The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-08-18
Shall Jesus bear the cross alone
And all the world so free:
No: there cross for every one,
And there q cross for me.

You know the process of migrating. You
bore a hole into a tree and put in the branch
Of another tree. This tree of the cross was
hard and rough, bat into the holes where
the nails vent there haven been grated
branches Of the tree Of life that nov bear
fruit for all nations. The original tree was
bitter, but the branches ingrafted We're
sweet, and now all the nations pluck the
fruit AID live forever. Again, Christ was
wonderful in his victories.
First, over the forces Of nature. The sea
IS a crystal sepulchre. 1t swallowed tie cen
tral America, the President aud the Spanish
armada as easily as any fly that ever doa ed
on IT, The inland lakes are fully as terrible
in their wrath. Galilee when aroused in a
storm IS overwhelming, and yet that sea
crouched in his presence and licked his feet.
He knew all the waves and winds. When he
beckoned, they came. When he frowned, they
fed. The heel of his foot made no iudenta-
ton on the solidiied water. Medical science
has wrought great changes in rheumatic
limbs aud diseased blood, but when the mus
cles are entirely withered no human power
can restore them, aud when a limb is once
dead it is dead Bat here IS a paralytic, his
hand HfelesS. Ch-ist says TO him, Stretch
forth thy hand and he stretches it forth.
In the eye inirrary how many diseases
Of tha. delicate organ have been cured. But
Jesus says to one born blind, BE open"
and the light OF heaven rushes through gates
that have never before been opened. The
frost or an axe may Kill q tree, but Jesus
smi;e5 one dead with word
Chemistry can do many wonderful things,
but what chemist at a wedding when the re-
freshment gave out could change pail Of
water into a cask Of wine?
What human voice could command q
school of fish? Yet here is voice that mar
shals the scaly tribes, until in the place
where they had let down the net and pulled
itup with no fish in it they let i down
again, and the disciples lay hold and begin
10 pull, when, By reason ofthe multitude Of
FISH, the net brake.
Nature is his servant. The lowers, he
twisted them into his sermons: the winds,
they were his lullaby when he slept il the
boat; the rain, it hung glittering on the
thick foliage OF the parallels; the Star Of
Bethlehem, it sarg q Christmas carol over
his birth; the rccks, they beat a dirse at his
death.
Behold his victory over the grave. The
hinges OF the family vault become very rusty
because they are never opened except tc
take another in. There is knob on the
outside Of the sepulcher. bat none ca the
inside Here come the Conqueror of Death.
He enters that realm aud says, Daughter
Of Jar;us, sit up" and she sat up. To Laz-
arus. Gone forth" and ne came forth. To
the widows son he said, Get UP from that
bier," and he goes home with his mother.
Then Jesus sn2tched up the keys Of death
and then hung them to his girdle and
cried until all the gr2veyards of the earth
heard him: 20 death, will be thy plague.
0 grave, will be thy destruction.
Bot Christ victories have only just be-
gun. This world IS his, aud he must have
il. What IS the matter IN this country?
Why al these financial trubles. There
never will be permanent prosperity n this
land until Christ rules il. This land was
discovered for Christ, and until our cities
shall be evangelical and north, south, east
and west shall acknowledge Christ as King
and Redeemer We cannot have permanent
prosperity. What is the matter with Spain,
with France, with ali Of the natiops:: Al
the congresses OF the nations cannot bring
cuiet. When governments not only the
oreticany but practically acknowledge
the Saviour Of the world, there
will be peace everywhere. IN that day the
sea viii have more ships than now, but there
will not be one "maE-ofwar. The foun-
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