The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-09-18

ty, Daniel himself having royal blood
in his ems, so we have in the New
Jerusalem great many kindred, and
we are sometimes homesick to see
them. and they are all princes and
princesses, in them the blood imperial,
and we do well to keep our windows
open toward their eternal residence.
Its a Joy for usto believe that while
we are interested in them they are in
terested in u.s. Much thought of heav-
en- makes one heavenly. The airs that
blow through that open window are
charged with life and sweep up to US
aromas from gardens that never wither,
under skies that never cloud, in
springtide that never terminates. Com
pared with it all other heavens are dead
failures.
Homer's heaven was an elysium
which he describes as plain at the
end of the earth or beneath, with no
snow nor rainfall. and the sun never
goes down, and Rhadamanthus, the
justest of men, rules. Hesiod's heaven
IS what he calls the islands Of the
blessed, in the midst of the ocean,
three times year blooming with most
exquisite flowers, and the air is tinted
with purple, while games and music
and horse races occupy the time. The
Scandinavian heaven was the hall of
Walhalla. where the god Odin gave un-
ending wine suppers to earthly heroes
and heroines. The Mohammedan S
heaven passes its disciples in over the
bridge Al-Sirat, which is finer than
hair and sharper than a sword, and
then they are let loose into riot of
everlasting sensuality.
The American aborigines look for
ward to heaven of illimitable hunt
ing ground, partridge and deer and
wild duck more than plentiful, and
the hounds never off the scent, and
guns never missing fire. But the geo
grapher has followed the earth round
and found no Homer's elysium. Voy-
ayers have traversed the deep in all
directions and found no Hesiod's is
lands, of the blessed The Mohammed-
ans celestial debauchery and the In
dams eternal hunting ground for vast
multitudes have no charm But here
rolls in the Bible heaven. No more
sea-that is, no wide separation. No
more night-that is, no insomnia. No
more tears-that is, no heartbreak. No
more pain-that is, no dismissal of
lancet and bitter draft and miasma and
Punishment of neuralgias and catalep-
sizes and consumptions. All colors in
the wall except gloomy black; all
the music in the major key, because
celebrative and jubilant. River
crystalline, gate crystalline and
skies crystalline, because everything
is clear and without doubt. White
robes, and that means sinlessness.
Walls full of odors, and that means
pure regalement of the senses. Rain
bow, and that means the storm is over.
Marriage supper and that means glad
dest festivity. Twelve manner of
fruits. and that means luscious and
unending variety. Harp, trumpet,
grand march, anthem, amen and hal
leluiah in the same orchestra. Cho-
raj meeting solo and overture meeting
antiphon, and strophe joining dithy-
ramb, as they roll into the ocean of
doxologies. And you and may have
all that and have it forever through
Christ if we will let him, with the
blood of one wounded hand, rub out
our sin and with the other wounded
hand swing open the shining portals.
Day and night keep your window
open toward that Jerusalem. Sing
about it. Pray about it. Think about
it. Talk about it. Dream about it.
Do not be inconsolable about your
friends who have gone into it. Donot
worry if something in your heart in
dicates that you are not far off from
its ecstacies. Do not think that when
Christian dies he stops, for he goes
on.
An ingenious man mas taken the
heavenly furlongs as mentioned in
Revelation and has calculated that
there will be in heaven 100 rooms 16
feet square for each ascending soul,
though this world should lose 100, 000,-
900 yearly. But ell the rooms of
heaven will be ours, for they are fam
lily rooms, and as no room in your
house is too good for your children so
all the rooms of all the palaces of the
heavenly Jerusalem will be free to
Gods children, and even the throne
room will not be denied, and you may
run up the steps of the throne and put
your hand on the side of the throne
and sit down beside the King accord
ing to the promise, TO him that over
cometh will grant to sit with me in
my throne" "
But you cannot go in except as con-
ouerors Many years ago the Turks
and Christians were in battle, and the
Christians were defeated, and with
their commander Stephen fled toward
a fortress where the mother of this
commander was staying. When she
saw her son and his army in disgrace
full retreat, she had the gates of the
fortress rolled shut, and then from the
top of the. battlement cried out to
her son, ''You cannot enter here
except as conqueror." Then Steph-
en- rallied his forces and re-
sumed the battle and gained the
day, 20, 600 driving back 200, coo. For
those who are defeated in battle with
sin and death and hell, nothing but
shame and contempt, but for. those
who gain the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ the gates OF the
New Jerusalem will hoist, and there
shall be an abundant entrance into the
everlasting kingdom of our Lord, to-
ward which you do we'll to keep your
windows open.
Democratic Division Inevitable.
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 7.-Ex-Con-
gresham Bland was here yesterday.
He was asked: ''In case the national