The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-10-25

Want mot5 OF him. l haTe thought
ever this iclt and preached this sermon
70 myself until with ell the aroused
energies of my body, mind and soul [
can cry out. 'As the hart ranteth
after the water brooks, so paDteth my
soul after thee, 0 Godr
Through Jesus Christ make this God
your God, and you can withstand any
thing and everythiDg, and that which
afriehts others will inspire you-as in
tue of earthquake, when an old Chris
tian woman, asked whether she vas
scared, answered, No; | am glad that [
have a God who car shake the world, y
as in financial panic, when Chris
tian merchant, asked if he did not fear
lie would break, answered, "Ies; |
shall break when the Fiftieth Psalm
breaks in the fifteenth verse, Call up
on me in the day Of trouble; will de-
liver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. "
0 Christian men and women, pursued
cf annoyances and exasperatioDs, re-
member that this hunt, whether still
uut or hunt in full cry, will soon be
over. II ever whelp looks ashamed
and ready to sink out of sight, it is
wren ia the Adiroudacks a deer By one
long, tremendous plunge into big Tup-
pea lake gets away from him. The dis
sppvipted canine swius in little way,
but, defeated. swims out again and
cringcs With humiliatiug yawn at the
feet cf his master And how abashed
and ashamed will all your eaathly trou-
hl. 5 be when you have dashed into the
river from under the throne of God and
the heights and depths of heaven are
between you and your pursuers.
We are told ia Revelation xii, l5,
Without are dogs" by which | con-
clude there is whole kennel of hounds
outside the gate of heaven, or, as when
master goes in door, his dog lies on
the stel waiting for him to come our,
so the troubles of this life may follow
US to the shining door, but they cannot
get in. "Without are dogs" ! have
seen dogs and owned dogs that | would
not be chagrined to see in the heavenly
city. Some of the grand Old watcbdogs
who are the constabulary cf the houses
10 solitary places and for years have
been the only protection of wife and
child. some Of the shepherd dogs that
drive back the wolves and bark away
the flock from going too near the preei-
pice and some Of the dogs whose neck
and paw Landseer, the painter, has
made immortal would not ind me shut
ting them out from the gate of shining
pearl. Some Of those old St. Bernard
dogs that have lifted perishing traye'
ers out of the Alpine snow; the dog tha
John Brown, the Scotch essayist, saw
ready to spring at the surgeon, lest, II
removing the cancer, he too much hurt
the poor woman whom the dog fels
bound to protect, and dogs that we ca
ressed in our childhood days, or that 10
later time lay down on the rug in seem
ing sympathy when our homes were des-
olated-
say if some soul entering heaven
should happen to leave the gate ajar
and these faithful creatures should
quietly walk in it would not at all dis
turb my heaven. But all those human
or brutal hounds that have chased and
torn and lacerated the world-yea, all
that DOW bite or worry or tear to pieces
shall be prohibited, Without are
dogs" No place there for harsh crit
les or backbiters or despoilere Of the
reputation of others. Down with yeu
to the kennels of darkness and despair!
The hart has reached the eternal water
brooks, AID the painting Of the long
chase is quieted in still pastures, and
there shall be nothing to hurt or de-
stroy in all Gods holy mount"
Oh when some of you get there it
will be like what hunter tells of when
he was pushing his canoe far up north
IN the winter and amid the ice foes and
hundred miles, as be thought, from
any other human beings. He was
startled ore day as he heard stepping
on the ice, and he cooked the rife, ready
to meet anything that came near. He
found man, barefooted and insane
from lopg exposure, approaching him.
Taking him Into his canoe and kindling
fires to warm him, he restored him.
found out where he had lived and took
him to his home and found al the vii
laAe in great excitement. A hundred
men were searching for this lost man.
and his faoiily and friends rushed out
TO meet him, and, as had been agreed at
his first appearance, bells were ruug,
and guns were discharged, and banquets
spread and the reecuer loaded with pres
ents. Well, when some of you step out
of this wilderness, where you have been
chilled and torn and sometimes lost
amid the icebergs, into the warm greet
lngs of all the villages Of the glorifed,
and your friends rush out to give you
welcoming kiss, the news that there l.
another soul forever saved will call the
caterers of heaven to spread the banquet
and the bellmen to lay hold of the rope
in the tower. and while chalices click at
the feast and the bells clang from the
! turrets it will be scene so uplifting |
pray God | may be there to take part in
the celestial merriment. And nov do
you not think the prayer in Solomon 5
Song where he compared Christ to a
reindeer in the night would n.ase an
exquisitely appropriate peroration to
my sermon, Until tie day break a1c
the shadows fee away be thou like roe
or young hart upon the mountains Of
Bether??"
a Msteoric Shower.