The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-16

and a reformed life. The Sisters of Char
| lty, in 1863, on northern and southern bat
| ne neids, came TO boys in blue and gray
| while they were bleeding to death. The
| black bonnet with the sides pinned back
and the white bandage on the brow, may
not have answered all the demands of e1e-
CANT taste, but you could not persuade that
soldier dying a thousand miles from home
| that II was anything but an angel that
| looked him in the face. Oh with CHEEKY
| look. with helpful word, with kind action,
| try to make the world warmi
Count that day lost whose low descending
sun
Views from thy hand no generous action
II was his strong sympathy that brought
Christ from "A warm heaven to a cold
world. The land where he dwelt had a
serene sky, balsamic atmosphere, tropical
luXuriance. No storm blasts in heaven.
NO chill fountains. on a cold December
night Christ stepped out of a warm heav-
en- into the worlds frigidity. The Their
mometer in Palestine never drops below
zero, but December is a cheerless month,
and the pasturage is very poor on the hill
tops. Christ stepped out of a warm heav-
en- into the cold world that cold December
night. The worlds reception was cold.
I The surf of bestormed Gallilee was cold.
Josephs sepulchre was cold Christ came,
the great warmer. to warm the earth,
and all ChristendOm to-day feels the glow.
lie VIII keep on warming the earth until
the tropic will drive away the Arctic and
| the Antarctic. He gave an intimation of
what he was going to do when he broke
up the funeral at the gate of Main and
turned IL into reunion festival. and when
with his warm lips he melted the Galilean
hurricane and stood on the deck and
stamped his foot, crying: "Silencer and
the waves crouched and the tempests fold
ed their wings.
Oh, it was this Christ who warmed
the chilled disciples when they had no
food by giving them plenty to eat and
| who IN the tomb of Lazarus shattered the
| shackles until the broken links of the
chain OF death ratified into the darkest
| crypt of the mausoleum. In his genial
| presence the girl who had fallen into the
| fire and the water is healed of the cata-
! lepsy, and the withered arm takes
muscular, healthy action. and the ear
that could not hear an avalanche catches
leafs rustic, and the tongue that could
not aruculate trills quatrain, and the
/ blind eye was relumed, and Christ, instead
OF staying three days and three nights in
| the sepulchre, as was supposed as soon as
| the worldly curtain of observation was
4 dropped began the exploration of all the
/ Underground passages of earth, and sea-
| wherever Christian grave may after
| while be, and started a light of Christian
| hope, resurrection hope which shall not
| go OUT untll the last cerement is taken off
and the last mausoleum breaks open.
| An! am so glad that the sun of right
/ eousness dawned on the polar night of the
| nations. And if Christ is the great warm
/ er, then the church is the great hothouse
| with It's plants and trees and fruits of
/ righteousness. Do you know, my friends
| that the church is the institution that
/ proposes warmth? l have been for TWEEN
ty-SeNen years studying how to make. the
/ church warmer. Warmer architecture
! warmer hymnology, warmer Christian sa-
/ lutaton. All outside Siberian winter we
1 must have 1t princes dollhouse The
! only institution on earth to-day that pro-
! poses to make the world warmer Uni
/ VerSlheS and obserVatorieS, they all have
/ their work. They propose to make the
| world light. but they do not propose to
/ make the world warm. Geology informs
/ US, but 1t is as cold as the rock III ham
! mers The telescope shows where the
! other worlds are, but an astronomer is
| chilled while looking through If Chris
| tianity tells us of strange combina tions
and how inferior affinity may be overcome
| by superior affinity; but it cannot ten how
! all things work together for good World
! ~ philosophy has a great splendor but it
| Is the Splendor of moonlight on an ice
/ berg. The church of God proposes
warmth and hope-warmth for the expec-
| cations, warmth for the sympathies Oh '
! | am so glad that these great altar-fres
/ have been kindled. Come in out of the
| cold. Come in, and have your wounds
| salVed. Come and have your sins mar
/ doned. Come in by the great Gospel fire
/ place.
Notwithstanding all the modern inven-
/ tons for heating l tell you there is moth
ing so full of geniality and Socialty as the
/ old-tashioned country fireplace The
! neighbors were to come in for winter
| evening of sociality. In the middle of the
afternoon, in the best room i'm the house
some one brought in a great backlog
! with great strain and put it down on the
! back of the hearth. Then the lighter
wood was put on, armful after armful.