The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-18


crawl through the brain, the heartWou!o
fu,ter, aaG the life would be gone. ealt
a necessity for the life of the body, tie
grace Of God necessity for the HE ot
the soul. :,
Again l remark that grace IS nse s,+ s;l, ~
in abundance. God has Stre"n sH'' -
vast 70 profusion all over the con'lGenIs. ;6,
Russia seems built on saItcelisr. mere
= on. rcpiou of that country that turns
Is, 10 V00 oo GOO tons in year. Eogland aud
RTss;a ard Italy have igexhausubIe re,
SONGS in this respect. Norway snd
SFcjep. white with snow above, white
pit5 salt beneath. Austria, yielding
600 geo tous annually. Nearly all the
nstio,n rich init-rock sal, spring salt,
sea salt Christ, the Creator Of the
world, when he uttered our text, knew
it would become more and more slgnlhc-
ant as the shafts were sunk aud the
sprios were bored and the pumps were
worked and the crystals were gathered.
So the grace CT God is abundant. 1t IS
for all lands, for al ages for al! condl-
tious. 1t seems to undergrad every
thing. Pardon fer the worst sin, com
fort for the sbarpest suffering, brightest
light for the thickestdarkntss Around
about the salt lakes Of saratoy there
are 10 GOO men toiiing day and night,
and get they never exhaust the saline
treasures And if the !, ,6G0. coo .GO9 OF
our race should now cry out to God for
his mercy there would be enough for
all-for those farthest gone in Sic, for
the murderer standing on the drop OF
the galIows. 1t is al ocean Of mercy;
and if Europe and Asia, Africa, North
and South America and al the Islands
of the sea went down IL it today they
would have room enough to wash aud
come up clean. Lei no ma2 think
that his case is tco tough a one for God
to &C; upon Though your sin may be
deep and ragiae, let me tell you that
Gods grace IS bridge not built on
earthly piers, but suspended aud span
ming the awful chasm OF your guilt, one
end resting upon the rock Of eterna!
promises aud the Other on the founda
tions Of heaven. Denetyius wore robe
So iuorusted with Jewels that no one al
ter him ever dared TO wear 1t, but our
King, Jesus, takes off the robe Of his
righteousness, robe blood dyed and
heaven impearled, and reaches 1t out
to the worst wretch in all the earth and
says; Put that on. Wear 1t now!
Wear it for ever"
Again, the grace Of Godis like salt iu
the way we come st it. The salt on the
surface is almost always impure--that
which incrusts the Rocky mountains
and the South American pampas and IN
India; but the mioerS go down through
the shafts and through the dark laby-
rinths and along by galleries Of rock
and 8i,h torches and pickaxes, find their
way under the very foundations Of the
esrth, TO where the salt lies that makes
up the nations wealth. 10 get to the
best saline springs of the earth huge
machinery goes down, boring depth be,
low depth until from under the
very roots Of the mountains,
the saline water supplies the
aoueduct. This water is brought
to the surface and is exposed in tanks
to the sun for evaporation, or it Is put
in boilers nightly heated, and the
water evaporates, ano the salt gathers
at the bottom of the tank-the work is
completed, and the fortune is made.
So with the grace Of God. 1t is to be
profoundly sought after. With all the
concentered energies of body, mind and
soul We must dig for it. No man stun-
b!es accidentally on 1t. We Deed to
80 down to the very lowest strata OF
earnestness and faith to find it. Super
fetal exploration will rot turn 1t up.
We must strive and implore and dig
until we strikkshe spring foaning with
living waters. Then the work of evapo-
ration begins, and as when the saline
waters are exposed to the sun, the va
pors float away, leaving nothing but the
pure white salt at the bottom OF the
tank, so, when tie Christians soul IS
eposed to the Sun of Righteousness,
the vapo1s ct pride apd sel6shness and
worldliness float of, and there is chiefly
left beneath pure white holiness Of heart
Then, as in the case Of the salt the
furnace is added. Blazing troubles,
stirred by smutted stokers Of darkness,
quicken the evaporation Of worldlinsss,
and the crystallization Of grace.
Have you not been in enough trouble
to have that work go on? | was read
lug of trl3totle, who said there was a
field Of flowers in Sicily so sweet that
once hound, coming on the track Of
game, came to that field and was be-
Hildered by the perfumes and so lost
the track. Oh, that our souls might
become ike a field which the Lord
hath blessed" and exhale SO much Of
the sweetness Of Christian character
that the hounds of temptation, coming
on our track, mig ut lose it and go howl
ing back with disappointment
But, l remark agaiu. that the grace
Of God is Ike the saltln its preservative
quality. You know that salt absorbs
the moisture Of articles Of food and in
fuses them aish brine, which preserves
them for lcIg while. Salt is the
great anti-pu.sctactcr Of the world.
Experimenters in preserving food,
have tried sugar and smoke and alright
jars and everything else, but as long as
the world stands Christ's words will be
suggestive, aud men will admit that as
great preservstive salt is good"
But for the grace Of God the earth
would have become stale carcass lorg
before this. That grace is the only
prcseryative Of laws and constitutions
and literatures. Just rs soon as gov
ernuent loses this salt Of divine grace
it perishes. The philosophy of this
day, SO far as it is antagonist: 70 this
religion, putreics and stinks The