The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-01-06

the movement -acceieraticn, momen.
tunl-aud what we want in getting
| into the kingdom OF God IS c2lerity.
! You see, the years are so swift, and
the days are SO swift, ana the hours
are SO swift, and the minutes are so
| swift, we need to be swift. For lack
OF this appropriate speed many do not
get into heaven at all. Here We are
| in the last Sabbath of the year Did
YOU ever know a twelfth month
quicker to be gone The golden rod
of one autumn speaks to the golden
rod of the next autumn, and the
crocus Of one Springtima to the crocuS
| OF another Springtime, aud the snow
banks of adjoining years almost reach
each other in unbroken curve. We
are in too much hurry about most
things. Business men in TOO much
hurry rush into Speculatons that ruin
them and ruin others People move
from place to pi&ce IL too grea! haste,
and they wear out their nerves and
weaken the hearts action. Bat the
only thing in which they are afraid
of being too haSty is the matter Of the
souls salvation Yet did any one
ever get damaged by too quick repent
ance or too quick pardon or too quick
emancipation2 The Bible recommends
tardinesS, deliberation and snaillike
movement in something's, as when it
EN- bins US to be slow to speak and
slow to wrath and slow to do evil,
but II tells US, The kings business
requireth haste" and that our days
are as the flight OF a weaver's shuttle
and CALCULATES: Escape for thy life.
Look not behind thee; neither stay
thou ip all the plain" Other cavalry
troops may fall back, but mounted
years never retreat. They are alws
going ahead, not on an ed
but at full run. Otherss ;s.s:
the command Of ! :. : > =. eS:I- ii
their their tents c ITS Tor the night. The regi-
ments OF the years never hear the
command of Halt" and never pitch
tent for re night.
The c>'..ury leads on its troop of
100 years, and the year leads on its
troop OF 36j days, and the day LEADS
on It's troop OF "a hours, and the hour
leads on It's troop Of 20 minutes, and
all are dashing out of sight. Perhaps
there are two years in which we are
most interested-our first aud our
last. Held up in our mothers arms,
we watched the flight of the FIRST.
With wondering eyes we al watch
the coming Of the last. The name of
that advancing year we cannot call.
1t may be in the nineties Of this cen
tury, it may be IN the tens or twenties
or thirties of the next century, but it
is coming at full gallop. With what
mood will we meet it, In jocosity, as
did Thomas Hood in his last moment.
saying, Il am dying out of charity to
the undertaken who wishes to earn a
lively Hood" Or in fear, as did
Thomas Paine, saying in his last mo-
ment, "Oh, how dread this myste-
rious leap in the dark" Or in boast
fulness, as did Vespasian, saying in
his last moment, "Ah, methinks I am
becoming god" Or in frivolity, as
did Demonex, the infdel philosopher,
saying in his last moment, 'You may
60 home; the show is over" Or con
science stricken, as did Charles IN of |
France, saying in his last moment: |
Nurse, nurse. What murder! What |
blood" Or shall we meet it in glad
ness OF Christian hope, like that OF !
Julius Charles Hare, who said in his |
last moment, Upward, upward"
Or like that of Richard Baxter in his |
last moment Sagine, Almost wen0~Il
,Ornke that of Martin of Tours, say
ing in his last moment, Il 60 to Abra.
hams BOSOM Or like that of pol
ished Addison, VINO said in his last
moment See with what ease a Chris
tian can die" Or like that OF George
Whitefeld, who felt that he had said
all that he could of Christ, declaring
in his last moment, Il shall die ST.
lent" Or like that of Mrs. Schim-
melhennich, who said in her last mo-
ment: "Do you not hear the voices2
And the children's are the loudest''.
Or like that of Dragonnatti, saying in
his last moment; Stand aside! ! see
my father and mother coming to kiss
me-" Or as did the dying girl who,
having few evenings before sat on
bench in s. London mission, was seen
to have tears Of contrition rolling
down her cheek, and who, departing
from the room, had put in her hand
by 8 Christian woman Bible, with
the passage marked, The blood of
Jesus Christ cleanseth from all SIM"
Though having promised to be at the
next meeting she did not come.
The Christian woman who gave her
the Bible was visiting the hospital,
and the nurse said to her: Il wish
you had been here little while ago.
We had young woman who had
been run over by wagon. Poor thing
She was fearfully crushed and died al
most at once. She had a Bible in her
hahd, with your name in it, and she
said when she was brought in:
Thank God! found Christ
as my Saviour last night The
blood OF Jesus Christ, his Son,
cleanseth US from all sin" Oh, my
friends, if all right for the next world,
the years can not gallop past too rap
idly. If it were possible Tor the cen
turies to take the speed OF the years,
and the years the speed of the days,
and the days the speed OF the hours.
they could do US no harm. The
shorter our life the longer our heaven.
The sooner we get out Of the perils Of
this life, if our work be done. the bet
ter. No man is safe till he is dead. |
Better men than we have been wreck |
ed and at all ages. Lord and Lady |
Napier were on horse back on a road |
in India. Lord Napier suddenly said |
to Lady Napier, ride on, and fetch |
assistance, and do rot ask me why"
She sped on and was soon out OF |
sight. The fact was. tigers eyes
glared on them from the thicket, and |
he did not dare to tell her, lest,
afrighted, she fall in the danger and
DarhaOs lose her life From all Sid5s |