The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13

Ing any euAbS p"V WA
think better of him now Oh, what u
grand thing it will be in the last Gay to
see God pick out his heroes and ne
roines. Who are those paupcrs OF eter,
nity trudgiDg off from the gates OF
heaven? Who are they? The Lore
Claverhouses and the Herods and those
wbo had scepters and crowns and
thrones but they lived for their own
agerandizement, ard they broke the
hearts Of nations. Heroes Of earth, but
paupers in eternity. | beat the drums
Of their eternal despair. Woe, wee,
woe
But there is great excitement in
heaven. Why those long professions?
Why the booming of that great bell IN
the tower2 Ii is cornation day in heav-
en-. Who are those rising on the
thrones with crowns Of eternal royalty?
They must have Dcen great people on
the earth, world renowned peeple. No.
They taug ght in a ragged school. Taught
ia a ragged school. [, that all? That
is all. Vito arc those souls waving
scepters Of eternal dominion? Why,
they are little children who waited on
in valid mothers. That ali: That Is
all. She was called Little Mary on
earth. She is an empress now. Who
are that great multitude on the highest
thrones of heaven? Who are they -?
Why, they fed the hungry: they cloihed
the paked, they healed the SICK; they
comforted the heartbrokeD. They never
found any res: until they put Their
head dowa on the pillow Of the serdI,,
cher. God watched them. Goo laughed
defapce at the euemies who put their
heels ba,d down on these, his dear chill
dren and one day the Lord struck his
hand so bard on his thigh that the
omnipo,ent sword rattled in the buckler
as he said, 81 am their God, and no
weapon formed against them shall
prosper.
What harm can the world do you
when the Lord Almig hty with usheath-
ed sword fights for you? lpreach this
sermon for comfort. Go home to the
place JUS, where God has put you to
play the hero or the heroine. Do rot
envy any man his money or his ap-
plause or his social position. Do not
envy any woman her wardrobe or her
exquisite appearance. Be the hero or
the heroine. If there be no -four in the
house and you do not know where your
children are to get bread, listen, ano
YOU will hear something tapping against
the window pane. Go to the window,
and you will fDd it is the heak of a
raven, and open the window, and there
will fly in the messenger that fed Elijah.
Do you think that the God who grows
the cotton Of the south will let you
freeze for lack of clothes? Do you
think that the God who allowed his dis
ciples on Sabbath morning to go into
the grainield and then take the grain
and rub it in their hands and eat-do
YOU think God will let you starve?
Did you ever hear the experience OF
that old man, Il have been young and
now am old, yet | have Iever seen the
righteous forsaken or his seed begging
bread" Get up out of your discourage
ment. o troubled soul. 0 sewing
woman, 0 man kicked and cuffed by
unjust employ ers, D ye who are bard
beset in the battle of life and know not
which way to turn, 0 you bereft one,
0 you sick one with complaints you
have told to no one, come and get the
comfort of this subject. Listen to cur
great Captains cheer, 10 h;~l that
overcometh will | give to eat Of the
fruit of the tree of life which is in the
midst of the paradise of God.