The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-05-01

the subllmest a!legory ever composed.
Edward Psyson, sick and exhausted,
leaned up against the side Of the pulpit
snd weps out out his discourse, while
Ges rye Whit, fold, with the manner
a. 4 the voice snd the start Of an sctor
cvtrshelned his suditory. 1t would
bsvs been different thing if Jonsthan
Edwards hsd tried TO write and dream
about the pilgrims progress to the
celestial city or John Bunl an hsd a.
tempted an essay oo the human will:
Brighter than the light, fresher than
tie fcuu:a deeper than the seas,
are these gospel themes. Sopg has no
melody, flowers have no sWeetness,
sunset sky has no color, c impaired with
these glorious themes. These harVests
Of grace spring up q Kicker than We csn
sickle item. KiLdling pul1iis with
their fire and producing revolutions
with their power, lighting up dying
bees with their glory, they are the
sweetest thought fcr the poet, and they
srs the most thrilling illustration for
the orator, and they efer the most in
terse scere for the artist, and they are
to the ambassador of the sky all enthu,
siasm. Complete pardon for the direst
guilt. Sweetest comfort for ghsstliest
agopy. Brightest hope for grimmest
death. Grsneess resurrection for dark
est sepulcher. Oh, what a gospel to
preachl Christ over all in it. His
birth, his suffering, his miracles, his
parallels, his sweat, his teas, his b,ooo,
bis atonenent, his intertessiou-what
glorious themesl Do We exercise faith !
Christ is it's OH c.. d. re havs love -!
It fastens on Jesus. Hsve We a fond
ness for the church? 1t is because
Christ died for it. Have We hope OF
heaven? It is because Jesus went
ahead, the herald snd the forerunner.
The royal robe Of Demetrius was 50
costly, so beautiful, thst after he had
out it of no one ever dared put it on,
but this robe Of Christ, richer than
that, the poorest and the wannest and
the worst may wear. Where SIN
sbounded grace may uu'h more
abound"
"Oh, my sins, my SINS said Martin
Luther to Ssaupitz. my sins, my sius!
The fact is that the brawny German
student had found, a Latin Bible that
had made him quake, and nothing else
ever did make MIN quake, and when he
found bow through Christ he was psr:
doneG and savel he wrote to q friend
saving: Come ever snd join Us, grea:
and awful sinners saved by the grace OF
Of God. You seem to be only slender
sinner, and you don't much eGtol the
mercy of God, but We who have been
such very awful sinners praise bis grace
the more now that We hsve been re-
deemed" Can itbe thatyou sre so des'
perstely egotistical that you feel your,
self in first rate spiritual trim ard that
from the root Of the hair to the tip Of
the toe you are scsrless and immaculate!
Whstyou needs 8 looking glass, and here
il is in the Bible. Poor and Wretchee
and miserable and blind and naked
from the crown Of tbe head to the sole
Of the foot, full Of wounds and putrefy'
ing sores. No henlth in Us. And then
tsEe the fsct that Christ gathered up al!
the notes against lis and paid them and
offered Us the receipt.
And how much We need him in oC'
sorrows! We are independent Of cir
cunstances if we have his grace. Why,
he made Paul sing in the dungeon, and
under that grace St. John from desolate
Patnos heard the blast Of the appoca
lypsic ttumpets. After all other can
dies have been snuffed out this the
light that gets brighter and brighter
| unto the perfect day, and after undel
the hard hoofs Of calamity all The
pools Of worldly enjoyment have beer
trsmpled into deep miIe at the foot o.
the eternal rcch: the Christian. from
| cups Of granite, lily rimmed and vine
| covered, puts out the thirst Of his soul
Again, remark that Christ is abo7e
all il. dying alleviations. I have not
any sympathy with the morhidity
abroad about our demise. The emperor
OF Constantinopla arranged that on The
day ofhis coronation the stonemasor
should come and consult with min
| about his tombstone that after awhile
he would need. And there are mel
Eho are monomsniacal on the subjsc
| Of departure from this life by death
and the more they think Of it the lesE
prepared are they to go. This is ar
unmanliness no. worthy Of you, no'
worthy of me.
salsdin, tbs gEetest corqueror Of hi!
day, while dying, ordered the tunic hs
had on him to be carried after his death
on apsar at the, head Of his army, and
then the soldier ever and anon S should
stop and say: ''I3shold all that is left
Of Ssladin, the emperor and coEquerol
OF all the states he conquered, Of al
the wealth he accumulated, nothing did
he retain but this shrcud." I have nc
sympathy with such behavior or such
absurd demonstration or with much
that ne hear uttered in regard to de.
parture from this life to the next.
There is commonsensieal idea On this
subject that you snd need to consi.
der, thst there are only two styles Of
departure.
A thousand feet underground, by
light Of torch toiling in a miRer's
shaft, a ledge Of rock may fall upon US,
and we may die miners death. Far
out at ses, falling from the slippery
ratlines and broken on the balyards,
We msy die sailors death. On mis-
sion Of mercy in hospital amid broken
bones and recking leprosies and raging
fe7ers We may die philantropiSt's IS
death. On the field Of battle, serving
God and our country, slugs through
the heart, the gun carriage may roll
over Us, and we may die : patriots
death. But after all there are only
two styles Of departure, the death Of
the righteous aid Of the wicked, and
We ali want to die the former.
God orant that when that hour comes