The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-04-14

- ruin the iron, bat to prepare Il toc
better use. 03, tha. the L ora G)d
OF Nehemiah would rouse up aij oro
ken hearted people to rebuild
Whipped, betrayed, shlpwrecled, I'M
prisoned, Paul went right on. The
Italian martyr Algerius sits in his
dungeon writing letter, and he dates
it, From TIE delec:able orchard Of
the L2onine prison That is VIVA: |
call triumphant sadness l knew a
mother who buried her babe on Ffi
day and on Sabbath appeared in the
hous9 of God and said: Give me
a class. Givs me- a Sabbath school
class. have no child now lef: me-,
and I would like to have a class Of
little children. Give me a class off
the back street. That, say, is beau
tiful. That is triumphant sadness.
At 3 O'Clock every Saboatk afternoon
for years in a beautiful parlor 10 Phil
adeIp mia "a parlor pictured and stat
Uetted-there were from 10 to % 6es
titute children Of the street. Those
destitute children received religious
instruction, concluding WITH cakes
and sandwiches. How do know
that that was going On for IL years?
l kno i. in this way: That was the
first home in Philadelphia where l
was called to confort grea. sorrow.
They had splendid bo!, and he had
been drowned at Long Branch. The
father and mother almost idolized the
boy, aud the sob and shrek OF that
father and mother as they huag over
the cofh i resound in my ears today.
There seemed to be no use of praying,
for when I kael5 down to pray the
outcry in the room drowned out all
the prayer. Bat the Lord comforted
that sorrov. Tney did no. forget
their trouble. II you should 60 any
afternoon into Laurel Hill, you would
ind a monument with the word
Wafer" inscribed upon it and
wreath OF fresh fowers around the
name. think there was not an hour
in 20 year, winter or summer, when
there was not wreath Of fresh h>T
ers around Walters name.
Bl. the Christian mother who seat
those flowers there, having no child
lett, Sabbath afternoons mothered 10
or 20 Of the lost ones Of the street.
That is beautiful. That is what / call
busy and triumphant sadness. Here
is man who has lost his properly.
He does not 60 to hard drinking. He
does not destroy his own life. He
comes and says: Harness me for
Christian work. Ny moneys gone.
I have no treasure On earth. I want
treasures in heaven. I hare voice
and e heart to serve God." You say
that that man has failed. He has not
faiIed-he has triumphed.
On. wish could persuade all the
people who have any kind OF trouble
never to give up I wish they would
look at the midnight rider OF the text,
and that the four hoofs of that beast
on which Nehemiah rode might cat
to pieces all your discouragenents
and hardships and trials. Give up.
| Who is going to give up when on the
bosom of God he can have all his
troubles hushed2 Give up. Never
think OF giving uD. Are you borne
| down with poverty a little child
was found holding her dead mothers
hand in the darkness Of a tenement
house, and some one coming in the
| little girl looked up, while holding
her dead mothers hand, and said,
"Oh, l do wish that God had made
| moro light for poor folks2" Ny dear,
| God will be your light, God will be
your shelter, God will be your home.
| Are you borne down with the be-
reavements of life2 Is the house lone
" now that the child is gomez Do
| not give up. Think of what the old
sexton said when the minister asked
him why he put so much care on the
little graves in the cemetery-so much
more care than on the larger graves
and the old sexton said, ''Sir, you
know that of such is the kingdom OF
heaven, and I think the Saviour is
pleased when be sees SO much white
clover growing around these little
graves"
| But when the minister pressed the
old sexton for more satisfactory an
swer the old sexton said, ''Sir, about
these larger graves, don't know who
are the Lords saints and who are not,
but you know sir, it is clean different
| with the bairns.'' Oh, if you have
had that keen, tender, indescribaoie
sorrow that comes from the loss OF a
child, do not give up. The old sexton
| was right. It is all we'll with the
| BARNS. Or, if you have sinned, If
YOU have sinned ereviously-sinned
until you have been cast out by the
church, sinned until you have been
cast ous By society-do not give up.
Perhaps there may be in this house
| one that could truthfully utter the
lamentation OF another:
Once was pure as the snow, but fell
Fell ike snowflake, from heaven to hell
Fell to be trampled as filth in the street
Fell to be scoffed at, spit on and beat,
Praying, cursing, wishing to die,
Selling my soul 10 whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for morsel of bread.
| Hating the living and fearing the dead.
Do not give up. One like unto the
Son of God comes to you today, say
ing, go and sin no more," while he
cries out to your assailants, Let him
that is without sin cast the first stone
at her" Oh, there is no reason why
any one in this house by reason CT
any trouble or sin should give up.
| Are you a foreigner and in q strange
land2 Nehemiah was an exile. Are
you penniless2 Nehemiah was poor.
Are you homesick2 Nehemiah was
homesick. Ire you broken heartedG
Nehemiah was broken hearted. But
| Just see him in the text. riding along
the sacrileged grave of his father and
by the dragon well and through the
fish gate and by the kings pool, in
and out, in and out, the moonlight
falling on the broken masonry, which
throws long shadow, at which the
horse SHES, and at the same time that
moonlight kindling up the features
sc IL an onf lu the