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

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you can. But do say to those who
were brought up in the day OF poor
school houses and ignorant schoolmas-
ters and no opportunity: You may
have 50 mach o. good IN your soul
snd SO much OF heaven in your every
day lie that you viii be nlighti9r for
good than any WHO went through the
curriculum Of Harvard or Yale Or
Oxford, yet never graduated in the
school of Christ. When you get up
to the gale OF heaven no one Will ask
you wheLheT yoQ csn parse the first
chapter of Genesis, but whether you
have learned the fear OF the Lord,
which is the beginning of wisdom.
nor whether you know how 10 square
the circle. out whether you have lived
a sq1are lifein round world. Mount
Z!ou is higher han Mount Parnassus.
But what other multitudes there are
under other disadvantages Here is a
Christian woman whose husband
thinks religion snsm, aad while the
wife prays the children one way the
hu ,banG swears them aaother. O..
mere is a Cnristiaa man who is trying
10 do his best for God and the church,
and his wife holds him back and says
on the way hone from prayer meet
ing where he gave testimony for
Christ: "Wnat q fool you made OF
yourself! l hope hereafter You will
keep still" Aud when he would be
benevolent and give $50 she criticises
him for not giving 50 cents. I must
dc justice aad publicly thank God
that never proposed at home to give
anything for any cause Of humanity
Of religion but the Other partner in
the domestic firm approved it. And
when il seemed beyond my ability,
and faith IN God was necessary, she
had threefourths. BIT l know men
who when they contribute to charita
bic obiec.s are afraid that the wife
shall lind it cut. WHAT a whitening
curse such woman must be to good
man!
Then there are others under the
great disadvantage OF poverty. Woo
ought 10 get things cheapest You
say those who have little means. Bat
they pay mora. You buy coal by the
ton; they buyit by the bucket. y ou
buy your nour by the barrel; they buy
it By the pound You get apparel
cheap, because you pay cash; they pay
dear, because they get trusted And
the Bible was right when it said, The
destruction of the poor is their pow
erty."
Then there are those who made 8
misake in early life, and that over
shadows all their days 'Do you not
know that that man was once in pris-
on2' is whispered. o., DO you
| know that that man once attempted
suicide?" Or, I'D you know that
that man once absconded2" Or, "Do
you know that that man was once dis
charged for dishonesty2" Perhaps
there was only one wrong deed in the
mans life, and that one act haunts
the subsequent half century OF his
existence.
Others have unfortunate predomi
nance Of some mental faculty, and
their rashness throws them into wild
| enterprises, or their trepidation makes
them decline great opportunity, or
there is vein of melancholy in their
disposition that defeats them, or they
have an endowment of overmirth that
causes the impression of insincerity.
Others have a mighty obstacle in
their personal appearance, for which
they are not responsible. They forget
that God fashioned their features and
their complexion and their stature,
the size of their nose, and mouth, and
hands, and feet, and gave them their
gait and their general appearance, and
they forget thar much Of the worlds
best work and the cnurch's best work
has been done by homely people, and
that Paul the apostle is said to have
been humpbacked and his eyeSight
weakened by opthalmia, while many
OF the finest in appearance have pass
ed their time before fattering looking
| glasses, Or IN studying killing atti-
| tudes, and in displaying the richness
Of wardrobes-not one ribbon, Or vest,
or sack. or glove, or button, or shoe
string of wl .ch they have had brains
to earn for themselves.
Others had wrong procivities from
the start. They were born wrong,
and that sticks to one even after he is
born again. They have a natural
crankiness that is 275 years old. It
came over with their great grand
! fathers from Scotland, or Wales, or
| France. I was born on the banks of
the Thames, or the Clyde, or the tt
Der, or the Rhine, and has survived
all the plaques and epidemics of many
generations, aud is living today on
the banks Of the Potomac, or Hudson,
or the Androscoggin, Or the Savan-
nah, or the Ls Plata. And when a
man tries to stop this evil ancestral
proclivity he is like man on rock
in the rapids of Niagara, holding on
with grip from which the swift cur
rents are trying to sweep him into the
abyss beyond.
Oh, this world is an overburdened
world, an overworked world. 1t is an
awfully tired world. Its dreadful
" unfortunate wcrld. Scientists are
trying to find out the cause Of these
earthquakes in all lands, cisatlantic and
transatlantic. Some say this and some
soy thai. I have taken the diagnosis
Of what is the matter with the earth.
1t res so many burdens on it and so
many fires within it, it has fit. It
cannot stand such a circumference
and such a diameter. Some new Co
topaxi or Stromboli or Vesuvius will
open, and then all will be al peace for
the natural world, But what about
the moral woes Of the world that have
racked all nations, and for 5000 years
science proposes nothing but know
ledge, and many people who know the
most are the most uncomforted2
In the way of practical relief for
all disadvantage and all woes, the
only voice that is worth listening to
on this subject is the voice OF Aimigh-
ty God. Whether I have mentioned