The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-12-14
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never had business struggle or mlsfor-
tune. who IS distinguished for goodness,
pull Your wire for a telegraph messen-
ger boy and send me word. and will
drop everything and go right away to
look at him. There never has been
man iii;. that aud never will be. Who
are those arrogant, self-couceited crea-
lures who move about without sympa-
thy for others and who think more of u
St. Bernard dog, or an Aldcrney COW,
or Southdown sheep, or u Berkshire
pig than Of man? They never had ary
trouble, or the trouble wa, never sane
titled Who are those ruen who listen
with moist eye as you tell them OF sui
fering, and who have pathos in their
voice, and kindness in their manner,
and an excuse or an allevistlon for
those gene astray: They are the men
who have graduated at the Royal Acao-
emy of Trouble, and they nave the dl-
ploma written in wrinkles on their coun-
tenances. My! my! What heartaches
thev had What tears they have wept.
What injustlces they have suffered.
The mishtiest influence for publication
and salvation is trouble No diamond
6tfor crown until it is cut. No
wheat fit for bread till it is ground.
There are only three things that can
break off chain-a hammer, file or a
ire-and trouble is all three Of them.
The greatest writers, orators and re-
formers get much of their force from
trouble. What gave Washington r.
vi: that exquisite tenderness and pa
thos which will make his books favor
ties while the English language contlr-
ues to be written and spoken: An ear,
ly heartbreak that he never once men
toned, and when, 30 years after the
death of Matilda Hoffman, who was to
have been his bride, her father picked
up piece of embroidery and said,
That's piece Of poor Matilda S work
manship," Washington Irving sank
from hilarity into silence and walked
away. Out Il that lifetime grief the
great author dipped his pens mightiest
enforcement. Calvins Institutes
Of Religion. than which more won,
derful book was never written by hu-
man hand. was begun by the author at
25 years Of age because of the lersecu.
ton by Francis, king of France. Fara.
day toiled for all time on salary OF
$50 a year and candles. AS every
brick of the wall Of Babylon was stamp
ed with the letter n: standing for Neo-
achadneszar, so every part Of the temple
of Christian achievement is stamped
with the letter T, standing for. trouble:
When in England a man is honored
with knighthood, he is struck with the
fat of the sword. But those who have
come to knighthood in the kingdom Of
God were first struck, not with the fat
Of the sword, but with the keen edge
of the scimeter. To build his magnihc-
ence of character, Paul could not have
spared one lash, one prison, one ston-
ing, one anathena, one poisonous viper
from the hand, one shipWreck. What
is true Of individuals is true Of nations.
The horrors Of the American Revolu-
ton gave this country this side Of the
Mississippi river to independence, and
the eonhct between England and France
gave the most Of this country west Of
the Mississippi TO the United States.
France owned it, but Napoleon, fearing
that England would take it, practically
made present to the United States,
for he received only SIS, 900, 900 for
Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas,
Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado,
Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and the
Indian Territory. Out Of the fire OF
the American Revelation came this
country east Of the Mississippi, out Of
the European var came that west Of the
Mississippi river. The British empire
rose to its present overtowering gran
| deur through gunpowder plot, and Guy
Fawkes' conspiracy, and Northampton
insurrection, and Walter Raleigh's be-
heading, and Bacon's bribery, and
Cronwell's dissolution Of parliament,
and the battles Of Edge Hill, and the
vicissitudes Of centuries. So the earth
itself, before it could become an appro-
pirate and beautiful residence for the
human family, had, according to geo.
logy, to be washed by universal deluge
and seorched and made incandescent by
universal fires, and pounded BY sledge
hammer Of icebergs, and wrenched by
earthquakes that split continents, and
shaken by volcanoes that tossed noun
tains and passed through the catastro-
phes Of thousands Of years before Para
disc became possible, aRd the groves
could shake out their green banners,
and the first garden pour its carnage OF
color between the Gibson and the Hid
dekel. Trouble a good thing for the
rocks, good thing for nations as we'll
| as a good thing for individuals. So
| when you push against me with sharp
Interrogation point, Why do the good
suffer? I open the dark saying on a
harp and, though can neither play an
organ or cornet or hautboy or bugle or
clarinet, l have taken some lessons in
the gospel harp, and if you would like
to hear me I will play you these: All
things work together fer good to those
Who love God ''Nov no chastening
for the present seemeth to be joyous,
but grieyous nevertheless afterward it
yieldeth the peaceable fruit Of righte-
BUSINESS unto them which are exercised
| thereby" weeping may endure for
night, but Joy cometh in the morn
ing What sweet thing is a harp,
and l wonder not that in Wales, the
country of my ancestors, the harp has
become the national instrument, and
that they have festivals where great
prizes are offered in the competition
harp and harp, or that weird Sebastian
Erard was much of his time bent over
this chorded and vibrating triangle and
was not satisfied until he had given it
a compass of six octaves. from Z to +
II ~ th,t han