The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-05-16
The Great Calamity.

The Great Calamity.
Today the great calamity cen
ters in San Francisco. Yester-
day it was elsewhere. Today it
comes with crushing force upon
an individual heart. Tomorrow
it shakes and horrifes a nation.
And ever before the presence OF
the great calamity-for tits new.
er absent from the world-the
human heart stands bowed and
asks ore question
Why?
From the days when tardy be-
lief battered at the God-closed
doors of Noah's refuge to this
hour when churches and broth
els, hospitals and gambling hells,
homes and play-houses: people
Of high degree and low, men rich
and poor: white, brown and yel-
low men, innocent babies and
women of the underworld, are
touched by one common breath
Of destruction and death and
doom: humanity lifts it's face to
the silent skies and asks one
question
Why9
The Chicago Tribune says:
"There may be much that is
harsh and unsympathetic in
modern conditions of life. There
may be many of nature that is
cold and dead, but there is no
ground for despair when mil
lions are touched by a feeling
for the infrmity Of the sufferer
and every bit Of machinery of
relief is put into instant oper-
alton to translate that sympathy
into generous gifts.
But the outfowing tide ofsym
pathy is but one letter to the
answer to the mighty question.
Mans relationship goes higher
and deeper and wider than the
mere human bond. Whom have
7 in heaven but Thee?" and
"There is none upon earth that
I idesire beside Thee" David
voices here the normal spiritual
desire of the regenerate heart
that alone.
Since the beginning. God has
been instructing His creation,
the King has been proclaiming
to his people, the Father has
been telling his children, that
wealth, science, art, pleasure,
progress and power of whatever
earthly kind, should be but the
temporal servants of man, servi-
tors upon whom he is divinely
privileged to call as he runs
about his Masters business, but
servitors only: never comrades
for too close and dependable
friendship, never masters to in.
wade the domain of high and ho-
ly character. By the great ca
lamity that ever runs Qupon the
errands of Omnipitant Love to
the children of God and men,
this is proclamation alike to the
individual, to "a whole cityful,"
to the nations of the world
AM. The only structure that
abides the passing of earth
quakes, whirlwinds, food, fire,
pestilence and the shakings of
the still, small voice speaking in
the heart, is the structure of the
soul built upon God. Out of this
eternal safety David: with the
God-fearing Of all times and
places, cries:
"God,is our refuge and strength,
a very present help IN trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, even
though the Iearth be removed,
and though the mountains be
carried into the midst of the sea.
He uttered his voice, the earth
melted. The Lord Of hosts is
with us; the God Of Jacob is our
refuge. Come, behold the works
of the Lord, what desolations he
hath made in the earth. The
Lord of hosts is with US; the God
of Jacob is our refuge
And when the creation of the
Almighty, the subjects of the
King, the children of the Father,
the brethren of the Lord Christ,
can make this their psalm of
faith in the hour of the great
calamity is but the sombre raj.
ments that cloaks the angel of
the Lord walking amid the camp
of men.-Union Signal.