The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-25

taat towo HI.en the apostle br0rs..i her
out ameng re- oid friends: hcw the
tears of jcT must have started y hat
clsppirg Of hands there must have
been. What singing! What laughter!
Sound it all through that lane. Let all
Joppa hear it, Dorcas IL resurrected!
You aud I have seen the same thing
manv time, not a dead body resusci-
t,red but the deceased coming up again
after death in the good accomplished.
II man IaborS up to so years of age,
seyviog God, and then dies We are apt
TO think that his earthly work is done.
No. His Influence on earth will con-
tinue till the world ceases Services for
Christ never stop. \ Christian woman
tolls for the up5uilding Of church
through mauy &nxietieS, through many
self denisls, with prayers aud tears,
and then she dies. 1t Is 10 years since
she went away. Now the spirit Of Goa
de:cenGs upon that church, hundreds
of souls sand up snd coufess the faith
of Christ. Has that Christina womap,
who went away Is years ago. nothing 10
do with these things? | see the flower
ing out Of her noble heart. | hear the
echo of her footsteps in all the songs
over sins forgiven, in al the prosperity
Of The church. The good that seemed
to be buried has come up again. Dor
cas- is resurrected!
After awhile ali these womauly
friends of Christ will pps down their
needle forever Alter making gar
menss for others, some one will make a
garment for them; the last robe we ever
wyar-,he robe for the grave. You
will have heard the last cry Of pAin.
You will have witnessed the last orphan
age. You will have come in worn out
from your last round OF mercy. | do
not know where you will sleep, nor
what your epitsph will be, but there
will be lamp burning at that tomb,
and an angel of God guarding it, and
through al! the long night no rude foot
will disturb the dust. Sleep on, sleep
Oh! Soft bed, pleasant shadows, uo-
disturbed rspose. Sleep Oh!
Asleep il Jesus! Blessed sleep
From which none ever make 20 weep.
Then one day there will be q sky
rspdlDg and whir Of wheels aud the
fash Of pageant. armies marching,
chains clanking, banners waving, thuo-
dcrs boom Dg, and that Christian wo-
man will rise from the dust, aud she
will be suddenly suriouude3-sur
rounded yb the wanderers CT the street
whom she reclaimed, surrounded by
the wounded souls to whom she had
administered. Daughter of God, so
strangely surrounded, what means this?
1t means that reward has come, that
the victory is won, that the crown is
ready, that the banquet is spread.
Shout it through all the crumbling
earth. Sing it through sl] the flying
heavens Dorcas is resurrected.
Ia 1855, when some Of the soldiers
came back from the Crimean was to
London, the queen of England Gistrib-
uted am ,ng them beautiful medals call
ed Crimean medals. Galleries were
erected for the two houses Of parlia
nent and the royal family to sit in.
There was was great audience to ri;
ness the distribution Of the medals. A
colonel who had lost both feet in the
battle Of Inke1mann was pulled in on
wheel chair; others came in limpiDg on
their crutches. Then the queen Of
England arose bofore them in the name
Of her government and uttered words OF
commentator to the officers and men
snd distributed those medals, inscribed
with the four great battle6elds-Alua,
Balakiva. Inkermann and Sevastopol.
As the queen gave these to the wound
ed men and the wounded efhcers the
bands of music struck up the national
air, and the people, with streaming
eyes, ,ined in the song
God save our gracious queen.
Long live our noble queen.
God save the queen!
Ard then they shouted, "Huzza, huz-
za!' On, it WAS proud day for those
returned warriors. Bu. a brighter,
better, and gladder day will come when
Christ shall gather those who have
toiled in his serv ce, good soldiers of
Jesus Christ. He shall rise before
them, and in the presence of all the
glorifed of heaven he will say, We'll
done, good and faithful servant" and
then he will distribute the medals Of
eternals victory, not inscribed with
works Of righteousness which We have
done, but with those four great battle
fields dear to earth snd dear to heaven
Bethlehem, Nazareth, Gethsenane,
Calvary