The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-07-11
THE BEST TO COME.
Dr.. TaitT1age Draws a Lesson From
The MARRIAGE Feast.
HOLY MERRiMENT.
JOYOUS Features Of Christian Re-
Iig;on c!sar|y Presented. The
Wor!d invited 10 a Feast
oI II Dol,, Al ,r,;,,> ooS
Of Holy Merriment.

A remarkable Illustration Of the
ubiquity Of Ea2lish speaking people is
fu-nlshe: by the requests that lave
reached DR.. Talmage in northern
Europe for sermon in out Of the way
places where he did pos expect to find
single person who could understand
him. There as here, he presents re-
lision as festiyity aud invites all the
world to come as guests and join in its
holy me5riment; text, John ii, 10,
Thou hast kept the good wine until
now.
This chapter invites Us to marrige
celebrations Itis Wedding in common
life, two plain people having pledged
each other, hand and heart, and their
friends having come in for congratuEa
tioa. Tire joy is not the less because
there is No preteDsion. In each other
they find all the future they want. Tue
daisy in the cup on the table may mean
IS much as score OF artistic garlsnds
fresh from the hothouse. When daush
ter goes of from home with nothing but
plain fathers blessing snd plain
mothers love she is missed as much as
though she we're princess. 1t seems
hard. after the parents have sheltered
hes for is years, that ii a few shcr,
months h,r affections should have been
carried off oy another, but mother re-
mem bers how it was IN her own case
when she was youDg, and 80 =he braces
up unit the wedding has passed and the
baugucters are gone, aad she has crg
al alnDe.
Well Sc ara today at the wedding IN
Cana o! Ga.iiee. Jesus and his mother
nave been invited II is evident that
here are more people there than were
expected. Either s3me people have
come WHO were not invited Or more IN
Il 4jions have been sent out than twas
u>posed would D" accepted. Oi course
neIe is not suficien; supply Of wlne.
You know that there is nothing more
embarrassing to a housekeeper titan a
scaat supply. Jesus sees the eLnoar-
rassment, and he comes up nedlatejy
70 relieve It He sees standing SIX
saser pots. He orders the servants to
ill them with water, then he waves MS
hard over the water, and Immediately
it is Wiae-resl vine. Taste Of 1t and
zee for yourselves. No iogTood IN II,
20 s,rychnine "a it, but first rate wine.
! will MOI now be diverted to tae ques-
ton so often discussed in my OVID coun-
try whether it is right to drink wine. |
sm describing the scene as 1t was.
When God makes wine. he makes the
very best wine, and $50 gallons Of 1t
standing around in these wa'er pots
wine so good that the ruler Of the feast5
tastes it and says: Why, this is real
Is better than anything we have had
Thou hast kept the good wine until
now" Beautiful miracle. \ prize @as
offered 70 the person who should write
the best essay about the miracle in
Cana. Lorg manuscripts were pre-
santed in the competition, but a poet
won the prize BY just this one line
descriptive Of the miracle: The con-
seious water saw its CD and blushed. "
We learn from this miracle, in the
first place, that Christ has sympathy
si,h housekeepers. You might have
, thought that Jesus would have said:
Il cannot be bothered With this house
hold deficiency of wine. II is not for
me, L,rd Of heaven and of earth, to
become caterer to this feast. have
vaster things thaa this to attend to. "
Not so said Jesus, The wine gave out,
and Jesus b. miraculous power came to
the rescue. Does there ever come 8
scant supply in your household? Have
you to make very close calcuiatlonl
Is it hard work for you to carry on
things Gecently aad respectfully? If SO
doD't sit Gown and cry. Don't 60 out
and fret, but go to him who stood in
the house in Cana OF Galilee. Pray in
the parIor. Pray in the kitchen. Let
there be 10 room in al your house IN
consecrated by the voice Of prayer. If
you have microscope, put under 1t one
drop of water and see the insects h2at
ing about, and when you see that God
makes them ard cares for them and
feeds them come to the conclusion that
he will take care Of you aud feed you.
A boy asked if he might sweep the
SNOW FROM the steps of house. The
lady Of the households said, "Yes; you
seem very poor" He says II am very
poor" Shesays, Don't you sometimes
sct discouraged and feel that God is 60
ing 20 let you s,arve?' The lad looked
mp in the .oman's face aad said, ''Do
you thirk God will let me star7e when |
'ru,: him and then 90 the best [ can?
EaousS theology for older people! Trust
in Sod and DO the best you can. Amid
al The auf.i.uen,s Of housekeeping &c
20 hiu; he Will Lelp you control your
temper and supervise yGuc donestics
and entertain Your guests aid manage
yoar home economies. There are nun.
Greds Of women weak and uerv Ius and
exhausted With the care Of llou|ckeep
i1g | commend you to the L ,rd Jesus
Christ as the best adviser aud tie most
6cient aid-the Lord Jesus who r
formed his FIST uirsclc to relieve ,
Gousekeeper
Iesrn a'so from this miracle that
Christ docs thirgS in abundance. |
thiak a SMALL supply Of wine would
have made up for the deficiency. |
ti.ink, Ger aiuly, tn y must have had
enough Tor half the guests. Ohe gallon
OF vice will d.; certainly Gye gallons
Will be eGough; c>rtaiaiy ten. But
Jesus goes on, snd he gives them 80
gallons and 10 gallons az! 80 gallons
and - gallons ard 100 gallons and l3O
gallons of the very b@st wi1c. 1t IS
just like him-doing every thing on the
largest and most generous scale Does