The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-12-23

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been describing. Stand back from arg
cnicanery, from allimpositicn They
who practice such imposition shall be
exposed in the day Of Gods indigna
ton. They may rear great fortunes.
but their dapple graYs will be arrested
on the road some dav, as was the ass
by the angel of God with drawn
sword. The light Of the last day will
shine through all euch subterfuges
and with a voice louder than that
which accosted this imposition Of the
text: Come IN, thou wife Of jero.
boam. Whv feignest thou thyself 10
be another." With a voice louder
than that Gcd will thunder down into
midnight darkness and doom and
death all two faced men, ard all charl-
atans, and all knayes, and ell jockeys,
and all swiudlers. Behold now the
people put on the masks, ard behold
how the Lord tears them OFT.
My subitct also impresses me with
how precise and accurate and particu-
lar are Gods pro7idences. Just at
the moment that woman enterered the
CITY the child died. Jast as it was
prophesied, SO it turned out, so it al
ways turns out. The event occurs,
the death takes place, the nation is
born, the despotism is overthrown at
the appointed time. God drives the
universe with a stiff rein. Events do
not just happen so. Things do not go
slipShod. In all the book cf God S
providenceS there is not one IF. .
| Gods providences are never caught IN
dishabille. To God there are no sur
prises, no disappointments and no ac-
cidents. The most Insignificant event
flung out in the ages is the connect
ing link between two great chains
the chain Of eternity and the chain OF
eternity to come.
lam no fata!ist, but l should be
completely wretched if did not feel
that all the affairs OF my life are in
Gods hand ard all that pertains to
me and mine, just as certainly as all
the affairs OF this woman OF the text,
as this king Of the text, were IN Gods
hand. You may ask me a hundred
questions I cannot answer, but shall
until the day OF my death believe that
l am under the unerring care OF God,
and the heavens may fall. and the
worlds may burn, and the judgment
may thunder, and the eternal ages
raay roll, but not hair shall fall
from my head, not shadow shall
drop on my path, not sorrow snail
transfx my heart without being di-
vinely arranged-arranged by low
ing, sympathetic Father. He bottles
our tears, he catches our sorrows, and
TO the orphan he will be Father,
and to the widow he will be hus-
band, and to the outcast he will be a
home, and to the most miserable
wretch that this day crawis up out OF
the ditch OF his abomination crying
for mercy he will be an all pardon
ing God. The rocks shall turn gray
with age, and the forests shall be un-
moored in the last hurricane. and the
sun shall shut its fiery eyelid, and the
stars shall drop like blasted figs. and
the continents shall 60 down like an
chors in the deep, and the ocean shall
heave its last groan and lash itself
with expiring agony, and the world
Shall wrap itself in winding sheet OF
flame aud leap on the funeral pyre OF
the Judgment day: but Gods love
shall not die. 1t will kindle its suns
after all other lights have gone out.
It will be billowy sea after the last
ocean has swept itself away. It will
warm itself by the FIRE of consuming
world. Itwill sing while the archan-
gels trumpet is pealing forth and the
air i filed with the crash OF broken
sepulchers and the rush Of the wings OF
the rising dead. Oh, may God com
fort all this people with this Christian
sentiment