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

Lecture
On
ReligionI
by
Hon F. J. Moses, Jr.
Author of
Moses Notes, Moses on Virtue, etc.
etc.
Ex-speaker Of the House Of Rerre,
sentatives, and now, through the Un
accountable Mercy Of a Divine Prov
idence, Exercising the Duties Of Gov
ernor Of South Carolina.
The Lecturer has been secured at s1
immense expense to the State. The sub.
jsct Of his Lecture is Religion, which
for many years he hiss made his study,
and, in order to become master of his
subject, he has devoted the entire Coz
tingent Fund. to this purpose. He is
living example Of Whst Religion can
do for humanity when properly under
stood. He will show how little faith
can be placed in the doctrines Of the
Church fathers chat to have Religion
one must necessarily possess Morality,
Chastity, Truth, Honesty, Good Faith.
Reverence and Fil;al Love 60 say
nothingof Virtue). He will show in
his own person that one can, in his
opinion, be Religious, from Christian
standpoint, without possessing sDy Of
the aforesaid imaginary qualities. He
will show that without them one can
rise to the highest position in the
State. During the Lecture he will pro-
duce Neagle as an example Of a man
without Religion, possessed Of the
Devil. In order 10 illustrate his sub
iecs thoroughly, he will show to the
audience tablet upon which is engrav-
ed pay certificate sigsed by the or
igins,l Moses for current expenses in
CURED in drowning Phsraoh;a "a stone
from nit. Sinai telling the. price Of an
Office in that land 5000 years sgo; a
vase found in the garden Of the Repub-
!icar Printing Company, containin 6
$40. 900; also several duplicate copies Of
the Colleton Gazette, taken from the
corner store Of the Preston Mansion.
On this occasion the Lecturer will be
dressed in full uniform, manufactured
hy Cowdilly from the original flag,
hauled down st Sumter. He will also
wear the sword with which he cut him
self lose from Truth snd Virtue ever
since infancy.
Tie Mnsic for the occasion will be
furnished by the 81, 900 Certificate Post
Band, which will play, by request,
some Of the airs performed at the Cub
erantorial Mansion during the summer,
with sels csions also from "a hundred
thorsand more"
AQuartette from the Penite ntisry
will be present and sing at the close Of
the Lecture
Return, ye Ransomed Sinners,
Home"
The Cashier of one Of our Banks has
kindly consented to preside at the or
gan.
Price Of admission. rs cents.
Unpaid Notes Of the Lecturer will be
taken at their market value.
County Treasurers are invited te
come prepared.
Pa1ker's Haul, as Colunbians vel
know, was purchased about 20 years
ago by the State and was used TO: eigh;
OF ten years by the department OF
agriculture, the first floor being occupi
ed By an exhibit of the States mineral
and forest productions. o. the abolition
of the department it remained vacant
until it came to be used as State dis
pensary, and this use continued until
Gov. Tillman gave up the building to
Mr. Z. B. Wesley, for whom it was
purchased in part with Blue Ridge
scrip. 1t fell as fee to Mr. William
II. Lyles, the shreEd and active sttor,
ney of Mr.. Wesley, and has now been
converted into the Albemarle hotel,
the first floor, formerly notorious as
Fines saloon OF the Third House
Of the days Of good stealing, being oc'
cupied by a Wholesale fruit establish
ment.
Many have been the changes in the
last euarter Of a century, but the fuc'
tuations of fortune have been nowhere
better. illustrated during that period
than in the history Of Parker's Haul.
Columbia State.
Do Not Need It.