The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-11-29
others. We all have our griefs; and all
have our heartbreaks.

others. We all have our griefs; and all
have our heartbreaks.
Laugh, aud the world 'aughs with you;
We-p and you weep slone
For the sad old earth must borrow its 1airth,
BIT has trouhe enough of its Own.
We hear great deal of discussion
nov all over the land about why people
do not go to church. Some say it is
because Christianity is dying out and
because people do not believe in the
truth of Gsd's word, aud all that.
They are false reasons The reasons
is because our sermons and ex-
hortations are not interesting ard prac
,ical aud helpful. Some one might
rs we'll tell the whole truth on this sub
jec,. and so I will tell it. The religi.
ous discourse of the future, the gospel
sermon to come forth and ehake the ma
;ons AID lift people out Of darkness,
viii be popular serm-n, just for the
simple reason thatit will meet the woes
and the wants aud the anxietics Of the
people.
There ar. in I'll our denominations
ecclesiastical mummies sitting arouno
% frogn upon the fresh young pnlplts
# America 10 ly to awe them down, to
cry ou,:: Tut. tut, tut! Spnsctionalr
They stand TODAY preaching in churche.
hat hold thousand people, and there
.re hundred persons present, and il
hey cannot have the world saved in
heir way it seems IS if they do not
vsut it saved at all.
do not know bur the old way Of
nsking ministers Of the gospel is bet
rr-a collegiate education and an ap
renticeship under the care add home
rttcntion OF some earnest AGED Christian
uinjster, the youug man getting th'
,atriarch's spirit aud assisting him l.
is religious eervice. Young lawyers
.tudy with old law, ers, Young physici.
us with ola physicians, and believ,
it would be great help if every youne
nan studying for tas gospel ministry
:ould put himself in the home and
oeart and sympathy and under th'
1enediction and perpetual presence o!
4 Nhristian minister.
But | remark again, the religious
discourse Of the future will be an
,@akeniug sermon. From altar rail t,
he front door step, under that sermon,
.n audience will get up and start fol
heaven. There will be in it many =
,,accaio passage. 1t will not be lul
aby. 1t will be a battle charge. Mer
ill drop their sius, for they will fee
The hot breath Of pursuing retributiot
IN the back of their necks. 1t will b.
sympathetic with all the physical dis.
resses as well asrhe spiritual distres>e,
f the world Christ not only preached
out he healed paralysis, and he beale
epilepsy, and be healed the dumb al
olind and the lepers.
A dying Christian took out his watc'
aud gave it to friend and SAID
Take that watch. have no more Us,
rori it. Time is atan end for me, aDl
eternity begins" Oh, my friends
when our watch has tucked away for u
the last moment, aud our clock ha,
struck for US the last hour, may it b
found We did our work we'll, that we di
it in the very best way, and whethe
se preached the gospel in pulpits, 0.
taught Sabbath classes, or admins
tered to the sick as physicians, or bar
gained as merchants, or pleaded the
aw as attorneys, or were busy as arts
ans or husbandmen or as mechanics, OF
we're, like Martha, called to give a
meal to hungry Christ, or like Han,
nah, to make coat for a prophet, OF
like Deborah, to rouse the courage Of
some timid Barak in the Lords conflict,
we did our work in such way that i,
will stand the test of the judgment
Aud in the long procession of the re
deemed that march around the throne
may it be found that there are mauy
there brought to God through our in.
strumentality and in whose rescue we
exu!t. But let none of US who are still
unsaved, wait for that religious dis
course of the future. 1t may come af.
Ter our obseQuies. 1t may come after
tha otonec1tter has chiseled our name
on the slab so years b fore. Do not
wait for great steamer of the Cunard OF
White Star line to take you off the
wreck, but hail the first craft, with
however low mast and however small
hulk and however poor a rudder and
however weak captain. Better dis
a5led schooner that comes up IN time
than full rigged brig that comes ur
after you have sunk.
Instead cf waiting fer that religi ,us
discourse of the future (it may be ~,
so years off,, take this plain Invitation
of nan who to have given you spiri,
tual eyesight would be glad to be called
the spittle by the hand Of Christ PUT
on the eyes cf blind man and who
would consider the highest complinen,
Of this service If, at the close 800 men
should start from these doors saying:
Whether he be sinner or no, l know
not. This oue thing l know-SheTeas
| was blind, Low | see.
SSifrer than shadows over the plain,
quicker than birds in tleir sutumnal
fight, haslier than eagles to their prey,
HE you to a sympathetic Christ. The
orchestras Of heaven have strung their
Instruments to celebrate your rescue:
And many ware the voices around the thr ne.
Ri ~, the Lord brings back his own.