The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-03-18

of ;ns torment that ascendeth up for
ever and ever! Alcoholism, swearing
not with hand uplifted toward
heaven, for from that direction it
can get no help. but with right hand
stretched down toward the perdition
from which it came up--swearing that
it will not cease as long as there are
any homestads to despoil, any mag
nidcent men and women to destroy,
any immortal souls to damn, any
more nations to balk, any more civil
zations to extinguish.
Then there is what iu America we
call socialism. in France commun-
ism and in Russia nihilism-the
the three names for one and the
same thing-and having but two doc
trines in its creed: First, there is no
God; second, there shall be no rights
Of property. One OF their chief Jour
nails printed this sentiment. "Dyna
mite can be made out of the dead bod
les of capitalists as well as out Of hogs"
One of the leaders Of communism left
inscribed on his prison wall, where he
had been Justly incarcerated, these
words: when once you are dead,
there is an end of everything. There
fore, ye scoundrels, grab whatever
you can, only don't let yourselves be
grabbed. Amen" There are in this
country hundreds of thousands of
these lazy scoundrels. Honest men
der,cre it when they cannot get work,
but those of whom I speak will not do
work when they can get it. l tried to
employ one who asked me for money.
said, ''DoMn--iEa-saal+5 cellar I have
sseeaaaewood to saw, and I will pay you
for it." For little while I heard the
saw going, and then | heard it no
more. went down stairs and found
the wood, but the, workman had dis
appeared, taking for company both
buck and saw.
Socialism, communism and nihilism
mean too wicked to acknowledge
God and too lazy to earn living" "
and among the rnightiest obstacles to
be overcome are those organized ele-
ments Of domestic, social and political
ruin.
There also are the Businesses of inf
deity, and atheism, and fraud, and
political corruption, and multiform,
hydra headed, million armed abomi-
nations all over the land. While the
mightiest agencies for righteousness
on earth are good and healthful news
papers and good and healthful books,
and our chief dependence for intelli-
gence and Christian achievement is
upon them, what word among the
more than 100000 in our vocabulary
can describe the work of that arch
angel of mischief, corrupt iterature2
W 1at man, attempting anything for
God and humanity, has escaped a
stroke of its filthy wing? What good
cause has escaped its hinderment?
What other obstacle in all the land so
appalling? But I cannot name more
than one-half the battlements, the bas-
tions, the intrenchments, the redoubts,
the Notifications, to be stormed and
overcome if this country is ever
taken for God. The statistics are so
awful that if we had nothing but the
multiplication table and the arithme-
tic, the attempt TO evangelize America
would be an absurdity higher than
the tower of Babel before it dropped
on the plain of Shinar. Where are
the drilled troops to march against
| those Notifications as long as the con-
tinent2 Where are the batteries that
can be unlimited against these walls?
Where are the guns of large enough
caliber to storm these gates. Well,
let US look around and see, the first of
all, who is our leader and will be our
leader until the work is DONE
Garibaldi, with !, 900 Italians, could
do more than another commander
with 10000 Italians. General Sher-
man, on one side, and Stonewall
| Jackson, on the other, each with 10, 900
troops, could do more than some other
generals with 20. 900 troops. The rough
boat in which Washington crossed the
icy Deleware with few half frozen
troops was mightier than the ship of
war that, during the American Revo-
luton, came through the Narrows, a
gun at each portfolio, and sank in
He'll Gate. Our leader, like most great
leaders, was born in an obscure place,
and it was humble home, about five
miles from Jerusalem. Those who
were out of doors that night said that
there was stellar commotion and music
that came out of the clouds, as though
tn. front door of heaven had been set
%lo4 rlo o1~ ,-l oIc
first infantile cry. Tnen he came to
the fairest boyhood that mother wa'
ever proud of. and from 12 to 80 years
of age was off in India, if traditions
there are accurate, and then returned
to his native land, and for three years
had his pathway surrounded by blind
eyes that he Illuminated, and eplleptic
patients to whom he gave rubicund
health, and tongues that he loosed
from silence into song, and those
whose funerals he stopped that he
might give back to bereaved mothers
their only boys, and those whose few
cred pulses he had restored into rhyth-
mic throb, and whose paralytic limbs
he had warmed into healthful circuia-
tion-pastor at Capernaum, but ham-
ing evangelist everywhere, hushing
crying tempests and turning rolling
seas into solid sapphire, and for the
rescue of a race submitted to court
room filled with bowling miscreants,
and to martyrdom at the sight of
which the sun tainted and fell back
in the heavens, and then treading the
clouds homeward, like snowy noun
tain peaks, till heaven took him back
again, more favorite than he had
ever been; but, coming again, he is on
earth now, and thenations are gather
ing to his standard.
Following him were the Scotch cove
nanters, the Thebar legion, the vic
TINS of the London Haymarket, the
Piedmontesse sufferers, the pilgrim
fathers, the Huguenots and uncount-
ed multitudes Of the past, Joined by