The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-05-13

strong, the WOrIC, wall De appoftlOneQ
to those worthy 10 possess 1t.
1tiS 40; so 0ow. In this country,
capable CT holding, feeding. clothing
and shsl.ering !, 200, ,0Q0, 900 people and
where we lave only 60. .0GQ, 600 i1haoi-
taintS. we have 2 COO, 000 who cannot
get honest work. and with their faml,
lies an aggregation Of 5000, 900 that
are on the verge OF Starvation. Some
thing wrong, most certainly. IN some
wav there will be new apporuon-
ment. Many OF the millionaire estates
will crack to pieces On the dlsslpaslons
Of grandchildren and then dissolve into
the pcs session Of tae masaes, who now
have au i..Ss.s+tssffcSncy.
-W1aJ. you say, will become OF the
excessive and elaborate buildings now
devoted 10 6ebasing amusements.
They will become schools, art galleries,
museums, symnaSiHms and churches;
The world is already getting disguised
with many OF these amusements, aao
no wonder. What an i'm mportatlon Of
unclsau theatrical stuff we have with
in the last few years had brought to
our shores. And professors OF religion
patronizine such things. Having sold
out to tie devil, why don't you deliver
the goods and go over to him publicly,
bc6v, mind aud soul. and withdraw
vour name from Christian churches
and say, Know all the world by these
presents that I am a patron ofuGciean-
ness and child of hell" Sworn to be
the Lords you are perjurers.
II you think these otfenses are TO 60
on forever, you do not know who the
Lord is. God will not wait for the
day OF judgment. AL these palaces
of sin Will become palaces Of rlghte-
BUSINESS. They will come into the
possession Of those strong for vlr-
tue and strong for God He shall
divide the spoil with the strong"
China and Africa the two richest
portions of the earth by reason of me-
tails aud rare woods and inexhaustl- :
bic productlveness, are not yet divided
up among the good because they are
not ready to be divided. Wait unit!
all the doors that Livingstone opene d
in Africa shall be entered, and Bishop
Taylor, with his band Of sell support
ing missionaries, have done their
work, and the Ashantis and Seuegam-
oians shall know Christ as well as you
know him, and there shall be on the
banks of the Nile and the Niger a
higher civilization than is now to be
found on the banks of the Potomac or
the Hudson. Then Christ will divide
up that continent among his friends.
Wait until China, which is half as
large as all Europe, shall have devel-
oped her capacities for rice and tea and
sugar among edibles, and her amethyst
and sapphire and topaz and opal and
jasper and porphyry among precious
stones, aad her rosewood and ebony
and cauaphor and varnish trees among
precious woods, and turned up from
her depths hall dozen Pennsy lvanlas
of coal aud iron, and % Nevadas OF
silver. and 50 CALIFORNIA; of gold, and
her 800 100000 o. people shall De
evangelical. Then the Lord will dl-
vide it up among the good.
If my text be not deception, but
the eternal truth, then the time is com
ing when all the farms will be owned
bv Christian farmers, and all the COM
nelcs controlled by Christian mer-
chants, and all the authority held by
Christian officials, and all the ships
commanded by Christian captains,
and all the universities under the ln-
struction of Christian professors;
Christian kings, Christian presidents,
Chrisiiao governors, Christian may
ors, Christian common council. Yet
what a securing out. What an up
turning! What demolition! What
a resurrection must precede this new
apportlonment,
I do notunderrate the enemy. Jul
ius Cesar got his greatest victories by
fully estimating the vastness of his
foes and prepared his men for their
greatest triumph by saying, Tomor-
row King Juba will be here with 80,
600 herSes, 100000 skirmiShers and
800 elephants. lido not underrate
the vast forces of sin and death, but do
you know who commands US? Je-
hovahjireh. And the reserve corps
behind US are all the armies OF heaven
and earth, with hurricane and thun-
bolt. The work Of the worlds redemp,
tioa is going on every minute. Never
so many splendid men and glorious
women on the side Of right as today.
Never so many good people as now.
Diogenes has been spoken of as a wise
man because he went with lantern at
MONDAY, saying he was looking for
an honest man. II he had turned his
lantern toward himself he might have
discovered a crank Houest men by
the ten thousand! Through the inter
national series of Sunday school les,
sons the next generation all through
Christendom are going to be wiser
than any generation since the world
stood. The kingdom is coming. God
can doit. No housewife with a cham
ois cloth ever polished silver tea
spoon with more ease than Christ will
rub off from this world the tarnish
and brighten it up till it glows like
heaven, and then the glorious appor-
tionment! for my text is REINFORCED
by score of other texts, when it says
of Christ, lie shall divide the spoil
with the strong"
But" you say, this is pleasant to
think of for others, but before that
time I shall has passed up into an
other existence, and I shall get 10 ad-
vantage from that new apportionment.
All, you have oaly driven me to the
other more exciting and transporting
consideration. and that is that Christ
is going to divide up heaven IN the
same way. There are old estates II
the celestial world that have been in
the possession Of the inhabitants for
thousands of years, and they
shall remain as they are. There
are old family mansions in
heaven filed with whole generations
of kindred, and they shall never be
driven out. Many of the victors from
earth have already got their palaces,