The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-04-19

has been, outragscusly treated, md he
is waiting to die. How does he spend
lis last hours? Telling the world how
bsdiy he feels and describing the rh"u
nalism that he got in prison, the rheu
matisu, affecting his limbs. or the neu-
ralgia piercing his temples, or the tLir>t
that fevers his tongue: Oh, no, His
last words are the battle shout for
Christeudom: i am now ready to be
offered, and the time of my departure
is at hand have fought the good
fight. And so his dying hand ciaye
unto the sword.
intend this sermon as touic |
want You to hold the truth with ineraI-
lcable grip, AID | want you 20 strike s.
hard for God that it will react, and
while yeu take the sword the sword will
take you. You notice that the officers
of the northern army every year assem-
BILE, and You uotice that the officers OF
the southern army every Year assemble.
Soldiers coming together are very apt to
Eecoun, their experiences aud 10 show
their scars. Here is soldier who pulls
up his sleeve aud says, There, | was
wounded in that ara, and shows the
scar. Aud another soldier uIlS down
his collar and says. There, | was
wourdcd in the neck. And another
soldjer says, Il have had no use Of that
limb since the gulshot fracture. On,
my frierds, when thAbattle Of life Is
over, aud the resurrection has come,
and our bodies rise from the dead, Will
We nave on " any scais showing our
trayery fer GOD? Christ vii! De there
ali covered viii! sears. Scars on the
brow, scars on the hand, sears on the
feet, scars all over the heart, won in
the battle Of redemption. Ard al hea-
ven will sob aloud with emotion as they
look :; t those sears lgna:ius will be
there, and he will point out the place
where the tooth and paw Of the lion
seized him in the Coliseum, ard Jchp
uuss viii be there. and nc will SHOW
where the coal first scorched the foot
on that day when his spirit took wing
Of fame from Constance.
NJ MILAN and Campbell and Freeman,
American missionaries in ludia, will DC
t1ere-the men who with their wives
and children went down in the awful
massacre at Cawnpur, and they Will
SboS where the daggers Of the Senoys
struck them. The Waldenses Will be
there and they will show where their
bones were broken on thac day when
the Pledmontese soldiery pitched them
over the rocks. AND there will De
those there who took care Of the sick
and who looked after the poor, and they
will have evidences Of earthly ex
ton. Ard Christ, with his SC
hand waving over Tie scared null: ~:
will say. You suffered with u o.
earth; now be gloriicd with me IL ca,
ven. Aud then the great organ: Of
eternity will take up the chant, az st.
John VIII play, These are they Sho
came out Of great tribuia:ion and had
their robes washed AID made whit; IN
the blood Of the Lamb.
But what will your chagrin and '..ine
be if it shall be told that day O.; the
streets of heaven that on earth We
shrauk back from all toll and sacrifice
and hardship No Scars to show the
heavenly Soldiery. Not so much as one
ridge on the palm of the hand to show
that just once in all this battle for God
and the truth we grasped the sword SO
6rmly and struck SO hard that the sword
aud the baud stuck together aud the
hand clave to the sword. Oh, my
Lord Jesus, rouse US to thy service.
Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall cosquer, though they die.
They see the triumph from afar
And seize ii with the eye.
When that illustrious day shall rise
And all thy aruics shine
In robes of victory through the skies,
The glory shall be thine.