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

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Zwingili's Doctrine OF Original Sin"
or Augustin's 'Anthropoloyy." You
might as we'll 60 to a man who has
the pleurisy and put on his side plas-
ter made out of DR.. PARIS Treatise on
Medical Jurisprudence"
In all our sermons there must be
help for every one somewhere. You
go into an apothecary store. We see
others being waited on. We do not
complain because we do uot immedl-
ately get the medicine We know
our turn will come after awhile. And
so while all parts OF a sermon may
not be appropriate to our case, if we
wait prayerfully before the sermon is
through we shall have the divine pre-
scription. l say to these young men
who are going to preach the gospel,
three theological students, | say to
them, we want in our sermons not
more metaphysics, nor more magma
ton, nor more logic, nor more pro-
fundity.
What we want in our sermons and
Christian exhortations is more symp
thy. When Father Taylor preached
in the Sailors Bethel at Boston, the
jack tars felt they had help for their
duties among the ratlines and the
forecastles. When Richard Weaver
preached to the operatives in Oldham,
England, all the workingmen felt they
had more grace for the spindles.
When DR.. South preached to kings
and princes and princesses, all the
mighty men and women who heard
him felt preparation for their high sta
ton.
Do you not know that this simple
story of a Saviour's kindness is to re-
deem all nations? The hard heart of
this worlds obduracy is to be broken
before that story. There is in Ant
werp, Belgium, one Of the most re-
markable pictures I ever saw. It is
The Descent OF Christ From the
Cross" 1t is one of Ruben's pictures.
No man can stand and look at that
Descent From the Cross as Ru-
bens pictured it, without having
his eyes flooded with tears, if he
has any seusibility at all. 1t is
an overmastering picture-one that
stuns you and staggers you and haunts
your dreams. One afternoon a man
stood in that cathedral looking at Ru-
berns' Descent From the Cross" He
was all absorbed in that scene of Sa-
viour's suferings, when the janitor
came in and said: SIT is time to close
up the cathedral for the night. I wish
you would depart" The pilgrim look
ing at that Descent From the Cross"
turned around to the ianitor and said:
"No, no; not yet. Wait until they
get him down" On, it is the story of
a Saviour's suffering kindness that IS
to capture the world. When the bones
OF thai great behemoth OF iniquity
which has trampled all nations be
broken and shattered, it will be found
out that the work was not done by the
hammer of the iconaclast, or by the
sword OF the conqueror, or by the
torch of persecution, but by the plain,
simple, overwhelming force of ''the
soft tongue that breaketh the bone"
Kindness. We all need more of it
in our hearts, our words and our be-
havior. The chief characteristic Of our
Lord was kindness. a gentleman in
England died leaving his fortune by
will to two sons. The son that staid at
home destroyed the fathers will and
pretended that the brother who was
absent was dead and buried. The ab-
sent brother after awhile returned and
claimed his part of the property.
Judges and jurors were to be bribed
to say that the returned brother and
SON was no son at all, but'only an
impostor. Lhe trial came on Sir
Matthew Hale, the pride of the Eng
lish courtroom and for 30 years the
pride of jurisprudence. heard that that
injustice was about to be practiced.
He put off his official robe. He put
on the garb of a miller. He went to
the village where that trial was to
take place. He entered the courtroom.
He somehow got impaneled as one of
jurors. The bribes came around, and
the man gave ten pieces of gold to the
other jurors, but as this was only
poor miller the briber gave to HIM
only FIVE pieces OF gold. a verdict
was brought in rejecting the right of
this returned brother. He was to have
no share in the inheritance. Hold,
my lord" said the miller. "Hold!
We are not all agreed on this verdict.
These other men have received ten
pieces OF gold in bribery and I have
received only i've" Who are you9
Where do you come from?" said the
Judge on the bench. The response
was: II am from Westminster hall.
Ny name is Matthew Hale, lord chief
Justice of the kings bench. Of of that
place, thou william" And so the in
justice was baked, and so the young
man got his inheritance
It was all for another that Sir Mat
thew Hale took off his robe and put
on the garb of a miles. And so Christ
took off his robe of royalty and put on
the attire of our humanity, and IN that
disguise he won our eternal portion.
Now are we the sons of God-loint
heir. We went off from home sure
enough, but We got back in time to re-
ceive our eternal inheritance. And If
Christ was so kind to us, surely we
can afford to be kind to each other.
The Citadel Academy.
The Board of Visitors of the Citadel
Academy met at the Hotel Jerome in
Columbia last week. Col. Asbury
Gnpar6 sl1nerintendent WAS present