The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-11-06

OTE, 600 De praised, 90 HldNe >ii~ Va
dain this my last will and testament
through the only merits OF Jesus
Christ, my Saviour, to te made par
taker Of life everlasting and ms oooy
to the earth whereof il is MADE:
Had Shakespeare lost his reason when
he wrote his faith in Christ and the
orea1 atoncment? Tut your antaS-
or;s+ few oucstions like that. and
Won will find him eNcusiEg himself for
m eroa memcrt he must meet anne
c;atslv or lie will start on retreat
like that which our northern troops
made for yocder Long bridge after
the battle OF Manassas. A discourse
on Gods omaipotence and mans lin
itations would not have had such an
effect upon Job as ths Interrogation
Of the text: "Canst thou bind the
sweet influence of the Pleiades"
These words also recognize far
reaching influences. JOB prooaoiy
had no adequate idea Of the distance
OF the worlds mentioned from our
world, but he kne- them to be -&r
OF. and we, who have the advantage
of modern sidereal investigation,
ouobt to be still more impressed
than vas Job with the question cr
the text, as it puts before US the TACT
that worlds hundreds Of thousands
of miles distant have grip on our
world. There are sweet influences
which hold US from afar. There may
have been in our ancestral line per-
baps 200 years ago some consecrateo
man or woman who has held over
al the generations since an innuence
for good which we have no power 70
realize, and we in turn, oy our
virtue or vice, may influence those
who shall live 900 years from now
Moral gravitation is as Power1n! as
material gravitation, and IT, as my
text teaches and science connrms,
the Pleiades, which are millions OF
miles from our earth, influence the
earth we ought to be impressed Win
how we may be influenced by others
far away back and how we may IN
Suence others far down the future.
That rill away up among the Ale
ghanies, so thin you think 1t Will
hardly find it's way down the rocks
becomes the mighty Ohio rolling into
the Mississippi and rolling into the
sea. That word you utter, that deed
you do, may augment itself as the
years go by until rivers cease to roll
and the ocean itself shall be dried
up in the burning of the world.
Paul, who was all the time saying
important things, said nothing more
startlingly suggestive than when ne
declared: None of US hveth or
dieth to himself" Words, thoughts
actions, have an eternity Of fight.
AS Job could not bind the sweet in
Huences Of the Seven Stars, as they
were called, so we cannot arrest or
turn aside the good projected long
ago. These influences were started
centuries before our cradle was
rocked and will reign centuries after
our graves are dug. Oh, it is tre-
uendous thing to live! God help US
to live Alright.
Astronomers can easily locate the
Pleiades. They will take you into
their observatories on clear night
and air, their revealing instrument
toward the part in the heavens where
those seven stars have their habi-
tu6e, and they will point to the con-
stellation Taurus, and you can see
for yourself. But it is impossible
to point to influences far back that
have affected our character and Will
affect our destiny. We know the in
fuences near by-paternal, maternal,
conjugaI-but by the time we have
gene back two generations or at
most three our Investigations falter
and fail. Through the modern in
teresting habit Of searching back to
find the ancestral tree we may find
a long list Of names, but they are
only names. The conservation OF
abandonment of some one 200 years
ago was not recorded. It would not
be 50 important if you and I by our
good or bad behavior blessed or
blasted only those Immediately
around US, but our goodness or our
badness will reach as far as the
strongest rays Of Aloyone - yea,
across the eternities. Under this
consideration what do you think OF
those who give themselves up to
frivolity or idleness and throw away
so years Of their existence as though
they were shells or pebbles or pods
instead of embryo eternities?
Notice also IN my text the inhu-
ence OF other worlds upon this world
We ell regard the effect which our
continent has upon other continents
or one hemisphere upon the other
hemisphere. Great harvest or drought
affects the other side Of our world.
A panic in Wall street, New York, has
It's echo in Lombard street and the
bourse. The nations of the earth
cabIegramned together all feel the
same thrill of delight or shock Of woe
But we do not appreciate the indu'
ence of other worlds upon our world
The author Of my text rouses US to
the consideration. It takes all the
worlds Of known and unknown as
| tronomy to keep our world in its or
bit, every world dependent on other
worlds. The stellar existence is felt
all through the heavens. Every con
steIlation is a sisterhood. Our planet
feels the benediction of Alcyone and
ell the other stars Of the Pleiades
Yea, there are two other worlds that
! decide the fate of our world, its re-
denption OF it's demolition. Those
two worlds are the headquarters Of
angelology and denonology. From
! the one world came Christ, come min
;stering spirits, come all gracious In
fuences. From the other world rise
all satanic and diaboic influences
From that world Of moral right rose
the power that wrecked our poor