The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-06-08
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uel. Timothy and most Of others.
) Ny honest conviction: i that II u
young man is now Il years of age and
is not anything. the probabilities are
he will never be anything / know 1t
is said that he must SOW his wild
oats but it is the devils lie, for II ne
spends his youth sowing wild oa.S:
he must Of necessity spend the rest OF
his life. or =. lcas; I good par; OF IT.,
reaping them: for whatsoever man
sowe,h th:.: shall ne also reap.
! 8. The men who have brought things
20 pass 10 the by.sonc days have been
men and women who have coce things
in hurry, have doCe them in the
sp7iue-t.me Of life. Alexander the
Great was cocqueror OF al the world
while yet very young rnaa: Napoleon
WAS Emperor Of France while Yet I
very young man. and Robert +. Lee
was commander-in-chieto of the armies
O: the Confederacy while yet young
man: and among wome:. Joan OF Arc
was cornmander-in.chief Of the armies
OF France at the tender age OF only l..
and Grace Patti was Gelightlng the
world with her melodies while she was
yet IN her teens. Men and women
whose characters are not made. and
the die 10 whose lives is not cast by the
time they are tweuty-one are seldom.
!! IL ever. worth anythin. inlife.
:. Eu: the great trouble today with
our Young people is that the majority
OF them have the wrong ideas OF life.
They get the idea that i, must be n!
! sunshine. one continuous round OF pleas
ure ard dissipation. But lie is Dot all
sunshine. II is not all all yachting cx-
cursion across some placid lake or sea
or picnic ir some beautiful wood or
nook II has its shadows as well as
It's sunshine. and there must be work
as vel! as play.
S Neither is life all shadows. Some
people OF Z peSsimistic turn are forever
"look!ng iato dark holes" and on the
dark side OF things. They Judge the
Lord by feeble sense. And true.
The buG may have bitter taste.
Bu. >wcc; WILL be the tower.
And dark may be the clouds, and
| threatening the skies, but every cloud
has It's silver lining" and it is not
nigh. everywhere.
Somewhere :he sun Is shining.
Somewhere The SOaG DIGS GTc.!.
| Hush then ;hy SD rep.n!nS:
God lives and T.! Is well!
.Acress the brightest life, shadows
must sometimes fall, but the poet, The
man worth while" is the mar who
can smile" when everything goes
against him. And so our first conclu-
| sion is this:
9. The man worth While" is the
man who makes bes, OF the life as 1t
comes, and lays hold upon present op-
portuni,ies, and by the grace OF the
Eternal God suImounts the difficulties
Of life. does his level best: and
He who does the oes: his circumstances a.
lows.
| Acts roo.y. does well:
Angels could 90 no more.
81 LIFE Is SENTENCE.
l. And now in the next place We may
remark that life is sentence: some
times simple, sometimes complex and
! sometimes compound. We have seen the
simple life. the Chrisl-iike life, the life
so simple and SO Swee: that we were
made 20 think OF the very angels OF God;
and. as rule, these are the evange!s OF
love that bless the world and make it
better By their having lived IL 1t. How
sweet the life that is hid with Chris,
in God..' It's setting sun must always
cast CLEAN OF light across the horizon
0. our spiritual vision that must bless
and cheer and help Us the longest day
we live. And then we have seen the
complex lie. Such life was Peters,
life which is sometimes up and some
times down. And then we have seen
the compound life, the Jyk!e and Mr..
HYDE sort o. life. But whether long
or short life. simple, complex or COM
pound, they must all come, sooaer or
later. 20 the period, 10 the stopping
point, and be brougn; face 70 face with
God before his judgment 70 be remem-
bered by what they have doce, and
Judged according 10 the deeds done 10
the flesh.
,. Again. life is q sentence deciara-
tive. II declares the existence OF God.
Whenever we consider mans environ
meat, the various expressions OF life n
the world about us-che budding trees,
the fragrant flowers and climbing vines.
the luscious fruits and ripening grains,
all in rich profusion about US. we can
but exclaim, Behold what God hath
wrought" for back OF all OF this crea-
ton, back OF ali OF this life, must be
first cause, and ,ha, cause is God. In
the beginning God" Life is sentence
declarstive.
;. Again. life IS seuteoce iacerroga-
tive. What is you life?" Exactly ~hat
you make it. And this is the one great
fac, that am trying TO get before your
.aiuds in this address. Life is exactly
wha: you make it, by the aelp OF GOD.
How careful that ought We 70 live.
with wha, religious fear, who such
strict accoun, must give from behavior.
(C) LIFE Is y VOYAGE.
/. And then life is ! voyage. Happy
the man who takes Jesus for his pilot
and the Bible for his chart. The trou-
b:es OF life may be manp, but he. who
gathered up the waves OF the sea IN his
arms and said. Peace be still, and
s,il!eG the tempest. can also still the
storms OF life in the troubled heart.
Happy the man who takes Jesus into
! the boa, Of life with him 70 be MS pilot
and his guide from the cradle 20 the
grave.
(Dl LIFE is :, BOOK.
|. Again life is 2 book, with its pref
ace. its beginning, its CONTEXT and It's
end. We are al travellers TO the JucS-
rnent, and rs we travel we are writing
book. the book Of our lives. Lowell
has said: