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


UPON
the World to
Is Better Than
"a In the Day OF
sept. 2o.-Tf the cla-
IS sermon delivered at
capital could sound
ristendom, it would give
4 good new start. Dr. Tai
s&t was Romans Xiii, II, me
t hand"
s from the mountain and the
e. and the springs, and the farm
se. your cheeks bronZed and your
rits lighted, I hail you home .agaio
sith the words of Gehazi to the Shu
hammite: 'Is it we'll with thee2 Is it
ywell with thy husband2 Is 1t well With
the childs" On some faces l see the
mark of recent grief, but all along the
trsck of tears see the story OF reSur-
rection an i reunion when all tears are
done, the deep blowing OF the keel
followed by the fash Of the phoSpho'
rescence. Now that l have asked you
in regard TO your welfare, you natu-
rally ask how lam. Very well, thank
YOU. Whether it was the braclng ar
of the mountains, or bath IN the
surf of Long Island beach, or whether
it is the Joy of standing in this great
group of warm hearted friends, or
whether it isa new appreciation OF The
goodness of God, Icannot tell. lslm.
ply know I am happy. It was said
that John Mofat, tt great Methodist
preacher, occasionally got fast IN his
sermon. and to extricate himself would
cry 'HaIeluiah!" I am in no such
predicament today, but am full of
the same rhapsodic ejaculation.
Starting out this morning on new
ecclesiastical year, want to give YOU
the keynote of my next II months
ministry. l want 20 set it to the tunes
of Antioch, "Ariel" and Corona
ton" Iwant to put new trumpet
stop into my sermons. We do wrong
FIVE allow our personal sorrows to IN
terfere with the glorious fact that the
kingdom is coming. We are wicked
if we allow apprehension OF national
disaster to put down our faith IN God
and in the mission Of our American
people. The God who hath been on
the side of this nation since the Fourth
} of July, 1776, will see to it that this
nation shall not commit suicide on
Nov. 8, 1896. By the time the unpar-
alleled harvests of this summer get
down to the seaboard we shall be
standing in a sunburst Of national
prosperity that will paralyze the pessl-
mists who by their evil prophecies are
blaspheming the God who hath blessed
this nation as he hath blessed 20 9TH
er.
In all our Christian work you and I
want more of the element OF gladness.
No man had right to say that Christ
never laughed. Do you suppose that
he was glum at the wedding IN Cana
of .Galileea Do you suppose that
Christ was unresponsive when the
children clambered over his knee and
shoulder at his own invitation2 Do
you suppose that the evangelist meant
nothing wher he said Of Christ. ''He
rejoiced in spirit?" Do you believe
that the divine Christ, who pours all
the waters over the rocks at Vernal
Fall.,s' Yosemite, does not believe in
the sparkle and gallop and tumultuouS
Joy and rushing raptures of humal.
lifea believe not only that the morn
ing laughs, ~and that the mountains
laugh, and that the seas laugh, and
that the cascades laugh, but that
Christ laughed. Moreover, take a
laugh anda q tear into an alemblc and
assay them, and test them, and analyze
them, and you will often find as much
OF the pure gold of religion in laugh
as in q tear. Deep spiritual JOY always
shows itself in facial illumination.
John Wesley said he was sure of a
good religious impression being pro-
duced because of what he calls the
great gladness he saw among the peo-
pie. Goddess merriment is blasphemy
anywhere, but the expression OF Chris
$50 JOY is appropriate everywhere.
Moreover. the ~sur,ook OF the
world ought to stir US to gladness. As,
tronomers disturbed many people by
telling them that there was danger OF
stellar collision. We were told by
these astronomers that there are worlds
coming very near together, and that
we shall have plagues and wars and
t.,mul:s and perhaps the worlds de-
struction. Do not he scared. If you
have ever stood a. q railroad center
yhere 10 or 20 or 80 rail tracks cross
each other and seen that by the move
ment of the switch one or two inches
the train shoots this way and that
without colliding, then you may un-
derstand how so worlds may come
within al inch of disaster aud that
inch be as good as a million miles. II
8 human switch tender can shoot the
trains this way ar that without harm,
cannot the hand that for thousands OF
years has upheld the universe keep cur
little world out Of harms way
Christian geologists tell US that this
world was millions OF years in build.
ing. Well, now, I do not think God
would take millions of years to build
8 house which was to last only 5000
years. There is nothing in the world
or outside the world, terrestrial or as
Economical, to excite dismay. I wish
that some stout gospel breeze might
scatter all the malaria of human fore
boding. The sun rose this morning al
about + o'clock, aud 1 think that is
just about the hour in the worlds his
tory. 1.-THE day is at hand"
The first ray of the dawn see in The
gradual substitution of diplomatic
skill for human butchery. Within
the last 25 years there have been inter
national differences which would have
brought shock of arms in any othel
day, but which were peacefully ad
iusted, the pen taking the place of the
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