The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-11-22

eleh uaI te JOiCiuS. ACCepI d4l as al Uu-
merited donation from the skies, or We
will never have it at all.
"Now," says some one, '<if Christ is
the only way what about the heather,
who have never heard Of him?" But
you are not heathen, aud why divert
US from the question of our personal
salyation?" Satan is always introduc-
ing something irrelevant. He wants to
take it out OF personality into an ab-
straction. Get our own salvation set
tied, and then we will discuss the sal
va,ion Of other people. But, says
some one, what percentage of the
human race will be saved? What will
be the comparative number saved and
LOST" There satan thrusts in the math-
ematics of redemption. He suggests
that you find out the mathematical pro-
portion of the redeemed. But be not
deceived. | am now discussing the
eternal welfare Of only two persons,
yourself and myself. Get ourselves
right before We bother ourselves about
others rights. 0 Christ, come hither
and master our case! Here are our
sias-pardon them; our wounds-heal
them; our burdens-lif5 them; cur sor-
rows-comfort them. We want the
Christ of Bartineus to open our blind
eyes, the Christ Of Martha to help Us
in our domestic cares, the Christ Of
Qlivet to help US preach our sermons,
the Christ Of Lake Galilee to still our
tempests, the Christ of Lazarus to raise
our dead. Not too tired is be to come,
though he has on his whipped shoulders
50 long carried the worlds woe and on
his lacerated feet walked this way to
accept our salvation.
By the bloody throes Of the noun
tain on which Jesus died, and by the
sepulcher where his mutilated body
was inclossd in dsrkened crypt and
by the Olives from which be arose,
while astonished disciples slutche1 for
his robes to detain him in their com
panionship, and by the radiant
and omuipotent throae ou which he
sits waiting for the coming Of all those
whose redemption was settled IN
heaven, I implore you bow your head
! in immediate and final submission.
Once exercise sorrow for what you have
done and exercise trust in him for what
he is willing 10 do, AID all is well for
both worlds, Then you can swing out
defiance to all opposition, human and
diabolic. In conquering his foes he
conquered yours. And have you no
ticed that passage in Colossians that
represents him having despoiled prin-
cipalisies and powers, he made shov
OF them, openly triumphing," so BRING
ing before US that overwhelming spec
tacle oi Roman triumph?
When Ponpey landed at Brindisi
Italy, returned from his victories, b
&isbanded the brave men who haG
fought under him and sent them rejoic
ing to their homes, and, entering ROM
his amblazoned chariot was followed b.
princes in chains from kingdoms be
had conquered, and flowers such as
only grew under those Italian skies
strewed the way, and he came under
arches inscribed with the names Of bat
tlefelds on which he had triumphed
and rode by columns which told OF
the 1900 cities he had destroyed and
the -, 100000 people he had conquered
or slain Then the banquet was spread,
and out of the chalices filed to the brim
they drank to the health Of the con-
oueror. Belisarius, the great soldier,
returned from his military achieve
ments and was robed in purple, aud in
the procession were brought golden
thrones and pillars of precious stones
and the furniture of royal feasts, and
amid the splendors Of kingdoms over
come he was hailed to the hippodrome
by shouts such as had seldom rung
through the capital. Then also came
I the convivialltles. In tie year 374 Azure
liao made his entrance to Rome in tri-
umphal car, in which he stood while a
winged figure Of Victory hell wreath
above his head. Zenobia, captive
queen Of Palmyra, walked behind his
chariot, her person encircled with fet-
tors of gold, under the weight Of which
she nearly tainted, but still captive.
And there We're il the procession 200
lions and tigers and beasts Of many
lands and 1900 gladiators excused
from the cruel amphitheater that they
might decorate the day, and Persian
and Arabian and Ethiopian embassa-
dors we're in the procession and the
long lines of captiYes, Egyptians, Syri-
ans, Gauls, Goths and Fandals.
1t was to such scenes that the New
Testament refers when it spoke Of
Christ having despoiled principalities
and powers, he made show Of them,
openly triumphing." But, oh, the diff
ference in those triumphs! The Roman
triumph represented arrogance, cruelty,
oppression and wrong, but Christs
triumph meant emancipation and holi-
ness and JOY. The former was a pro-
cession of groans accompanied by a
clank Of chains, the other procession
of hosannas by millions set forever free.
The only shackled ones Of Christ S
triumph will be satan and his cohorts
tied to our Lords chariot wheel, with
all the denominations Of all the earth
bound for IN eternal captivity. Then
will come feast in which tie ca.iitrs
will be filled with the new wire 4 i:c
Kingdom" Under arches commemvra
tive of all the battles in which the baa-
nered armies Of the church militant
through thousands Of years Of struggle
have at last won the day Jesus will
ride, ConQueror Of earth and hell and
heaven. Those armies disbaDded, will
take palaces and thrones. And they
shall come from the east and the west
and the north and the south and sit
down in the kingdom Of God And
may you and l, through the pardoni2g
and sanctifying grace Of Christ. be
guests at that royal banquet.