The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-01-23
FOB GODS CHILDREN.
4 Warm Welcome Awaits Those
Who Faithfully Serve Him
r,,,sre TeIis What the True
p.se.Dle Of Christ May E10s''
:, sLe Next world - Re-
-a Of Sels-saorises-
,c.,-1rst ,soo. by Louts K!opscA. n. -
Washington Jan. IS

tcovyr.sat 1soo. by Louis K!opscA. n. -
Washington. Jan. IS.
In very rovel way DR.. Taimage N
this discourse describes what may be
expected q the next world by those
wLo here bend all their energies IN
eas right direction; text. II Peter
/, y: For so an entrance shat! 0e
ninistere6 unto you abu2cant.y.
Different styles OF welcome al '2e
gate OF Heaven are here suggested,
We all hope TO enter thar stoerHa d
capitaI through the grace that IS
ready 70 save even the chief OF slH-
,.-s But rot now No man healthy
Of BODY ard mind wants TO go now.
The man who huris himself out OF
this life IS either an egccst;c or IS
denented OF faGs life :nsuHerao.e
and does not care where ne la2cs.
TL!s IS the best world We ever got
got into, and we want to stay mere
&C. long as God will let US stay. but
when the last page Of the volume OF
eur earthly Lis is ended We want en-
rollnent in Heavenly citizenship. We
want TO get in easily. We Go nor
want to be challenged at the gate ano
asked to show our passports. We GO
not want the gatekeePe1 ii couot as
60 whether we ought to go n at al.
vs do not want 20 be kept n the
portico OF the temple until consu!'a-
ton is made as to where we came
from and who we ere and whether
-a-4- care TO acr1f%- lest we be :
discord IN the eternal ha-moHies CT
lower the spirit Of Heavenly worship
When the apostle Peter n the text
addresses the people: For so an En-
trance shall be administered. unto
you sbua6antly," he implies tha:
some viii dn6 admission into Heaven
easy, rapturous and acclanatory,
while others will have 20 squeeze
through the cato OF Heaven, if they
get in at ali. They will arrive anx-
lous and excited ard apprehsosive and
wondering whether t viii be Come.
o. "Go." TIE Bible speaks Of such
persons ss 'scarcely saved" and II
another place as "save6 as by fire,
and in another place as escaped by
she skin OF The teeth
Carrying out the suggestion Of my
text, I propose to show you what
classes Of Christians will get into
Heaven with a hard push and those
who viii bound in amid salutations
infinite. IN the first class put that
man who geto into the kingdom Of
God et the close Of life al given
% worldipess and sin. Years ago he
made the resolution that he would
serve himself and serve the world W.
Ell body, mind and soul were exhaust
ed and then, just before going out OF
this life, would seek Coo and pre-
pare to enter Heaven. He carries out
his resolution. he genuinely repents
the last day or the last hour OF the
last minute of his life He takes the
last seat il the last car OF the last
train bound Heavenward His re-
leased and immo-ta! spirit ascends.
Not one wing bears down toward him
with welcome. No sign OF g.adness
at his arrival. None there obligated
70 him for kindness ooDe or aims DIS
tributed or spiritual help admins
tered He will find some place to
stay, but do not envy that man his
Heaven. 10 got in, but it was not
an abundant entrance.
Sometimes IN our pu,pits we give
6 wrong turn to the story OF the
dying thief to whom Christ said:
''Ihis day shalt thou be with NE IN
Paradise" We ought to admire the
mercy Of Christ that pardoced him in
the last hour, but 90 not let Us ed-
Eire the dying thief When he was
arrested, I think his pockets were fu.!
Of stolen coin, and the coat he had
on his back was not his own. he
stole right on until he was arrested
gor his crimes. he repented, and
through great mercy arose to Para
diss, but he was no example to fol-
low. What gigantic nea1ness to
devote the wond-ous equipment OF
brain aud nerve and muscle and bone
with which we are endowed, these
miracles Of sight and hearing and
speech, to purposes unworthy or pro-
fame, and then. through hasty repent
ance St the last, enter Heaven!
Cheating God all ones lifetime and
then taking advantage OF bankrupt
law and made free Of al Liabilities.
7 should think that some men would
be ashamed to enter Eeavec or would
prefer some medium place II the wide
universe where the palaces are not
20 eSulgent and the trees bear not
more than six instead Of twelve man
ne- Of fruits and the social life is not
20 exalted.
Again, the bigot will not have what
my text calls an abundant entrance.
Eo has his bedwarted opinion as to
what all must believe and do in order
60 gain celestial residence. He has his
creed in one pocket and his catechisn
IN another pocket. and it may be .
good creed and goo1 catechisu. but
ne uses them as sharp swords against
chose who viii not accept his theories.
Top must be baptized in his way or
come to him through apostolic succeo-
e,oa or be foreordaineo Of eternity, or
you s1e in an awful way. Ee shriveis
up and shrivels up and becomes moro
epleoetic until the time OF his depar-
sure Is at hand He has enough of
the sat OF grace to save him. but his
entrance into Heaven viii be some
thing worth watching. What Go they
want with him in Heaven, where they
have ell gone into eternal cathoicity,
one grand comninglng OF Methodists
and Baptists and Episcopalians and
Luthera1s and Corg-egationalists and
P-esbyterians and q score OF other de-
nominations just as good as any I
have men entioned? They al join IN the
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