave as well as your cradle.
Why was it that at midnight, just
at midnight. the destroying angel
struck the blow that set the Israelites
free from bondage? The 430 years were
upat - O'Clock that night. The 43O
years were not up at II, and o'clock
would have bean tardy and too late.
The 43O years were up at 12 o'clock, and
the destroying angle struck the blow,
and Isreal was free. And God knows
jast the hour when it is time to lead
you up from earthly bondage. BY his
grace make not the worst of things,
but the best of them. If you must take
the pills, do not chew them. Your ever
lasting rewards will accord with your
earthly perturbations, just as Csius
gave to Agrippa chain of gold as
heavy as had been his chain Of iron.
For your asking you may have the
same glace that was given to the It.
allan martyr, AlgeriGs, who. down in
the darkest of dungeons, dated his let
ter from "the delectable or chard of the
Leonine prison"
And remember that this briet life of
ours is surrounded by q rim, very
thin but very important rim, and close
up to that rim is great eternity, and
you had better keep out Of 1t until God
breaks that rim and separates this from
that. To get rid of the sorrows Of earth
do not rush into greater sorroWs. To
get rid Of swan of summer insects
leap not into 9 jungle of Bengal tigers,
There is sorrowless world, and it is
so radiant that MONDAY sun is only
the lowest doorstep, ahd the aurorathat
lights up our northern heavens, con-
founding astronomers as to what it can
be, Is the waving of the banners of the
procession come to take the conquerors
home from church triumphant, and
you and have ten thousand reaons for
wanting to 60 there, but we will never
get there either by self immolation or
Impenitency. All our sins slain by the
Christ who came to do that thing, we
want to go in at just the time divinely
arranged and from couch divinely
spread, and then the clang of the sepul-
chral gates behind US will be oVerpoW-
cred by the clang of the opening of
the solid pearl before US. O God, what
ever others may choose, give me Christ
isn'slife, Christians death, a Christ
ian's burial, q Christians immortality.