The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-10-16

! and we nave QeeQ OF lneiu III ottl
possession. | like to see 4 man all full
of heaven. He talks heaven. lie
sings heaven He prays heaven. lie
dreams heaven. Some of VS. IN our
sleep have had the good place open to
US. We saw the pinnacleS IN the sky.
We heard the click of the hoofs of the
white horses on which victors rode
and the clappirg of the cymbals of
eternal triumph And, while in our
sleep we were glad thatail our sorrows
were over and burdens done with, the
throne OF God grew whiler and winter
and whiter till we opened our eyes and
saw that it Was only the sun cf earthly
morning shiuiug on our pillow. To
have right heart you need to be filled
with this expectancy. 1t would make
your privalions and annoyanceS more
| bearable
In the midst of the city of Paris
stands a statue of the good but broken
hearted Josephine l never imagined
that marble could be smitten irtosuch
tenderness. 1t seems not lifeless If
the spirit Of Josephine be disentaber-
nacled, the soul OF the empress has
taken possession of this figure I am
rot vet satisfied that it is stone. The
puff of ;he dress on the arm seems to
; need but the pressure of the finger to
Eindeut II. The figures at the bottom
Of the robe, the rutfle at the neck, the
fur lining on the dress, the embroid.
cry OF the satin, the cluster of lily and
| leaf and rose in her hand. the polse Of
| her body as she seems to come sailing
out OF the sky, her face calm. humble,
beautiful but yet sad-attest the genius
OF the sculptor and the beauty of the
heroine he celebrates Looking up
through the riffs of the coronet that
encircles her brow, could see the sky
beyond. the great heavens where all
womans wrongs shall be righted, and
the story of endurance and resignation
shall be told to all ages. The rose and
the lily in the hand Of Josephine will
never drop their petals. Believe not
the recent slanders upon her memory.
The children of God. whether they
suffer on earth in palaces or IN novels,
shall come to that glorious rest. o
heaven, sweet heaven, at thy gate we
set down ali our burdens and griefs.
The place will be full. Here there
are vacant chairs at the hearth and at
the table, but there are no vacant
chairs in heaven-the crowns all worn,
the thrones all mounted. Some talk
Of heaven as though it were a very
handsome church, where few favored
spirits would come in and sit down on
finely cushioned seats all by them
selves and sing psalms to all eternity.
No, no. Il saw a great multitude
that no man could number standing
before the throne. He that talked
with me had golden reed to measure
the city, and it was $4,000 furlongs"-
! that is, 1,500 miles-in circumference.
All, heaven is not a little colony at one
corner of Gods dominion, where
mans entrance depends upon what
kind of clothes he has on his back and
how much money he has in his purse,
but vast empire. God grant that the
light of that blessed world may shine
upon usin our last moment.
The first time I crossed the Atlantic
the toughest time we had was at the
mouth of Liverpool harbor. We ar
| rived at nightfall and We're obliged to
lie there till the morning waiting for
the rising of the tide before we could
60 up to the city. How the vessel
pitched and writhed in the water. So
Sometimes the last illness of the Chris
tian is a struggle. The waves Of
temptation toss his soul, but he waits
for the morning. At last the light
| dawns, and the tides of Joy rise in his
soul, and he sails up and casts anchor
within the vale.
Is thy heart right2 What question
| can compare with this in importance?
is business question Do you not
realize that you will soon have to go
out of that store; that you will soon
have to resign that partnership; that
soon among all the millions of dollars
| worth of goods that are sold you will
| not have the handling of yard of
cloth. or pound of sugar, or a penny
worth of anything; that soon, if
confagration should start at Central
| park and sweep everything to the bat
terry, it would not disturb you; that
soon, if every cashier should abscond
and every insurance company should
fail it would not affect you? What
are the questions that stop this side
the grave compared with the questions
that reach beyond it? Are you max
ing losses that are to be everlasting2
Are you making purchases for eterni-
ty2 Are you jobbing for time when
you might be wholesaling for eternity
| What question of the store is so broad
at the base, and so altitudinous, and
so overwhelming as the question, rs
thy heart right?"
Or is it a domestic question: Is it
something about father OR mother or
companion or son or daughter that
you think is comparable with this
question in importance2 Do you not
realize that by universal and ine1cra-
BILE law all these relations will be brok-
en- up2 Your father will be gone,
! your mother will be gone, your com
panion will be gone, your child will
be gone, you will be gone, and then
this supernal question will begin to
harvest its chief gains or dep!ore its
worst losses, roll up into its mightiest
magnitude or sweep its vast circles.
What difference now does it make to
Napoleon III whether he triumphed
or surrendered at Sedan2 Whether he
lived at the Tuileries or at Chiselhurst?
Whether he was emperor or exile?
They laid him out in his coffin in the
dress of field marshal Did that give
him any better chance for the next
world than if he had been laid out in a
plain shroud? And soon to US what
will be the difference whether in this
world we rode or walked, were bowed
to Or maltreated, were applauded or
hissed at, were welcomed in or kicked
out, while laying hold of every mo-
ment of the great future and burning
in all the splendor or grief and over