The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-04-19
Dr.. TaImage Draws a Lesson
From EIeazars's Tsnacity.
CLOSER HOLD ON GOSPEL
The Noted Preacher Says He
Will NOT Cease TO Preach Be-
cause He Resigned HIS
Dac+or2 GO
PaStcraGe.

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minister said he was glad 70 hud a
preacher that believe. something This
discourse Of DR.. Ia image IS IN that
vein and urges cln>e adherence 10 the
cid gospel: text. II Sanlucl NxiH, 10
And his f.anG clave unto the sword
What a g,oricu> thing u !resc!l the
GOSPEL! Some Sappn<e tia, becm So |
have resigned q fAed pastoral ! Vii
caasa 70 nrea,.b No, No, ex,m,.,
- nroacb n,ora than 7 ever haze IF
the Lord viii four ;iinr, - ,uit.:..
rbonpb IN ma,.;foIJ ,Isces would
nn. Garo - Gs1r With Sn,.h onnartunitv
- 6ssIo~s t%af,n:5 rhr.psh the ear 70
anS;annas snS - rho eve through the
n~;nr;ng nross And here We have i
s+;rr;nT Ibema rut before Us BY the
nronbe3
creat general Of King David was
Eleazsr the hero Of the text. The
PbiI;stines oreneG battle against hi.a.
anJ b;S -~cors ratrratr6 The cowa1c;s
ca ca " EI.a~:,r an6 threc cr his con,ra,!es
ran+ - ;n+o T:,e l,,., ;e and swau, the ,icl,:
for fonr men with Cod on their side are
STRONGER Than = whole -sci,ac,.t with
Cod against the,r. Fall GacNr
shouted the comusLder 6! the Pulls
tine army The cri ran along The host,
Fall bsckr Eleazar. having swept the
feld, throws himself Oh the ground 50
rest but the muscles AID sinews Of his
hand had been so long bent arou"d tie
hi!t Of his sword that the hilt was i2-
bedded in the flesh, aud the gold wire
Of the hilt had broken through the skin
of the palm Of the hand, and he could
not drop this sword which he had so gal
lantly welded His hand clare unto
the sword That is what | call masn!-
fcent fighting for tie Lord God OF Is
rael. aud We want more oi Ii.
! propose TO show You hos !. eazar
took hold Of the sword auG how the
sword took hold Of i.ie&zar. look !,
Eleazar's hand, and l colne TO the Coz
clusion that he tcok the sword with a
very tight grip: The c%var:s "'i1 tea
had no trouble IL of"?Il'g Shsl;
swords. KS they; ny over the rocSS l
hear their SWORDS changing III every
direction. 1t IS easy enoush Ior 'netn
to drop their SWORDS. but EtesZaf 5
hand clave unto the sword. In this
Christian conflict we want s tighter
grip of the gospel weapons, tighter
grasp of the two edged sword Of the
truth. 1t makes me sick TO see these
Christian people who hold only part
of the truth aud let the rest Of the
truth 60, so that the Phii>,ines, seeing
the loosed grasp, wrcuch the whole
sward away from them.
The only safe thing for Us to 90 IS to
put our thumb on the book Of Genesis
and sweep our band around the book
until the New Testament comes into
the palm and keep on sweeping our
hand around the book until tie tips OF
the fingers clutch at the words, In the
beginning God created the heavens and
the earth" I like an infdela great
deal better than I do one of these
nanby pamby Christians who hold
part of the truth aud let the rest go.
By miracle, God pr, served this Bible
just as it is, anoit Is Damascus blade.
Tie severest test to which sword can
be pat in sword factory is to wind the
blade around a gun barrel like ribbon,
and then. when the sword is let loose,
it flies back to its own shape. So the
sword of Gods truth has been fully
tested, and it is bent this way and that
way and wound this way and that way.
but it always comes back to its own
shape. Think of it, A book written
near 19 centuries ago and some of it
thousands of years ago, and yet in our
time the average sale Of this book is
more than twenty thousand copies every
week and more than million coples
year. | say now that book which IS
divinely inspired and divtnely kept aud
divinely scattered is weapon worth
holding tight grip Of Bishop Colenso
will cone along and try to wrench out
Of your hand the FIVE books Of Noses,
and Strass will come along and ,ry to
wrench out Of your hand the miracles,
and Repan will come along and try to
wrench out of your hand the entire life
of the Lord Jesus Christ. and your as
sociates in the Office or the factory or
the banking house will try TO wrench
out of your hand the entire Bible, but
in the strength Of the LHrd God OF Is
rael and with Eleazars grip hold on to
it. You give up the Bible, you give up
any part of it, aDd you give up pardon
and peace and life and heaven.
Do ,ot be ashamed Young man, to
have tie wore know TIA, YOU are a
friend of the Bible. This beck is the
friend of all that IS good. aul !; IS The
sworn enemy Of al that is bad An
eloquent writer reccHtly sives az ;rci-
dent Of very bad alau VINO stood j: a
cell OF a western prison This criminal
had pona throuph al sryleS II crime