The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-10-05

gout and st,aw not t!.4t. like the giant
Of ny text. they are i@sned by super
iuous toe. \ few Of tham by charities
bleed Themselves of this fnancia! ohe
sity and monetary plethora, but many
of them hang on to tho hinderins Su-
perfuity till death. and then, as they
are compelled to give the money up
anyhow. in their last will and tesla
ment they generously give some of it to
the Lord. expecting no doubt that he
will feel very much obliged to them.
Thank God that once in awhile We
have Peter Cooper, who, owning an
interest in the iron works at Trenton,
said to Mr. Lester: Il do not feel quite
easy about the amount we are making.
Working under one Of our patents. We
have monopoly which seems to me
something wrong. Everybody has to
come to us for it. and We are making
money too fast. So they reduced the
price, and this while our philanthroplst
was building Cooper Institute. which
mothers hundred institutes OF kind
ness and mercy all over the land. But
the world had to wait $500 years for
Peter Cooper.
am glad for the benevolent lnstitu-
tions that get a legacy from men who
during their life were as stlngy as
death, but who in their last will and
testament bestowed money on hospitals
and missionary societies, but for such
testators | have no respect. They would
have taken every cent Of it with them
if they could and bought up half Of
heaven aud let it out at ruinous rent
or loaned the money to celestial citl-
zens at 2 per cent month and got a
corner on harps and trumpets. They
lived in this world 80 or 60 years in
the presence Of appalling suffering and
want and made no efforts for their re-
lief. The charities Of such people are
in the ''Paulo-post future tense.
The probability is that if such one in
his last will by donation to benevol-
ent societies tries to atone for his life
time closefstedness the heirs at law
will try to break the will by proving
that the old man was senile or
crazy, and the expense Of the litigation
will about leave in the lawyers hands
what was meant for the Bible society.
O ye overweighte6, successful business
men, whether this sermon reach your
ear or your eyes, let me say that if you
are prostrated with anxieties about
keeping or investing these tremendous
fortunes I can tel you how you can do
more to get your health back and your
spirits raised than by drinking gallons
of bad tasting water at Saratoga, Hom-
burg or Carlsbad-give to God, humanl-
ty and the Bible 10 per cent Of all your
income, and it will make new man of
you, and from restless walking of the
floor at night you shall have eight
hours sleep without the help of bromide
Of potassium, and flom no appetite you
will. hardly be able to wait for your
regular meals, and your wan cheek Will
fiji up, when you die the blessings Of
those who but for you would have per-
ished will bloom all over your grave.
Sir Charles Bell was so impressed
with the wondrous construction Of the
human hand that when the Earl OF
Bridgewater gave $40, 900 for essays on
the wisdom and goodness Of God, and
eight books were written, Sir Charles
Bell wrote his entire book on the wis
dom and goodness of God displayed in
the human hand. The p bones in the
hand and wrist with cartilages and
ligaments and phalanges Of the fingers
ali made just ready to knit, to sew, to
build mp, to pull down, to weave, to
write, to plow, to pound, to wheel, to
battle, to give friendly salutaion. The
tips of its fingers are so many telegraph
Offices by reason Of their sensitiveness
of thouch. The bridges, the tunnels,
the cities of the whole earth are the
victories Of the hand. The hands are
| not dumb, but often speak as distinct,
| ly as the lips. With our hands we in.
vite, we repel, we invoke, We entreat.
we wiring them in grief Or clap them ii
joy, or spread them abroad in benedic-
ton. The malformation of the giants
hand in the text glorifes the usua.
hand. Fashioned Of God more exquis.
itely and wondrously than any human
mechanism that was ever contrived, ]
charge you to use it for God and lifting
of the world out of it's moral predica.
ment. Employ it in the sublime work
Of gospel handshaking. You can see
the hand is just made for that. -Four
fingers just set right to touch your
neighbor's hand on one side, and your
thumb set so as to clinch it on the other
side. By all its bones and joints and
muscles and cartilages and hgaments
the voice of nature joins with the voice
of God commanding you to shake hands,
The custom is as old as the Bible, any
how. Jehu said to Jehonadab: Is
thine heart right as my heart is with
thine heart? IF it be, give me thine
hand" When hands join in Christian
salutation, gospel electricity thrills
across the PLAN from heart to heart, and
,, from the shoulder of one to the shoulde,
of the other.
With the timid and for their encour,
agement, shake hands. With the
troubled in warm hearted sympathy,
shake hands. With the young man
just entering business and dis,
eouraged at the small sales and large
expenses, shake hands. With the child
who is now from God and started on
unending journey, for which he needs
| to gather great supply Of strength, and
who can hardly reach up to you now be-
cause you are so much taller, shake
hands. Acrss cradles and dying beds
and graves, shake hands. With your
enemies who have done all to defame
and hurt YOU. but whom YOU can afford