The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-02

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tioss az tc. TbGs Is tf;Ints Of tee
weather. aud fha2s Of the best peoo-
pie are, 80 Paul says, throughout thelr
lifetime in bondage by fear Of death
NV brothers and sisters, II we maoe
full use Of our religion We would soon
get over this.
Backed up by the teachings Of your
Bible. Just look through the telescope
some bright night and see how many
worlds there are and reflect that all you
have seen, compared with the number
Of worlds il existence, are less than the
fingers of your right hand as compared
with all the fingers Of the human race.
How foolish, then, for US to think that
ours is the only world fit for US TO stay
in. | think that all the stars are in-
habited and by beings like the human
race in feelings aud sentiments and the
difference is in lung respiration and
heart beat aud physical conformation,
their physical conformation fit for the
climate Of their world, and our physical
conformation fit for the climate Of cur
world. So We shall feel at home in any
of the stellar neighborhoods, our physi-
cal Limitation having ceased.
Heaven is 95 per cent better than
this world, thousand per cent better,
million per cent better. Take the
gladdest, brightest, most jubilant days
YOU ever had on earth aud compress
them all into one hour, and that hour
would be requiem, fast day, gloom,
a horror, as compared with the poorest
hour they have had in heaven since It's
tower was built or its first gates swung
or its first song caroled. "Oh. you
say, that may be true, but | am SO
afraid of crossing over from this world
to the next, and fear the swapping OF
the cord between soul and body. Well
all the surgeons and physicians aud
seie ntists declare that there is DO pang
at the parting of the body and soul, aud
sll the re stlessness at the closing hour OF
life is involuntary and 10 distress at
ell. And | agree with the doctors, for
what they say is confined by the fact
that persons who were drowned or we're
submerged until all consciousness dc.
parted and were afterward resuscitated
declare that the sensation of passing
into uuconsciousness was pleasurables le
rather than distrcssful. The cage CT
the body has door on easy hinges, and
when that door CT the physical cage
opens the soul simply puts out Its
wings and scars.
But" you say, 81 fear to go because
the future is so full Of mystery" :" Well,
I will tell you how to treat the mys-
teries. The mysteries have ceased
oothesing me, for do as the judges Of
you, courts often do. They hear all
the arguments IN the case and they say,
Il will take these papers and give you
my decision next week" So | have
heard all the arguments in regard to the
next world, and some things are uncer,
ls,n and full of mystery, and so | fold
up the papers and reserve until the
next world my decision about them.
can there study all the mysteries to
better advantage, for the light will be
better and my faculties stronger, and |
will ask the Christian philosophers, who
have had all the advantages of heaven
for centuries, to help me, and | may
be permitted myself humbly to ask the
Lord, and think there will be only one
| mystery left; that will be how one so
unworthy as myself got into such an
enraptured place. Come up out Of the
sepulchral shadows. If you are not
Christians by faith in Christ, come up
into the light; and If you are already
like Lazarus, terminated, but still have
your grave clothes on, get rid Of them.
The command is, Loose him, and let
him 60.
The only part Of the journey | madc
years ago to Palestine that really
dreaded was the landing at Joppa. That
is the port of entrance for the Holy
Land, and there are many rocks, and in
rough weather people cannot'land ata!l-
The boats taking the people from the
steamer to the docks must run between
reefs that looked to me to be about 81
feet apart, and one misstroke of an
osrsman or an unexpected wave has
sometimes been fatal aud hundl eds OF
souls have perish along those reefs. Be-
sides that, as We left Port Said the even
ing before, an old traveller said: "The
wind is just right to give you rough
landing at Joppa: indeed l think you
will not be able to land at all. The
fact was that when our Mediterranean
steamer dropped anchor near Joppa and
We put out for shore IN the small boat,
the water w:s as still as though it had
been sound asleep hundred years, and
We landed as easily as / entered this
pulpit. Well, your fear have pictured
for you an appalling arrival at the end
of your voyage of life, and they say
that the seas will run high and that the
breakers will swallow your up, or that
if you reach Causan at all, it will be a
very rough landing, The very opposite
will be true if you have the eternal God
for your portion Your disembarka.
ton for the promised land will be as
smooth as ours at Palestine. Christ
will meet you far out at sea and pilot
you into complete safety; and you will
land with hosanna on one side OF you
and halleluiah on the other.
''Land ahead" It's fruits are waving
Ger the hill Of fadeless green
And the living waters laving
Shores where heavenly forms are seen.
Rocks and storms I'll fear no more
When on that eternal shore.
Drop the anchor, furll the sail!
am safe within the veil
A Crazy Printer.
A dispatch from Yorkville to the Co.
lumbia State says at noon Thursday
while all others were out Of the Office,
H. H. Gallaher, a printer, temporarily