The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-02-20

the ageRies OF assassination on the
rocky blug back Of Jerusa-em, you
dared net face sickly joke. Better
lead up with few questions. Sc saas
next time you will be ready. Say 10 'ne
seeIec: "My dear sir, will yen tel! z E
wha. makes tie siEereEce between the
ceHsitiea CT wonaE in CAina ana IN 'He
United States? What Go you tAlnk OF
the sermon en- tAe mount? now 90
yos ike the golden rae laid down IN
tbe Sc-i1tures? Are you in favor OF the
Ter ComnanGmcnts? In your large
and extensive reading have you come
across a lovciier character than Jesus
Christ? VIII you piease to name the
t-iuG pha2- Geatbbees ef iEfaels ard
atheists? Hew do yen account fer the
fact tAat among the out and out be-
levers in Christianity were such per
sons as Benjamin Franklin, John Rus
kin, Thomas Carlyle, Ssbingten, Mao
aulay, William Penn, Walter Scott,
Charles Kingsley, Horace Bushnell,
James 4. Garfield, Rohers E. Lee. Stone
wall Jackson, Admiral Feote, Aorairal
Farragut, Ulysses S. Grant, John Nil
ton, william Shakespeare, Chief jus
tice Marshall. Jehr Adams, Daniel Web
ster, George Nashio gtoa? Eew eeyou
account for their fendress for the
Christian religion? among the IL
Vulnerable colleges sud universities
Of the earth will you name No three
starte6 by iHssels and now supported
by iafdels? Down in your heart are
you really happy in the position you
occupy antageristie to the Christian
religion? When 60 you have the most
rapturcus views Of the next world %
Go at him with few such questions.
and he Will get SO red = the face as to
suggest ePoplexy, and he viii look at
bts watch aa6 say he has On engage
nent and must 60. You viii put him II
. sweat that viii beat Turkish bath.
Yeu will pat kin Oh reut compared
with which our *ros1s st Bull Ru2
made no time st all. Arm yourself, act
With arguments, but Interrogation
points, and promise you victory. Shall
such q nan as you, shah such c wenan
IS you, surrender to one OF the mean.
est spirits that ever smoked up from
the pit-thc suNh devil spoken OF n fhe
text?
But then there are occasions when
this particular spirit that Chr!ss exor-
c:sed when Ee ssid; 'sI charge thee
to come out OF him" takes people sy
the Wholesale. II the most respors siTe
religious audience have yoa noticed
now many people never sing st al?
They have a book, and they Aavs =
voice, and they know hew TO read.
They ERow many q the tunes, and yet
are silent while the great raetEres Of
music pass By. ARens those who sing
not enc out Of hundred sings loud
enough 70 hear his ew2 voiee. They
heR Il. They give sart ef religious
s-Gr*. They make the Fps go, bat It Is
GauG3blc- With voice strong enough
TO stop Earecs car eRe block away al
they eae afford n tie praise OF Ge0 IS
,beu+ kali whisper. With enough
sopranos, enough altos, enough bassoS
to make 6 Small heaven between the
feur walls they let the opportunity go
by uainpreyed. The volume Of veice
that aseeads from the largest audience
that ever assembled esgLt TO be nslti-
piled TIVE thoUsandfold. But the min
ster rises and gives out the hymn. the
organ begins, the choir or Preeentor
leads, she audience are standing SO
that the lungs may have full expao-
sion, sed mighty harneay IS aeeu: to
ascend whea the evil spirit spoken Of
in ny te1+$he dumb devil-sereads
his two wings, enc ever the lips Of one
half TIE auaisHeo sad the ether wing
over the lips Of tho other haR Of the
audience, aad the voices roll back Sste
tie tAreats freR which they started,
and enly here and there anything is
heard, and 1iae-teRths ei the holy
power Is destroyed, as6 the dumb devil,
as he 6iee away, says: II could not
keep Isaac Watts frem writing that
hymn, and = could rot keep Lowell Ma
son freH Composing the tune 70 which
It IS set. but snote iato silence or half
silence tie Nes from which it would
have spread abroad to bless reighhor-
hoods snd cities and then mount the
wide open heavens" Give the long
meter doxoioSy the full support Of
Christenden, and those Sour lines
would take the whole earth for God.
That hymn, "ch, For q Thousand
Tongues 80 Sing" was suggested to
Charles Wesley by Peter Boiler. who,
after his conversion, said: 81 lad
better keep silent about it," "No."
said Wesley, %f you lad 10000
tongues, you had better use shen for
Christ" And then that angel Of
hy1nolcgy peRaed the words:
Oh. for thousand tongues 90 ss2s
Ny Sear Redecner's praise.
The gIor!es Of NY Ged and King.
The triunshs o. Eis grace!
Jesus, the esye that cai-.s OUT eears,
That bids our so-Tows cease;
IT'S music IL the etaEer's ears;
Ills LIE aaG health ed paaca
While mach of the modern -usic
8 o religious dogserel, eoaseeTeted
nonsense, . sacred inbecility, would
ike TO see some great uausicia0 OF
our time Lift the baton and marshal
"Luther's Judgment Eyno," "YaT-
mouth" Dundee" @Ariel," "Eattle-
street." seUxb-idge," ''Pleyers lynn" :"
"aarweJl," Antioch" 'Aornt Pis-
cah" and "cszonatioa," with . few
regiments Of Rsghty t1aes aade in
our own eine, aRa stoEa AEsa, At
rics and America fer she kingdom OF
Ged BEt She a-st thing to do L. to
drive out the 6uzah GeTa Of the eeze
from aU our eauCohes.
20 not, however, Let rs leoe our
selves IN geRersMsias. Not o7e ee us
bat has had our lives seneSiEes
toxched by the evil spirit Of
the terethis awful dcnS eeTaA
We had Just one opportunity ef gay
ing O. Christian word that might have
LED man OF wonan into e ChrSsiaa
life. The opportunity was fairly Put
N.e~-, ~-a FY&a S--e-5 81 invitation OF