The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-03-15
They will souebo r hear that we are

, They will somebo5 hear that we are
coming. Such close and swift and con-
slant communication is there between
those uplauds and these lowlands that
we will not surprise them by sudden ar
rival. If loved ones on earth expect
our coming visit and are at the depot
with carriage TO meet US, surely We
will be met at th> shining gate by old
friends now sainted and kindred now
gloriied. If there were no angel of
God to meet US and show US the pal
aces and guide US to our everlasting
residence, these kindred would show
US the way and point out the sp' endorS
and guide US to our celestial home, bow
cred and fountained and arched and IL
lumined by sun that never sets. Will
it rot be glorious, the going in and the
settling down after all the moving
about and upsettings Of earthly expert
ence? We will soon know all our
neighbors, kingly, queenly, prophetic,
apostolic, seraphic, archsngelic. The
precious bundle of life opened amid
palaces and grand marches and accla-
nations. They will all be so glad We
have got safely through. They saw US
down here in the struggle. They saw
US when We lost our way. They knew
when we got off the right course. None
Of the 32 ships that were overdue at
New York harbor in the storm of week
before last was greeted so heartily by
friends on the dock or the steam tugs
that went out to meet them at Sandy
Hook as We will be greeted in the hea-
venly world if by the pardoniug and pro-
tecting grace Of God We come to celes-
tial wharfage. We shall have to tell
them of the many wrecks that We have
passed on the way across wild seas and
amid Caribbean cyclones. 1t will be
like our arrival some years ago from
New Zealand at Sydney, people sur
prised that we got in at all, because We
were two days late, and some Of the
ships expected had gone 10 the bottom,
and we had passed derelicts and aban-
doned crafts all up and down that aw-
full channel-our arrival in heaven all
the more rapturously welcomed because
Of the doubt as to whether We would ev-
er get there at all.
Once there it will be found that the
safety of that precious bundle Of life
was assured because it was bound up
with the life of God in Jesus Christ.
Heaven could not afford to have that
bundle lost, because it had been saidin
regard to its transportation and safe ar
rival, kept by the power @of God
through faith unto complete salvat'"
The veracity Of the heavens is i!
ed in its arrival. If God should i,.;to
keep his promise to just one ranS,'mcd
soul the pillars Of Jehovah's throne
would fall, and the foundations 0; The
eternal city ould crumtle, and i'.hlite
poverties would dash down all the cha
Ices and close all the banqueting halls,
and the river Of life would change its
course, sweeping everything with desc
lation, and frost would blast all the gar
dens, and immeasurable sicknes, slay
the immertals, and the new Jeru.alem
become an abandoned city, with no char
lot wheel on the streets and no worship
ers in the temple-a dead Pompeii Of
the skies, buried Herculaneum Of the
heavens. Lest any one should doubt,
the God who cannot lie smites his ON
! nipotient hand on the side Of his
throne, and taxes affidavit, declaring,
"As l live, said the Lord God, | have
no pleasure in the death of him that
dieth." Oh! I cannot tell you how l
feel about it, the thought is so glorious.
Bound up with God. Bound up with
Infinite mercy. Bound up with infinite
joy. Bound up with infinite purity.
Bound up with infinite might. That
thought is more beautiful and glorious
than was the heroic Abigail, who at the
foot of the crags uttered it-''Bound in
the bundle Of life with the Lord thy
God.
Now, my hearer and reader, appreci-
ate the value of that bundle. See that
it is bound up with nothing mean, but
with the unsullied and immaculate
Not with pebble of the shifting beach,
but with the kohinoor Of the palace, not
with some fading regalia of earthly
pomp, but with the robe washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb.
Pray as you never prayed before, that
by divine chirography written all over
your nature, you may be properly ad-
dressed for glorious destination. Turn
not over new leaf of the old book, but
by the grace of God open an entirely
new volume of experience and put into
practice the advice contained in the pc
culiar but beautiful rhythm Of some au-
thor whose name I know not:
If you re any task to do,
Let me whisper, friend, to you.
Doit
If you've anything to say,
True and needed, yea or nay,
Say it.
Ifyou've anything to love
AS q blessing from sbove,
Love it.
If you've anything to give,
That another joy may live,
Give it.
If some hollow creed you doubt,
Though the whole world hoot and shout,
Doubt it.
Ifyou've any debt TO pay,
Rest You neither night nor day
Pay it.
If you've any JOY to hold.
Near your heart, lest it grow cold,
Ho it.
Ifyou've any grief to meet,
At a loving Fathers f7et
Meet It.
If you know what torch to light,
Guiding others in the night,
Light it.