The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-10-10

z ,Dan armies never drank aH;'a'aS
stronger than Wster tiHgeG 3Itii 7'ne-
gar, but under orr gothern ct'u''t2 tee
1cmptayiou II hasung Stitnn' ans IS
most mighty, a1d N lions soc;umo.
When mans neoi'e 90 "ro"g. the
church cccps hjs1 the social circle
1roD, him. good iofaences drop hin,
We al drop him Ot al! tae men who
gat fl the track blC f.:w ever get on
again. Near my summer residence
there is life saving station on the
beach There are al the ropes aad
rockets, the boats, the machinery for
getting people eff shipwrecks. Oae
summer ! saw there Is OF 20 men who
were breakfasting after having jlst
escaped with their lives and nothing
mere. Up aud down our coasts are
built these usefu! structures, aud the
mariners know it, and they feel that II
they are driven into the breakers there
will be apt from sh>r to come rescue.
TIE churches CT God ought to be so
many life saving stations, not SO much
to help those who are ia smooth waters,
but those who have been ship~recked.
Come, let Us run out the lifeboats And
who will man them? Wsdo not preach
enough to such men; we have not
enough faith in their release. Alas,
if when they come TO hear US We are
laboriouisly trying to show the dtter
ence between sublaparisnism and
su pralapsarianism, while they have
hundred vipers Of rem or5e aud despair
coiiing around and biting their imn NORA!
spirits The church is not chiefly for
sooiish sort of men, whose p7ootlVltles
are all right and who could get to
heaven praying aud singing IN tn elr
oan homes. It is oa the beach to help
the drowning. Those bad cases are
the cases that God likes 10 take hold
of. He can save big sinner as well
as small sinner, and when man
calls earnestly to God for help he
will 90 out to deliver such one. If
it were necessary, God would come
down from the sky, followed by ali the
artillery of heaven and million Angels
with drawa swords. Get oDe hundred
auch redeemed men ia your churches
and nothing could stand before them.
for such men arc generally warm
hearted and enthusiastic. No tormsl
prayers then NJ heartless singing
then. No cold uvea.ionalisms then.
Destitute children Of the street offer
field Of work comparatively unoc-
cupied. The uncsred for children are
in the maj jority in most of our cities.
When they gvow up, if uureformed,
they will outvote your children, aud
they will govern your children. The
whiskey ring will hatch out other
whiskey rings, aai grog shops will kill
with their h9rrid stencil public
sobriety ualess tue church of God
rises ur with outstretcaed arms and In
folds this dying population in her bosom
Public schools cannot Go it. Art cannot
do it. Blackwell's island cannot do it.
Almshousas cannot do it. Jails cannot
do it. Church of Gcd, wake up to your
magnificent mission You can do it! Get
somewhere, somehow TO work, And !
would to God that our chcrches might DC
so mighty in prayer aud work that they
would become laundering legion before
which the forces of sin might be routed
and the gates of hell might trenble.
Launch the gospel ship for another voy-
| age. Heave away now, lads! Shake cut
the reefs in the foretopsail Come, .
heavenly wind, aud fiji the canvas! Je-
sus aboard will assure our safety. Jesus
ou the sea will backon US forward Jesus
On The shore will welcome US into har
hor