The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-06-12

sdlE dLIOH VIII oo eoHC DS people w
one talent and two talents. while the
ten talent people are up in the astro-
nomical observatories studying other
worlds. though they do little or moth
ing for the redemption Of this world
Or are up III the rarefield realms of
higher criticism trying to find out
that Moses did not write the Penta-
teuch. or to prove that the throat of
the whale was not large enough to
swallow the minister who declined
the call to Nineveh and apologizing
for the Almighty for certain inexpli-
cable things they have found in the
Scriptures. 1t will be found out at the
last that the krupp guns have not
done so much to capture this world
for God as the oxgoads.
Years ago | was to summer in the
Adirondacks and my wealthy friend,
who was a great hunter and fisher
man, said, II am not going to the
Adirondacks this season, and you can
take my equipment and I will send it
up to Paul Smiths. = Well, it was
there when I arrived in the Adj
rondacks, splendid outfit that cost
many hundreds of dollars. gorgeous
tent and such elaborate fishing appa-
ratus; such guns of all styles of eN-
quisite make and reels and pouches
and bait and torches and lunch bask-
cts and many more things that | could
not even guess the use of. And my
friend of the big soul had even writ
ten on and engaged men who should
accompany me into the forest and car
ry home the deer and the trout. If
the mountains could have seen and
understood it at the time, there would
have been panic among the antlers
and the fins through all the John
Browns Tract" Well, I am no hun
ter, and not roebuck or a game fish
did l injure. But there We're hunters
there that season who had nothing
but plain gun and a rug to sleep on
and a coil of fishing line and box of
ammunition and bait, who came in
ever and anon with as many of the
captives of forest and stream as they
and two or three attendants could
carry. Now, / fear that mary Chris
tian workers who have most elaborate
educational and theological and pro-
fessional equipmentand most wonder
full weaponry, sufficient, you would
think, to capture a whole community
or q whole nation for God, will in the
last day have but little except their
fine tackling to show, while some who
had no advantages except that which
they got in prayer and conservation
will, by the souls they have brought
to the shore of eternal safety, prove
that they have been gloriousl y success
full as fishers of men and in taking
many who like the hart. were pant
ing after the water brooks
What made the Amalekites run be-
fore Gideon's army? Each one of the
army knew how much racket the
breaking of one pitcher would make.
So 800 men that night took 800 pitch
ers, and a lamp inside the pitcher, and
at given signal the lamps were lifted
and the pitchers were violently dash
ed down. The flash Of the tight and
the racket of the 300 demolished pitch
ers sent the enemy into wild flight.
Not much of weapon, you would
say, is a broken pitcher, but the Lord
made that awful crash Of crockery the
means of triumph for his people, and
there is yet to be battle with the
pitchers. The night of the worlds
dissipation may get darker and dark.
er, but after awhile, in what watch Of
the night 1 know not, all the ale pitch
ers, and the wine pitchers, and the:
beer pitchers, and the whisky pitchers
of the earth will be hurled into demo-
lition by converted inebriates and
Christian reformers, and at that awful
crash of internal crockery the ANA
lekitish host of pauperism and loafer-
dom and domestic quarrel and cruelty
and assassination will fly the earth.
Go out, then, l charge you against
the Philistines. We must admit the
odds are against us-600 to l. In the
matter of dollars, those devoted to
worldliness and sin and dissipation,
when compared with the dollars devo-
ted to holiness and virtue-600 to l.
The houses set apart for vice and de-
spoilation and ruin, as compared with
those dedicated to good, 600 to /. Of
printed newspaper sheets scattered
abroad from day to day, those deprav-
ing as compared with those elevating,
GOO to one. The agencies for making
the world worse compared with the
agencies for making the world better,
500 to /. But Moses in his song chants,
How should one chase a thousand
and two put ten thousand to flight"
and in my text one oXgoad corquers
60O uplifted battleaxes, and the day OF
universal victory is coming, unless the
Bible be a fabrication and eternity a
myth, and the chariots Of God are un-
wheeled on the golden streets, and the
last regiment of the celestial hosts lies
dead on the plains of heaven. With
us, or without us, the work will be
done. Oh, get into the ranks some
where, armed somehow; you with an
needle, you with a pin, YOU with a
good book, you with loaf of bread
for the hungry, you with vial OF
medicine for the sick, you with a pair
of shoes for the barefooted, you with
word of encouragement for the young
man trying to get back from evil
ways, YOU with some story of the
Christ who came to heal the. worst
wounds and pardon the blacklist guilt
and call the farthest wanderer home.
say to you as the watchman of Lon
don used to say at night to the house
holders. before the time of street
lamps came: Hang out your light
Hang out your light
A Liquor Constable Killed.
CLINTON, June This morning
about half-past 10 o'clock ex-State
Constable John Workman and State
Constable Sam Duncan engaged in
shooting scrape, in which Workman
T.. Al,