The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-12-20

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narcotics and sedatiycs and morphine
and clIoral and bromide Of potassium
aad cocaine and intcxieants are used,
bat nothing IS more important than a
Qaiet spirit if We would win scmno-
lence. How is man going to sleep
when he is in mind Imsuing au en-
emy? Nth what nervous twitch he
viii start out orr cream: That new
r!anof cornering his foe will keep him
VIDE awake whileth clock strikes II,
= l.. >. give you an unfailing pre-
scriptio1 for wakefuineSs: Spend the
evening hours rehear$ing Your wrongs
end the best way Of avengipg them.
/ Hold convention Of friends on this
sui jec, IN your parlor or Office at or .
/ O'Clock. Close the evening by writing
a bitter letter expressing your seotl-
meutS. Take from the desk CT pigeon
/ hole the rapcrs IN the case TO refresh
Your mind wiki your enemy mean
ness Then lie down and wait for the
coming o. the day, and it will come be-
fore Sleep comes, or your sleep Will De
worricd QuieScence aud. if you take the
rrecaption to lie fat on your back,
frightful nightmare.
Why not put bound tc your auinos-
ity?3 Why let your foes come into the
sanctitics Of your dornitory? Why let
those slanderers who have already torn
your reputation to pieces or injured
your busiDess bend over your midnight
! pillow and drive from you ore of the
greatest blessings that God can offer
sweet, refreshing, ailiuvigcraJins sleep?
Why not fence out your enemies by the
golden bars of the sunset? Why not
stand behind the barrica3e CT evening
cloud and say to them. Thus far aad
no farther Many man and many
woman is having the health Of body as
well as the health Of soul eaten away by
a malevolent spirit. | have in time OF
religious awakening had persons night
after night come into the inquiry room
and get no peace of soul. After awhile
| have bluntly asked them, is there
not some one against whom you have
hatred that you are not willing to give
up?" After a little confusion they
slightly Whispered, YES. Then |
have said, you will never find peace
with God as long as you retain that
virulenee.
4 boy IN Sparta having stolen fox
kept him under his coat ard, though
the fox was gnawiug his vitals, he sub
mitted to it rather than expose his
nisdeed. Many man with a smiling
face has under his jlcket an animosity
that is guawing away the strenth OF MS
body and the integrity Of hissoul. Bet
ter get rid Of that hidden fox as soon as
possible. There are hundreds of domes-
tic circles where that which most is
needed is the spirit Of forgiveness:
Brothers apart and sisters apart and
parents and children apart. Solomon
says brother offended is harder to be
won than strong city Are there not
enough sacred memories OF your child
hood to bring you together?
The rabbius recount how that Nebu-
chadnezzar's son had such spite
against his father that after he was dead
he had his father burned to ashes and
then put the ashes into four sacks and
tied them to four eagles Decks, which
few away in opposite directions: And
there are now domestic antipathlcs that
seem forever to haye scattered all pa
rental memories to the four winds OF
heaven. How far the eagles fly with
those sacred ashes The hour of sun
down makes to that family no practical
suggestion. Thomas Carlyle in his bio
graphy of Frederick the Great says the
Old king was told by the coDfessor he
must be at peace with his enemies if he
wanted to enter heaven. Then he said
to his wife, the queen, 'Write to your
brother after | am dead that forgive
him" Rolof, the coufessor, said,
'Her majesty had better write him i'm
mediately. No said the king;
after am dead. That will be safer.
So he let the sun Of his earthly exis-
tepce go down upon his wrath.
Again, we ought not to allow the sun
to set before forgiveness takes place,
because we might not live to see an
other day. And what if we should be
ushere5 into the presence of our Maker
with grudge upon our soul? The
majority of people depart this life in
the night. Between II o'clock P. m,
and 8 o'clock u, there is something
in the atmo> phcre which relaxes the
grip which the body has on the soul,
and most people euter the next world
through the shadows of this world.
Perhaps God may have arranged it IN
that way so as to make the contrast the
more glorious. I have seen surshiny
days in this world that must have been
almost like the radiance Of heaven.
BIT as most people le e the earth be-
.neen sundown and sunrise they quit
this world at It's darkest, and heaven,
always bright, will be the brighter for
that contrast. Out Of darkness into
irradiation.
Shall we then leap over the roseate
bank of sunset into the favorite hunt
ing ground of disease and death, carry
ing our auinosities with US? Who
would want to confront his God, against
whom we have all done meaner things
than anybody has ever done against US,
carrying old CRU i5e>? How can We ex-
pect his forgiveness for the greater
when We are not willing to forgive 9TH
ers for The less? Napoleon was encour-
age to undertake the crossing Of the
Alps because Charlemague had previ-
ously crossed chem. And al. this rug
ged path of forgiveness bears the bleed
Ing footsteps Of him who conquered
through suffering, and We ought to be
willing to follow. On the night of our
departure from this life into tbs next