The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-03-27

Yet without this it may fairly be
said that the Methodist Episcopal
church, not less devoted than the
best, is by it's great numbers the
most important Of all. 1t is no fauII
in others that the Methodist church
sends moro soldiers to the field, more
nurses to the hospital and more
PRAYERS to Heaven than any. 200
bless the Methodist church-bIess all
tbe cburches-and blessed be God
who in this our great trial giveth US
the. churches"
What a great thing it was that the
Christian books which Mr.. Lincoln
read obliterated fromhis mind the inf
Gel literature. William Carey became
missionary by reading The Voyages
of Captain Cook" John Wesley's
life was shaped by reading Jeremy
Taylor's ''Holy Living and Dying"
There are books in your library or "
ing on your parlor table or secreted
in some place by your child that Will
decide for two worlds, this and the
next, the character of its reader.
Through books we sit down and talk
with the mightiest spirits Of all the
ages. We accompany Tennyson on his
spring-time walk as he falls upon his
knees in the meadows, crying to his
companion: "Niolets, man, violets!
Smell them" Or we ride with Trajaa
in his triunphal march, or stand with
Godfrey at the taking Of Jerusalem, or
with arctic explorer hear the crash
Of the icebergs, OF are received with
fernando Cortes in the halls OF
Montezuma, or watch in the observa-
tory as Eerschel with his telescope
captures another star, or the ink IN
the inkhorn turns red as blood, and
we are at Marengo and Arbela and
Eylau and Borodino and Leipsic; or
we sail with Hamilcar from Carthage
to Palermo, or we see Calico fighting
for the solar system, and around rs
gather for conversation Aristotle and
Plato and Robert South and Sydney
Smith and Locke and Samuel Rogers
and Chaucer and Paul Richter and
Swift and Eazlitt and Leigh Hunt and
Talleyrand and Burke and Edward
Irving, while to make music for US
Eandel and Mozart and Mendelssohn
come in, and we watch Columbus land
ing and see John Harvard's legacy Of
$500 paid over for the founding Of
Harvard university, and Joshua Rey-
aolds and David Willie and Rem
brandt tell US of their pictures. Oh,
the booksI Thank God for the books,
and thanks be to all the authors!
May the inkhorR ever be under divine
inspiration!
A wrong theory is abroad that the
newspaper impression is ephemera.
Because we read and cast it aside IL
ar. hour and never see it again we are
not to judge that we are parted from
its influence. No volume of 500 pages
makes such impression upon the peo-
pie as the daily newspaper. 1t is not
what we put away carefully upon the
shelf and once in awhile refer to that
has as close relation to our welfare
as the story OF what the world is
now doing or has recently done. Yes
terday has more to do with to-day
than something occurring a century
previous. The engineers who now
guide the rail trains, the sea captains
who now command the ships, tie ar
chitects who now design the build
ings, the batons that now control the
crchestras, the legislators who now
make the laws, the generals who now
marchthe hosts, the rulers who now
govern the nations, the inllhorns that
now food the world with intelligence
these are what we have most to do
with.
You have all seen what is called
indelible ink, which is weak solu-
ton OF silver nitrate, and that ink
YOU cannot rub out or wash out.
Put it there, and it stays. Well, the
liquid Of the editorial and reportorial
inkstands is an indeible ink. It puts
upon the souls of the passing gener-
atoms characters of light or dark
ness that time cannot wash out and
eternity cannot eface. Forever in
delible. Be careful how you use it.
The impression made with it will be
resplendent or repulsive on the day
eor which all other days were made.
But how shall I speak Of the ink
horn Of the worlds evangelization?
Oh, how may loving and brilliant and
glorious pens have been dipped into
it! Thomas Kenipis dipped into 1t
and brought up his Limitation of
Christ" Horace Bushnell dipped into
it and brought up every Mans Life
8 Plan of God" Thomas Binney
dipped into it and brought up his
sWeigh House Chapel Discourses."
Conybeare dipped into it and brought
up the "Life and Epistles of Paul"
Archbishop Trench dipped into it and
brought up the 'Epistles to the Seven
Churches" Stuart Robinson dipped
into it and brought up "Discourses of
Redemption" Austic Phelps dipped
into it and brought up The Still
Hour" Mary Hopkins dipped into IL
and brought up Evidences of Chris-
tianity." Thomas Guthrie dipped
into it and brought up "The Gospel in
Ezekiel" John Cumming dipped into
it and brought up ''The Apocalypse
Oh, the opulence Of Christian itera-
ture! Oh, the mighty streams of evan
gelistic power that have poured from
the writer's inkhorn that appeared
in Ezeieps vision!
While you recognize the distin-
euished ones who have dipped into
the inkstand Of the worlds evangelical
ton do not forget that there are hun
dreds of thousands Of unknown men
and women who are engaged IN in
conspicuous ways doing the same
thing! How many anxious mothers
writing to the boys in town! How
many sisters writing encouragement
to brothers FAR away! How many in
yaEds bolstered up in bed, the inkhorn
on the stand at their side, writing let
ters Of coincidence to those worse on
n.