The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-11-21

tho invalid round sco:olag ana
cails l:m sa-ru'ous and practically tells
b;,n thst he desorv i al! that he got
ard 3.,ha: if he had behaved h uselt
srisht he w,u)d not have lost his house
.r MS CHILDREN or his estate; De
Practically saye: Job, l will tell you
what is the ms,ter With you Y'u are
bad; you are hypocritc; Won are no"
getting paid for your vicksdness No
wonder that there came from JOB az
outburst Of indignation which calls out
the other q7oadam friend. I'phar me
Ssams,hitc. sho begins denounclng
lob BY calling hin 3 liar srd keeps on On
49, ,5s discourse urtil Joo respoads to s!I
,bres Of them in the sarcastic words,
N doa5t bu: ye are he people, ana
visdon shall de With you
O5 what friends JOB had! Heavea
6efiysr Us from having oae such friend,
10 ssy cotbius Of having thr:o Of them.
It wss for such frisnds that Job prayed,
and vas it not religious triumph for
I'm so to DO? Would ycu, the verf
best of you, De in very devout mood
and capsule Of making intero9ssion for
people who had cone TO you in a day
Of trouble and said: "Good for you.
Yoa ought to be chsstissd. You sEo
beias taken in hand by eternsl justice.
If you had behaved yourself arlsht,
YOU would nos have been sick Tim
po7erished or made childiess, y "a,
no, ny friend, you would not have fe!t
Ike Job e1en ne prayed for his friends,
but acre like Job when ne cursed the
daF Of his nativity
y ,thing is SO unhealthy as to get
ms:i. ]. is shock to the whole physl'
cal organization as well as to your men
tai and moral condition 1t is no ua-
usual thing for people to drop down
iesi IL f; Of acger. Tcu people who
weigh over POO pcu1ds avoirdupo!S had
tier never lose your temper, for at
such times apoplezy is not fsr of yet
the eqnipoise Of JOB in the text, and 1t
sill help you in business direotlons'
Praying fer sll offenders you viii have
nors nerve for large undertakings; you
will have better balanced judgment;
YOU will waste no vs us5!e time IN Try
| ;pr to get even with your enemies. Iry
this heigh; Of prayer for your srtsg9nls.
today, snd if ycu fail try it tomorrow:
Keep on until you accomplish it,>snd l
should not wonder if, in addition to
the m .ral and religious strength it gives
YOU, it should aid hundred per cent
to your worldly prosperity. JOB XII,
10, Tine Lord gave JOB twice as much
as he had before.
What We all need is to get out Of our.
selves and goio helping others, whether
friends or foes. As beautiful sn in.
stances of how this can be done [ found
last summer in London IN the person Of
Florence Nightingale, the hsroine Of
hospitals and Of battle6el6s when there
we're No hospitals. The lounge on
vhich she lies PROSTATE is throne Of
power, and, though she has passed into
the eighties, she trains nurses for sick
beds, aud her influence is now felt
among The wounded in South Africa,
while her memory is fall Of the sto:y Of
Bslakls7s S>bastopol and Inke.mau,
where & gland ard France and Russia
grappled. She told mo that she had
not been hsrpy urtil she undertook to
alleviate suit ring aud that since she
began that w,rk she had never seen an
unhsppy day. t. thas work she con.
secrated her life, her classic attain.
msnts, her social position, her bril-
liant personality. Her whole life for
Others, aud her face shows it | think
so much Of heaven is to be found IN 10
other human c.untenaDce. Tennysoa s
Charge Of the Light Brigade" is not
mare thrilling to me than the womaol9
bravery and sacrifice thas took care Of
those who were shot from the saddles Of
the linn ,rtal six hundred.
My text enthrones prayer snd gives
it scepter to wave over our tenpora!
and eternal life. Uader G ID is cured
JOB and fixed up his finances and re
stored his home aad made him 30 ro-
bust of health that he lived II decades.
But, some one SAYS. Il do not be-
lieve in prayer for friends and foes,
bee .use do no think thst God is 60
ing to change the Laws of nature be-
cause We AK him so to de-" Nsither
do | thi * that God will chsuse the Law
Of nature at our request, but | an sure
that he answers prayer through natural
law. Not a physician Of any skill, allo.
pathic or homeopathic or bydropathic
or eclectic, but has some tims been sur
prisei that what was thought to be a
fatal disease suddenly relaxes its grasp
/ of the patient, and he recovers. Not
one Law of nature has been fractured.
Prayer may have given the sudden turn
to that illness. A business man may
be in difficulty Observation-Disclosures
against him foreclosing, goods to be
| sold for some reason become unsalsble,
new invention il machinery making the
old machinery Of his factory worthless,
sll kinds of commercial troubles pouac-
ing upon him at once. MOTT business
men have st least, once in their lives,
been put in such agoniging crisis, but
the hsrried merchant or manufacturer
gets ou. Of it. Creditors become more
lenjeat, the wheels that were made USE
les for making one kind of fabric turn
out to be good for making smother style
of fabric, the stocs of goods that could
not be sold comes ioto unexpected de
mard, snd whereas all things were
against him all things sre now for him.
No law of nature is broken and no law
Of trade. Prayer may have given that
extricstion. God, by making law,
does not tie his own hsnds with it. II
you are free to DO what you are asked
to do, is not God just as free, or are
you mightier than yon- i=SerS
What s sc-- asa that Ehsi