The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-08-31


sl!at some one liz! Jumped overbaa,;;,
Forthwith we el; '!cs;,n 10 talk a20ut
that one man. There was more talk
about that one man ovcrbohEd than ali
the $40 passengers that rode OF in safe
ty. why did he jump o;crborad??
Il wonder when tie jumped overheard?
Il wonder if when he jumped over
board he would liked to have jumped
back again." II wonder if fish caught
him or whether he went clear down to
the bottom Of the sea-? And for three
of four days aftcrward We talked about
that poor man.
Here is the glorious and mangniticent
theory that God by his omnipotcnt
power made man and by his omnipotent
power made the brute creation and by
his omnipotent power made all worlds,
and 500 scientists have taken passage on
board that magnificent theory. but 10
or - have jumped overheard They
make more talk than all the 500 that
did not jump. | am politely asked to
jump with them. Thank you gentle
men, am very much obliged 20 you!
| think | shall stick to the old Gun
arder If you want to jump overheard,
jump and test for yourselves whether
your hand was really fsh's fin and
whether you were webfooted originally
and whether your lungs are swim
bladder. and, as in every experiment
there must be division Of labor, some
who experiment and some who observe,
you make the experiment. and. | will
observe!
There is one tenet Of evolution which
it is demanded We adopt-that which
Darwin calls natural selection and
that which Wallace calls the survival
of the fttest." By this they mean that
the human race and the brute creation
are all the time improving because the
weak die and the strong live. Those
who do not die survive because they are
the fttest. They say the breed Of
sheep and cattle and dogs and men Is
all the time improving, naturally lm-
proving. No need of God or any Bible
or any religion, but just natural pro
gress.
There is only one thing worse than
English snobbery, and that is American
snobbery. l like democracy and | like
aristocracy, but there is one kind Of
ocracy in this country that excites my
contempt. and that is what Charles
Kingsley, after he had witnessed 1t
himself, called snobocracy. Now, |
say it is a gigantic dishonesty when
they ascribe this old heathen doctrine
of evolution to any modern gentleman!
I am not pessimist, but an optimlst.
don't believe everything going to de-
struction. believe everything is going
on to redemption. But it will not be
through the infdel doctrine Of evolu-
ton, tut through our glorious Christian
ty which has effected all the good that
, ". eTer aeen brought and which Is yet
to recon. net al the nations.
What is tn IL the ofhng? a ship
gone on the rocks at Cape Hatteras.
The hulk is breaking up, crew and pas
sengers arr drowning. The stormi is in
full blast and the bal ometeris still sink
ing. What does thas ship want? De-
velopment. Develop her broken
masts. Develop her broken rud-
der. Develop her drowning crew.
Develop her freezing passengers.
Develop the whole ship. That is all 1t
wants. Development. Oh, l make a
mistake. What that ship wants is a
lifeboat from the shore Leap into it,
YOU men of the life station! Pull away
to the wreck! Steady there! Bring
the women and children first to the
shore Now the stout men! Wrap
them up in fannels, and between their
chattering teeth you can pour re stora-
ton.
Well, my friends, our world is on
the rocks God launched it well enough,
but through mispilotage and storms Of
6, 900 years it has gone into the break
ers. What does this old ship Of a world
want? Development? There is enough
old evolution in the hulk to evolve an
other mast and another rudder and to
evolve all the passengers and evolve the
ship out of the breakers. Development?
All, no, my friends, what this old ship
wreck Of world wants is lifeboat from
the shore. End it is coming. Cheer,
my lads. cheer! 1t is coming from the
shining shore of heaven, taking the
crests of ten waves with one sweep OF
the shining paddles. Christ is in the
lifeboat. Many wounds on hands and
feet and side and brow, showing he
has been long engaged in the work OF
rescue, but yet mighty to save-to save
one, to save all, to save forever. Ny
Lord and my God, get US into the
lifeboat, Away with your rotten, de
ceptive, inidel and blasphemous evolu-
ton and give US the Bible, salvation
through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Salvation. Let the echo fly
The spacious earth around,
While all the armies Of the sky
Conspire to raise the sound.
Dont's For Mothers.
An infant should be given no food