The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-10-07

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Not one. How much scor1 and scoif
aud brutal attack did Horace Mann
endure b9twaen the time when he
first began to fight for better com
mon school system in Massachusetts,
snd the day when q statute in honor
OF him was placed on the steps OF the
overlooking the commous2
R9ad the biography OF Robert Hall.
the Baptist preacher, who, though ne
had been pronouaceda Ounce at tSclool'
lived to thrill the world vita his;
Christian elolusnce, an3 OF George:
Peabody, who never owned carnage;
and denied himself all IIxories that
he might while living and after death,
through last will and tessam ent, de-
vote his unco1nted millions to the
education OF the poor people in E2g
land aud America, and of Bishop
James. who Ia boyhood worked his
passage from ireland to Am erica and
became the joy OF Methodisn and
blessing to the race. Go to the bio
grapic2l alcovein city, state Or national
library and fnd at least every other
book an illustration OF overcome OBJ
stacle aud Of carmine gate that had to
be forced open.
What is true Of indio;duals is true
Of nations. Was it mild spring morn
ing when the pilgrim fathers landed
on Plymouth rock, and did they come
in gilded yacht, gay streaners fl yingG
No. It was in cold December and from
a ship III which one would not want to
cross the Hudson or the Potomac river.
Scalping knives all ready to receive
them, they landed, their only welcome
the Indian warwhoop. Red men OF
the back. Red men in the forest. Red
men on the mountains. Red men II
the valleys. Living gates OF red men.
Gates Of car5uncle.
The epitaph was all ready: i ere
lies the American republic. Born at
Philadelphia, 4th Of July, 177G. Killed
at Bull Run July 81, 1861. Aged s?
years aud Il days. Peace to its ashes" :"
But before the o5seqaies H:a.G quite ute
closed there was an Interruption OF the
ceremonies, anu our dead nation rose
from It's mortuary surroundings. God
-nad made for it a special resurrection
dav and cried: Come forth, thou re-
public OF Washington aud John
Adams aud Thomas Jefferson and
Patrick Henry and John Hancock
and Daniel Webster and S. S. Prem
tiss aud Henry Clay. Come forth"
And she came forth, to be stronger
than she had ever been. Her mlghtest
pros perities have come since that time
Who would want to push back this
country TO what it was IL 1860 or 1850!
But, on what high gate, what a
strong gate. she had to push back be,
fore she could make one step in ad'
vance. Gate Of flame. See Norfolk
navy yard and Columbia and Cham
bersburg and Charleston on fire.
Gate of bayonets. See glittering rifles
and car5ines fash from the Susque-
hanna and the James to the Mississip-
pi and the Arkansas! Gate of heavy
artillery, making the mountains OF
Tennessee and Kentucky and Virginia
tremble as though the earth itself were
struggling in its last agony. The gate
was so fiery and so red that can
think of nothing more appropriate
than to take the suggestion Of Isaiah
in the text and call it a gate Of car
buncles.
This country has been for the most
part OF its history passing through crl-
ses, and after each crises was better
off than before it entered it, and now
we are at another crises. We are told
on one hand that ii gold is kept as a
standard and silver is not elevated
confidence will be restored and that
hation will rise triumphant from all
the financial misfortunes that have
been affecting US. On the other hand
we are told that if the free coinage OF
silver is allowed all the wheels of busi.
ness Will revolve, the poor man will
have better chance and all our indus
tries will begin to hum and rS.
During the last six presidential Ac-
tions I have been urged to enter the
political arena, but-Tneyer have and
never will turnthe pulpit in which l
preach intcA political stump Every
minister must do as re feels called to
do, and I will not criticise him for
what he considers his duty, but all the
political harangues from pulpits from
now until the Sd of November will
not in all the United States change
one vote, but will leave many ears
stopped against anything that such
clergymen may utter the rest of their
lives. As a general rule the laymen
of churches understand politics better
than the clergy, because they Cthe lay
men) study politics more than the
clergy and have better opportunity OF
being intelligent on those subjects.
But good morals, honesty, loyalty,
Christian patriotism and the Ten Com
mandments, these we must preach.
God says distinctly in the Bible, ''The
silver and the gold are mine," and he
will settle the controversy between
those two metals. If ever this coun-
try needed the divine rescue, it needs
it now. Never within my memory
have so many people literally starved
10 death IS in the past few months.
Have you noticed in the newspapers
how many men and women here and
there have been found dead, the post
mortem examination stating that the
cause OF death was hunger? There is
not a day that we do not hear the
crash Of some great commercial estab-
lishment, and as consequence many
people are thrown out OF employ
ment.
4 friend told me the other day OF
a shoemaker in Russian city whose
bench was in the basement of build
ing and so far underground that he
could see only the feet Of those who
went by on the sidewalk. Seated on
his bench, he often looked up, and
there went the swift and skipping feet
of children, and then the slow and
uniform step Of the aged, and then
crippled feet, and he resolved he would
do a kindness TO each who needed it.
So when the foot with the old and