The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-12-14

II j T will ,iar sav ,:la, am Glad
,hat sin and Sorroy: did enter. bat do
Sa~,b,, IN, clad that after God has
u;yen All his rcasnns to an assembled
universe he viii be more honorcd than
If sin and <orro@' had never entered. AVID
that he untailcn ccIcstia!s will be out
done ard will pn "Hwa their trumpets
to listen. and twill be III heaven, when
those who have conquered sin and sorrow
shall enter. as 1t wGCId be III small
singin;; school on earth If Thalberg and
Go,tScDalk and Wagner and Beethoven
and hlleinbergcr and Schumann should
al! at once en;er. The irmortals that
have been chanting 10. GEO wears before
the throne viii say as they close ih"ir
lihrcttos, "Oh, If we could only sing
like that But God will say to those
who have nevcrfallen and consequent
ly have not been redeemed: ~ on must
be silent now: You have not the quai-
ilcauon Tor this anthem. 80 they SIT
with closed lips and folded hands, and
sinners saved by grace take up the har.
mony, for the Bible says no man could
learn that song bu: the hundred and
forty and four thousand which were re-
deemed from the earth.
4 great prima donna, who can now
do any thing with her voice, told ne
that when she first started in music her
teacher in Berlin told her she could be
good singer but certain note she
could never reach. And then" she
said. Il went 10 work and studied and
practiced for years until did reach it.
But the song Of the singer redeemed.
the Bible says. the exalted harmonls,s
who have never slnncd could not reach
and never will reach. Would you like
to hear me IN very poor way play a
snatch OF thst tune: can give you
only one par OF tac music on tnls gos,
pei harp, Into HIN shat hath loved
US and washed US from our SINS IN ms
own blood and hath made US kings ana
priests unto God and the Lamb, to HIN
be glory and dominion forever ana ever.
Amen. But Detore leaving thls IN
terresatory' Nhy "oo let SIN come
into the world: let me say that great
battles seem to DC nothing oGt soner-
sand outrage at the tlme OF thelr oc-
currence:;; yet after 'hey nave oeen d
long while past we can see 'hac IL was
better tor them to have been fought
namely, Salamls, lnkerman; loulouse,
Aroela, Aslucourt, trafalgar, blen-
helm, Lexington, Sedon. 50 now that
the great battles against SIN aud suffer
ing are going on We can see mostly that
which IS deplorable. But zo:0ooyearS
from now, standing IN glory, we snail
appreciate that heaven IS peter OH 'han
II the oattie OF tnis "ofio SIN anu sur
ferlng had never been projected
Amid the tussle and romp Of reuLion
l tell you whose hand f welcome you
had better first clasp and whose cheek
is entitled to the first kiss. 1t is the
hand and the cheek Of him without
whom you would never have got there
at all, the Lord Jesus, the darling OF
the skies, as he cries out, Il have loved
thee with an everlasting love, and the
fires could no, hurn it, and the floods
could not drown it" Then you, my
dear people, having no more use for my
poor harp on which used to open your
dark sayings, and whose chords some
times snapped, oespolllng the sympho-
ny, you vii! take down your oTn harps
from the willows that grow by the eter-
nal water courses and play together
those celestial airs, some OF the names
Of which are entitled The hlng lu
His Beauty, The Land Ihat was
Far OFF. And as the last dark curtain
Of mystery is forever lifted it will be as
though all the oratorios that were ever
heard had been rolled into one: and
''Isreal In Egypt, and "Jephthah S
Daughter" and Beethovens Over
ture In c." and Ritters first Sonata
In D Minor, AID the Creation, and
the "Messish" had been blown from the
lips OF one trumpet or been invoked py
the sweep of one bow or mad cropped
from the vibrating chords OF one harp
But here must slow up lestln trying
to solve mysteries | add to the mystery
that we have already wondered at
namely, why preachers should keep on
after all the hearers are tired. So
gather up into one great armful all the
why's and hows and wherefores Of your
life and mine which we have not had
time OF the abality to answer and write
on them the words, Adjourned tc
Eternity" | rejoice that we do not
understand all things now, for if we did
what would we learn in heaven? If We
know it all down here in the freshman
and sophomore class, what would be the
use of our going up to stand amid the
Juniors and the seniors? If we could
put down one leg of the compass and
around Ill the inscrutables, if we could
lift our little steelyards and weigh the