The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-03-04

Vulnerable. But it seems as if the
most sorrows have been reserved for
our world. BY one toss of the world
at T;cuboro, OF y, 900 inhabitants only
26 people escaped. By one shake Of
the world at Lisbon in FIVE minutes
50. 000 perished and 200, 900 before the
earth stopped rocking. \ mountain
falls in Switzerland, burylng the vii
lage of Goldau. a mountain falls IN
Italy in the night, when 2,000 people
are asleep, and they never arouse.
BY a CONFUSION of the earth Japan
broken off from China By a convul-
sion OF the earth the Caribbean islands
broken Of from America. Three IS
lands near the mouth OF the Ganges,
with $40, 600 inha abitants-a great surge
of the sea breaks over them, and 214,-
600 perish that day. Alas, alas, for
our poor world. It has been recently
discovered that a whole continent has
sunk, continent that connected Eu-
rope and America, part Of the inhabl,
tants Of that continent going to Eu-
rope, part coming to America over
the tablelands Of Mexico, up through
the valleys OF the Mississippi, and we
are finding now the remains of their
mounds and their cities in Mexico, in
Colorado and the tablelands Of the
west. 1t is matter of demonstration
that a whole continent has gone
down, the Azores off the coast of
Spain only the highest mountain of
that sunken continent Plato des-
cribed that continent, its grandeur,
the multitude of its inhabitants, It's
splendor and its awful destruction,
and the world thought it was ro-
nance, but archaeologis..s have
found out it was history, and the
English and the German and the
American fleets have gone forth with
the archaeologists, and the Challen-
ger and the Dolphin and the Gazelle-
have dropped anchor, and iu-Seep sea
soundings they haEee~ssoo1u1nd the con-
tour Of baaSSunken continent.
1I, there is trouble marked on the
rocks, on the sky, on the sea, on the
fora and the fauna-astronoD1lcal
trouble, geological trouble, oceanic
trouble, political trouble, domestic
trouble-and standing in the presence
of all those stupendous devastations, l
ask if am not right in saying that
the great want of this age and all ages
is divine sympathy and omnipotent
comfort, and they are found not in the
Brahma of the Hindoo or the Allah
of the Mohammedan, but in the Christ
unto whom shall the gathering of the
people be. Other words may fall, but
this morning star will never be blott-
ed from the heavens. The earth may
quake, but this rock of ages will never
be shaken from its foundations. The
same Christ who fed the 5000 will
feed all the worlds hunger. The
same Christ who cured Bartimeus will
illuminate all blindness. The same
Christ who made the dumb speak will
put on every tongue a hosanna. The
same Christ who awoke Lazarus from
the sarcophagus will yet rally all the
pious dead in glorious resurrection.
Il know that my Redeemer liveth, "
and that 'to him shall the gathering
OF the people be-" All, my friends,
when Christ starts thoroughly aud
quickly to lit this miserable wreck of
sunken world, twill not take him
long to liftit.-
have thought that this particular
age in which we live may be given up
to discoveries and inventions by which
through quick and instantaneous COM
munication all cities and all commu-
mites and all lands will be brought
together, and then in another period
perhaps these inventions which have
been used for worldly purposes will be
brought out for gospel invitation, and
some great prophet of the Lord will
come and snatch the mysterious, sub
lime and miraculous telephone from
the hand of commerce, and, all lands
and kingdoms connected by a won
drous wire, this prophet of the Lord
may, through telephone communica-
ton, in an instant announce to all ma
tons pardon and sympathy and life
throug oh Jesus Christ, and then, put
ting the wondrous tube to tae ear OF
the Lords prophet, the response shall
come back, Il believe in God, the
Father Almighty, maker of heaven
and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his
only begotten Son"
You and I may rot live to see the
day. I think those of us who are over
40 years Of age can scarcely expect to
see the day. I expect before that time
our bodies will be sound asleep in the
hammocks of the old gospel ship as it
goes sailing on. But Christ will wake
us up ia time to see the achievement.
We who have sweated in the hot har-
vest fields will be at the door of the
garner when the sheaves come in.
That work for which in this world we
toiled and wept and struggled and
wore ourselves out shall not come to
consummation and we be oblivious of
the achievement. We will be allowed
to come out and shake hands with the
victors.
We who fought in the earlier bat
ties will have just as much right to
rejoice as those who Redeemed their
feet in the last Armageddon. All,
yea, those who could only give cup
full of cold water in the name of a dis
ciple, those who could only scrape
handful of lint for a wounded soldier,
those who could only administer to
old age in its deccepitude, those who
could only coax poor walf OF the
street to go back home to her God,
those who could only lift little child
in The arms of Christ, will have as
much right to take part in the ovation
to the Lord Jesus Christ as Chrysos.
tom. It will be your victory and
mine, as we'll as Christ's. re the
conqueror, we shouting in his train,
Christ the victor will pick out the
humblest of his disciples in the crowd,
and turning half around on the white
horse of victory he shall point her out
for approval by the multitude as he
sove HSha did what she could Then