The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-03-13
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ivour pain, and with voice that you
| Will power hear again, unless you join
her III the better country. told YOU to
! never mind. for You would feel better
bya and by. and b. that dying cteuc:.,
waerc she looked so pale an;; t:.!Ilt'i
so slowly catching her breath between
the words. and YOU felt al awful lonelI-
ness coming over your Soui-by @Ii
that [ be" You to come back ana tar;e
! tlla same religion Il Was good cnoagl
for her. Il IS good enough for .you.
; Nav. have bettc- plea than that. |
plead 3v al TIE wounds and te&.s and
blood and @roanS and agonics asld
! death throcS OF the son IF Goo who
approaches YOU this momen: with torn
Brow aud lacerated hand and whipped,
| back and saying, Come :&nto me. al
yc who are wear:T and heavy laden,
and | viii give you rest.
Again. there is field OF useTulness
but little touched, occupied by those
who are astray in their habits AL
northern nations. like those OF North
America and England and Scotland
that is, in the colder climates-are de-
vastated by alcoholism. They t2?le
the fire to keep up the warmtI>. In
southern countries, like Arabia and
Spain, the blood is so warm they are
not tempted to fiery liquie:s. The
great Roman armies never drank any
thing stronger than water tinged with
vinegar but under our northern CHI
mate the temptation to heating stimuli
ants is most mighty, and millions Sue
cumb. When mans habits 60
wrong. the church drops him. the So
cial circle drops him. good influence
drops him. we all drop him OF all
the men who get OFT track, but feE7
ever get on again.
Near my summer residence there IS
a life saving station on the beach.
There are all the ropes and rockets, the
boats, the machinery for getting peo-
pie off shipwrecks. One summer |
saw there Is or 20 men who were break
fasting after having just escaped with
their lives and nothing more Up and
down our coasts are built these useful
structures, and the mariners know l..
and they feel that if they are driven
into the breakers there will be apt from
shore to come a rescue. The churches
Of God ought to be so many life sav-
ing stations, not so much to help those
who are in smooth waters, but those
who have been shipwrecked. Come,
let US run out the lifeboats. Ana who
will man them2 We do not preach
enough to such men. We Gave not
enough faith in their release. Alas, ii
when they come to hear as we are
laboriously trying to show the differ
ence between sublapsaaianism and
supralapsarianism, while they have a
thousand vipers of runors and despair
coiling around anl biting their inn
mortal spirits. The church is not
chiefly for goodish sort of men whose
procivities arc all right, and who
could get to heaven praying and sing
ing in their own homes. 1t is on the
beach to halp the drowning. Those
bad cases are the cases that God likes
to take ho5d Of He can save a big SIM
ner weI as q small sinner, and when
a maa calls earnestly to God Tor help
he will 60 out to deliver such q one
L i We're necessary. God would come
down from the sky, followed by al
the artillery OF heaven and million
angels with drawn swords Get 100
such redeemed men in each OF your
churches, and nothing could stand be-
fore them, for such men are generally
warm hearted and enthusiastic. Nc
formal prayers then. No heartless
singing them. No cold conventional
iSmS then.
Furthermore, the destitute children
Of the streets offer & field Of work coIl,
paratively unoccupied. The uncared
for children are ii the majority Ill
most of our cities. Their condition
was well illustrated by what boy in
this city said when he was found un-
der a cart gnawing bone, and some
! one said to him, Where do you hve:,
and he answered. Don't livenowhere,
sir" Seventy thousand of the chill,
dren of New York city can neither read
nor write. When they grow up. i!
unreformed, they will outvote your
children, and they will govern you.
children. The whisky ring viii hatch
out other whiskey rings, and grog
shops will kill with their horrid stencil
public sobriety, unless the church Q!
God rises up with cutstretched arms
and enfolds this dying population il
her bosom. Public schools cannot &c
it, Art galleries cannot do it. Black
well's island cannot do it. Almshouse:
! cannot do it. New York Tombs can
rlot do it. Sing Sing cannot do it
! People of God, wake up to your mag
niicent mission, You can do it. Gre
somewhere. somehow, to work.
| The Prussian cavalry mount by put
ting their right foot into the stirrup
! while the American cavalry mount by
putting their left foot into the stirrup
| I don't care how You mount your wal
charger if you only get into this battle
| for GOD and get there soon, right STIR
rup, or left strrnp, OR no stirrup a
all. The unoccupieG fields are al
around as. and why should we built
on another mans foundation:
| have heard of what was called tht
Numbering legion. It was IN 1I9,
part Of the Roman army to which
some Christians belonged and thei>
prayers, it was said, were answered
| by thunder and lightning and hail ant
tempest, which overthrew an invad
| ing army and saved the empire. Anl
l would to God that you could be 81
mighty in PRAYER and work that yot
would. become laundering legion
before which the forces Of sin nigh
be routed and the gates ofhell made t
I tremble. All aboard now on the Cos
| pei ship, II you cannot be a captain
or first mate, be- a stoker, or a deck
hand, or ready at command to cllm'
the ratlines. Heave away now, lads
| Shake ont the reefs in the foretopsail
ECome, . heavenly wind. and fill tin