The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-09-08

~, .ssr,e,sj n cs,.;ag ..:m mai saying,
..}..,,re : I.reisy Christian. Does this
,.5..-.., nan ia !. -.3oQ;h sailing when he
80. =, (,.!aW Christi Here IS = Christian
mi E.r ..,le" ,,ls2ises the Christian re-
ii..ig1. Her mother Ges9.>eS the Christian
y,..z:5a. lie: brothers and Sis,ccsS Scois Al
,,.e. (, ,:.s,St:a,s religion She can hardly iind
=, s,a.e- r.aee n which 10 say her prayers.
J,,, sHs ::ad il smooth sailing when she tried
70 fellow Jesus Christ; Oh. no. All who
would liyc.,Ae lie Of The Christian religion
mast suffer persecution. If you 10 not find
i IN one way yoy, Will gel il in another way
The qUeSti3u was asked, WHO are those
ue&-eSt the throne: ana the answer came
back. "Tnsse are they who came " GU: Of
great triDU!atjoa great iaihng y iAe
original has Il: great failing great pouad.ns
-'.aa,3 had iAe,r robes WASHED ard made
wh.ia N the blood ot the Lamb. On, 40
net be l;sae,.r,eael 0 child OF God, take
COURAGE. You are in glorious companion
St;a. Goa viii see you through all these
trials. ana he will deliver you.
Ny subject also im?reSses me with the
tacG that good people sometimes get very
mach frightened. II the tones Of these DIS
cip!es as they rushed into the back par; OF
the boat iad they are frightened almost to
death. They say, Master, careSi thou not
that we PERISH" They ha3 70 reason to be
frightened. for Christ was in the boat. l
sunDose il we had been there we would have
been lust as much &tirighted. Perhaps more.
In I'll ages very gool people get very
much aEr;Shtsd. 1t is often 50 in our day.
and men say: Why, look at the bad lee
lures. Look at the spiritualist:c societies.
Look a; tce various errors going over the
church Of God. We are gcing 10 founder.
The church IS coing 10 perish. She IS go
in- down On, now many good people
are attr..5tsd by triumphant iniQUi;y IN
on: Jar. and think the church OF Jesus
Christ and the cause Of righteousness are 60
irc TO DC overthrown. and are just as much
atfrichted as the disciples Of my text were
at:rirhtci. Don; worry. don't fret, as
though :2iqui;y were going to triumph over
\ lion goes into cavern to sleep. He
lies down, with his shaggy name covering
the paws. Meanwhile the spiders spin . web
across the mouth Of the cavern, and say. 1--WE
have capturei him GosSamer thread after
rossamer ;hreai IS span until the whole front
a; the cavern IS covered with the spiders
web, and the spiders say. The lion IS done;
the lion IS fast. After awhile the lion has
cot through s,eepiug. HerouSeS himself he
Shakes his mane, he walks out into the sun
Ii,b;. he does not even know the spiders web
is spu2. and with his voice ne shakes the
mountain.
So men come. spinning their sophistries
and skep,;cisn about Jesus Christ. He seems
10 be Sleeping. They say: I'VE have cap
tureI the Lord. Hewill never come forth
arain upoa the nation. Christ i captured,
and ca3tured forever His religion vii
never make any conquest among men. But
af;er &mil lie the lion OF the tribe OF ) ''uGah
viii rouse himself and come forth to shake
,,,;rl,;;Iv the nations. Wh2: IS spider
We, 70 inc aroused lion? Give truth and error
:. ia; grapple, and ruth viii come Oh victor,
But there are great many good people
Who ret . aErirh.ei in other respects. Ihey
are asr:chtsd in our day about revivals.
Tha- ss-: .sOh, this is strong religious
Gale. We are afraid the church OF Goa IS
So;np 10 upset. and there are going TO be a
great many people brought into the church
that are going 10 be Of no use 10 It, ana
thev are atfrighted whenever they see q reFi-
val taking hold OF the churches.
As though ship captain with 5000 bush
s1s Of wheat for cargo should say, some
iav coming upon deck, Throw overheard
al the carEo. and the sailors should say:
VIZ, captain, what do you mean? Throw
over all the cargo .Oh.'' says the cap
tain, 1--WE have peek Of chat that has sot
into this 5000 bushels wheat. and the only
way to get rid OF the chat IS 10 throw al the
wbeat overheard" Now, that IS great
deal wiser than the talk OF q great many
CHRISTIANS who want 10 throw overheard al
the Thousands aud tens Of thousands OF Souls
who hove been brought in through great
av,aLenin-s. Throw all overheard because
there is q peck Of chatf, . quart OF chat,
n;nt Of chpf.. say, letthem stay unit! the
last Dav, The Lord will divide the chat
from the wheat.
On that these gales from heaven might
sweep through al our churches On, 1oT
spcb davs as Richard Baxter saw IN EagIand
ani Robert NcCheyne saw in Dundee. on
for srch days as Jonathan Edwards saw IN
Eo~;bqnpton, have often heard my lalAer
tell oftbe fact that in the early part OF TINS
century revival broke out IN soner'lt.e' y;
J.. and some people were very much asita'eo
about it. They said, "0h, you are gong 10
bring TOO many people into the chGrch 81
once, ard they sent down to Ne" br"ns-
wick 10 get John Livingston 10 stop the rev.
vaI. Well. there was no better sou. IN ali the
world than John Livingston. He went up.
He looked at the revival. They wanted him
10 stop it. He stood in the pulpit on the SAP
batb and looked over the solemn auditory.
ana he said; This, brethren. is in realty
The work Of God. Beware how you try 10
sion l." And he was an old man, leaning
heavily on his staff, very old man. And
ba lifted that staff and took hold OF the
sc,aI, end of the staff and began 70 lei It Ia!
very slowly through, between the finger ana
the thumb. and he said, go thou lmpenl-
tent. thou art falling noT-tal.ing away
from life. falling away from peace anu hea-
ven. falling as certainly as that cane Is fall
ing through my hand-:allins certainly;
though perhaps falling very slowly. And
tn cane kept on falling through John LiY-
inrstoo's hand. TIE religious emotion IN
the audience wss overpowerins and men
saw q t7pe their doom as the cane Kept
falling and falling until the knob of the cane
struck Mr.. Livlngston'S hand, and ne clasp.
ed j, stoutly ana said, But the grace OF
cod can SOP you as stopped that cane,
ana then there vas gladness all through the
house at the fac; OF pardon and peace and
salvation. ..Wen." said the people after
the service, u guess you had better send
Livingston home. lie IS making the reYi-
val worse Oh, for the gales from heaven
and Christ on board the ship The danger
of the church of God IS not IN reTivals:
Again my subject inpyesses ne with the
fac; that Jesus vas Cod and man in the
same being. Here he is IN the back part o;
the boat. o.. how Tired he looks, what sad
dreams he must have. Look at his coUnte-
nance: ne mas: De thinking Of the cross 10
coale. Look az MIN, he is s mau-5one OF
our bone. flesh Of our flesh. Tired, he falls