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

Ion and from 6nll0h back TO IlTZah
there will 5e S throne Of royalty on
which she shall rest forever. Glory
yelled. Ahiucnce hidden. Eternal
raptures hushed up. 4 queen in mask.
a princess IN disguise.
When you think of a queen you DO
not think OF Catherine of-Rassia, or
Maria Theresa Of Germany, or Mary,
queen Of Scots. When you think OF
a queen, you think Of plaln woman
who sat opposite your father at the
table Or walked with him down the
path Of life arm in arm, sometimes to
the Thanksgiving banquet, sometimes
to the grave, but always side by SIDE,
soothing your little sorrows and ad-
iusting your lite quarrels. listening
to your evening prayer. toillng with
the needle or at the spinning wheel,
and on cold nights tucking you up
snug ana warm. And then on that
dark day when she lay a,dying, put,
ting those thin hands that had tolied
for you so long, putting them together
in dying prayer commendiog you
to that God in whom she had taught
YOU to truS:. Oh, she was the queen,
She was the queen! You cannot think
of her now without having the deep
est emotions OF your soul stirred, and
you feel as if you could cry as though
YOU were now sitting IN infancy on
her lap, and if you call her back to
speak your name with the tenderness
with which she once spoke you would
be willing now TO throw yourself on
the sod that covers her grave, crying,
Mother, mother!' An, she was the
queen. Your father knew it. You
knew it. She was the queen, but the
queen in disguise. The world did not
recognize it.
But there was grander Disgusting.
The favorite of a great house looked
out Of the window Of his palace, and
h5 he ssss$===-e--st Lat the people were carrying
heavy burdens, and that some Of
them were hohbling on crutches, and
he saw some lying at the gate exhibit
ing their sores, and then he heard their
lamentation, and he said: Il will
lust put on the clothes Of those poor
people, and I will 60 down and see
what their sorrws are, and l will SYM
pathize with them, and ! will be one
of them, and l will help them.
Well, the day came for him
to start. The lords of the land
came to see him of. All who
could sing Joined IN the parting
SOM, which shook the hills and woke
up the shepherds, The tirst few nights
he has been sleeping with the hostlers
and the camel drivers, for no one knew
there was King in town, He went
among the doctors OF the law, as
founding them, for without any doc
tors gown he knew more law than
any doctors. He fshed with the fish.
ermen. He smote with his own ham
mer in the carpenters shop. He ate
raw corn out OF the field. He fried
fish on the banks Of Gennesaret. He
was howied at by crazy people IN the
tombs. He was splashed Of the surf
of the sea. A pilgrim without any pill
low. A sick man without any medlca'
ment. 4 mourner with no sympa'
thetic bosom in which he could pour
his tears. Disguise complete. l know
that occasionally his divile royalty
flashed out as when in the storm on
Galilee, as in the red wine at the wed
ding banquet, as when he freed the
shackled demoniac of Gadara, as when
he turndd whole school OF fish into
the net of the discouraged boatmen,
as when he throbbed life into The
shriveled arm Of the paralytic, but for
the most part he was in disguise: No
one saw the Kings jewels ip his san
dal. No one saw the royal robe IN
his plain coat. No one/knew that
that shelterless Christ owned all
the mansions in whir fthe hierarchs
of heaven bad Z -aa-saAi.aAaasa~-
None knew thst that hungered
Christ owned all the olive groves
and all the harvests which
shook their gold on the hills OF Pales,
tine. No one knew that he who said
81 thirst poured the Euphrates out
of his own chalice. No one knew that
the ocean lay in the palm OF his hand
like the 2ewdrop in the vase of lily.
No one knew that the stars and moons
and suns and galaXies and consteIla-
tons that marched on age after age
were, as compared with his lifeline,
the sparkle of a freely on sumnSr
night. No one knew that the sun In
midheaven was only the shadow OF
his throne. No one knew that his
crown of universal dominion was COW
cred uo with a bunch Of thorns. ON
impotence sheathed in a human body.
Omniscience hidden in q human eye.
Infinite love beating in human
heart. Everlasting harmonies sub
dued into a human voice. Royalty
en- masoue. Grandeurs OF heaven IN
earthly disguise.
My subject also impresses me with
how people put on masks and ho8 the
Lord tears them off. Itwas terrible
moment in the history Of this woman
of Tnzah when the prophet accosted
her, practically saying: Il know who
You are. You cannot cheat me. Iou
%aSMt impose upon me. Why feign-
es est tbo> fSself to be another2" She
had right tosS for the n restoration TO asnsa
of her son; she had lisnt 10 plSo St
tice that falsehood, II lsSeVer Flshs i.
to do wrong. Sometimes yoGS oe
able to conceal an affair. Il IS Hs>
necessary to tell everything. There
is natural pressure to the lips which
seems to indicate that silence some
times is rioht. but for double dealing,
for moral shuflting, for counterfeit
and for sham God has nothing but
anatbema and exposure. lie will tear
off the lie. lie Will nip up the empir-
icism. He will scatter the ambuscade.
There are people who are just ready to
be duped. They seem TO be waiting
to be deceived. They believe in ghosts.
They saw one themselves once. They
heard something strange in an unin.
habited house. Going along the road
one night, something approached