The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-21

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moral power.
But while you find great many mea
who realize that they ought to use their
money Alright and use their intelligence
Alright how few men you find aware OF
the fact that they ought to use their
physical orgonism Alright. With every
thump Of the heart there is something
saying, "Work, work. and lest We
should complain that we have 10 tools to
work With God gives US our hands ana
feet, with every knuckle and with every
ioint and with every muscle. saying to
us Lay hold and do something. :,
But how often it IS that men with
physical strength do not serve Christ;
They are like a ship full manned ana
fnIl risged, capable Of vast tonnage,
ahln 70 endure ali stress Of weather,
vet swinging idly at the docks, when.
Ihesc men ought to be crossing and
rscrossing the great ocean OF human
suffering aud sin with Gods supplies OF
mercy. How often it is that physical
strength is used in doing positive dam
age or in luxurious ease, when, with
sleeves rolled up and brouzed bosom.
fearless of the shafts of opposition, 1t
ought to be laying hold with al! its
might and tuggiug say to lift up this
sunken wreck OF a world
|, is most shameful fact that much
OF the business Of the church and OF the
world must be done by those compare
lively invalid, Richard Baxter. by
reason of his diseases, all his days sit
ting 10 the door Of his tomb, yet writ
ing more than 100 volumes and sending
out an influence for God that will
endure as long SIS the Saints Ever
lasting Rest. Edward Psyson, never
knowing we'll day, yet how he preached
and how he wrote, helping thousands
of dying souls like himself to swim IN a
| sea of glory. Aud Robert McCheyno,
a walking skeleton, yet you know what
he did in Dundee and how he shook
Scotland with zeal for God. Philip
Dod6ridge, advised By his friends
because Of his illness not to enter the
| ministry, yet you know what he did
for the Rise and Progress Of Religion
in the church Of the world.
Wilberforce was told by his doctors
| that he could not live fortnight, yet
at that every time entering upon phiian-
| thropic enterprises that demanded the
greatest endurance and perseverance.
Robert Hall, suffering excruciations so
that often in his pulpit while preaching
he would stop and lie down on a sofa,
then getting up again to presch about
heaven until the glories Of the ce!estls!
city dropped on the multitude, doing
more work perhaps than almost any we'll
man in bis day.
Oh, how often it is that men with
great physical endurance are not as
great iu moral and spiritual stature.
While there are achievements for those
who are bent all their days with sick
ness-acbievemepts Of patience, achlev.
ments Of Christian enduranoe-l cali
upon men Of health, men of muscle,
| men of nerve, men Of physical power, to
devote themselves to the Lord. Giants
in body, you ought to be giants IN soul,
Behold also in tbs story of my text
illustration of the fact Of the damage
that strength can do if it be misguided.
1t seems to me that this msu spent
great deal of his time in doing evil
J this Samson of my text, To pay bet
which he had lost by the guessing OF
his riddle he -obs and kills 80 people.
he was not only gigantic in strength:
but, gigantic in mischief and type Of
those men in all ages Of the world who,
powerful in body or mind OF any faculty
Of social position or wealth, have used
their strength for iniquitous purposes.
1t is not the small, weak men of the
day whc do the damage. These small
men who 60 swearing and losing about
your stores and shops and banking
houses, assailing Christ and the Bible
and the church-they do not do the
damage. They have no influence.
They are vermin that you crush with
your foot Butt is the giants Of the
day, the misguided giants, giants 10
physical power, or giants in mental
acuuen; or giants in social position, OF
giants in wealth, who do the damage
the men With sharp pens that stab
religion aud throw their poison all
througn our literature, the men who
use The power CT wealth to sanction
ipiouiiy and bribe justice, and make
truth and honor bow to their golden
scepter. Misguided giants-look out
fer them! In the middle and latter
part Of the last century no doubt there
were thousands Of men in Paris and
Eiinburg and London who hated God
aud blasphemed the name of the
Almighty; but they did but little mis-
chief-theY were small men, insignin
cant men. Yet there we're giants in
| those days Who can calulate the soul
havoc Of Rousseau, going on with a
very enthusiasm Of iniQuity, with fiery
imagination seizing upon all the i'm pull
sive nature Of his day, or David Hume,
who employed his life as q spider en-
ploys It's summer, in spinniog out
silken webs to trap the uuwary, or
Eollsiye, the ,aost learned man Of his
day, marshaiiug great host OF skeptics
and leading thea: out in the dark land
| Of iu6dellty, or Giobon, who showed an
uncomfortable grudge against religion
in his history of one of the most fsscl-
pat;ny peri IDS of the worlds existence
The Decline and Fall Of the Roman
empire book in which, with all the
splendors Of his genius, he magnided
the u1rors Of Christian disciples, while
with sparseness Of notice that never
can be forgiven he treated OF the
Christian he,oes Of whom the world
vas not worthy?
Oh, men Of stout physical health,
men CT great mental stature men Of high
social position, men of great power Of