The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-11-18

WHO AGslAS ostA ~
Us. We seas that drencheI MIN with
your surf; tell US, ye multitudes who
heard him preach or deck, on beach,
on hillside; tell us, Golgotha, who
heard the stroke of the hammer on the
spikeheads and the dying groan IN
that midnight that dropped on mid
noon, did anyone like Jesus have this
passion for souls?
But breaking right IN upon me IS
the question, How can we get some
thing of this Pauline and Chrlstly
LONGING for saved immortalities |
answer by better approaching the
urolonratiop of the souls existence
conoared with everything physical
and material. How I hope that sur
econ will successfully remove the cat
aract from that mans eye 1t IS such
q sad thing to be blind Let US pray
while the doctor is busy with the deli
cafe operation. But for how long a
time Will he be able to give his patient
eyesight Well, if the patient be 40
years of age, he will add to his happi-
ness perhaps so years OF eyesight, and
that will bring the man TO 80 years,
and it is not probable that he will live
so long. But what is good eyesieht
for 50 years more as compared with
clear vision for the soul a billion OF
centuries I hope the effort to drive
back the typhoid fever from yonder
home viii be successful. God help
the doctors We will wait in great
anxiety until the fires Of that fever are
extinguished, and when the man rises
from his pillow and walks out, with
what heartiness we viii welcome him
into the fresh air AID the church and
business circles. lie is thirty years OF
age, and if he shall live sixty years
more that will make him ninety. But
what are sixty years more of earthly
vigor compared with the souls health
for cuadrillion millenniums-a mil,
lenniuru, as you know, thousand
wears? This world, since fitted up for
mans residence, has existed about SIX
thousand years. How much longer
will it exist We will suppose it shall
last as much longer, which IS very
doubtful. That will make its exist
ence twelve thousand years. But
what are or will be twelve thousand
years compared with the eternity pre-
ceding those years and the eternity
following them-time, as compared to
eternity, like the droc OF the night
dew shaken from the top OF a grass
blade by the cows hoof on It's way
afeld this morning. as compared with
Mediterranean and Arabian ana Allan
tic and Pacific waterv dominions
see the author OF my text seated IN
the house of Gaius, who entertained
him at Corinth, not far from the over
hanging fortress Of Aero Corinthus,
and meditating on the longevity OF
the soul and getting more aud more
acitated about It's value and the awful
risk some of his kindred were running
concerning it, and he writes this letter
containing the text, which Chrysos,
tom admired so much he had it read
to him twice a week, and among 9th
er things he says those daring and
startling words of my text, I could
wish that myself were accursed from
Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen,
according to the flesh" "
Auothpr way to get something OF
the Pauline longing for redeemed I'M
mortalitles is by examining the vast
machinery arranged to save this inner
and spiritual natErree. That n,achiz,.
cry started 70 revolve on the edge OF
the garden OF Eden, just after the cy-
Clone of sin prostrated the sycamores
and tamerisks and willows and will
not cease to revolve until the last soul
of earth shall get rid Of its last sin and
enter the heavenly Eden. On that
stupehdous machinery for soul saving
the patriarch put his hand, and prohe1
his hand, and evangelist his hand, and
apostle his hand, and Christ his hand
and almost every hand that touched
it became crushed hand. It was the
most expensive machinery ever con,
structed. It cost more to start 1t and
has cost and will cost more to keep it
running than all the wheels that ever
made revolution on this planet. That
machinery turned not by ordinary
motive power, but by force of tears
and blood. To connect its bands OF
influence made out of human and
Christly nerves with all parts OF the
earth millions of good men and wo-
men are now at work and will be at
work until every wilderness shall be.
come garden, and every tear of grief
shall be a tear Of joy. and the sword
of divine victory shall give the wound
to the old dragon that shall send him
bowling to the pit, the iron gate
changing against him never again to
open. Ali that and infinitely more to
save the soul. Why, it must be tre-
mendous soul-tremendouS for good
or tremendous for evil, tremendous
for happiness or tremendous for woe.
Who is that young woman on the
worst street in Washington, New
York or London, Bible in hand and a
little package in which are small vials
of medicines, and another bundle IN
which are biscuits How dare she
risk herself with s'those roughs," and
where is she going? She is one Of the
queens of heaven hunting up the sick
and hungry, and before night she will
have read Christ's Let not your heart
be troubled" in eight or ten places, and
counted out from those walls the right
number of drops to ease pain and given
Put on the left side Of the largest
sheet of paper that ever came from
paper mill a single unit, the figure /,
and how many ciphers would you
have to add to the right of that figure
to express the souls value, each cipher
adding tenfold2 Working into that
scheme of the souls redemption, how
many angels OF God, descending and
ascending. How many storms swoop-
ing on Lake Galilee. How many
earthquakes opening dungeons and
striking cataclysrs through noun
tains, from top to base. What noon
day sun was put on retreat. What
omnipotence lifted and what Godhead