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

gets It. ! ne man Is QaTu uSteu, Dut
She gets it. She could not help but get
it. 1t is decree3 from eternity she
should get it. No need Of your turn
ing your back and pretending you don't
hear; you DO hear. There is no need Of
your saying you are begged to death.
There is no need Of your wasting your
time. and you might as well submit
first as last. You had better right away
take down your checkbook, mark the
number Of the check, fill up the blank,
sign Your name and hand it to her.
There is 10 need Of wasting time. Those
poor children on the back street have
BEEN hungry long enough. That sick
nan must hare some farina. That con-
sumptivc must have something to ease
his cough. | meet this delegate OF a
relief society coming out Of the store OF
such hard fsted man, and | say, Did
YOU get the money" OF course, she
says, Il got the money; that's what |
went in for. The Lord told me to goln
and get it, and he never sends me on a
fools errand.
Again, l have TO tell You that it is a
woaan's specific right to comfort under
the stress CT dire disaster. She IS call
ed the weaker vessel, but all proFane as
we'll as sacred history attest5 that when
the crisis comes she Is better prepared
than man to meet the emergency. How
often you have seen woman who seem
ed to be disciple Of frivolity aod in
dclence, who, under one stroke Of ca
lamity, changed to a heroine. Oh,
what great mistake those business men
make who never tell their business
troubles to their wives! There comes
some great loss to their store, or some
of their companions in business play
them sad trick, ard they carry the
burden all alone. He is asked IN the
household again and again:
"What is the matter??" But he be-
lieves in sort Of Christian duty to keep
all that trouble within his own soul.
Oh, sir, your first duty was to tell your
wife all about it! She perhaps might
not have disentangled your finances OF
extended your credit, but she would
have helped you to bear misfortune.
You have no right to carry on one shoul-
der that which is intended for two.
Business men know what Imean. There
came crisis in your affairs. You strug-
gled bravely and long, but after awhile
there came day wheD you said Here
shall have to stop, and you called IN
your partners, and you called IN the
most prominent men in your employ,
and you said, ''Ne have got to stop.
You left the store suddenly. You
could hardly make up your mind to pass
through the street and over on the fer
ryboat. You felt everybody would be
looking at you and blaming you and de-
nounclng you. You fastened home.
You told your wife all about the affair
What did she say? Did she play the
butterfly? Did she talk about the
silks, and the ribbons, and the fash
ions?
No. She came up to the emergency.
She Quailed under the stroke. She Of
fered to 80 out of the comfortable house
into smaller one and wear the old
cloak another winter. She was the one
who understood your affairs without
blaming you. You looked upon what
you thought was thin, weak woman's $
arm holding you up; but while you look
cd al that arm there came into the fee
bic muscles of it the strength Of the
eternal God. No chiding. No fret
ting. No telling you aboutth beautiful
house Of her father from which you
brought her 10, 20 or 80 years ago.
You said: "Well, this is the happiest
day of my life. I an glad have got
from under ny burden. My wife don t
care-I don't care" at the moment
you were exhausted God sent Debo-
rah to meet the host of Amalekites and
scatter them like chsff over the plain.
There are sometimes women who sit
reading sentimental novels and who
wish that they had some grand field in
which to display their Christian pow
ers. What grand and glorious things
they could dol they only had an oppor
tunity Ny sister, you need rot wait
fer any such time. \ crisis will come
in your affairs. There will be a Their
mopylae ir ,our household where God
will tel! you to stand. There are
scores and hundreds Of households to-
day where as much bravery and courage
are demanded of women as was exhibit
ed by Grace Darling or Marie Antoin
cite or Joan Of Arc.
Again, l remark it is a weman's
right to bring to US the kingdom Of hea-
ven. 1t is easier for woman to be
Christian than for man. Why? You
say she is weaker. No. Her heart is
more responsive to the pleadings of d.
vine love. She is in vast majority.
The fact that she can more easily be-
come Christian l prove by the state
ment that three-fourths of the members
Of churches in all Christendom are wo-
men. So God appoints them to be the
chief agencies for bringing this world
pach W NUI. AiaS StduO AS1S faUN
say the soul is immortal; there is man
who will deny it. | may stand here
and say we are lost and undone without
Christ; there is man who will contra
dict it. l may stand here and say there
will bea judgment day after awhile;
yonder is some one who will disputs it.
But a Christian woman in a Christian
household, living in the faith and con-
sistency Of Christ's gospel-nobody can
refute that. The greatest sermons are
not preached on celebrated platforms.
They are preached with an audience of
two or three and in private home lifo
4 consistent, consecrated Christian ser
vice is an unanswerable demonstration
Of God S truth.
A sailor came slipping down the rat
Ines one night, as though something
had happened, and the sailors cried,