The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-09-26

have been lncarcerated, thus hoeralnS
Kings. More hymlbook and less razor.
Especially ought We to be apolo2etic
ani merciful towards those who, while
they have great faults, have also great
virtues So1e people are barren Of vlr-
tues. NJ weeds verify, but no ti>Ter5
| must not be two much enraged at
nettie along tie fence il it be IN held
containing 10 acres OF ripe Michigan
wheat Some tine ago aaturalls;s coio
Us there was oa the sua spot 2e, 0o0
miles loug, ba: from the brightness and
warmth concluded it was good deal
Of a sun sill. Tue sun can afford to
hacc very isrge spot upon it, though 1t
be - 600 mics long, aui | an very
apoogetlc for these mea who have great
fsu!ts, Si.iie at the sometime they have
magnificent virtues.
Again, when | read ia my text that
the L9ri shsves with the hired razor OF
Assyr;a the land Of Ju6eA think my
self Of the precision OF Gods provl-
deuce \ razor ssung the tenth part
OF an inch out Of the right llue meaas
either failure or laaeratlon, bat God 5
dealings never slip, aud they do not
miss by TIE thoussndth part Of al lnch
tie risat direction. People talk as
though things 10 this world were at
loose ends. Cholera sweeps across
Nsrseiics acd Madrid snd Palermo,
AID we watch anxi,usly. Will the
epidemic sweep Europe and America?
people say, That will entirely depend
on whether the incubation is success
tul experiment; tina. will depend en-
ti.eiy ou quarantine regulations; that
depend on the early or late appearance
OF frost. That epidimic is pitched
into the world, and 1t goes bluuderinG
across tie continents, aud it is all
gu ,ssvork and a. appalling perhaps.
tnias, perhaps, that Cod had stma-
;h'as 10 - Titait and taat his me1cj
nag have IL some way protected Us;
that he MAJ have done as much Tor u,
> tae qlsrlntiae ana the hzalth OH
:ers. IL vas riga. aud necessity that
all cautiyn should De used, but there
have coue c1ousn maoaroni fron Italy,
aai euough grapes from the south OF
France, AID enough RAGS from latter
G2uaiieGS, and hidden in these articles
Of transportation enough cho!eralc
gems g. ksye LEI! py hi, time al the
cite. u42!Iiag IN the cemeteries. |
,:tsck ~ IL" Gae,or5 AID quarautiues,
51s mere ;haa all, aGG first oI al, sod
as, Of al, aud all the time, thank
G,d. In aIl the 5000 years Of the
worlds existence there has rot one
thing merely Happened So" God is
not an anarchist, but King, Father.
When little Tad, the son of Presl.
dent Lincoln, died, all America sympa
tL;zed with the sorroS 10 the White
House. He used to rush into the room
where the cabinet was in session and
while the most eDiacnt men Of the land
were discussing the questions of La
tionsl existence. But ths child had nd
care about those questions. Now, Goo
tie Fa,her and God the Son and Goa
the Holy Ghost are in perpetuaisession
IN regard to this world and kindred
worlds. Shslt you, his child, rush in
to eriticise OF arraigo or couGemn the
divine government? No; the cabinet
Of the Eternal Three can govera and
xiN govern ia the wisest aud best way,
and there never will be mistake aud,
ike 1azor skilifully swung, shall cut
that which ought to be cut and avoid
that which ought to be avoided, Precl
sion to the very hairbreadth. Earth
iy tinep;eces may get out of order and
strike wropg, saying it is ! o'clock
when it is 2, or 2 when it is 8. God s
clock is always right, snd when 1t is l
il rikes l, and when it is II it strikes
Il, and the second hand is as accurate
as the minute hand.
Further, my text tells US that God
sometimes shaves nations, "ln the
same day shall the Lord shave with
zor that is hired" With one sharp
sweep be went across Judaa, and DOM
went its pside and its power. IN 1861
God shaved the American nation. We
had allowed to grow Sabbath desecra-
ton AID oppression aad blasphemy and
fraud and lmpurity and all sorts of tur-
pituGe. The south had its sins, and
The north it's sins, and the east its sins,
and the west its sins. We had been
warned again and again, aRd We did not
heed. At length the sword of war cut
from the St. Lawrence to the gulf and
from Atlantic sesboard to Pacific sea-
board. The pride of the land, not the
cosards, but The heroes, on both sides
weut down. Aud that which We took
for the sword of war was the Lords
razor. IL 1862 again it went across the
land; IN 1868 again; il 1864 again.
Then the sharp instrument was incssed
and put away.
Ntverin the history Of the ages was
any land more thoroughly shaved than
auiiog those four years Of civil com
oi,, and, my brethren, if we do not
gut. some OF our individual and national
strs the Lord will again take Us IN
:land he has other razors within
reach besides ~ay-epidemics, drou.. hts,
de!uges, p:-gues-gva5shopper and 10
cuSl-oT oar overtowering success may
so FIR excite the jealousy OF other lanas
thai under some prcieXt the great IA
fin2s may conolue to put Us dswn.
Oar naGion, 50 easily approached Oh
n2rth and south aud from both oceans,
might have on hand st once more hos
.lii.ies tnaa were ever aIrayel against
any one power. l tope DO such con
biaation against Us will ever BE- form. d,
bus .aus 10 show that, ss Assyria was
ae hired razor assios. Ju5e. ant Cy
rus the hired razor against Babylon,
au.; The Haas the hired raz>r against
the G0ths, ;ntre are now many raz RS
,ha. me Lord could hire if, because of
our us,ioual siys, he should undertake
t, shave Us. In 1870 Germany vas the