The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-09-23

stroyed a feet of ships coming up ir
the harbor. You know howS he did it
He lifted great sunglass, history tells
us, and when the fleet of ships came
up the harbor of Syracuse he krough
to bear this sunglass, and he f&cusec
the suns rays upon those ships, Nov
the sails are wings of fire, the mast:
fall, the vessels sink. Oh, my frien,d ,ds
by the sunglass of the gospel conveAg
ing the rays OF the sun Of righteous
ness upon the sius, the wickedness OF
the world, we will make them blaze
and expire!
In that day of which speak do you
believe there will be any midnight
carousal? Will there be any kicking
off from the marble steps OF shiveHne
mendicants? Will there be .aHy un
washed, unfed, uncombgd children
Will there be any pla&hemies ic the
streets2 VIII there be any inebriates
staggering paste NJ. No wine stores
No lager beer saloons. No distilIeries
where they makethe three KS. Nc
Bloodshot eye. No bloated cheek
No instruments Of ruin and destruc,
ton. No fist pounded forehead. The
grandchildren of that woman who
goes down the street with curse
stoned bg the boys that follow her
will be the reformers and philanthro
pistS an ID the Christian men and tn,
honest merchants of our cities.
Thm what municipal governments,
too, SFe will have in all the cities
So1e cities are worse than others
buJt in many of our cities you
just walk down by the city halls and
look in at some of the rooms upiec
jby politicians and see to what a sens
'ual, loathsome, ignorant, besotted
crew city politics is often abandoned.
Or they stand around the city hal.
picking their teeth, waiting for some
emoluments Of crumbs to fall to their
feet, waiting all day long and waiting
all night long.
Who are those wretched women
taken up for drunkenness and carried
up to the courts and put in prison, OF
course? What will you do with the
grogshops that make them drink
Nothing. Who are those prisoners in
jail2 One of them stole a pair OF
shoes. That boy stole dollar. This
girl snatched purse. All of them
crimes damaging society less than $40
or $50. But what will you do with
the gambler who last night robbed the
young man of $t,O002 Nothing.
What shall be done with that one
who breaks through and destroys the
purity of Christian home, and, with
an adroitness and perfdity that beat
the strategy of hell, hings a shrinking,
shrieking soul into ruin2 Nothing.
What will you do with those who
fecced that young man, getting him
to prrloin large sums Of money from
his employer-the young man who
came to an officer of my church and
told the story and frantically asked
what he should do2 Nothing.
All, we do well to punish small
crimes, but I have sometimes thought
it would be better in some of our cities
if the officials would only turn out
from the jails the petty criminals, the
little offenders, $40 desperadoes, and
put IN their places some of the mon
sters of iniquity who drive their roam
span through the streets so swiftly
that honest men have to leap to get
out of the way of being run over On,
the damnable schemes that professed
Christian men will sometimes engage
in until God puts the finger OF his
retribution into the collar of their
robe of hypocrisy and rips it clear to
the bottoml But all these wrongs
will be rignted. I expect to live to
SEQ the day. l think I hear in the dis
tance the rum bling of the Kings char
lot. Not always in the minority is
the church of God going to be or are
good men gong to be. The streets are
going to be filled with regenerated
populations. Three hundred and six
ty bells rang in Moscow when one
prince was married, but when right
eousness and peace kiss each other in
all the earth, ten thousand times ten
thousand bells shall strike the jubilee.
Poverty enriched. Hunger fed. Crime
banished. Ignorance enlightened. All
the cities saved. Is not this a cause
worth working in?
On, you think sometimes it does not
amount to much! You toll on in your
different spheres, sometimes with great
Encouragement. People have no faith
and say: ct does not amount to
anything. You might as well quit
that" Why, when Moses stretched
his hand over the Red sea it did not
seem to mean anything especially.
People came out, l suppose, and said,
"Ahaw Some Of them found out what
he wanted to do. He wanted the sea
parted. 1t did not amount to any
thing, this stretching out of his hand
over the sea. But after awhile the
wind blew all night from the east, and
the waters were gathered into gilt
tering palisade on either side, and the
billlows reared as God pulled back on
their crystal bits. Wheel into line,
o Israel! March, March, Pearls
crashed under feet. Flying spray
gathered into rainbow arch of victory
for the conquerers to march under.
Shouts of hosts on the beach answer
ing the shout of hosts amid sea. And
when the last line of Israelites reach
the beach the cymbals clap, and the
shields clang, and the waters rush
over the pursuers. and the swift Gng-
cred winds on the white keys Of the
foam play the grand march of Israel
delivered and the awful dirge Of
Egyptian overthrow.
So you and I 60 forth, and all the
people of God 60 forth, and they
stretch forth their hand over the sea,
the boiling sea of crime and sin and
wretchedness. 1T doesn't amount to
anything" people say. Doesn't it?
Gods winds of help will after awhile
begin to blow. a path will be cleared
for the army of Christian philanthro-
pists. The path will be lined with the
treasures of Christian benefcence, and
we shall be greeted to the other beach
by the clappinc of all heavens cym-