The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-05-13

| want q throne. Select u from the
1000, 900 FURNISHED elevations DO
YOU want crown Pick it out OF thai
mountain of diamoned coronetS. Do
you want your old church friends OF
earth around you. Begin 10 hum an
old revival tune, and they will flock
from ali quarters to yevel with you N
sacred "reminiscences All the earth for
those who are on earth at the time ii
continental aud pIantery distribution,
and all the heavens for those who are
there
That heavenly distribution OF spoils
will be surprise to many. Here en-,
ters heaven the soul OF man who
took up great deal Of room in the
Ichurch oo earth, but sacrificed little,
and among his good works selfShness
was evident. He just crowds through
the shining gate, but it's very tight
squeeze, so that the dcorkeeper has to
pull hard to get him in and this man
expects half of heaven for his share of
rophies, and he would like a monop,
oily of all its splendor, and to purchase
lots in the suburbs, so that he could
get adcantange of the growth OF the
city. Well, little by little he gets
grace OF heart, JUS enough to get him
through, and to him IS given second
baud crown, which one OF the saints
wore at the start, but exchanged for
q brighter one as he vent on from
glory to glory. And he is put IN an
old house once occupied by an angel
who was hurled out Of heaven at the
time OF Satan's rebellion.
Right after him comes soul that
makes great stir among the celestials
and the angels rush to the scene, each
bringing to her a dazzling coronet.
Who is she? Over what realm on
earth was she queen2 In what great
Dusseldorf festlva was she the cantra-
trice. Neither. She was an invalid
who never left her room for 20 years,
bat she was strong in prayer and she
prayed down revival after revival and
revival and pentecost after pentecost
upon the churches and with her pale
hands she knit many mitten or ap-
pet for the poor, and with her contrl-
vances she added JOY to many holl-
day festival, and now with those thin
hands so strong for kindness and with
those white lips so strong for suppllca-
ton she has won coronation and IN
thronement and jubilee. And Christ
said to the angels who have brought
each a crown for the glori6ed invalid: !:
NO, not these; they are not good
enough. But in the jeweled vase at
the right hand side OF my throne there
is one that l have been preparing for
her many a year and for her every
pang I have set an amethyst and for
her every good deed have set pearl:
Fetch it now and fulfill the promise |
have gave her long ago in the sick
room, BE thou faithful unto death
and l will give theea crown.
But notice that there is only one
Being in the universe who can and
will distribute the trophies of earth
and heaven. It is the Divine Warrior,
the Commander In Chief of the Cen
turies, the Champion of Ages. the
Universal Conqueror, the Son OF God,
Jesus. You will take the spolls
from his hand or never take
them at all. Have his friendship and
you may defy all time and all eter-
| nifty but without it you are pau
| per, though you had universe at
your command. We are told in Rev
elations that Jacobs II sons were so
honored as to have the twelve gates
| Of heaven named after them-over
one gate of heaven Naphtali, over an
other gate Of heaven Issachar, over
another Dan, over another Cad, over
another Zebulon, over another judah,
and so on. But Christ's name is writ
ten over all the gates, and on
every PANEL of the gates and have
his pardon, have his help, his
intercession his atonement, l must,
or be a iorlorn wretch forever.
My Lord and my God, make me and
all who hear me this day and all to
whom these words shall come, thy re-
pentant, believing, sworn. consecrat-
ed and ransomed followers forever.
What day it will be! This entire
semblage would rise to its f@t if you
could realize it, the day in which
Christ shall, in ful6llment ofmy text,
divide the spoil! 1t was great day
when Queen Victoria, in the midst OF
the Crimean war, distributed medals
to the soldiers who had come home
sick and wounded. AT the Hors
guards, in presence Of the royal faml-
", the injured men were carried in or
came on crutches Colonel Trwbridg,
who lost both feet at Inkerman, and
Captain Sayer, who had the ankle
Joint of his right leg shot off atAlma,
and Captain Cure. his disabled limb
supported by soldier, and others
manned and disfgured and exhausted
and with her own hand the queen
gave each the Crimean medal. An.
what triumphant days for those sold
diers when, farther on, they received
the French medal with the imperial
eagle. and the Turkish medal with its
representation of four fag-France,
Turkey, England and Sardinia-and
beneath it a map of the Crimea spread
over a gun wheel. An what rewards
are suggested to all readers Of history
by mere mention Of the Waterloo
medal, and the Gold Cross medal,
and the medals struck for bravery in
our American wars. But how inSig-
ni6cant all these compared with the
day when the good soldiers of Jesus
Christ shall come in out Of the bat
ties of this world. and, in the pres.
ence of all the piled up galleries OF
the redeemed and the unfallen, Jesus.
our King, shall divide the spoil. The
more wounds the greater the inheri
tance. The longer the forced march
the brighter the trophy. The more
terrible the exhaustion the more glo
rious the transport. Not the gift OF a
brilliant ribbon or medal of brass of
silver or gold, but a kingdom in which
we are to reign for ever and ever.
Mansions on the eternal hills. Domi-
nious of unfading power. Empires OF
amending love.