The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-04-05

zines, HEsr The Almighty: Christ is
ready t0 lift up all your burdens. Win
you have a trouble of any kind, you
rash this way and that way, and y5u
wonder whas this man will say about
it and what that man will say about it,
and you try this prescription and that
prescription and the other prescription.
Oh, why do you not go straight to the
heart of Christ. knowing that for our
own SHINING and suffering race he took
the vinegar:
There was a vessel that had been
tossed on the seas for great many
weeks and been disabled, and the sup
ply Of water gave out, and the crew
were dying of thirst. After many days
they saw sail against the sky. They
signaled it. When the vessel came
nearer, the people on the suffering ship
cried to the captain OF the other vessel:
Send US some water. We are dying
for lack of water" And the captain on
the vessel that was hailed responded:
Dip your buckets W here You are. You
are in the mouth Of the Amazon. and
there are scores Of miles Of fresh water
all around about you and hundreds Of
feet deep" Aud then they dropped
their buckets over the side Of the vessel
and brought up the clear, bright, fresh
water and put out the fire Of their
thirst So hail you today. after a
long and perilous voyage, hirsting as
you are for pardol and thirsting for
comfort aud thirstiug fer eternal life.
and | ask you what is the use of your
going in that death struck state while
al around you is the deep, clear, vide,
sparkling food of Gods sympathetic
mercy. Os, dip your buckets and drink
and live forever 'Whosoever will,
let him come and take Of the water Of
life freely
Yet there are people who refuse this
divine sympathy, and they try to fight
their own battles, and drink their own
vinegar, and carry their own burdens,
and their life, instead ef being trium-
ph,l march from victory to victory,
will be hobbling on from defeat to de-
feat, until they make fual surrender to
retributive disaster. Oh, Iwish could
tJday gather up in my arms all the
woes OF men and women, all their heart
aches, all their disappointments, all
their chagrins, and just take them right
to the feet of a sympathizing Jesus.
He took the vinegar. Mana Sahib, af-
ter he had lost his last battle in India,
fell back into the jungles of Iheri-jun-
giles so full of malaria that no mortal
can live there. He carried with hi~
also ruby of great luster and Of
value. He died in those jungles. lii,
body was never found, and the rul'. has
never yet been recovered. And Tear
that today there are some who vii fall
back from this subject into the sieken-
ing, killing jlngles of their sin carry
ing gem of Infinite value-a priceless
soul-to be lost forever Oh, that that
ruby might fash in the eternal corona
ton. But, no! There are some, fear,
who turn away from this offered mercy
and comfort and divine sympathy, not
withstanding that Christ, for ali who
would accepthis grace, trudged the long
way, and suffered the lacerating thongs,
and received in his face the expectora-
tions Of the filthy mob, and for the gull
ty, and the discouraged and the dis
comforted Of the race, took the vinegar.
May God Almight break the infatua-
tion and lead you out into the strong
hope, and the good cheer, and the glori-
Gus sunshine of this triumpant gospel!