The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-11-03
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lGlpGCtCES- anu SllpteTS, anu dealers IL
furniture. and dealers in coal. and dealers in
groceries: Lies about buckles, about sad
dies. about harness, about shoes. about hats,
about coats, about shovels about tonss, about
forks, about chains, about sofas, about es,
&6oi:t lands, about everything. d ign
commercial talsehood as one of the crying
sins Of our time
pass on to spsak of mechanical false
hoods. Among the artisans arc those upon
whom Ne are dependent for the houses IN
which We live. the garments we wear. the
cars in which We ride The vast majority OF
them are, 50 far as know them. men who
speak the truth, and they are upright, and
many Of them are foremost in great phIan-
throp;es and in churches, but that they all
DO not helony 10 that class every one knows.
In tines when there IS 3 great demand Tor
labor il IS not 50 easy for such men TO keep
their obligations, because they may miscal,
cula;e in regard to the weather or they may
not be able 10 get the help they anticipated
in their enterprise. l am speaking now OF
those who promise TO DO that which they
know they Will not ne able 20 do. They say
they will come on Monday. They do not
come until Wednesday. They say they will
come or Wednesday. They 30 not come un-
I'll SATURDAY. They say they will have the
lob done IA ten days. They DO not get It
done before so. And when a man becomes
irritated and viii not stand it any longer
then they 30 and work for him a day or two
and keep the job along, and then some one
else gets irrita;ei and outrsg ged, and they 80
and work for that man and get him pacitied
and then they go somewhere else. l believe
they call that nursing the job.
An. my friends, how much diShonor such
men would save their souls if they would
promise 10 DO only that which they know
they can do. Oh they say, '.its Of no
importance. Everybody expects 10 be de-
ceived aud disappointed. There is voice
of thunder sounding among the saws and the
hammers and the shears, saying, ''all mars
shall have their place in the lake that burns
with FIRE and birthstone.
| pass on 10 speak of social lies. How
much of society is insincere? You hardly
know what TO believe. They scnd their re-
CARDS. You do not exactly know whether It
IS an expression OF the heart or az external
civillty. They ask you to come 10 their
house. You hardly know whether they
really want you 10 come. We are al accus-
toned to lake discount off what We hear.
Not st home" very often means 100 lazy to
dress. l was reading Of a lady who said she
bad told her last fashionable lie. There was
a knock at her door, AMI she sent word
down, Not at home That night her hus-
band said 10 her, "MrS. So-and-so IS dead.
"Is it possible she said. "les, and she
died in great anguish of mind. She wanted
TO see you so verv mach; she had something
very important to disclose 10 you in her last
hour, and she sent three times today, but
found you absent eve~y time Then this
woman bethought herself that she had had a
bargain with her neighbor that when the
long protracted sickness was about 70 come
TO al end she would appear at her bedside
IN / take the secret that was to be disclosed.
And she had said she was mot at home.
Social life is struck through with insin-
cerity. They apologize for the fact that the
furnace is out; they have not had any fire IN
it all winter They apologize FOR the fare on
their table; they never live any better. They
decry their most luxuriant entertainment to
win a shower of approval from you. They
point at . picture on the wall as work OF
one OF the old masters. They say it is an
heirloom in the family. II hung on the wall
of castle 4 duke gave it to their grand
father People that will lie about nothing
else will lie about a picture. Ga small in
come we want the world to believe we are
atfiuent, and society today is struck through
with cheat and counterfeit and sham. How
few people are natural Frigidity sails
around, iceberg grinding against iceberg
You must not laugh outright. That is vu!-
gar. You must smile. You must not dash
quickly across the room. That is vulgar.
You must glide. Much of society is round
of bows and grins and grimaces and obs
and abs and he, he, he's and simperings
and nemby pambyiSm, whole world OF
which is not worth one good honest round
of laughter. From such a hollow scene the
tortured guest retires at the close Of the eve
ming, assuring the host that he has enjoyed
himself Society is become so contorted and
deformed in this respect that mountain
cabin where the rustics gather at quilting
or an apple pairing has in it more good cheer
than all the frescoed refrigeratorS OF the
metropolis.
pass on to speak OF ecclesiastical lies,
those which are told for the advancement or
retardins OF a church or sect. 1t IS hardly
worth Your while to ask an extreme CALVIN
ist what an Arminian believes. He will
tell you that an Armin;an believes
that man can save himself. An Ar
minian believes no such thing. It IS
hardly worth your while TO ask an ex-
treme Arminian what Calyinist believes.
He will tell you that Calsinist believes
that Coo made some men just to damn them.
a Caivinist believes no such thing. Ii IS
hardly worth your while to ask Pedt-
Baptist what Baptist believes. He will
tell you q Baptist believes that immersion IS
necessary for salvation. a Baptist does not
believe any such thing. II is hardly worth
your while to ask q man who very much
hates Presbyterians what Presbyterian be-
lieves. He will tell you that Presbyterian
believas that there are infants in hell q span
long, and that very phraseology has come
down from generation to generation in the
Christian church. There never was q Pres
byterian VINO believed that. oh you
say, Il heard some Presbyterian minister 20
years ago say So" You did rot. There
never was man who believed that. There
never will bea man who will believe that.
And yet from boyhood I have heard that
particular SANDER against q Christian church
going down through the community.
Then. how often it is that there are mis-
representations on the part Of individual
churches ia regard to other churches, es-
pecially II church come to great prosperi-
ty AS long as church is in poverty, and
the singing is poor, and al the surroundings
are decrepit, and the congregation are so
hardly bestead in life that their pastor goes
with elbows out, ,hen there will always be
Christian people in churches who say, What
a pity: what a pity" But let the day OF
prosperity come 10 9 Christian church and
let the music be triumph and, let there be
vast assemblases, aud then there will De
even ministers Of the gospel critical and de-
runciatory and full OF misreprs ssentation and
falsifcation, giving the impression TO the
outside world that they do not Ike the corn