The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-03-24

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one OF Gods flaming bulletins an
noucjng hostility. Nlneveh and
Tvye agia Jerusalem IL awful ruin
mark the track Of Jehoveh'S advance
ment. They Snow that God was teri
b}y in earnest when he announced
himself abhorrentof liaiouity. Tasy
make rs believe that though nations
belligerert and revengaful may
sign articles Of peace and come
to an aD,icable adjustment,
there shall be no cessation
of hos!ilities between the forces
OF light ana the forces OF darkness ua-
til the kiugdons OF this world nave
become the kingdoms OF our Losd.
AGrighted by 10 opposition, discour
aged by no temporary defeats, sarlnk-
ing from no eNpoSure-every man to
his position, while from the top OF our
schools and churches and sem!narIes
and asylums 'in the name OF Ca we
viii set up our banners.
Again, !! was the custom III ancleat
times for the pIrpose OF gathering
armies % lift an ensign on the top OF
some high hill, 50 that all who saw II
would feel impe}led TO rally around
it. In modern times the same plan
has bsen employed for the gathering
of sn army. Thus Il IS thatthe church
Of Cnris, lifts It's lag foc recruits.
The cross OF Jesus is our standard,
planted on the hill OF Calvary. Other
aruies demand that persons desiring
to enter the Isis Of war shall be be-
tween such, and sucA an age, lest the
folly OF extreme youth or the infrni-
ty of advanced age be a clog rather
than an advantage. But none IS too
Young for Chris.'s regiment; none can
be too old. The hand that is strong
enough to bound ball or tr1udle a
hoop is skilled enough to fight for
Christ, while many hand trembling
with old age has grasped the arrow OF
truth, and, with dim eye close to It,
taking aim, has sent its sharp point
right through tde heart OF the King 5
enemies. Many Of you have long ago
had your names written on the roll OF
celestial troops, and yJu Ike the ser
vice well, although you now bear the
scars Of multitudinous conflicts and
can recount many a long march and
tell OF siege guns opened on you tha:
you tho. rat never would be spiked.
But there ~ay be some who have not
yet enlisted Your being hele implies
that you are riously thinking about
it, and your attention makes ms nope
you are only looking foc the standard
to be hoisted. Will you not, 100 OF
you, with al the aroused enthusiasm
OF your nature, come bounding into
the ranks, while ''in the name OF God
we set up our bannersa
Through natural modesty do you
hold back and say: Il will be OF no
advantage to Christ. am too awk,
ward to learn the step Of the hos:, or
to be o. any service in the shock OF
battle2' TO you ! make the reply,
Try it. One hour under Christ's drill,
and you would so well understand
his rules that the first step Of your
march hea7enwar5 would make the
gates Of he'll trembIe on their hinges.
We may not be as polished and trim
IS many Christians we have known,
and we may not as well understand
sharpshooting, but there is rough
work which we can all accomplish.
We may be axmen and hew a path
way through the forests. We may be
spadesmen and dig the trenches or
throw up the fortiications. We do
not care where, We do not care what
if we can only help in the cause Of
our king and shout as loudly as any
OF them at the com oletion OF the con
quest.
There are nonprofessors who have &
very correct idea OF what Christians
ought TO be. You have seen members
OF the church who were as proud IS
Ahat a1d lied as badly as Auanias,
and who were as foul hypocrites as
Judas. You abhor all that. You say
followers of Christ ought to be honor
able, humble and self denying and
charitable and patient and forgi7ing.
Amen! So they ought. Come into
the kingdom of Christ, my hearer,
and be just that glorious Christian
that Won hove describsd. Every
cb,,roS has enough st;nov mon in It
n arrest its cIa1ities and enough
nro,73 man in # to orieve sway the
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There are men now. as in Christ's
time. possessed of seven devils. In
some instances il seems as though at
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