The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-09-30

Son OF God. [ came to pardon all your
sins and 10 heal all your sorrow. To
prove that am a suoernatural being
| have just descended from the clouds.
Do you believe me, ani do you b9lieve
me now2" Why, all the telegraph
stations Of the earth would be crowded
as none Of them We're ever cfoEded
just after shipwreck.
tell you all these things to show
you it is no. among the i'm possibilities
or even the improbabiiitieS that Christ
will coAauer the whole earth, and do
it inStanter when the time com IS.
There are foratokenings in the
air. S)mething great is going to hap
pen. | do not think that Jupiter is
going TO ran Us down Or that the axle
Of the world is going to break, but [
can something great for the world S
blessing AMI not for the worlds dam
age is going to happen. think the
world has had it hard enough.
Enough the famines and plaques.
Enough the ASiatic choleras Enough
the wars. Enough the shipwrecSs.
Eaough the contIagrations / think
our world could stand right well Il
procession Of prosperlties and tri-
umphs. Better be on the lookout.
Better have your o5servatories open
toward the heavens and the lenses OF
your m1st powerful telescopes we'll
polished. Better have all your Leyd-
en- jars ready for some new pulSatlon
of mighty influence. Better have new
fonts OF type in your printing Offices
to set up some astounding good news.
! Better have some new banner that has
never been carried ready for sudden
PROFESSIONS. Better have the bells in
your church towers we'll hung aud
rope within reach, that you may ring
out the marriage OF the Kings Son.
Cleanse all your courthouses, for the
Judge of ali the earth may appear.
Let all your urlegislatiye halls BE- gilded,
for the Great Lawgiver may be about
to come. Drive Off the thrones Of
despotism all the occupants, for the
King OF heaven and earth may be
ABOUT to reign. The darkness OF the
night is blooming and whitening into
the lilies of morning cloud and the
lilies reddening into the roses ofstron.
ger day--it garlands, whether white
or red, for him on whose head are many
crowns. The day is at hand.
One more ray Of the dawn | see IN
facts chronological and mathematical.
Come now, do not let us do another
stroke Of work until we have settled
one matter. What is going to be the
final issue Of this great contest be-
tween SIN and righteousness Which
is going to prove him self the stronger,
God or Diabolus? Is this world going
to be all garden or all desert? Now,
let us have that matter settled. II we
believe Isaiah and Hosea and Micah
and Malachi aud John and Peter and
Paul and the Lord himself, we believe
that it is going to be all garden. But
let US have it settled. Let Us kno "
whether we are working on toward
success or toward dead failure. II
there is child in your house sick and
you are sure he is going to get well,
you sympathizs with present pains,
but all the foreooding isgone. Ifyou
are in cyclone off the Florida coast
and the captain assures you the vessel
is stanch, and the winds are changing
for a better quarter, and he is sure
he will bring you safe into the harbor,
| you patiently submit to present dis
tress with the thought Of safe arrival.
Now | want to know whether we are
coming on toward dismay, darkness
and defeat or on toward light and
blessedness. You and [ believe the
latter, and if so every year we spend
is one year subtracted from the worlds
woe, and every event that passes,
whether bright or dark, brings us Une
event nearer a happy consumation,
and by all that IS memorable in caro
nology and mathematics I comend
you to good cheer and courage.
J. If it is nearer morning at O'clock
than it is at 3, if it is nearer morning
at ( o'clock than it i at 3, then we are
nearer the dawn OF the worlds deiiv-
erance. Gods clock seems to go very
| slowly, but the pendulum swings, and
the hands move, and it will yet strike
noon. The sun and the moon stood
still once They will never stand still
again until they stop forever. If you
believe arithmetic as well as your Bi.
BILE, you must believe we are nearer
the dawn. The day is at hand"
There is class Of phenomena which
makes me think that the spiritual and
heavenly world may after awhile
make demonstration in this world
which will bring moral and spiritual
things to climax. Now. | am no
spiritualist, bat every intelligent man
has noticed that there are strange and
mysterious things which indicate TO
him that perhaps the spiritual wot Id
is not so far OIL as some times we con
lecture, and that after awhile from the
spiritual and heavenly world there
may be a demonstration upon our
world for its beiterment. We cali it
magnetism, or we call il mermerism,
or we call it electricity, because we
want some term to cover up our igno-
rance | do not know what it is. |
never heard an audible voice from
the other world. [ am persuaded Of
this, however: That The veil between
this world and the next is getting
thinner and thinner, and that perhaps
after awhile. at the call OF God--not
at the call OF the Davenport brothers
or Andrew Jackson Davis-some Of
the old Scri plural warriors, some Of
the spirits of other days mighty for
| Coda Joshua, or Caleb, or Dav-
| id or Paul-may come down and
help US in the battle against upright
| eousness. Oh, how l would like to
have them here-him OF the Red sea,
him of the valley OF Ajalon, him of
Mars hill. English history says that
Robert Clayton of the Eaglish caval-
ry, at the close Of the war. bought up
all the old cavalry horses lest they
should be turned out to drudgery and
hard work and bought a piece OF
ground at Knavesmire heath and
turned out these old war horses into