The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-07-14

Zig gGri G0T IS 10 =ti who Lay cone 10
:iolt cry public position Of trust II any city:
ioE ,.ve Gods representatives God. the
King anI Ru.er and Judge, sets you in MS
place Oh, be faithful in the discharge Of
al your duties, 50 that whca all our cities
are in ashes. and ths world itself is red
scroll Of flame. you may he in the mercy and
grace OF Christ reward fov your faithfG Iness
! vas that feeling which gave such eminent
qualifications for ctce to Neal Dow, mayor
I .: PortIord, and to Judge Mclean Of Ohio,
and to benjamin F. Butler attorney Cener
:; Of New York, gad to George Briggs, COVER
nor OF Massachusetts and TO Theodore Ere
inshuysen, .cnator OF the United States.
ard to William Wilberforce, member Of the
British parliament You may gnskc the re-
wards OF eternity the emoluments OF your
Office What care you for adverse political
criticism il you have God on your side: The
one, or ;te two or the three years OF your
public trust will pass away, and all the
years of your earthly service, and then the
tribunal will he lifted before which you and
must appear. May God make you SO faith
rul now that the last scene shall be to you
exhilaration and rapture. wish now to
ezhort all good people, whether they are the
governors or the governed, to make one
grand effort for the salvation, the purifca-
ton, the redemption Of our American cities.
Do YOU not know that there are mu.utudes
going down to ruin, temporal and eternal,
dropping quicker than words drop from my
lips? Grogshops swallow them up. Gamb-
ling hells devour them. Houses Of shame
are damning them. Oh, let us toll and
pray and preach and vote until all these
wrongs are righted, What We do we must
do quickly. With our rulers, and on the
same platform, we must at last come before
the throne Of God to answer FOR what we
havo done for the bettering of our great
towns. Alas, if on that day it be found
that your hand has been idle and my pulpit
has been silent. 0 ye who are pure and
honest and Christian, 60 TO work and help
10 make the cities pure and honest and Chris
tian
Lestit may have been thought that am
addressing only what are called the better
classes, my final Eord is to some dissolute
soul TO whom these words may come.
Though you may be covered with all crimes,
though you may be smltten with AL lepro-
sizes, though you may have gone through tco
whole catalogue Of finiquity and may not have
been in church for 20 years, you may have
your nature entirely reconstructed, and
upon your brow, hot with infamous prac-
tees and besweated with exhansting indul-
gences, God will place the flashing coronet
Of Saviour's forgiveness. "Oh, no. you
say III you knew who am and where l
came from, you wouldn't say that to me.
don't believe the gospel you are preaching
speaks ofmy case Yes, it does, my broth
er. AMI then, when you tell me that |
think OF what St. Teresa said when reduced
to utter destitution Having only two pieces
ofmoney left, she jingled the two pieces Of
money in her hand and said, ''St. Teresa
and two pieces of money are nothiug, bat
st. Teresa and two pieces Of money and God
are all things" And tell you now that
while sir and sinner are nothing, sin
and sinner and an all forgiving and al
compassionate God are everything
Who is that see coming? know his
step, know his rags. Who isit? Aprod-
igal. Come, people of God; let US go out
and meet him Get the best robe you can
find in all the wardrobe. Let the angels Of
God fill their ccalices and drink to his eter-
nal rescue. Come, people Of God; let US go
out to meet him. The prodigal is coming
home. The dead is alive again, and the lost
is found.
Pleased with the new, tie saints below
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