The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-08-08

of the young people .hiri with vii!ainy
Ye authors who write them, ye publish
ers who PRINT them, ye booksellers
who distribute them, shall be cat 70
pieces, If not by an aroused communl-
ty. then at last by the hail OF dlVlne
VENGEANCE, which shall sweep to the
lowest pit Of perdition all ye murder
ers or souls. tell you, though you
NAV escape in this world, you will be
Ground at last under the hoof of eternal
eaIamities. and you will be chained to
the rock, and you vii! have the vul-
lures of despair clawing at your soul,
and those whom you have destroyed
will cone around to torment you, and
to pour hotter Goals Of fury upon your
head, and rejoice eternal!y IN the out,
cry Of your pain. and the howl Of your
damuation. Gcd shall wound the
hairy scalpcf him that goeth on In his
trespssses.
The clock strikes miabight. \ fair
form bends over a romance. The eyes
fash FIRE. The breath is quick and IT
regular Occasion silly the color oashes
to the cheek and then dies out. The
hands tremble as though guardian
spirit we're trying 10 shake the deadly
hook out Of the grasp. Hot tears fall.
She laughs with a Shrill voice that
drops dead at its own sound. Inc
sweat on her brow is the spray dashed
up from the river Of death. The clock
strikes /, and the rosy dawn scon after
begins to look through the lattice upon
the pale form that looks like a detained
specter Of the night. Soon IN mad
house she will mistake her rloglets tor
curling serpen,s aad thrust her white
hand through the bars Of the prison
and smite her head, rubbing it back IS
though to push the scalp from the skull,
shrieking; Ny brain! Ny brain!' Oh,
stand off from that! Why will you 60
sounding your way amid the reefs when
there is such vast ocean in which you
may voyage, all sail set?
Cherish ol to,Ss aud newsra9 9ers
Beware of bsd ones. The assassin of
ord Russell declared that he vas led
to into crime by reading one vivid 70:
nance. The coDsecra,ed john Angel
James, than whom Eagland never pro-
duced better man, declared in his old
age that he had never yet got over the
evil effects of having for 10 minutes
once read bad book. But need not
20 so far off. l could tell you of com:
rade who was great hearted, noble and
generous. He was studying for an
honorable profession, but ne had an in,
fdel book in his trunk, and he said tc
me one day, "De Witt, would you like
to read it?" I said, eyes, [ would.
I took the book and read it only for a
few minutes. Twas really startled with
what Isaw there, and l handed the
book back to him ald said, You had
better destroy that book. No, ne
kept it. He read it. He reread it
After awhile he gave up religion as a
myth. He gave up God as nonentl'
ty. He gave up the Bible as fable
He gave up the church of Christ as a
useless institution. He gave up good
morals as being unnecessarily stringent.
l have heard of him but twice in many
years. The time before the last | heard
Of him he was a confirmed inebriate
The last heard Of him he WAS coming
out of an insane asylum-in body, mind
and soul an awful wreck. | believe
that one in6del book killed him for two
worlds.
Go home today and look through your
library, and then, having looked through
your library, look on the stand where
you keep your pictorials and newsps'
pers and apply the Christian principles
| have laid down this hour. lfthere
is anything in your home that cannot
stand the test do not give it away. fol
it might spoil an immortal soul; dc not
sell it, for the money you get would be
the price Of blood; but ather kiDdle q
fire on your kitchen hearth or in your
back yard and then drop the poison in
it, and the bonefre in your city shsl
be as consuming as that one in Ephesus.