The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-03-13
CTN0CCUPIED FIELDS.
REV. DR.. TALMAGGs SUCCESSFUL
WORK. IN NEW YORK.


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New YORK. March 3.-Public inter
est in the services at the Academy OF
Music is something phenomenal. Al,
though the arrangement IS an lnuova-
tom in religious methods IN New
York, bot. as to time and place, there
is no church in the CITY to which so
many people go or where so much
eaeerness to secure admission IS dis,
played. Tie usual immense audience
was present this afternoon to hear the
famous preacher. DR.. Talmages SGo-
iect was New Ground" and his text
Romans Nv, 20, Lest l should build
upon another mans foundation. >
After, with the help of others, I had
built three churches in the same city,
and not feeling called upon to under
take the superAuman toll of building
a fourth church Providence seemed
to point to this place as the field
in which I could enlarge my work
and feel sense Of relief amounting
toexultation. Whereunto this work
will grow I cannot prophesy. 1t is III
vitingand promising beyond anythIng
have ever touched. The churches
are the grandest institutions this world
ever saw, aud their pastors have no
s,1periors this side of heaven, but there
is a work which must be done outside
the churches, and to that work | join
myself for awhile, Lest I builc on
another mans foundation"
The church is fortress divinely
built. Now, fortress is for defenceand
for storing ammunition, but an army
must sometimes be on the march far
outside the fortress. In the campaign
ofconquering this world for Christ the
time has come for an advance move
nient, for general engagement,
for masssing the troops, foran invasion
Of the enemies country. Confident
that the forts are well manned by the
ablest ministry that ever blest the
church, I propose, with others, for
awhile to JON the cavalry and move
out and on for service in the open
field.
In laying out the plan for his miss
ionary tour Paul, with more brain
than any of his contemporaries or pre-
decessors or successors, sought out
towns and cities which had not yet
been preached to. He goes to Corlnth,
a city mentioned for splendor and
vice, and Jerusalem, where the priest
hood sanhedrin were ready to leap
with both feet upon the Christian re-
hgion. He feels he has special work
to do, and he means to do 1t. What
was the result2 The grandest life OF
usefulness that man ever lived. We
modern Christian workers are not apt
to initiate Paul We build on other
PEOPLES foundations. If we erect a
church, we prefer to have it filled
with families all of whom have been
pious. Do we gather Sunday school
class, we want good boys and girls,
hair combed, faces washed, manners
attractive. So church in this day IS
apt to be built out of other churches.
Some ministers spent all their time
fishing in other peoples ponds. and
they throw the line into that church
pond and jerk out a Methodist, and
throw the line into another
church pond and bring out a
PRESBYTERIAN, or there is a
religious row in some neighbori1g
church, and the whole school of fish
swim off from that pond, and we take
them all in with one sweep of the net.
What is gained? Absolutely nothing
for the general cause of Christ. 1t Is
only as in an army, when a regiment
is transferred from one division to an
other or from the Fourteenth regi-
ment to the sixty-ninth regiment.
What strengthens the army IS new
recruits.
There is a vast field here and every
where unoccupied, plenty of room
more, not building on another man
foundation. We need as churches to
stop bombarding the old ironclad SIN
ners that have been proof against 80
years of Christian assault and aim TOR
fhesalvation of those who have never
vet had one warm hearted and point
blank invertation. There are churches
whose buildings might be worth $500,
600 who are not averaging i've new
converts year and doing less good
than many a log cabin meeting house
with tallow candle stuck IN wooden
socketand arninster who has never seen
a college or known the difference be-
tween Greek and Choctaw. We need
churches to get into sympathy with
the great outside world and let them
know that none are so broken hearted
or hardly bestead that they will not
be welcomed. No" says some
fastidious Christian, I don't like to
be crowed in church. Don't put any
one inmy pew" Ny brother, what
will you do in heaven! When a
great multitude that no man can mum,
Der assemblies, they will put 80 IN
YOUR pew. What are the select few to-
day assembled in the Christian church
escompared with themightier millions
outside Of them? At least 8, 900. eoO
people in this cluster of soaboard cities
and not more than 0,0oo, IN the
churches. MAN. of the ehapehes are
like hospital that should advertise
thatits patients must have nothing
worse than toothache or run arounds'
but no broken heads, no crushed
ankles, no fractured thighs. Give US
for treatment moderate sinners, velvet
coated sinners and sinners witha gloss