The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-08-29
Two COnauer0rS.

Alexander the Great. after he had scat
tered the army of Darius an" conquered
Tyre, is said to have gone tn Iernsai"ln'
worshippe,l in the Temple and heard the
high priest read the prophecies OF Daniel
concerning himself.
He @as told, according to the lcSeho'
that he was the agent of heaven to humble
the kingdoms OF the Ea t The revelation
pleased him, but he considered himself a
divine person. and nothing else wonld
satisfy his ambition than the honor OF tins
supreme claim
In Libya the hatterng shrine-kccpers OF
Ammon were made to hail him rs the son
Of god, and as snch he ev.r att"rwafd
signed his name.
He was brave. brilliant, fortunate So.-
dier- and king. That was all. his
character was motley Of virtues and wees.
He was by turns modest and mbast!c
noble and mean, Just and unjust, kind and
cruel, vindlctive and magnanlmons, tenn
perate and intemperate. The hc-Soat OF
| Daniels vision was his emblem.
Within thirteen years he made himself
| master CT ten rations, and he ended his
life IN early manhood because he could nor
make himself master of his own appetite.
| He died 4 tlrurkard. Men called HIM the
"conqucror nf the world bnt the world
could not well own him conqucror who teiI
| o victim to its temptations.
More than three hundred years after
Alexanler'S visit to Jerusalem Jesus Christ
stood there IN the Temple. No one showed
llim the prophecies that 1oretold INN;
though thee wcr" many IN the sacrec
books. The scrihcs AMI doctors were as
tonishcd at the understanding ii the mar
vcllous Boy. hnt they did not know lin.
He vert home with His mother, and said
nothing about Himself till He was thirty
years old Then from the privacy Of HIS
simple village lie He w,;lt forth to be
preacher and teacher, and to do good in ii
more public way.
His doctrines sank into mems hearts
His miracles blessed the sci; and the poor
the Son OF God He bad journeyeu to
Egypt in His childhood, but He brought
back no borrowed divinity.
When His three years wonderful minis
try ended He was in Jerusalem again; and
We're remembered. and he had done
cnough to make them tru*: ''Be O! good
cheer: ! have overcome the world
1t would have been worth to Alexander
more than all his victories to be
able to say these words with the
confidence Of saint and mar
tyr, rather than with the boastfulneSs
O: Il warrier king The great Macedonian
was naturally thoughtful and humane, but
he had an Unsuitable lust for power and
glory. so that justice, gentleness. truth, and
the lives of men were nothing when they
stood in It's way. The only shining virtue
in him that this passion conld not kill was
his love for his mother.
The great Nazarine loved His mother,
and loved all mankind. In genuine great
ness Jesus was not only everything that
Alexander was. but every ything that he WAS
not-unwarlik", nnrcvcngcfnl, nnselilsA,
uuSortlid, unc,rn:,, EuGnast.nl, auI to
temptation inv;ncible His power Was not
in splendid strife and bo"nllcSS spoil. but
in forgiveness, humility, purity and Peace.
lie tlught men to love one another and
overcome evil with good, and He made
plain the path of the perfect lie.
alexander AMI JeSas both diel ut the
age of thirty-three Bat the difference Of
their conauests is almost too wide for COM
parison. One was destroyer, the other
was a Saviour; and unlike the empire of the
man OF blood, that went to pieces at his
death. the empire Of Christ is greater TO-
:1ay than ever, and is growing still. As Dr..
Felix Adler, a Jew, says of His earthly
work. In those three years He changed
the current of the worlds history"
The son of OlympiaS, with his victories
OF violence and ambition, survives only IN
the story Of his time. as Il memory The
Son of Mary, with his victories OF love, j. II
LIVING intlnence Gmong living men.
I: there were no higher lesson i'll this
contrast, it at least sets !ortl clearly the
kin.i OF success that brings the noblcst VIII
ninss. Goodness is contagious rs we'll as
wickcdness, and it Is longcr-lived, for it is
nonrished in affection that initiates, and
gratitude that never forgcts. Every person
has one or more followers" and hc who
purifes others by being himself pure, Sc
cures triumph that is lmmoltal.--Ionths
Companion.