The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-03-18

Chicago, received It's QeaInDlOW from
the recent treaty which sends back to
Russia the blatant criminals who had
been regurgitated on our American
shore.
The very things that have been quot
ed as perils to this nation are going to
help its salvation Great cities, so Of
ten mentioned as great obstacles-the
center of crime and the reservoirs Of
all iniquities to lead in the work
OF gospelization. Who give most to
home mission, to asylums, to religious
education, to all styles of humanitarian
and Christian institutions? The cities.
From what places did the most relief
60 at the time Of Johustown flood, and
Michigan fires, and Charleston earth
quake, and Ohio freshets2 From the
cities. From what place did Christ
send out his - apostles to gospelize the
world2 From city What place
will do more than any other place, by
It's contribution of Christian men and
women and means, in this work of
taking America for God? New York
city. The way Paris goes, goes
France. The way Berlin goes, goes
Germany. The way Edinburgh goes,
goes Scotland. The way New York
and a couple otter cities 60, goes
America.
Another thing quoted pessimistical-
ly is the vast and ogertepping fortunes
in this country, and they say it means
concentrated wealth, and luxurious
ness, and display and moral ruin. 1t
is my observation that it is people
who have but limited resources who
make the most splurge, and ask you,
Who are endowing colleges and theo-
logical seminaries2 Did you ever
hear of Peter Cooper. and James LIE.
nox, and sainted William E. Dodge,
and the Lawrences, Amos and Abbott,
while I refrain from mentioning llv,
ing benefactors who, quite as gener-
Gus and Christian, are in this assembly
at this moment planning what they
can do in these days, and in their last
will and testament in this campaign
that proposes taking America for God?
The widows mite, honored of the
Lord, is to have its part in this CONT
mental capture; but we must have
more than that and more right away.
Many of the men that expect to get
the blessing for bestowing the widows
mite will not get the blessing. In the
first place, they are not widows, and
in the nextplace they have no might.
The time is coming g-hasten it, Lord
and think you and I will see it.,
when, as Joseph, the wealthy Arima-
thean, gave for the dead Christ a
costly mausoleum, the affiuent men
and women of this country will rise
in their strength and build for our
King, one Jesus, the throne OF this
American continent.
Another thing quoted for discour.
agement, but which quote for en-
couragement, is foreign immigration
now that from Castle Garden we
turn back by the first poor ship the
foreign vagabondism-we are getting
people the vast majority of whom
come to make an honest living, among
them some Of the bravest and the best.
If you should turn back from this
land to Europe the foreign ministers
of the gospels, and the foreign attor.
neys, and the foreign merchants, and
the foreign philanthropists, what a
robbery of our pulpits, our courtrooms,
our storehouses and our Dene6cient
institutions, and what putting back
of every monetary, merclful, moral
and religious interest Of the land
This commingling here OF all nation
alities under the blessing of God will
produce in IS or 100 years the most
magnificent style of man and woman
the world ever saw. They will have
the wit of one race, the eloquence Of
another race, the kindness of another,
the generosity of another, the aesthetic
taste of another, the high moral char
acter of another, and when that man
and woman step forth, their brain and
nerve and muscle an INTERVIEWING of
the fbers of all rationalities, nothing
but the new electric Photographic ap-
paratuS that can see clear through
body, mind and soul, can take of them
an adequate picture. But the foreign
population of America is less than one
eleventh Of all our population, and
why all this fuss about foreign immi-
gration2 Eighty-nine Americans to
II foreigners If SO of us New Jersey.
men, or SO of US New Workers or SO of
US Ohioans, or SO of us Geor gians, or
50 of US Yankees, are not equal II for.
eigners, then we are a. starving llIlpu-
tian group OF humunculi that ought to
be wiped out of existence.
But now what are the weapons by
which, under our omuipotent leader,
the real obstacles in the way of our
country's evangelization, the 10000
mile Sevastopols, are to be leveled2
The first columbiad, with range
enough to sweep from eternity to eter-
nifty, is the Bible, millions of its copies
going out, millions on millions-this
the monarch Of books, that has made
all the difference between China and
the United States, between Africa and
America; book declaring in every
style OF phraseology that all nations
are to be converted, and does not that
include our notion2 Ii the -Apocalyp-
tic an gel is to Fly across the continents
will he not fly across this continent?
The worst insult I could offer you woud
be to doubt your veracity, and shall we
doubt Gods promlse2 Then there are
all the gospel batteries, manned by
70, 900 pastors and home missionaries,
over the head of each one of whom IS
the shield of divine protection, and IN
the right hand of each: one the gleam-
ing, TWO edged sword of the Infinite
Spirit Hundreds OF thousands OF
private soldiers for Christ, marching
under the one starred blood striped flag
of Emanuel! They are marching on!
Episcopacy with the sublime roll Of its
liturgies; Methodism, with its battle:
cry Of 1.-The sword Of the Lord and
John Wesley" the Baptist church,
with its glorious navy sailing up our
Oregons and Sacramentos and Mlssls-
sippis, and Presbyterlanism, moving