The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-10-09

8 cay passes OGt IHerS Is tltSt-eo O-
a chip of that granite. The sea Is
triumphi2g over the land, AID WHAT
IS going on at our Atlantic coast Is
going on all around the world. SnG
the continents are c-1m3,i2E into the
wares. And wI:i!c this IS ;ransp;-inS
on the outside world, the hot chlSe!
OF the ;2tcrnal lire IS digging under
the foundations ot the earth and cut
ting its way out toward the surface.
1t Surprises me 20 hear people say
1hcv Go not 1hia& the world will
finally bc burned up when all scicn'
1:s;s VIII tell you that it has for ages
been on fire.
Why, there is only crust between
US and the furnaces inside raging to
get out. O5liyion The world itself
will roll into it as easily as q school.
boys india rubber ball rolls down
hill, and when our world goes it is sc
interIockad by the law of grayitatlon
with other worlds that they Will go,
too, and so far from having cur Nom
ory pc-petuatcd by monument OF
Aberdeen granite in this word theT
is no world in siGht OF our stronges'
telescope that WI be sure pediment
for any slab of commemoration OF
the fact that we ever lived or died at
all. Our earth is struck with death.
The axietree of the consultations will
break and let down the populations
OF other worlds. Stellar, lunar, solar,
mortality. Oblivion. 1t can swallow
and will swallow whole galaXies OF
worlds as easily as crocodile takes
down a frog.
Yet oblivion does not remove or
swallow everything that had better
not be removed or swallowed. The
old monster is welcome to his meal.
This world would long ago have been
overcrowGed if not for the merciful
removal OF nations and generations.
What if all the books had lived that
were ever written and printed and
published? The libraries would by
their immcnsitv have obstructed in
tellirence and made all research i'm
possible. The fatal epidemic Of books
was nerc;tul epidemic. Many of
the state and national libraries to-
day are only morgues. il which dead
books are waiting for some one to
come and recognize then. What II all
the people that had been born were
still alive? We would have been ell
bowed by our ancestors OF ten cen
turies ago, and people who ought to
have said their last word 5000 years
ago would snarl at US, saying: What
are you doing here?" There would
have been no room to turn around.
Some of the past generations of man.
kind were not worth remembering.
The first useful thing that many peo
pie did was to Gle, their cradle mis-.
fortune and their grave boon. This
world was hardly comfortable place
to live in before the middle Of the
eighteenth century. So many things
have come into the world. that were
not fit to stay in we ought to be glad
they were put out. The waters OF
Lethe, the fountain OF forgetfulness,
are a heslthful draught. The history
we have Of the world in ages past is
always one-sided and cannot be de-
pended on. History is fiction illus
t-1ted by few struggling facts.
We may build this "everlasting re-
membrarce,'' as ny text styles it, into
the superral existence Of those to
whom we do kindnesses in this world.
You must remember that this infrn
and treacherous faculty which we now
call memory is in the future state to
be complete and perfect. Everlasting
renembrance" Nothing will slip the
stout grip Of that celestial faculty.
Did you help widow pay her rent?
Didyou find for that man released from
prison place TO get thonest work? Did
you pick up child falen.on the curb
stone, and by stick Of candy put in
his hand stop the hurt on his scratched
knee? DID you assure business man
swamped by the stringency Of the
money market that times would after
awhile be better? Did you lead Mag
6a!en of the street into midnight
mission, where the LORD said to her:
Neither do I condemn thee. Go and
sin no more?" Did you tell man clear
discouraged in his waywardness and
hopeless and plotting suicide that for
him was near by a laver in which he
might wash and coronet Of eternal
btessedness he might wear? What are
epitaphs in graveyards, what are eu1o-
gums IN the presence OF those whose
breath is in their nostriIs, what are
unread biographies in the alcoves of
city library, compared with the i'm
perishab,e records you have made in
the il,umined memories of those 20
whom you did such kiRdresses? For
get them? They cannot forget them.
Notwithstanding all their might and
splendor there are some things the
rglorife1 Of Heaven cannot 60, and this
is one cf them. They cannot forget an
earthly kindness done. They have no
cutlass to part that cable. They have
no strength to hurl into oblivionthat
bene6iction. Has Paul forgotten the
inhabitants Of Malta who extended the
island hospitality when he and others
with him had felt, added to a ship
wreck, the drenching rain and the
sharp cold? Has the victim Of the
higbwayman on the road to Jericho
forgotten the good Samaritan with a
nedicament of oil and wine and free
ride to the hostelrv? Have the Eng
lisb soldiers who went up TO God from
tie Crinean bsttlefelds forgotten
Florence Nightingale? Through al
eternity Will the northern and south
ern soldiers forget the northern and
southern women who administered to
the dying boys in blue and gray after
She awful fights IN Tennessee and
Pennsylvania and Virginia and Geor-
gia which turned every house and
barn and shed into hospital and in
carnaGined the SusQuehanna and the