The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-10-02

| that Rev. D. Van TraEl,ea. OF New
Brunswick Theological seminary,
wrote for me. a boy under him, when
was seeking q settlement III which
to preach the Gospel. That letter
gave me my first pulpit. DR.. Van
| Nrapken has been dead more than SO
years. Yet feel the touch Of that
magnificent old professor. Strange
sensation was it when l received a
! kind message from Rev. Thomas
Guard, of Baltimore. the great Meth
! oCist orator, six weeks after his
! death, BY way Of the eternal world?
| Oh, no; by way Of this world. | did
! eot meet tie friend to whom he gave
the message until nearly TWO months
after Thomas Guard had asccnded.
So YOU can start :; word about some
one that Will be on it's travels and
vigorous long after the funeral
psalm has been sung at your obse-
ouics. Kindness. Why. If so men all
arlow with il should walk through
the lost world methinks they would
| almost abolish pcrdition.
Suppose all this aSsemblage and
all 10 whom these words shall come
by printers type should resolve to
make kindness an orerarchin@, under
girdng and all pervading principle of
their life and then carry out the res
| olution. Why. in six months the
whole earth would feel 1t. People
! would say: "What is the matter? 1t
seems to ME that the world is get
ting to be better place to live IN.
| Nhy, life, after al, is worth living.
Why, there is Shylocll, my neighbor,
has withdrawn his lawsuit of fore
closure against that man, and be-
cause he had so much sickness IN his
family he is going to have the house
for one year rent free. There is an
old lawyer in that young lawyers OF
flee, and do you know what lie has
gone in there for? Why, he is help
| ing to fix up case which is too big
for the young man to handle, and ahe
white-haired attorney is hunting up
previous decisions and making out a
| brief for the boy. DO you know that
a strange thing has taken place in the
nulnit, and al tho old ministers are
helping the young ministers, and all
the old doctors are helping the young
doctors, and the farmers are assist
ING each other in gathering the har-
vest. and for that farmer who. is sick
the ueighbors have made bee as
they call it, and they have AZ turned
in to help him get bis crops lnte the
garner? And they tell mo that the
! older and more skillfu reporters
who have permanent positions on pa
pers are helping the young fellows
who are just beginning to try and do
not know exactly how to do 1t. And
| after few erasures and lnterPoIs-
tions on the reporters pad they say:
"Sow. here is q readable account ct
that tragedy; hand it in, and 1 am
sure the managing editor will take
it."
"And heard this morning OF PSer
old man whose three children were IN
bot debate as to who should take care
sf him in his declining days. The old
est son declared that it was his right
because he was the oldest, and the
Youngest said it was his right because
he was the youngest, and Mary salo IL
was her right because she better IN
derstood her fathers vertigo and
rheumatism and poor spells and knew
| better how to nurse him, and the only
vav the difficulty could be settled was
BY the old mans promise that he
would divide the year into three parts
and spend third of his time with each
one of them. And neighboring stores
in the same line of goods on the same
block are acting kindly to each other.
It SCENE to ne that those words OF
Isaiah are being fulfilled when he
says: The carpenter encouraged the
goldsmith and ha that smoothed the
| hammer, him that smote the anvil,
saving, it is ready for the soldering
What is the matter? 1t seems to me
our old world is picking up. Why, the
millennium must be coming IN. hlno-
ness has got the victory"
Nv hearers. you know and know we
are far from that state Of things. But
WHY not inaugurate q new dispensa-
ton of geniality. If we caanot have g
millennium on a large scale, let US
have it or small scale and under our
own vestnents. Kindness! II this
world is ever brought to God, that is
Che thing that will do it. You cannot
fret the world up, although you may
fret the world down. You cannot
scold It into excellence or reforna-
tion or godliness.
And while we take the matchless
kindness from God may it be found
| that we have uttered our last bitter
word, written our last cutting Para-
grsph, done our last retaliatory actiens
felt our last revengeful heart throb.
And it would not be bad epitaph for
any Of US II, by the grace Of oed, from
| this time forth we lived such beueA-
cent lives that the tomhstone's ehisel
could appropriately cut upon the plain
SLAB that marks our grave Sugges-
ton from the text: He showed Us no
| little Kindness" But not until the last
child Of God has got ashore from the
earthly storms that drove Him OIL the
rocks like Mediterranean Eureely-
6ons, not until all the thrones OF
| Heaven are mounted, and all the con-
euerors crowned, and all the hnrps and
trumpets and organs of Heaven are
thrum1ned or blown or sounded and
! the ransomed of all climes and ages
are in full chorus under the jubtlant
swing of angelic baton, and we shall
for thousands OF years have seen the
river from under the throne rolling
into the "sea OF glass mingled with
Are" and this world we now inhabit
shall be so far in the past that only a
stretch Of celestial memory can re-
call that it ever existed at all, not uR-
til then will we understand what Ne
! hemiah calls the great kindness ard
David calls the marvellous liirdnass,'