The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-06-09

WAS aCOAL ~ EtSS--S% ~ - ~ tS'
when the poor man leapeo from the
table aud hooUiee to the door, and
said. SO 19ot}emeG. | &m sorry to dis
appoint you, out oG tie help OF God [
viii die with M leg oa." WHAT i
terrific loss is the loss OF our physical
faculties.
The way the battle OF Cracy was de.
cidad against the French was by the
Welshmen killing the Franch horses,
and that brought their riders to the
ground. And waen you cripple this
body, which is merely the animal On
which the soul rides, you may some
times defeat the soul.
Yet how many suffer from his
physical taking Of! Good cheer, my
brother: God viii make it up to you
somehow. The grace, the sympathy
Of God will be more to you than any
thing you have lost. II God allows
psrt OF your resources to be cut OF IL
one place, he will all it on somewhere
else. AS Augustus, thu emperor, took
of day from February, making II
the shortest month II the year, and
I'D led il 10 August, the month named
after himselfso advantages taken Iron
one part OF your nature Will De added
on to another. Bat it is amazing how
much of the worlds work has been
done by men OF subtracted physical
orcsnization. S. S. Preston, the great
orator of the southwest, went iimplng g
al his life, but there was no foot put
down upon any platform Of hts day
that ras0unGed SO far rs his CLUB foot:
Beethoven was so deaf that ne could
not hear the crash OF the orchestra
rendering his o.atorios. Thomas Car
IvIe, the dyspepsic martyr, was given
the commission 10 drive cant out OF
the worlds literature. The Rev.
Thomas Stockton Of Pnilsdelphia with
one lung raised his audience nearer
heaven than most ministers can raise
them with two lungs. Ia the banks,
the insurance companies, the commer-
cisl establishments, the refoTmatory
associations, the cIrches, there are
tens Of thousands OF men and women
today doubled up with rheumatism,
or subject to the n9uralgias, or with
ONLY fragments OF limos, the rest OF
which they left at Chattanooga, or
South Mountain, or the Wilderness,
and they are worth more to the world
and more to the church and more to
God than those Of Us who have never
so much as had a fager joint stiff 'ned
by a felon.
Put to full use all the faculties that
remain and charge on all opposing
circumstances with the determination
of John of Bohemia, who was totally
blind snd yet ST a battle cried out, u
pray and beseech you to lead me SO
far into the fight that may strike one
good blow with this sword Of mine.
Do aot think so much ofwhat facul-
ties you have Lost as of what faculties
remain, You have enough left to
make Yourself felt in three worlds,
while you help the earth and balk nell
and win heaven. Arise from your
discouragements, O men and women
of depleted or crippled physical fac1l-
ties, and see what. BY the special help
of God, you can accomplish!
The skilled horSemen stood around
Bucephalus, unable to mount or man
age him, so wild was the stead. But
Alexander noticed that the sight Of
his own shadow seemed to disturb the
horse. So Alexander clutched him
by the bride and turned his head
away FROM the shadow and toward the
sun, and the horses agitation was
gone, ana Alexander mounted him
and rode off, to the astenishment OF
sll who stood by. Aud what you pec.
pie need is to have your sight turned
away from the shadows of your earth
ly lot, over which you have so long
pondered, snd your head turned to
ward the sun-the glorious sun OF gos'
pei consolation, and Christian hope,
and spiritual triumph.
And then remember that all physi,
cal Disadvantages will after awhile
vanish. Let those who have been
rheumatisued out OF foot, or cata.
racted out OF an eye, or by the perpe
tual roar of our cities thundered out
of an ear, look forward to the day
when this old tenement house of flesh
will come down and better one shall
be builded. The resurrection morn
ing will provide you with better out
fit. Either the unstrung, wornout,
olunted and crippled organs will be
so reconstructed that you will rot
know them, or an entire new set OF
eyes and ears and feet will be given
you. Just what it means by corrup
ton putting on interruption we do
not know, save that it will be glory
inefable. No Emping in heaven, no
straining Of the eye sight to see things
a little way off no putting OF the hand
behind the ear to double the capacity
of the tyrpanum, bat faculties perfect,
sl the keys of the instrument attuned
for the sweep of the fingers of ecstasy.
But until that day of resumption
comes let US bear each others burdens
and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Another form OF disadvantage under
which many labor is lsck OF early
education. There will be no excuse
for ignorance in the next generation.
Free schools and illimitable opportuni-
ty of education will make ignorance a
crime. I believe in compulsory educa-
tion, and those parents who neglect to
put their children under educational
advantages have but one right lett,
and that is the penitentlary. But
there are multitudes of men and wo-
men in midlife who have had no op
portunity. Free schools had not yet
been established, and vast multitudes
had little or no school at all. They
feel it when as Christian men they
come to speak or pray in religious as
semblies or public occasions, patriotic,
or poIitital, or educational. They are
silent because they do not feel com
petent. They owe nothing to Eng
lish grammar, or georgraphy, Or bellies
lettres. They would not know par
ticiple from g pronouu If they met it
many times day. Many OF the most
successful merchants of America and
,oo,, in bIob ,,oliticc1 nIopas cannot