The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-05-26

| the Seas it goes with the marine
as his spiritual compass and
chart; and on the land it is to
untold millions their pillar-cloud
by day, their fire column by
night. In the closet and in the
street, amid temptations and
trials, this is mans most faith
full attendant and his strongest
shield. It is our lamp through
the dark valley; and the radiator
of our best light from the SOL
emn and unseen future. Stand
before it as a mirror and you
Will see there not only your good
traits, but errors, follies and
sins which you did not imagine
were there until now.
You desire to make constant
Improvement. Go then to the
Bible. 1t not only shows the
way of all progress, but it in
cites you to go forward. 1t
opens before you. path leading
/ up and still upward, along
which good angels will cheer
you and God himself will lend
you a helping hand.
Go to the Statesman who has
filled the highest Office in this
country and ask him whether
his cup of JOY has been full: AS
he stands by at the Inauguration
of his successor, his shaded
brow will tell you, no. Ask the
warrior, coming from the battle
field, his garments rolled in
blood, did the shouts of victory
satiate his thirst for applause?
IBID any of the goddess sons of
military fame-Federick of Prus
sia, Byon, or Volney, give in
their testimony; and they affirm
in one gloomy voice.
"We've drank every cup of joy, heard
Every trump of fame; drank early,
Deeply drank, drank draughts
That common millions might have
Queuched then died of thirst
Because there was no more to drink" "
| But never a human being went
| to the Bible who did not find
| His words true, "but whosoever
drinketh of the water I will
give him shall never thirst; for
lit shall be in him a we'll of water
Ispringing up into everlasting
life" Like an ethereal princl-
pie of light and life: it's truths
extend with electric force
through all the avenues and ele.
ments of the home-existence,
"giving music to language, ele-
vation to thoughts, vitality to
feeling, entiety to power: beau
ty and happiness.
I It is book for the mind, the
heart, the conscience, the will
and the life. 1t suits the palace
and the cottage, the afflicted and
the prosperous, the living and
the dying. 1t is simple, yet
grand; mysterious, yet plain:
and though from God, it is new
ertheless within the comprehen-
sion of a little child.
And in our own day of under
standing, throng of good and
great men have venerated this
book, and imbibed it's spirit.
John Quincy Adams through a
long life made it his daily study,
and amid the most active portion
of life be always translated a
few verses in his Hebrew Bible:
the first thing in the morning.
lie read 1t when a boy, he clung
to it through manhood; and to
his last day he owed to 1t not on.
tly his rare veneration for the
deity, but his love for freedom
and humanity. and all his
adanantlne virtues. Jackson,
Harrison and Clay were each
students of the Bible. They
lived gratefully by it's light, and
they died in the hope of its
glory. "Though walk through
the dark valley of the shadow
of death, I will fear no evil, "
these were among the last words
that fell on the ear Of the dying
| Webster. Sir Walter Scott a
few days before his DEATH, ask