The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-05-24

fidelity and atheism succeed in their
attempt they will dynamite world.
Let them have their full way, and this
world will be habitation Of three rooms
"a habitation of just three rooms, the
one madhouse, another lazaretto,
the other pandemonium. These inf
del bands of music have only just begun
their concert-yea, they have only
been stringiug their instruments. |
today put before you their whole pro-
gramme from beginning unto the close.
In the theater the tragedy comes first
and the farce afterward, but in this in
fdel drama of death the farce comes
first and the tragedy afterward. And
in the former atheists and inidels laugh
and mock, but in the latter God him
self will laugh ana mock. He says so.
II will laugh at their calamity and
mock when their fear cometh.
From such chasm Of Individual, ma
tional, worldwide ruin, stand back.
Oh, young men, stand back from that
chasm! You see the practical drift of
my sermon | want you to know where
that road leads. Stand back from that
chasm of ruin The time is going to
come (you and | may not live to see it,
but it will come; just as certainly as
there is God it will Gomez when the
infdels and the atheists who openly
and out and out and above board preach
and practice infdelity and atheists will
be considered as criminals against So.
ciety, as they are now criminals against
God Society will push out the leper,
and the wretch with soul gangrened
and ichorous and vermin covered and
rottipg apart with his beastiality will
be left to die in the ditch and be denied
decent burial, and men will come with
spades and cover up the carcass where
it falls, that it poison not the air, and
and the only text in all the Bible ap
propriate for the funeral sermon will be
jeremiah xii, 10, 'He shall be buried
with the burial of an ass.
A thousand voices come up to me
this hour saying: do you really think
inidelity will succeed? Has Christi
tianity received its deathblow? aud will
the Bible become obsolete?" Yes,
when the smoke of the city chimney
arrests and destroys the MONDAY sun.
Josephus says about the time Of the de-
struction of Jerusalem the sun was
turned into darkness, but only the
clouds rolled between the sun and the
earth. The sun went right on. 1t is
the same sun, the same luminary, as
when at the beginning it shot out like
an electric spark from Gods finger, and
today it is warming the nations, and to
day it is gliding the sea, and toda,
is filling the earth with its light. T..
same old sun, not at all wornc';t,
though its light steps 100, 900, 600 m Is
second, though its pulsations are
450, 600, 900, 100000 undulations l.. a
second. The same sun with beautiful
white light made up Of the violet, and
the indigo, and the blue, and the green
and the red, and the yellow, and the
orange-the seven beautiful colors now
just as when the solar spectrum first
divided them.
At the beginning God said: "Let there
be light, and light was, and light is and
light shall be. So Christianity is roll
ing on, and it is going to warm all ma
tioDs, and all nations are to bask IN
it's light. Men may shut the window
blinds so they cannot see it, or they
may smoke the pipe Of speculation un-
til they are shadowed under their own
vaporing, but the Lord God is sun!
This white light Of the gospel made up
of all the beautiful colors Of earth and
heaven-violet plucked from amid the
spring grass, and the indigo of the
southern jungles, and the blue of the
skies, and the green Of the foliage, and
the yellow Of the autumnal woods, and
the orange of the southern groves, and
the red of,the sunsets. All the beau
ties of earth and heaven brought out
by this spiritual spectrum. Great
Britain is going to take all Europe for
God. The United States are going to
take America for God. Both of them
together will take all Asia for God.
All three of them will take Africa for
God. "Who art thou, 0 great noun
tain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt
become plain ''The mouth of the
Lord hath spoken it." Halleluiah,
amen