The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-10-04

II Go0 be Tor you, VINO can pc against
you?" How much should that man
worry about hisreputation? Notmuch.
IF that broker who some years ago in
Wall street, after he had lost money,
sat down and wrote farewell letter to
his wife before he blew his brains out
If. instead of taking out Of his pock-
ct pistol, he had taken out we'll
read New Testament, there would have
been one less suicide.
0 nervous and feverish people OF the
world, try this almighty scdative! You
will live 25 years longer under It's
soothing power. 1t is not choloral that
you want OF morphine that you want.
1t is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
With long life will | satisfy him.
Again, practical religion is friend
of longevity in the fact that it removes
all corroding care about future ex's
tence. Every man wants to know what
is to become of him. If you get on
board rail train, you want to know at
what depot it is going to stop. If you
get on board ship, you want to know
into what harbor it is going to run. And
If you should tell me you have no in
terest ia what is to be your future des.
tiny would, in as polite say as l
know how, tell you l did not believe
you. Before had this matter settled
with reference to my future existence
the question almost worried me into
ruined health. The anxieties men have
upon this subject put together would
make martyrdom. This is state OF
awful unhealtbiness. There are people
who fret themselves to death for fear
Of dying | wont to take the strain off
your nerves ard the depression of your
soul, and | make two or three expert
ments. Experiment first: When you
go out Of this world, it does not make
any difference whether you have been
good or bad, whether you believed truth
or error, you will 60 straight to glory.
Impossible, you say. My common
sensea well as my religion teaches that
the bad and the good cannot live to-
gether forever. You give me no com
fort in that experiment. Experiment
the second: When you leave this world
you will 90 into an intermediate state,
where you can get converted and pre-
pared for heaven.
Impossible, you say. Gas the
tree fal!eth, so must it lie, and | cannon
postpone to an intermediate state refor-
nation which ought to have been ef-
fected in this state" Experiment the
third: There is no future world. v
a man dies, that Is the last of him.
not worry about what you are to do IL
another state of being. You will !c'
do anything. Impossible" you S y.
There is something that tells me t!:at
death is not the appendix, but the RE,
face, to life. There is something that
tells me that on this side Of the grave
I only get started and that l shall 60 on
forever. My power to think says for
ever, my affections say forever, my
capacity to enjoy or suffer, forever. >
Well, you defeat me in my three ex-
perimcnts. I have only one more to
make, and if you defeat me in that |
am exhausted. A mighty One on a
knoll back of Jerusalem one day, the
skies flied with forked lightnings and
the earth filed with volcanic distur:
hances, turued his pale ard agonized
face toward the heavens and said: Il
take the sins and sorrows of the ages
into my owa leart. am the expiation
Witness, Garth and heaven aad he'll.
am the expiation. Ard the hammer
struck him, and the spears punctur"o
him, and heaven thundered. The
wages of sin is DEATH The soul THAI
sinnetb, it shall dic!'' Il will by nc
means clear the guilty Then thert
vas silence for nalf an hour, and the
lightriags were drawn back into the
scaboard of the sky, and the earth
ceased to qu;ver, and all the colors Of
the sky began to shift into rainbow
woven out Of the falling tears of Jesus,
and there was red as of the bloodshed
dag. and there Was blue as OF the
bruising, and there was green as OF the
heavenly foliage, and there was orange
as of the day dawn, and along the hns
of the blue | saw the words, i was
bruised for their iaiquities, and alons
the line of red l saw the words, "Th'
blood of Jesus Christ c!eanseth from al
sin" and along the line Of the g"een
saw the words, The leaves Of the Ir'e
Of Life for the healing of the nations,
and alopg the line of the orange saw
the words, "The day spring from on
high hath visited US, and then | sax
the storm was over, and the rainbow
rose higher and higher until it seemed
retreating to another heaven, and plant
one column of its colors on one side
the eternal hill, and planting the other
column Of its colors on the other side
the eternal hill, it rose upward and
upward, and, behold, there was rain
bow about the throne, Accept that
sacrifice aud quit worrying. Take the
tonic, the inspiration, the longevity, OF
this truth. Religion is sunshine: that
is health. Religi, IN is fresh air and
pure water they are healthy. Religion
is warmth that is healthy. Ak all
the doctors, and they will tell you tbs t
a quiet conscience and pleasant a'.1ici
pations are hygienic. l offer you pes
feet peace now and hereafter.
What do you want ID the futuc
world? Tell me, and you shall have it
Orchards? There are the trees with
twelve manner of fruits, yielding fruit
every month. Water scenery? There
is the river of Life from under the
throne of God, clear as crystal, and the
sea Of glass mingled with FIRE. D. you
want music? There is the oratorio Of
the Creation led on BY Adam, and til.
orltorio Of the Red sea led on by Moses
and the oratorio Of the Messiah led or
by St Paul, while the archangel witt
swinging baton controls the IA, 600
who made up the orchestra. Do you
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