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

horse: Hast thou clothed his necl
with thunder? lie paweth in the val
ley. He goeth on TO meet the armed
men. The culver rattleth agains
him, the glittering spear and The
shield. He saith among the trumpetS
Ha. ha; aud he smelleth the battl
afar off, the thunder Of the captains
and the shouting"
Think it is the cavalry OF the Chris
tian hosts, the grand men aud womel
who, with bold dash and holy reck
lessness and spurred on energies, ar
to take the world for God. To thi
army of Christian service belong tht
evangelists. 1t ought to be the busl
ness Of the regular churches to multi
ply them, to support them, to chez
them, to clear the way for them. Some
Of them you like, some Of them yol
do not like. You say some are tot
sensational, and some OF them are no
enough learned, and some OF them art
erratic, and some of them are TO;
vehement, and some OF them pray TOT
loud. On, fold up your criticism ant
let them do that which we, the pastors
can never do. I like all the evange
lists have eyer seen or heard. They
are busy now; they are busy every
6ay of the week. While We, the pas
tors, serve God by holding the fortres'
of righteousness and drilling tht
Christian solidery and by marshallns
anthems and sermonsand ordinance:
on the right side, they are out fight
ing the forces Of darkness hip ant
thigh with great slaughter. Al sue
cess to them. The faster they gallol
the better l like it. The keener th'
lances they fling the more I admire
the14. We care not what convention
aiity they infract if they only gair
the victory. Moody and Chapman
and Mills and Jones and Harrison
and Munhall and Major Cole anc
Crittenden and hundred Others are
now making the cavalry charge, anc
they are this moment taking New
York aid Philadelphia and Cincinnati
for God, and I wish they might take
our nations capital.
Hear the tremendous facts: There
are now in this country nearly 166,.
600 church congregations, with near.
ly q, 900, 600 commandments and seat,
ing capacity in church for more than
43, 600, 900 people-in other words,
room in the churches for three-fourths
of the population OF this country, and
about one-third of the population OF
this country already Christian. In
other words, we will have only to aver
arge bringing two souls to God during
the next three years and our country
is redeemed. Who cannot, under the
power of the Holy Ghost, bring two
souls to God in three years? As so
many will bring hundreds and thous
ands 70 God, most of you have to bring
only one soul to God and the gospel
campaign for this continent will be
ended. If you cannot bring one soul
to God, or two souls, or three souls, in
three years, you are no Christian and
deserve yourself to be shut out OF
heaven.
The religious pessimists OF this coun-
try are all the time depicting the OBJ
stacles as so great and our forces as so
small that we half of the time feel that
we are attempting an impossi6ility.
lak5Sut OF your prayers and preach
.ngMpe Of your stufHng of groans
An N Something ssf sf accfa nation
iumoh. and the United States
gospelized, and if the United
es be gospeliled America will be
oelized, and, America gospelized,
syiIi take Asia from the Pacific
s snd- Europe fro@tha Ss9a-ltie~
beach, and not far from now the lost
star we live on will take its place
among the consultations that never
fell. Let the more than 100000
communicants, as they left the sacra-
mental cup to their lips, take oath that
they will not rest until the other 49,
900, 900 are saved. The opportunities
are all saddled and bridled. Where
are the men and women to guide them
81 will deliver thee 1900 horses if
thou be able to set riders upon them.
What two men can do for good or evil
is i'm pressed upon me by the fact that,
two Scotchmen going to California,
each took something that would re-
mind him of his native country. The
one took a thistle, the national emblem
of Scotland. The other took hive
of bees. Years went by and the work
of the two Scotchmen is widely seen.
The curse of the Pacific slope is the
thistle and the blessing Of the Pacific
slope is the honey found everywhere
in woods and feds. In your life are
you responsible for honey or thistles,
and, if one man can do so much good
ana another so much evil, how much
could be done for the ransom of this
country by 81, ,000,00 people all con-
secrated2
Get out OF the way with your dolor-
Gus foreboding and change your dir
ges for what we have not done for the
grand march of what we may do and
will do. The woman at Sedan, in
whose house Napoleon the Last was
waiting to make surrender of himself
and his army, said to the overthrown
French emperor, "What can do for
you?" And the despairing ex mon
arch replied, Nothing but draw down
The blind so that I cannot be stared
at." In this gospel campaign we have
plenty to draw down the blinds. In
Gods name I say pull the blinds and
LET the morning sun of the coming
victory shine upon US. What we want
n this campaign for God is the self
abnegation and courage Of the men Of
Colin Campbell, who, as Lord Bishop
Cowie of New Zealand, once chaplain
Of his army, told me, said to the
Men, no retreat from this
place. Die right here" And they
shouted, "Yes, Sir Colin, we will do
tw And they did.
Temporary defeats ou .ht not to dis
1earten. What is Bunker Hill monu-
nent2 Monument OF defeat. But
rom that bloody mount American in
started for its grandest
achievement, and all the defeats Of