The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-11-22

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Of dead nations. Not enc alta: to the
true God did she rear. Not one OF the
Ten Commandments but she consplcu-
ously violated. Her doom was settled
in heaven which it was decided far back
in the eternities that the nation and
kingdom that viii not serve God shall
perish
Walk en- in the cemetery CT nations
and see the long lines Of tombs-Thebes
and Tyre and Egypt and Babylon and
Mcdo Persian and Macedonian and Ro-
man and Saxon heptarchy, great ma
tions, small oations, nations that lived
a year and nations that lived 800 years.
Cur own nation will be Judged by the
same neral laws BY which al other ua-
tons have been judged. The judgment
day for individuals will probably come
far GA in the future. Judgment day
nations is every day every day weighed,
every day approved or every day c5n
demncd. Never before IL the history
Of this country has tie American nation
been more surely in the balance than
il IS this minute. Do right, and We go
rp. Do wrong, and We So down. |
am not so anxious to know what this
statesman or that warrior thinks We had
better 10 with Cuba and Porto Rico
and the Philippines as | am anxious 70
know what God thinks VIC had better
do. The destiny Of this nation Nitl
not be decided on yondcr capitoliue
hill or at NaGila or at the pres dental
bsllot b X, fer it will be settled III
heaven.
Aaother thing decided in the same
high place IS that happiness is the re:
suit Of spiritual conoition and rot OF
earthly environment. If We who may
sometimes hare thousand dollars to
invest ind it such q perplexity to know
what to do with it AID soo2 after ind
that we invested it where principal and
interest have gone down through
roguery OF panic, what must the worrl-
ment Of those having millions to Invest
and whose losses correspond in magni-
tude with their resources! People
Who have their three CT four dol
lars day wages are just as happy
as those who have an inaome OF
s., 900 a yeaS. Sometimes happiness is
seated on footstoo! and sometimes
misery OF the throne. Al the gold OF
earth in one chunk cannot purchase five
minutes Of complete satisfaction.
Worldly success is an atmosphere that
breeds tie maggots Of envy and jeai
ousy aud hate. There arc those who
will never forgive you if you have more
emoluments or honor or ease than they
have. To take you down is the doml-
nant wish of most Of those who are not
as high as you are. They will spend
hours and days and years to entrap you
They vii hover around newspaper otl-
ces 10 get one mean line printed Ge-
precisting you. Your heaven Is their
hell.
Oh, that day Of the world perfec-
ton! The earth will be so changed
that the sermonology will be changed.
There will be no more calls to repent
ance, for all will have repented; no
more gathering of aims for the poor,
for the poor will have been enriched;
no hospital Sunday, for disjointed bones
will have been set and the wounds all
healed, and the incurable diseases Of
other times will have been overcome by
materla medica and pharmacy and
dentistry and therapeutics that have
conquered everything that afflicted
nerve or lung or tooth or eye or limb
healthology complete and universal.
The poultice aud the ointment and the
panacea and the catholicon and the sur
geon's knife and the dentists forceps
and the scientists X ray will have full
filed their mission. The social life Of
the world will be perfected In that
millennial age I imagine ourselves
standing in front Of house lighted for
levee. We enter among groups filled
with gladness and talking good sense
aud raiiying each other in ploasausrios
and in every possible way forwarding
good neighbo1hood; no looking askance,
no whispered ackbitings, nc strut Of
pretension, 10 oblivion of some one S
presence because you d. not want to
know him; each one happy, determined
Ga making some one else happy; words
of honest appreciation instead Of hol-
lew flttery; suavities and genialities
instead Of mutations and pomposites;
equipage and upholstery and sculpture
and painting paid for; two hours Of
mental and mora. mprovement; all the
guests able I, walk as steadily down
the steps OF that mansion as when they
ascended them; no awaking next morn
ing with aching head aud 5loodshot eye
and incompetent for the days duties;
the social life as perfect as refinement
and common sense and culture AID
prosperity and religion can make it; the
earth made better than it was at the
etart, and all through gospeliziDg in
tIuences, directly or Indirectly.
| suppose the greatest tidal wave
that ever rolled the seas was that which
in 1868 was started by the Peruvian
earthquake. AT AREA: feru, the NaFe
was so feet high and swung wal
shi,,s mile forward on the land. At
San Pedro, Cal, the wave was 50 feet
high. 1t moved on to the Sandwich
Islands and submerged some Of them
and beat against the shores Of New
Zealand and rolled up the beach Of ia
pan and stopped not until it had cncir-
cled the entire globe. Oh, what a
wave But the earthquake that shook
the mountain where our Lord died
started higher and swifter and
mightier tidal wave that will roll round
and round toe earth until all its rebel
lions and denominations have gone up-
der.
That was an exciting scene after the
battle Of Bosworth. which was fought
between Richard III and the Earl Of