The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-06-10
WE BELIEVE

kind friend who will tell us wherein
a good sermon is like rifle barrel.
DIR. Small has said that "a model
church is one in which each member
is striving to live pure, earnest
Christian life, by the help of Christ
Jesus. One in which each member
attends all the services of the church
as far as possible. One that is win,
ming souls and building up Christian
character, and one that is alive to all
opportunities and ready and willing
to enter into Christian work" What
can we do to make our church 'the
model ?''
"A model prayer-meeting is:
/. One attended by all who posi-,
bly, can.
2. One where God is present and
that to bless.
8. One where many take part from
the heart.
4. One where prayer precedes the
coming together.
@5. One from which a man goes
feeling that he can and will live right
in Gods sight.
Can you do anything to make ours
a model prayer-meeting?
"A model Sunday-school is:
/. One in which the officers and
teachers realize their responsibility
and seek by Gods help to meet them
boldly.
2. One where the old and young
are to be found studying Gods word
8. One where the scholars seek tc
prepare the lesson and come regu
larly.
4. One where all from the oldest to
the youngest help sing.
5. One where each seeks to help
the other.
What can we do to make our school
the model?
Society stamps eternal shame
upon a poor, unfortunate fellow
woman, and the road leading back
to respectability is too rugged for
her footprints; while her companion
equally quietly in the sight of God,
is allowed his usual place. ''Let him
that is innocent cast the first stone y
There are three states in the
spiritual life: The state of sin, the
state of grace, and the State of
glory.
Thy gentleness hath made me
great" was the expression of King
David. DR.. Hills well said, 1.-The
crying fault of this age is its lack OF
gentleness. We are harsh when we
Judge, brutal when we blame.
The bicycle, says one, has become
a curse in the place of blessing,
because it is taking away thousands
of our young men and women from
Christ and the church.
Dancing, says DR.. Jones, tends to
develop the human, carnal, sensual
parts of nature. It makes the hu-
man more an animal.
The common people are toe
much neglected in many of our
churcnes, especially in our city
churches, where there is less of Christ
and more of big sleeves. Lincoln
the great hero, was found in shan
ty; Garfield in the towpath; Grant in
the tannery; and when God wanted
the grandest hero of all the ages
even the Redeemer of the world, he
went to a carpenters shop to fine
him.
How low sin can drag it's victim
was powerfully exemplified in oul
court of justice last week.
One has said that a million years
hence your influence will tell on
souls.
The strongest part of some great
sermons is the close.
Evil habits begin with the
strength of a cobweb and end with
the strength of a chain.
The books you daily read will
largely decide the life you live.
| "A change in life must first begin
with change in thought.
Rev. Geo. P. Bostick, returned
missionary, will be in Manning and
lecture to us on the mission work in
China before a great while.
The pastor Of the Baptist church
will preach special sermon to the
young ladies of Manning next Sun,
day evening in the Presbyterian
church at half-past eight. All are
invited.
We heartily agree with the
brother who said in the court house
last week There is 9th - wickedness
in the land outside the dispen-
sary." But We still insist that whis-
key, dispensary was at the bottom of
this horrible sin. 1t was so proven.
The proprietor (the deviD of the
dispensary seems to be doing a
thrifty business. He knows no "hard
times" but the poor, ignorant man
who drinks at his fountain cries
''hard tiInes.''
There is more catarrh in this section of
| Ethe country than all other diseases put to-
oether and until the last few years was