The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-12-09

IN Europe. Ga this western
continent l can call the ro | of
MANY ep9blics-Mexico, Guatemala,
San Salvador, Costa Ricay, Paraguay,
Urueuay, Honduras, New Granada,
VenezQela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia,
Chile, Argentine Republic, Brazil.
The once sIraggling village OF Wash
ington to which the I nited States gov
ernment moved, its entira baggage
aud equipment packed up n seven
boxes, which got lost in the woods near
this place, now the architectural glory
of the contineat and admiration ofthe
world.
The money power 50 much de-
nounced and often justly criticised,
has covered this continent with uni
yersities and free libraries and asy.
lums of mercy. The newspaper press,
which at the beginning Of the century
was an ink roller, by hand moved
over one sheet Of paper ct time, has
become the miraculous manufacturer
Of four or tive or six hundred thous,
and sheets for one daily newspapers S
issue. Within your memory, Q dy-
ing century, has been the genesis Of
nearly all the great institutions evan
gelistic. At London tavern. March
{, 1902. British and Foreign Bible So
ciety was born. In 1916 American
Bible society was born. Ia 1924 Amerl,
can Sunday School union was born.
In 1910 American board OF commission
ers for foreign missions, which has
put its saving hand on every nation OF
the round earth, was born alta hay,
stackin Massachusetts,. The National
Temperance society, the Woman 5
Temperance society and all the other
temperance movements were born IN
| this century. Africa, hidden to other
centuries, by exploration IN this CEN
| tury has been put at the feet OF civiliza,
ton to be occupied by commerce and
Christianity. The Chinese wall. once
an impossible barrier, now IS a use
less pile of stone and brick. Oar
American nation at the opening OF
this century only slice OF land OF
along the Atlantic coast, now the
whole continent IN possession of our
schools and churches and missionary
stations. Sermons and religious in
telligence which in other times, If
noticed at all by the newspapers press,
were allowed only paragraph Of
three or four lines, now find the
columns Of the secular press in all the
cities thrown wide open, and every
week for 26 years, without the omis-
sion OF single week, have been per.
mitted to preach one entire gospel ser
mon through the newspaper press. |
thank God for this great opportunity.
Glorious old century! You shall not
be entombed unit we have, face to
face, extolled you. You were rocked
in rough cradle, al he inheritance
you received was fol the most part
poverty and struggle and hardship,
and poorly covered graves OF heroes
and heroines Of whom the world had
not been worthy, and atheism and mill
tary despotisna, and the wreck Of the
French revolution. You inherited
the influences that resulted in Aaron
Burr's treason, and another war with
England, and battle of Lake Erie, and
Indian savagery, and Lundy's Lane
and Dartmoor MASSAGE, and dissen-
sion, bitter and wild beyond measure
ment, and African slavery, which was
yet to cost national hemorrhage Of
four awful years and a million preci-
Gus lives.
Yes, dear old century, you had an
awful start, and you have done more
than we'll, considering your parent
age and your early environment. 1t
is a wonder you did not turn out to be
the vagabond century OF all time.
You had bad mother and q bad
grandmother. Some of the preceding
centuries wesesnot fit to4sve in-their
Edorsls were so bad, their fashions
were so outrageous, their ignorance
was so dense, their inhumanity so ter
rife. O dying nineteenth century.
before you 90 we take this opportuni-
ty of telling you that you are the best
and the mightiest of all the centuries
OF the Christian era except the first
which gave US the Christ, and you
rival that century in the fact that you
| more than all the other centuries put
together are ei=;ng the Christ to all
the world. Ore hundred and twelve
thousand dollars at one meeting a few
days ago contributed for the worlds
evangelization. Look at what you
have done, 0 thou abused and de.
preciated century. All the Pacific
isles, barred and bolted against the
gospel when you began to reign, now
all open, aod some of them more
Christianized taan America. No
| more. as once written over the church
doors in Cape Colony, Dogs and Hot
tentots not admitted. The late Mr..
Darwin contributing S25 to the South
ern Missionary society. Canniballsm
driven off the face Of the earth. The
gates of all nations wide open for the
gospel entrance when the church shall
give up its intellectual dandyisn, and
quite fooling with higher criticism,
and plunge into the work, as at life
saving station the crew pull out with
the ifeboat to take the sailor off aship
going to pieces in the Skerries. l
thank you, cid and dying century.
All heaven thanks you, and surely all
the nations OF the earth ought to
thank you. I put before you're eyes,
soon to be dim for the last sleep, the
facts tremendous. T take your
wrinkled old hand and shake it in
congratulation. I bathe your fevered
brow and freshen your parched lips
from the fountains of eternal victory.
"What we want" says capital, sis a
tighter grip on the working classes
and compulsion to take what wages
we choose to pay, without reference
to their needs" Both wrong as sin.
Both defiant. Until the day OF judg-
ment no settlement of the quarrel if
you leave it to British, Russia or Ame-
rican politics. The religion of Jesus
Christ ought to come in within the
next four years and take the hand of