Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-03-25

world a lesson in common sense when.
before preaching the Gospel to the null
titude in the wilderness. He gave them
a good dinner. When was a lad / re-
member seeing two rough wood cuts.
but they made more impression upon
me than any pictures have ever seen.
They were on opposite pages. The ono
wood cut represented the coming of the
snow in winter, and Lad looking out
at the door of great mansion. and he
was all wrapped in furs and his cheeks
were ruddy, and with glowing counte-
nance he shouted: 1T snowsr, II
snowsT On the next page there was
miserable tenement, and the door was
open, and child, wan and sick,
and ragged and wretched, was
looking out, and he said:
"Oh! my God, il snowsr' The win
ter OF gladness or of grief, according to
our circumstances. But my friends.
there Is more than one way of warming
up this cold world, for il is a cold world
IN more respects than one. and / am
here to consult with you as to the best
way of warming up this cold world.
want to have great heater introduced
into all of your churches and all your
homes throughout the world. 1t is a
heater of divine patent, 1t has many
pipes with which to conduct heat; and
IT has n door in which to throw the
fuel. Once get this heater introduced
and 1t will turn the arctic zone into
the temperate; and the temperate into
the tropics 1t is the powerful heater.
1T is the glorious furnace of Christian
sympathy. The question ought to-
be, instead of how much heat
can we absorb? how much heat can
we throw out? There are men who 90
through the world like floating ice
bergs. They freeze everything with
their forbidding look. The hand with
which they shake yours is as cold as the
paw of a polar bear. If they float into
religious meeting the temperature
drops from so above to ten degrees be-
low zero. There are icicles hanging
from their eyebrows. They float into
"A religious meeting, and they chill
everything with their jeremaids. Cold
prayers, cold songs, cold greetings,
cold sermons. Christianity on icei The
church great refrigerator. Christians
gone into winter quarters. Hiberna-
ton! On the other hand, there are
people who go through the world like
the breath of a spring morning. Warm
greetings, warm prayers, warm smiles.
warm Christian influence. There are
such persons. We bless God for them.
We rejoice in their companionship.
a general in the English army. the
army having halted for the night, hav-
ing lost his baggage, lay down tired
and sick without any blanket. An
officer came up and said: "Why. YOU
have no blanket III go and get you a
blanket. He departed for n few mo-
ments and then came back and covered
the general up with a very warm blan-
ket. The general said: Whose blan-
ket is this?" The officer replied: Il
got that from private soldier in the
Scotch regiment-Ralph Mcdonald"
Now" said the general. ''you take
this blanket right back to that soldier.
He can no more do without IL than |
can do without it. Never bring to me
the blanket OF private soldier" How
many men like that general would take
it to warm the world up? The vast
majority of ms are anxious to get
more blankets, whether any
body else is blanlSeted or not.
Look at the fellow feeling dis
played in the rocky BELLE between
Jerusalem and Jericho in Scripture
times. Here is man who has been
set upon by bandits, and in the strup-
gle to keep his property he got wound
ed and mauled and stabbed, and he lies
there half dead. A priest rides along
He sees him and says, "Why, what's
the matter with that man? Why, he
must be hurt, lying on the fat of his
back Isn't il strange that he should
lie there? But / can't stop. am on
my way to temple services. Go along,
you beast. Carry me up to my temple
duties" After awhile Levite came
up. He looks over and saws: "Why
that man must be very much hurt.
Gashed on the forehead. What "A pityl
stabbed under the arm. What pity!
Tut, tut! What a pityl Why they have
taken his clothes nearly all away from
him. But | haven't time to stop /
lead the choir up in the temple service.
Go along. you beast. Carry ne up to
my temple duties" After awhile a Sa-
marian comes along-one whom you
might suppose, through % national
grudge. might have rejected this poor,
wounded Israelite, but he is man and he
is brother. Whoa says the Samar-
itan, and he gets down OF the beast
and comes up to the wounded man, gets
down on one knee, listens to see whether
the heart of the unfortunate man is still
beating, makes up his mind there is a
chance for resuscitation, goes TO work
at him, takes out of his sack bottle of
oil and a bottle of wine, cleanses the
wound with some wine, then pours
some of the restorative into the wound
ed mans lips, then takes some oil and
with II soothes the wound. After
awhile he takes off part of his gar
ments for bandage. Now the sick
and wounded man sits up, pale and ex-
hausted, but very thankfully. Now the
good Samaritan says: You must get
on my saddle, and will walk" The
Samaritan helps and tenderly steadies
this wounded man until he gets him
on toward the tavern. the wound
ed man holding on with the lit
tie strength he has left, ever and
anon looking down at the good
Samaritan and saying: "You are very
kind. i had no right 20 expect this
thing Of a Samaritan, when / am an
Israelite. You are very kind TO walk
and let me ride"
Now they have come mn 20 4ho IT,