The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-05-15

no foundation" Christian philosophy
ccmss and finds that the word as trans
lated foundations" may be better
translated sockets" So DOW see how
it will 1esd if it is translated right,
Where vast thou when I set the
sockets Of the earth?" Where is the
socket? It is the halloW of Gods hand
a socket large enough for any world
to turn in.
Worldly philosophy said: "What an
absurd story about.J Joshua making the
sun and moon stand still! If the world
hes stopped an instant, the whole uni
verse would have been out of gear. "
Stop" said Christian philosophy;
''rot quite SO quick" The world has
two motions-one on its oTn axis
and the other around the su1. It was
not necessary in mskirg them stand
still that both motions should be
stopped-only the one turning the
world on It's own axis. There was no
reason why the hating of the earth
should have Jared and disarranged
the whole universe. Joshua right and
God light; infdelity wrong every time.
| knew it would be wong. I thank
God that the time hiss come when
Christians need not be scared at any
scientific exploration. The fact is that
religion and science have struck hands
in eternal friendship, aud the deeper
down geology can dig and the higher up
sstror omy can soar all the better for
US. The armies of the Lord Jesus
Christ have storned the observatories
of the worlds science and from the
highest towers have flung out the ban.
ner Of the Cross, and Christianity nov
from the obser7atories at Albany and
Washington stretches out its hand to-
ward the opposing scientific weapon,
crying, "There.is none like that; give
it me-" I was reading Of Herschsl,
who was looking at a meteor through a
telescope, and when it came ever the
face of the telescope it was so powerful
be had to avert his eyes. And it has
been just so that many an astronomer
has gone into sn observatory and looked
up into the midnight heavens, and the
Lord God has through some swinging
world famed upon his vision, and the
learned man cried cut: WHO am l?
Undone! Unelean! Have mercy, Lord
God"
Again, I remark that the travelling
disposition Of the world, which Was I'D.
verse to morals and religion, is to be
brought on our side. The man that
went down to Jericho and fell amid
thieves was type Of q great many
travellers. There is many a man who
is very honest at home who when he is
abroad has his honor flched and his
good habits stolen. There are but very
few men who can stand the stress Of an
expedition. Six weeks at a watering
place have ruined nauy man. In the
oldea times God forbade the travelling
Of men for the purposes Of trade be-
cause Of the corrupting influences at,
tending it. A good many men now
cannot stand the transition from one
place to another. Some men who seem
to be very consistent here in the way Of
keeping the Sabbath when they get into
Spain on the Lords day always 20 on:
to see the bull fights. Plato said that
no city ought to be built nearer to the
sea than ten miles lest it be tempted to
com ne,cs. But this travelling disposi
ton Of the world which vas adverse tc
that which is good is 10 be brought or
our side. These mail trains, #hy, they
take our Bibles; these steamships, they
transport our missionaries; these sailors.
rushing fiom city to city all around the
world, are 70 be converted into Chris
uan heralds and 20 out and prea,t
Christ amoog the hes:hen nations. The
gospels are infinitely multiplied Il
6eauty and power since Rsbinson aud
Thompson and Burckhsrdt have come
back and talked to US about Sloan and
Capernaun and Jerusalem, poin,isg
ouI to Us the lilies about which Jesus
prescted, the beach upon which Paul
was sh;pRrecked, the fords at which
Jordan was passed, the Red sea bark
on which were tossed the carcssses OF
the drowned Egyptians. A man said
Il went to tie Holy Lspd an in6del.
cams back a Christian. l could rot
help it"
| am rot shocked, IS some have tesl
at the building of railroads in the Holy
Land. I wish that ell the world might
90 and see Golgotha and Bethlehem.
How msny who could not afford mule.
teers nov easily buy tickets from Con
stantinople to Jopps! Then let Chris
tians travell God speed the rail trains
and guide the steamships this night
painting across the deep in the phos-
phorescsnt wake Of the shining feet Of
him who from wave cliff to wave cliff
,rod bestormed Tiberiua. The Japanese
come across the water and see cur civil
lis.tion and examine our Christianity
and 90 back and tell the story and keep
that empire rocking till Jesus shall
reign.
Where er the sun
Does his successive journeys run.
And the firearms with which the inf
del traveller brought down the Arab
horse man and the jtckals Of the desert