The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-09-20

to give, there are examples for you to
set, and l say now, as Paul said to the
Corinthian woman, What knowest
thou but thou shalt save thy husband?"
A man was dying, and he said to his
wife: "Rebecca, you wouldn't let me
have family prayers; you laughed about
all that, and you got me away into
worldliness, and now I'm going to die,
and my fate is sealed, and you are the
cause of my RUM 0 woman, what
knowest thou but thou canst destroy
thy husband?
Are there not some of'you who have
kindly influences at home? Are there
not sorce who nave wandered far away
from God who can remember the Chris
ti*n influences in their early home?
Do not despise thoseiinfuenccs, my
brother. If you die without Christ,
what will you do with your mothers
prayers, with your wife's opportunities,
with your sisters entreativs? What
will you do with the letters they used
to write to you, with the memory Of
those days when they attended you so
kindly in times of sickness? Oh, if
there be just one strand holding you
from floating off ;. from that dark sea, I
would just like to take hold of that
strand now and pull you to the beach.
For the sake of your wife's God, for the
sake of your mothers God, for the sake
If your sisters God, come this day and
and be saved.
Lastly | wish to say that one of. the
specific rights of woman is, through the
grace of Christ, finally to reach heaven.
o what multitude Of women in heav.
en-. Mary, Christ's mother, in heaven +,
Elizabeth Fry in heaven; Charlotte
Elizabeth in heaven; the'mother of Au-
gustine in heaven; the Countess of Hun
tington, who sold her splendid jewels to
build chapels, in heaven, while great
many others, who have never been
heard of on earth or known but little,
have gone into the rest and peace Of
heaven. What rest! What change
it was from the small room, with no
fire and one window (the glass broken
out) and the aching side and wornout
eyes, to the ''house Of many mansions
No more stitching until 12 o'clock at
night, no more thrusting Of the thumb
by the employer through the work, to
show it was not done quite right.
Plenty of bread at last! Heaven for
aching heads, heaven for broken hearts,
heaven for anguish bitten frames! No
more sitting until midnight for the COM
ing of staggering steps. No more
rough blows across the temples! No
more sharp, keen, bitter curses!
Some of you will have no rest in H.
world. 1t will be toll and struggle a.!
suffering all the way up. You vii
have to stand at your door fighting bt"k
the wolf with your own hand, red With
carnage. But God has a crow for
you. l want you to realize this mora
ing that he is now makingit. and when
ever you weep a tear he sets another
gem in that crown. Whenever you
have pang of body or soul he puts an
other gem in that crown until after
awhile in all the tiara there will be no
room for another splendor, and God will
say to his angel: THE crown is done:
Let her up, that she may wear it. "
And as the Lord ofrighteousness puts
the crown upon your brow angel will
crv to angel. "Who is she?" and
Christ will say: II will tell you who
she is. She is the one that came up
out of great tribulation and had her
robe washed and made white in the
blood of the Lamb" And then God
will spread banquet, and helwill in
vite all the princlpalities Of heaven to
sit at the feast, and the tables will
blush with the best clusters from the
vineyards of God and crimson with the
u manner of fruits from the tree of
life, and waters from the fountains Of
the rock will fash from the golden
tankards, and the old harpers of heav-
en- will sit there, making music with
their harps, and Christ will point you
out amid the celebrities of heven, gay
ing, she suffered with me on earth;
now we are going to be glorifed togeth-
er." And the banqueters, no longer
able to hold their peace, will break
fo; b with congrstulation, Hail, hail
AID there will be handwritings on the
wall not such as struck the Babylonian
noblemeD with borrow, but fire tipped
fingers, writing in blazing capitals OF
light and love, ''God hath wiped away
all tears from all faces