The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-09

out 5s largs residences into snalIer
through the reversal of fortune. The
property muat be sold or the bailiff will
sell it, or the income is less and you
csnnot pay the house rent. First Of
all, such persons should understand
that our happiness is not dependent on
the size of the house we live in. I
have kneHn people enjoy small heaven
in two rooms and others suffer pande-
monium in 20. There is as much hap
piness in small house as in a large
| house. There is as much satisfaction
under the lightof a tallow candle as
under the glare Of a chandelier, all the
burners at full blaze. Who was the
happier John Bunyan in Bedford jail
or Belshszzar in the saturnalia? Con-
tentmsnt is something you can neither
rent nor purchase. 1t is not extrinsic;
it is intrinsic. Are there fewer rooms
in the house to which you move? You
will have less to take care Of. Is it to
be stove instead of furnace? All the
doctors say the modern modes of warm
ing buildings are unhealthy. Is it less
pier mirrors? Less temptation to your
vanity. Is it Old fashioned toilet in
| stead of water pipes all through the
house2 Less to freeze and burst when
you cannot get plumber. Is it less
carriage? More room for robust exer-
else. Is it less social position? Fewer
people who want to drag you down BY
their jealousies. Is it less fortune to
leave in your last will snd testament?
Less to spoil your children. Is it less
money money for marketing? LESS
temptation to ruin the health Of your
family with pineapples and indigestible
salads. Is it little deaf? Not hear
ing 50 many disagreeables.
I meet you this spriugtima at the
door of your new home, and while l
help you lift the clothesbaskct over the
banisters and the carmsn is getting red
in the face in trying to transport that
article of furniture to some new desti
nation I congratulate you. You are
going to have better time this year,
some of you, than YOU ever had. You
take God and the Christian religion in
your home, and yeu will be grandly
happy. God in the parlor-that will
sanctify your sociabilities. God in the
nursery-that will protect your chill
dren. God in the dining hsll-that
will make the plainest meal an imperial
banouet. God in the morning-that
will launch the day brightly from the
drydocks. God in the evepiDg-that
will sail the day sWeetly into the har-
Dor.
And get joy, one and all Of you,
whether you move or do not move. Get
Joy out Of the thought that we are soon
all going to have a grand moving day.
Do you want picture Of the new house
into which you will move? Here it is,
wrought with the hand Of a master,
"We know that, if our earthly house
of this tabernacle were dissolved, we
have a building of God, house rot
made with hands, eternal in the
heavens" How much rent will We
have to pay for it? We are going to
own it. How much must We pay for it?
How much cash down, and how much
left on mortgage? Our Father is going
to give it as free gift. When are we
going to move into it? We are moving
nov. On moving day heads of families
are very apt to stay in the old house
until they have seen everything of.
They send ahead the children, and they
send ahead the treasures and the valu-
ables. Then, after awhile, they will
come themselves. remember very
we'll in the country that in boyhood
moving day was q ju5ilation.
On almost the first load We, the chill
dren, were sent on ahead to the new
house, and We arrived with shout and
laughter, and in an hour We had ranged
through every room in the house, the
| barn snd the granary. Toward night,
! and perhaps in the last wagon, father
and mother would come, looking very
tired, aud we would come down TO the
foot Of the lane to meet them and tell
then Of all the wonders we discovered
ip the new place, and then, the last
wagon nnloaded, the candles lighted,
cur neignbors who had helped rs TO
| moye-for in those times neighbors
helped each other-sat down with Us at
| a table on which there was every luxury
they could think Of. Well, my dear
Lord knows that some of US have been
moving good ehile. We have sent
our children ahead, We have sent many
of our valuables ahead, sent many
treasures ahead. We cannot go yet.
There is work for US to DO, bat after
awhile it will be toward night, and We
will be very tired, and then We will
start for our new home, and those who
have gone ahead of US they will see cur
approach, and they will come down the
lane to meet US, and they will have
much to tell US Of what they discovered
in the "house Of many mansions" and
of how large the rooms are and Of how
brigh6 the fountains. And then, the
last load unloaded, the table will be
spread and our celestial neighbors will
come in to sit down with our reunited
families, and the chslices will be fall,
not with the wine that sEeats in the
vat Of earthly intoxication, but with
''the new wine Of the kingdom. And
there for the first time we will realize
what fools We were on earth when we
feared to die, since death has turned
out only to be the moving from small
er house into larger one, and the ex-
change of q pauper's hut for princes
castle, and the going up stairs from
miserable kitchen to a glorious parlor.
@ house Of God not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens!
soualched by Tillman.
Senator Tillman Lectured at Ann
A1bor, Mich, one night last week,