The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-02-19

! ries have seen of Gods workings, as in
! the reformation of the sixteenth cen.
tury, when Martin Luther and Philip
Melanchthon led on; as in the awak-
ening Of the seventeenth century,
when Bunyan and Flavel and Baxter
led on: as in the awakening OF the
eighteenth century, when Tenant
and Edwards and the Wesleys led on:
as in the awakening Of 1857, led on by
Matthew Simpson, the seraphic Meth
odist. and Bishop MacIlvaine, the
Apostolic Episcopalian. and Albert
Barnes, the consecrated Presbyterian,
and others, just as good, il all de-
nominations. Oh, will not some of
those glorious souls of the past come
down and help us2 Come down off
your thrones, Nettleton and Finney
and Daniel Baker and Edward Payson
and Truman Osborne and Earle and
Knapp and Inskip and Archibald AL
exander-that Alexander the Great of
the Christian churches. Come down!
How can you rest up there when the
world is dying for lack of the gospel2
Come down and agonize with US in
prayer. Come down and help us
preach in our pulpits. Come down
and inspire our courage and faith.
Heaven can get along without you
better than we can. But more than
all-and overwhelmed with reverent
EN- otion we ask it-come. thou OF the
deeply dyed garments of Bozrah, tray
cling in the greatness of the strength,
mighty to save. Lord God of Joshua.
Let the sun OF this century stand still
above Gibeon and the moon above the
valley of Ajalon until we can whip
out the FIVE kings OF hell, tumbllng
down the precipices as the other five
kings went over the rocks Of Bethho-
rom. Ha. ka, 1t will so surely be
done that I cannot restrain the laugh
of triumph
From where the seaweed is tossed on
the beach by the stormy Atlantic to
the sands laved by the quiet Pacific,
this country will be Emanuel's land,
the work beginning at Washington,
if we have the faith and holy push and
the consecra.lon requisite. First OF
all, we ministers must get right. That
was startling utterance Of Mr.. Swim
mock when he said, "It is a doleful
thing to fall into hell from under the
pulpit; but oh, how dreadful a thing
to drop thither out of the pulpit" !"
That was an all suggestive thing that
Paul wrote to the Corinthians. Lest
that by any means. when | have
preached to others, I myself should be
q castaway." That was an inspiring
motto with which Whitefeld sealed
all his letters, I'VE seek the stars"
Lord God. Wake up all our pulpits,
and then it will be when Venn preach
ed, and it was said that men fell be-
fore the word like Stacked lime.
Let US all, laymen and clergymen,
to the work. What Washington
wants most of all is an old fashion
ed revival of religion, but on vaster
scale, 50 that the world will be COM
PEELED to say, as of old, I'VE never
saw it on this fashion" But remem-
Der there is human side as we'll as
divine side to a revival. Those of rs
brought up in the country know what
is called "a raising"-the neighbors
gathered together to lift the
heavy frame for a new house after the
timbers are ready to be put into their
places. It is dangerous work, and
there are many accidents. The neigh
bors had gathered for such raising,
and the beams had all been fitted to
their places except one, and that very
heavy. That one, on the long pixies
of the men, had almost reached its
place when something went wrong,
and the men could hoist it no higher.
But if it did not 60 in its place it would
fall back upon the men who were lift
iugit It had already begun to settle
back. The boss carpenter shouted:
Lift, men, ordie. All together! 70
-heaver' With mightier push they
tried to send the beam to its place, but
failed. Still they held on, all the
time their strength lessening. The
wives and mothers and daughters
stood in horror looking on. Then the
boss carpen Ter shouted to the women,
Come and help"
They came, and womanly arms be-
came the arms of giants, for they were
lifting to save the lives of husbands
and fathers and sons as well as their
own. Then the boss carpenter mount
ed one of the beams and shouted:
"Now Altogether! Lift or die! 70,
heavew And with a united effort
that almost burst the blood vessels the
great beam went to its place, and a
wild huzza was heard. That is the
way it sometimes seems in the church
es. Temples of Righteousness are to
be reared, but there is halt, stop,
a catch somewhere, a few are lifting
all they can, but we want more hands
at this raising and more hearts, more
| Christian men to help-aye, more
| Christian women to re-enforce. 1.-THE
work fail, it means the death Of many
souls. All together! Mea and wo-
men of God. Lift or die! The top
stone must come to its place with
shoutings of grace, grace unto it. "
God is ready to do his part. Are we
ready to do our part? There is work
not only for the knee of prayer, but
for the shoulder of upheaval.
And now would like to see this
hour that which I have never seen,
but hope to sea whole audience
saved under one flash of the Eternal
Spirit. Before you 60 out of any of
these doors enter tie door of mercy.
Father and mother, come in and bring
your children with you. Newly mar
ried folks, consecrate your lifetime to
God and be married for eternity as
| well as time. Young man you will
want God before you get through this
| world, and you want him now.
Young woman, without God this is
hard world for women. One and all,
wherever you sit or stand I lift my
voice so that you can hear it, out in
the corridors and on the street, and
say, in the words of the Mediterran
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