The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-12-16
WORK AFTER DEATH.
M TAI MAGE,5 -iOEA OF EMPLOY
MENT lN HEAVEN.
r,t,,a View OF the Celestial worid-Ena-
ployment Suited to "orksr-Ai VIII
Find Plenty of CoDgenial Occupations.

,,ovnent Suited to Worksr-Au VIII
Find Plenty of Copgenial Occupations.
WASHINGTON, Dec Or. TSi
maee's sermon today gives very IN
usual view OF the celestial world and IS
one of The most unique dlscourses OF
the great preacher. The text IS hzeklei
!; .sNoW It came to pass IN the thlr
tiefh yesr, in the fourth month, lnthe
fifth dav of the month, as | was among
the captives by the river OF Caeo&r'
that the heavens were opened.
Ezekiel. with others, had been eSpa-
triated, and while in Iorelgn slavery
standing on the banks OF the royal ca
nal which he and other serfs had oeen
condemned to dig by lhe order o.
Nebuchadnezzar-this royal canal N
the text called the river OF Cheoarxs
the illustrious exile had visions %
hesyen. Indeed it is almost away ~
that the brightest visions OF he&t5a Sa
800 not to those who are or the
oountain top OF prosperity, OUT 70
soma Tohn on desolats Patmos, or W
some Paul in Mamernne ouoseGn, ~ i,s
to some Ezekiel standing on the I p@pn a.
~ a ditch he had been compelleo ~
u S;sSves to the weary, to the heart.
broten to those whom sorrow mas
benished. The text is very particular
tn rive us the exact time OF the VISION.
r Tas in the thirtieth year ana ID the
fourth month and in the tfth cay OF
the month. So you have had VISIONS
- a.-tb Won shall never forget. You
remember the year, you remember lns
-nonth YOU remember the Gay, yoC
remenber the hour. Why may We
not have some such vision now ana y !
be in the twelfth month ana III S!A'i
day of the month.
The question IS often sl4entiy aSAeo
though perhaps never auololy Pre-
no1Inded "What are our depsrte'
Christian friends doing now I'M
onestion is more easily answered thai
YOU might perhaps suppose. Inoug
Ibere hss come no recent inteligenc
from the heavenly city, and we Seer
dependent upon the story OF 10 cents @
res ago, still I think we may 1rol
strongest inference decide what are u
nressnt occupations of our transterre
kinsfolk. After God has made a n
ture he never eradicates the chl'
characteristic of its Temperament
You never knew man phlegnauc
temperament to become sangu-ne
temperament. You never kne"
man sanguine in Temperament 10 70
come phlegmatic IN temperance
Conversion plants new prlfciples
in the soul, but Paul and John are u
as different from each other after co
version as they were different tro
each other before conversion: - co
version does not eradicate the pron
aent characteristics OF temperance
neither will death eradicate tnel
Paul and John are as different 1fO
each other in heaven as they were q
ferent from each other IN ASA Mln'
You have, then, only oy sum
subtraction and a sum IN adoltlon
decide what are the employmens
your departed friends IN the oel
world. You are TO subtract from III
all earthly grossness and add all ear
" goodness, and then you are to co
to the conclusion that they are ool
now in heaven what in their best Il
ment they did on earth. The 1eaS
why so many people never starr
heaven is because they could not sts u
tiff they got there and 1t should y
out to be the rigid and formal pI
some people photograph 1t. we
tocome to church, but we would
want SrTNvr here till next SUNNI
We thet"'Hallelulah I
rus 5uf we would not want to
it an the time for so centuries.
miohr be on some great occaslo!
would be possibly comfortable to v
a crown of gold Weighing Sc sgs v
pounds, but it would be an afiIlc
towear such crown forever: IN
er words. we run the description
hesyen into the ground while we N
that which was intended as es2e
end celebratiye to be the eXclu
employment in heaven. You m
sc we'll. il asked to describe the n;
of American society, describe u
sf;on 6ay or Fourth Of July c
autumnal- Thanksgiving, as thoo
were all the time that way.
I am not going to speculate |
card to the future world,
must, by inevitable law
inference and deduction and
mon sense, conclude thaI
heaven we will be just as din!
from each other as we are now d
ent and hence that there will
least IS many different employ
in the celestial world as there ar
ployments here. Christ IS 70 % .
great love, the greatjoy, the grea
ture, the great worship, OF heaEe!
will that abolish eEploymenS
more than love on earth-patern'
;al. fraternal, conjuga al love-aoo
earthly occupation.
In the first place, remark II
those of our departed Christian II
Who on earth found great Joy
Ens arts arano~ INDUCING their
IN the same direction. On eartt
= had their gladdest pleasures am
t,'sas . ~ end staturv and in the ST.
the Laws of light and shade an
spectiye. Have you sny losa IL -
affiuence of faculty at oeaIn ".
and perisheds Why so, When n I
more for them to look at ana tne
keener appreciation OF the De-
and they stand amid the very
where the sunsets and the RAJ
and the spring mornings are
Are you so obtuse as 10 supp
csnss the painter drops his cas-
the sculptor his chisel and ths
AZ I his knife. that therefore tn;
which he was enlarging and mi
ing for 4oor 50 years IS entIel
ersteS2 These artists, or these
of art on earth, worked in Goa
terial and with lmperleca oss
with frail hand. Now they ~
ried their art into larger uoeII III
a:sa,, N ference. II