The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-09-12


bright hons and put away in the dark
ness? I cannot bear darkness. At the
first coming Of the evening must
have the gas lighted, and the tsrther on
in life get the more 1 like to have my
friends round about me.
Aud am I 10 he put of for Thousands
of years in a dark pace, with no owe to
speak tt? When the holidays come aud
the gifts are distributed, shall add no
10y to the 'Merry Christmas" or the
''Haypy New Yeal:" All do not point
down to the hole in the ground, the grave
and call it beautiful! place. Unless
there be some supernatural illumination
shudder back from it. NV whole na-
ture revolts at it. Ba:uoH this glori.
Gus lamp IS lifted above the grave, and
all the darkness is go2e, and the wsy is
clear. I look into it nov without sim
gle shudder. Now my anxiety Is not
about death. My anxiety is that may
live ar,ght, for kuow that if my life is
consistent, when I come 10 The last nour
and This voice is silent, and these eyes
are closed, and these hands with which I
beg for your eternal salvation to day are
folded oyer the still heart, that then l
only begin to live.
What power is there in anything to
chill me in the last hour if Christ wraps
around me the skirt of his own garment?
What darkness can fall upon my eyelids
then, amid the heavenly dayoreaks o
death, will not fear thee then! Back
10 thy cavern of darkness, thou ro5ber
Of all the earth. Fly, thou despoiler of
families. With this battleax hew thee
IN twain from helmet to sandal, the voice
of Christ sounding all over the earth and
through the heavens: 20 death, will
le thy plague. o grave, will be thy
de 1truct!on."
Te be saved is to wake up in the pres.
ence Of Christ. You know when Jesus
was upon the earth how hsppy he made
every house he went into, and wheD he
brings US up to his house in heaven how
gtea. shall be our glee! His voice has
more music in it than is to be heard in
sll the oratorios of eternity. Talk not
about banks dashed with e1d )rescence.
Jesus is the chief bloom OF heaven. We
shall see the very face that beaned SYM
psthy in Bethany aud take the very hand
that dropped its blood from the short
beam ofthe cross. On, I want to stand
"a eternity with him. Toward that har.
Dor l steer. Toward that goal Irun.
shall be satisfied When T awake in mis-
likeness.
o.. broken hearted men and women,
how sweet it will be II that good land to
pour all your hardships and breavements
and losses into the loving Ger of Christ
and then have him explain why it was
best for you to be sick, and why it was
best for you to be widowed, and why
it was best for you to be prosecuted, and
why it was best for you to be tried, and
hsve him point to an elevation proper.
tionate to your disquietude here saying,
'You suffered With ms on earth: CONS
up now and bs glorl6ed with me IN hsa-
ven."
Some one went into house where
there had been good deal of trouble
and said to the woman there, @'You
seem to be lonely" "Yes," she said;
81 am lonely" How many in the
famuy?" "Oaly ,nyselE.'' Have you
had any chlldren?" II had seven chill.
dren." Where are they?" "Gone."
call gomez" 'All." "Au dead?"
GAIL" Then she breathed a long sigh
into the loneliness and SAID, Goa, sir, I
have been good mother to the grave"
Aud so there are hearts here that are
utterly broken down by the bereavs.
ments Of life. I piont you today to the
eternal balm of heaven. Oh, aged men
and women who have knelt at the thorne
of grace for threescore year and ten, will
not your decrep.itude change for the leap
of a heart when you come to look face
to face upon him whom having not seen
you love? O1, that will be the Good
Shepherd, not out in the night and
watching 10 keep of the wolves, but
with lamb reclining on the suulit hill.
That will be the Captain of our saliva.
ton not amid the roar and crash and
boom of battle, but amid his disbanded
troops keeping victorious festivity. That
will be the Bridegroom OF the church
coming from altar, the bride leaning upon
his arm while he looks down into her
face and ssys: "Bshold, thou art far,
my love! Behold, thou art fair!"