The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-01-30


York it has allowed men who got by
police bribery their thousands "nG
tens of thousands and perhaps =!ntn-
Grcds Of thousands Of dollars to go scot
free, while some who we're merely
the eats paw and agents OF bribery
are struck with the lightn!ngs OF the
law. It reminds me OF Il scene III
PHILADELPHIA when | was living there:
\ poor woman had been arrested and
tried and imprisoned for selling molas-
ses candy on Sunday. Other law
breakers had been allowedto go undls-
turbed. and the grogShops were open
on the Lords day. and the law With
its hands behind its back walked up
and down the streets declaring to
moIest many of the offenders. but we
all rose up in our righteous indigna-
ton, and calling upon all powers.
visible and invisible, to help Us we
declare that though the heavens fell
no woman should be allowed to sell
molasses candy on Sunday.
Then there are among these foreig
ners so many of the English. They
inherited-the English in which
Shakespeare dramatized, and Milton
chimed his cantoss and Henry Melville
gospelized. and Oliver Cromwell pro-
rogued parliament, and Wellington
commanded his eager hosts. Among
these foreigners are the Swiss, and
they were rocked in cradle under the
shadow OF the Alps, that cathedral of
the Almighty in which all the the ele-
ments, snow and hail and tempest and
hurricane, worship Among these
foreigners are vast host of Germans,
and they feel centuries afterward the
power of that unparalleled spirit who
Shook the earth when he trod It. and
the heavens when he prayed-Martln
Luther, From all nations our foreign
populations have come, and they are
homesick, far away from the place OF
their childhood and the graves of their
ancestors, and our glorious religion
presented to them Alright vii, meet
their needs and fill their souls anG
kindle their enthusiasm. They shat!
come from amid the wheat sheaves of
Dakota. and from the ore beds OF
Wyoming, and from the silver mines
of Nevada. and from the gold gulches
of Colorado and from the banks Of the
Platte, and the Oregon, and the Sac
ramento, and the Columbia. They
shall come from the west.
But what will the do after they
come? Here is something gloriously
consolatory that you havenever not
iced, They shall come from the east.
and the west. and the north, and the
south, and shall sit down" Oh, this
is tired world, The most of people
are kept on the run all their lifetime.
Business keeps them on the run.
Trouble keeps them on the run. Rival
ries of life keep on the run. They arc
running from disaster. They are run
ming for reward. And those whorun
the fastest and run the longest seem
best to succeed. But my text suggests
a restful posture for all those who for
a lifetime have been on Their They
shall sit down" Why run anylonger
When man gets heaven, what more
can he get: They shall sit down.
Not alone, but in picked companion
ship Of the universe; not embarrassed,
though seraph should sit down on
one side of you and an archaugel on
the other.
They shall sit down" Rest from
toll. Rest from pain. Rest from per-
secution. Rest from uncertainty.
Beautiful, joyous, transporting, ever.
lasting rest. Oh, men and women o.
the frozen north. and the blooming
south, and from the realms of the rlS-
ing or setting sun, through Christ get
your sins forgiven and start for the
place where YOU may at last sit down
in blissful recovery from the fatlgues
of earth while there roll over You the
raptures of heaven. Many of you
have had such rough tussle IN this
world that if your faculties were not
perfect in heaven you would some
time forget yourself and say, 1t IS
time for me to start on that journey.
or 1T must be time for me to count
out the drops of that medicine, or Il
wonder what new attack there IS on
me through the newspapers" or DO
YOU think l will save anything of those
crops from the grasshoppers, or the
locusts, or the droughts:" or Il Won
der how much I have lost in that last
bargain?" or Il must hurry lest miss
the train" No, no. The last volume
of direful, earthly experiences will be
finished. Yea, the last chapter, the
last paragraph, the last sentence, the
last word. Finis,
Frederick the Great, notwithstand-
ing the mighty dominion over which
he reigned, was so depressed at times
he could not speak without cryingand
carried small bottle of quick poison
with which to end his misery when he
could stand it no longer. But give
YOU this small vial of gospel anodyne,
one drop of which, not hurting either
body or soul, ought to soothe all un-
rest and put your pulses into an eter-
nal calm. They shall come from
the east, and from the west, from the
north. and the south, and shall sit
down.
An Old Friend in Need.
COLUMBIA, S. c.. Jan. 23.-The
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