The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-05-22

memory IS mace up Ol the negatives
Of IN immortal photograph. All that
YOU see or hear goes into your soul to
make pictures for the future. You
will have with you till the Judgment
day the negatives Of ell the bad pict-
ures you have ever looked at and Of
all the debauched scenes you have
read about. Show lie the newspapers
YOU take and the books you read, and
l Will tell you what are your prospects
for we'll being in this life, and what
will be your residence 100000 years
after the star on which we now live
shall nave dropped out Of the constel-
lation. I never travel on Sunday un-
less it be a case Of necessity or mercy.
But last autumn | was in India in a
city plague struck. By the hundreds
the people were down with fearful i'll
ness We went to the apothecary's to
get some preventive of the fever and
the place was crowded with invalids,
and We had no confidence in the pre-
ventive we purchased from the Hin
docs. The mail train was to start
Sabbath evening. | said. Frank I
think the Lord will excuse us if we
get ou: Of this place with the first
train, and we took it notfeeline quite
comfortable till we were hundreds of
miles away. | felt we were right in
flying from the plague. Well, the
air in many Of our cities is struck
through with a worse plague-the
plague of corrupt and damnable liter
ature Get away from it as soon as
possible. 1t has already ruined the
bodies, minds and souls OF q multitude
which, ii stood in solid column. would
reach from New York Battery to Gold
en- Horn. The plague. The plague.
Never go to any place where you
would be ashamed to die. Adopt that
plan, and you will never go to any
evil amusement nor be found in COM
promising surroundings. How many
startling cases within the past few
years of men called suddenly out of
this world, and the newspapers sur
prised US when they mentioned the
locality and the companionship. To
put it on the least important ground,
you ought not to 60 to any such for
bidden place, because if you depart
this life in such circumstances you
put officiating ministers in great en-
barrassment. You know that some of
the ministers believe that all wko
leave this life go straight to heaven.
however they have acted III this world
or whatever they have believed. To
get you through from such surround
ings is an appalling theological under
taking. One of the most arduous and
besweating efforts of that kind that I
ever knew of was at the obsequeies OF
a man who was found dead in snow
band with his rum jug close beside
him. But the minister did the work
of happy transference as well as posi-
bic, although it did seem a little map
propriate when he read: Blessed are
the dead who die in the Lord They
rest from their labors, and their works
do follow them" If you have no
mercy upon yourself, have mercy upon
the minister who may be called to Of
ficiate after your demise. Die at home,
or in some place of honest business, or
where the laughter is clean, or amid
companionships pure and elevating.
Remember that any place we 60 to
may become our starting point for the
next world. When we enter the har-
bor of heaven and the officer of light
comes aboard. let us be able to show
that our clearing papers were dated at
the right port.
As soon as you can, by industry and
economy, have home of your own.
What do I mean by homer l mean
two rooms and the blessing Of God on
both of thenl-one room for slumber,
one for food, its preparation and the
partaking thereof. Mark you. l would
like you to have a home with thirty
rooms, all upholstered, pictured and
statuetted, but am putting it down at
the minimum. \ husband and wife
who cannot be happy with a home
made up of two rooms would not be
happy in heaven if they got there.
He who wins and keeps the affection
of a good practical woman has done
gloriously. What do l mean by a
good woman? Imean one who loved
God before she loved you. What do
l mean by a practical woman! l
mean one who can help you to earn a
living, for time comes in almost
every mans life when he is flung OF
hard misfortune, and you do not want
a weakling going around the house
whining and smiling about how she
hadit before you married her. The
simple reason why thousands OF men
never get on in the world is because
they married nonentities and never
cot over it. The only thing that Jobs
wife proposed for his boils was warm
poultice of profanity, saying, Curse
God and die" 1t adds to our admira-
ton of John Wesley the manner IN
which hec onquered domestic unhappi-
ness. His wife had slandered him all
over England until, standing in his
pulpit in City Road Chapel, he COM
planned to the people, saying, i have
been charged with every crime in the
catalogue except drunkenness, when
his wife arose in the back part OF the
church and said, John, you know
YOU were drunk last night" Then
Wesley exclaimed Thank God, the
catalogue is complete" When a man
marries, he marries for heaven or hell,
and it is more so when woman mar
ries. You six young men in Fayette,
O., had better look out.
Do not rate yourself too high. Bet
ter rate yourself too low. If you rate
yourself too low, the world will say,
"Come up" If you rate yourself too
high, the world will say, Come
down" It is bad thing when man
gets so exaggerated an idea Of himself
as did Earl of Buchan, whose speech
Ballantyne, the Edinburg printer,
could not set up for publication be-
cause he had not enough capital Is
among his type Remember that the
world got along without you nearly
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