The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-05-11

Fo,c, fer set ,os y e wo,ld Religion
isNos Pe.c, bar t1ss sil be tia Final
Result,
This 6;s2cu1se o Dr.. Tslmase is
revoluGopary Tor eccd il families
aId churches ;rd cations aid espec-
isl!y port,2ria!e fer :h:<e times; text,
Acts xvii 6, These that hsve turned
the wcr!d upside do8n, sre come
hith.r also
Ttere is wilj. b<l]oaius mob
around the hcuss of JsSoG in Theses.
lcnics. Wnst hsS he man done so
srestiy 10 # nd TIE pecple2 BE tas
been entertaining Pavi AID bis ccm
ra6es TIE Eoh surro&rc the house
ard cry: 'Brirg CUt t2tse turbulent
preschels. They s:e io!eT;srirg with
our business Trey are running cur
religion. Tcsy srs actually turning
the world up>id> dosI
The chsrae vas true, for tfeie is
nothing thst so iutsrterss with sir,
there is ro;h;ng 50 ruincuS 10 every
form OF esSbIishsG in:ouity, IT,. re IS
ro,hirs ih8! has such tsn6ency to
tu.n TIE @o.ld u9sids 6owh as cur
glorious ChrisiisGi;y. C2e fsc. IS that
the word row is w:cas side up, ard
ispeeds 10 BE- turltc Upside dcwn IN
order that /. may Be right side up
The tine was then Uea Trote books
elti&ljIg thsm APolcg!es fer Christi
ari,y." I hope tast day tas passed.
We want 10 uore spclcei.s for
Christianity. Let the apologies &c en-
tbs rart OF those who do rot believe
in cur 1elis io0. We DO rot mean 20
make any cooo9r0uiSe N :hs matter.
We do net WISH 10 tiGe the t.ct that
Christianity IS Revolutionary ar q that
its teneeIcy IS 20 turn sbe world up
side down.
Our religion hss often bseo mis,ep
resented SIS principle CT tesrs and
mildness and fastidiousne:s. sfraid Of
crossing peoples prejU6ices, afraid OF
making somebody mad, with silken
GLOVES lifting the people up from the
church pew into glory, as though they
were Bohemian glass, so very delicate
that with one touch Il may be demol-
ished forever. Men speak of religion
SIS though it were refined inbecility,
IS though it were s spiritual chloro-
form, that the people were to take
until the sharp cutting OF life were
over. The Bible, so far from this,
represents ihe religion OF Christ as 70
hust and orawny-ransacaing and up
setting 10000 things that now seem
to be settled on firm foundations. I
hear some man IN the house say, u
thought religion was peace. That is
the final result. a mans arm IS out
of place. Two men come, and with
great effort put it back to the socket.
It goes back with great pain. Then
it goes well. Our world is horribly
disordered and out OF joint. It must
come under an omnipotent surgery,
beneath which there will be pain and
anguish before there can come perfect
health and quiet. I proclaim, there.
fore, in the name of my Lord Jesus
Christ-reyolution.
The religion OF the Bible will make
q revolution in the family. Those
things that are wrong in the family
circle will be overthrown by It, while
justice and harmony will take tie
place. The husband will be the head
OF the household only when he is fl
to be. I know man who spends all
the money he makes in drink as well
as all the money that his wife makes,
and sometimes sells the children's
clothes for rum. Do you tell me that
ne is to be the head Ct that household.
II the wife have more nobility, more
courage, more consistency, more OF
all that is right, she shall have the
supremacy. You say that the Bible
says that the wife is to be subject to
the husband. ] know it, but that is q
husband, not q masculine caricsture.
There is no human or divine law that
makes a woman subordinate to a man
unworthy of her. When Christianity
comes into nomestic circle, it will
give the doninancy to that one who
Is the most worthy Of it.
AS religion comes IN at the front
door, mirth and laughter will not go
out cf the back door. It will not hop
pie the children's feet. John will
laugh just as loud and George will
jump higher than he ever did before.
It will steal from the little ones
neither ball nor bat nor hoop nor
kite. twill establish q family altar.
Angels will hover over ii. Ladders Of
light will reach down 10 it. The glory
OF heaven will steam upon it. The
books of remembrance will record it,
and tides Of everlasting blessedness
will pour from it. No! such family
altar as you msy have seen where the
prayer is long and long chapter is
read, with tedious explanation, and
the exercise keeps on until the chill
dren's knees are sore, and Their backs
ache, and their patience is lost, and
for the seventh tins they have count
ed all the rounds in the chair, but !
mean family altar such as may have
been seen in your fathers house
You may have wandered far of in
the paths Of sin and darkness, but
you have never forgotten that family
altar where father and mother knelI
impottunine God for your soul. That
is memory that q man never gets
over. There will be hearty, Joy ful
family altar in every domestic circle.
You will not have far to go to fno
Hannah rearing her Samuel fer the
temple or g grandmother Lois instruc
ting her young Timothy in the knowl
edge OF Chris, or Mary and Martha
and LsZa US gathered in fratsrnal and
sisterly sfecEon, or table ST which
Jesus sits, as at that of ZAccheus, or
!, home in which Jesus dwells, SIS in the
house Of Simon The tanner. The reli
g!on of Jesus Christ, coming into the
domestic circle, will overthrow all
jealousness, all janglines, and peace
and order and holiness vii! take pos
session Of the home.
Again, Christianity will produce
revolu ion in commercial circles
Find nae so merchants. and you ind