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

boz Under Adverse Circumstances Both
Physical and Mentsl--The oserbprdened
and oyerworked,
DR.. Talmsge's sermon Sunday was
one of good cheer. It will give en-
courasement to many struggling souls,
The subject is Contrary WINDS, ana
the text Matthew xiv, q "the Wlno
was contrary"
As I well know by experience on
Lake Gslilee, one hour ali may De
calm and the next hour the winds ana
waves will be so boisterous that you
are in doubt SIS to whether you Will
land on the shore or on the bottom OF
the deep. The disciples IN the text
were caught in such stress Of wealth
or and the sails bent and the ship
plunged, for the wind was contrary. ;"
There is in one of the European straits
place, where, whichever way you
sail, the winds are opposing. There
are people who al their life seem sail
ing in the teeth of the wind. All
things seem against them. Il may be
said of their condition SIS Of that OF the
disciples of the the text, the wind was
contrary"
a great multitude OF people are un-
der seeming disadvantage, and | Will
today, in the swarthiest angie Saxon
that can manage. treat their cases; :;
not as nurse counts out eight or ten
drops of 8 prescription and srlrS them
in 8 half glass of water, but as when 8
man has by mistake taken large
amount Of strychnine or paris green
or belladonns, and the patient IS
walked rapidly round the room and
shaken up until he gets wide awake.
Many of yon have taken q large draft
of the poiso-- OF disbursement, and
leone out by the order OF the divine
Physician to rouse you out OF that
lethargy.
First, many people are under the
disadvantage OF an unfortunate name
given them by parents who thought
they were doing good thing. Some
times st the baptism Of children while
have held up one hand in prayer l
haye held up the other IN anazement
that parents should have weighted the
babe with such dissouant and repuI-
si7e nomenclature. I have not so
much wondered that some children
should CRY out at the christening font
as that others with such smiling face
should take title that will be the
burden of their lifetime. It is outra-
geeus to aflict children with an unde
sirable name because it happened to
be possessed by parent or r1ch un'
Gle from whom favors are expected or
some prominent man Of the day who
may end his life in disgrace. 1t is no
excuse, because they are Scripture
names, to call child Jehoiakim Or
Tiglath. Pileser. Ibaptised one by the
name Bathsheba. Why, under all
the circumambient heaven, any parent
should want to give to child the
name of that loose creature OF Scrip
ture times cannot imagine. l have
often felt at the baplismal altar, wfon
names were announced tc me-, like
saying, as did the Rev. Dr.. Richards
OF Morristown, n. j., when child
was handed him for baptism and the
name given, Hadn't you better call
it something else2"
Impose not upon that babe q name
suggestive OF dippancy or meanness:
There is no excuse for such assault and
battery on the cradle when our Ian
guage is opulent with names musical
and suggestive IN meaning, sucn rs
John, meaning ''the gracious gift Of
God" or Henry, meaning "lhe chief
OF household" or Alfred, meaning
''good counselor, or Joshua, meaning
ssGod, our salvation" or ambrose,
meaning Immortal" or andrew,
meaning manly" or Esther, mean
ing ssstar," or Abigail, meaning my
fathers JOY" or Anna, meaning
'sgrace," or Victoris, meaning '.victo-
ry," or Rosalie, meaning beautiful as
rose" or Margaret, meaning "a
pearl, }" or Ida, meaning ''godlike," or
Clara, meaning ''illustrious," or
Amelia, meaning busy" or Bertha.
meaning beautiful, " and hundreds OF
other names just as good that are a
help rather than 8 hinorance.
But sometimes the great hindrance
in life is not in the given name, but IN
the family name. While legislatures
are willing to lift such incubuses,
there are families that keep a name
which mortgages all the generations
with q great disadvantage. You say.
ST wonder if he IS any relation to So
and.so," meaning soma family cele-
brated for crime or deception. It is q
wonder to me that IN all such families
some spirited young man does not
rise, saying to his brothers and sisters,
''E you want to keep this nuisance or
scandiEzation Of name, will keep It
no longer than until by quickest
course of law I can slough OF this
gangrene.' The city directory has
hundreds of names the mere pronun-
ciatlon of which has been a life long
obstacle. If you have started life un-
der name which. either through r.,
diculons orthography or vicious sug-
gestion, has been an incum mbrance, re-
solve that the next generation shall
not be so weighted. It IS not demean-
ing to change 8 name. Saul Of Tar
sus became Paul the Apostle. Had
assah, ''the myrtle" became Esther,
''the star" We have IN America,
and I suppose it is so in all countries,
names which ought to be abolished,
and can be and will be abolished for
the reason that they are libel and s.
slander. But if for any reason you
are submerged either bya given name
or by 8 family name that you must
bear, God will help you to overcome
the outrage by life consecrated to
the good and useful. You may erase
the curse from the name. Il it once
stood for meanness, you can make 1t
stand for generosity. If once it stood
for pride, you can make it stand for
humility. Ifit once stood for fraud,
you can make it stand for honesty. If
once il stood for wickedness, you can
make it stand for purity. There have
been multitudeS of instances where