The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-06

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through foreign travel, the world Is dis
POSED to listen. But mere wss mao
who had graduated at no college, had
not in any academy by ordinary means
learned the alphabet Of the language he
spoke, and yet he proposed to talk, to
instruct in subjects Thich had CON
founded the mightiest intellects. John
says: The Jews marveled, saying.
How hath this man letters, having
never learned?" We, in our day, have
found out that a man without diploma
may know as much as man with one
and that college cannot transform
sluggsrd into q philosopher or the9-
logical seminary teach fool to preschcc
An empty head after the laying on ., ul
hands of the presbytery Is empty sun sum
But it shocked al existing preJeGlces
in those olden times for man Win no
scholastic pretensions and no sradua
t;on from learned institution to set
himself up for teacher. ltwas against
him.
Popular opinion declared in those
days, Blessed is the merchant who
has castle down on the banks Of Lake
Tiberias This young man said,
Blessed are the poor. Popular opin-
ion said in those days, Blessed are
those who live amid statuary and fonn-
tains and gardens and congratulations
and all kinds Of festivity' This young
man rcsnonded blessed are they that
mourn. Public opinion in those days
said blessed is the Roman eagle, the
flap of whose wing startles nations and
the plunge of whose iron beak intlcss
cruelty upon its enemies" This young
man responded, BLESSED are the uercl-
full" Popular opinion said, AN eye
for an eye, tooth for tooth. In
other words, if maa knocks your eye
out knock his out. If a man breaks
YOUR tooth break his, Retort for re.
tort, sarcasm for sarcasm, irony for
irony. persecution for persecution,
wound for wound. Christ said, Pray
for them that dcspitefully use you
They looked at his eye. 1t was like
any other mans eye, except perhaps
more speaking. They felt his hand,
made Of bone and muscle and nerves
and flesh, just ike any other hand.
Yet what bold treatment OF subjects,
what supernatural demands, what
strange doctrineI They felt the solid
earth under them, and yet Christ said,
81 bear up the pillars Of this world.
They looked at the moon. He said,
ST will turn it into blood. They
looked at the sea. He said, Il will
hush it." They looked st the stars.
He said, 4 will shake them down like
untimely figs" Did ever one so young
say things SO bold? 1t was al sgalnst
him.
Imagine Christ one day standing in
the streets of Jerusalem. A man de-
scended from high lineage is standing
beside him and says: My father was
merchant prince. He had castle on
the beach in Galilee. Who was your
father?" Christ answers, Joseph, the
carpenter. A man from Athens is
standing there unrolling his parchment
of graduation and says to Christ,
Where did you go to SCHOOL," Christ
answers, Il Fever graduated" Aha,
the idea Of such an unheralded young
man attempting to command the atten-
ton Of the world! As well some little
fishing village on Long Island shore
attempt ia arraign New York. Yet no
sooner does he set his foot in the towns
or cities Of Judea than everything is
in conmotiop. The people go out on
picnic. taking only food enough h for a
day, yet are 90 fascinated with Christ
that at the risk Of starving they follow
him out into the wilderness. A noble
man falls down fat before him and says,
"My daughter is dead" A beggar
ties to rub the dinness from his eyes
and says, Lord, that my eyes msy be
opened" A poor, sick, painting wo.
woman presses through the crowd and
says, Il must touch the hem of his
garment" Children who love their
| mother better than any one else struggle
to get into his arms, and to kiss his
check, and to run their f0ge1s through
his hair, and for all time putting Jesus
50 in love with the little ones that there
is hardly Dursegy in Christendom from
which be does not take one, saying: i
must have them. I will fill heaven with
these, for every cedar that I plant in
heaven I will have so white lilies. In
the hour when was poor man in Ju-
daa they ", re not ashamed Of me, and
now that have come 10 throne | do
not despise them. Hold it not back, 0
weeping mother Lay it on my warm
heart. Of such is the kingdom Of
heaven.
No man could 60 through all the OBJ
stscles have described. you say, with
out having nature supernatural. In
shat arm, amid its muscles and nerves
and bones, were intertwisted the ener-
gies Of omnipotence. In the syllables Of
that voice there was the emphasis Of the
eternal God. That foot that walked the
deck Of the ship in Gennesaret shall
stamp kingdoms Of darkness into demoli-
ton. This poverty struck Christ owned
Augustus, owned the sanhedrin, owned
Tiberias, ewned al the castles on its
beach and all the skies that looked down
into its water, owned all the earth and
all the heavens. To him Of the plain
coat belonged the = hes of celestial
royalty. He who walked the road to
Nmmans the lightnings we're the FIRE
shod steeds Of bis chariot. Yet there
are those " 10 lcok on and see Christ
turn water into vine, and they say, 1T
was sleight of hand!' Aad they see
Christ raise the dead to life, and they
say: Easily explained; not really dead;
playing dead" And they see Christ
giving sight to the blind man, and they
say, "Clsirvoysnt doctor" Oh, what