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


That Sin Can Be Overcome by Flank
Movement.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-This ser,
mon OF DR.. Talmage IN behalf Of a
sudden movement to capture the
world forrighteousness strikes chord
that will vibrate through Chrlste4oomI1 ~
The text is II Kings xviii, 25. / VII
deliver thee 1900 horses If tnou De
able on thy part to set rloerS upon
them.
Up bv the waterworks, the upper
reservoir of Jerusalem, the general OF
the besieging army and the generals
Of besieeed Jerusalem are in consul
tat;on. Though General Rab. shaken
had been largely paid to stop the siege,
he kept the money aud continued the
siege-the military miscreant! Rao'
shaken derides the capacity OF the city
to defend itself and practically says:
You have not 1000 men who can
manage horses. Produce 200 c&Val-
rymen, and I will give you 8 present
Of 2 600 cavalry horses. You have
not in all your besieged city Of Jerusa-
lem 1000 men who can mount them
and by bit and bride control horse.
Rab shaken realized that 1t IS easier 70
find horses than skillful riders, and
hence he makes the challenge Of the
text. u will deliver thee 1000 horses
if thou be able to set riders upon
them"
Rab-shakeh, like many another bad
man, said a very suggestive thing;
The world is full OF great energies ano
greatopportunities, butfew know now
to bride them and mount them and
manage them. More spirited horses
than competent riders. The fact IS
that in the church of God we have
plenty of fortresses well manned, and
plenty OF heavy aESy, and ple:.y
of solid columns 50 Christian
soldiers, but Onlost need is
cayalry-mo.<nleo troops OF God-for
,s16Ssn charge that seems almost des-
perate. If Washington. if New York,
if London, are ever taken for God, 1t
viii not be by slow bombardment Of
argumentation, Or By regular unlim-
bering of great theological guns from
the portfolios Of the churches, but by
ga1lop of sudden assault and lush OF
holy energy that will astound and
throw into panic the long line of
drilled opposition armed to the teeth.
Nothing so scares the forces of sin as
revival that comes, they know not
whence, to do that which they cannot
tell, to work in way that they can
not understand. They will be over
come by flank movement. The church
of God must double up their right or
left wing. If they expect US from the
north, we will take them from the
south. If they expect US st II o'clock
o'clock at noon, we will come upon
them at IL o'clock st night. The op-
portunities for this assault are great
and numerous, but where are the men?
81 will deliver thee 1000 horses if
thou be able to set riders upon them"
The opportunities OF saving America
and saving the entire planet were
never so many, never so urgent, new
er so tremendous, as now. Have you
not noticed the willingness of the print
ing press of the country to give the
subject of evangelism full swing in
column after column2 Such worErs
was formerly confined to tract q
button and religious Journalism ~
the morning and evening nsSSspapers,
BY hundreds ss4o thousands of copies,
pfIEeSalI religious intelligence and
print most awakening dlscourses.
Never since the world has stood has
such g force been offered to all engaged
in the worlds eyangelization. OF the
more than fifteen thousand newspa-
pers on this continent I do not know
one that is not alert to catch and dis
tribute all matters of religious infor-
nation.
Oh. now see mighty suggestive.
ness in the fact that the first book OF
any importance that was ever publish
ed after Johann Gutenberg invented
the art of printing was tbs Bible.
Well might that poor man toll on,
polishing stones and manufacturing
looking glasses and making expert
ments that brought upon him the
charge Of insanity and borrowing
money, now from Martin Brother and
now from Johann Faust, until he set
on foot the mightiest power for the
evangelization of the world. The
statue in bronze which Thorwaldsen
erected for Gutenberg in 1887 and the
statue commemorating him by David
dangers in 1910 and unveiled amid
all the pomp lat military professions
and German bands OF best music
could give the occasion were inslgnlh-
can't compared with the fact, to be
demonstrated before all earth and all
heaven that Johann Gutenberg under
God, inaugurated forces which will
yet accomplish the worlds redemp-
tiau. The newspaper press will yet
announce notions born in day. The
newspaper press viii report Christ's
sermons vet to be delivered and de-
scribe his personal appearance, II, as
some think, he shall come again to
reign on earth. The newspaper press
may yet publish Christ's proclama-
ton of the worlds emancipation from
sin and sorrow and death. Tens OF
thousands OF good men in this and
other lands have been ordained by the
laying on of hands to preach the gos-
pei, but it seems to me that just now,
by the laying on of the hands OF the
Lord God Almighty, the newspaper
presses are being ordained for preach
ing the gospel with wider sweep and
mightier resound than we have ever
ye: imagined The iron horses OF the
printing press are all ready for the
battle, but where are the men good |
enoug b and strong enough TO mount |
thema Il will deliver thee 1000
horses if thou be able to set riders upon |
them"
Go out to the Soldiers home Ind
talk with the men who have been in
the war, and they will give you right
annrec;stior of Mhaf is the ironortance |