The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-03-21

Inere are SuCn persons. we oiCoS pON'
for them. We rejoice in their COM
partnership.
A general in the English army, the
army having halted for the night, hav-
ing lost his luggage, 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 a few mo-
ments and then came back and covered
the general up with a cry warm
blanket. The general said: Whose
blanket is this?" The officer replied,
II got that from a private soldier in
the Scotch regiment, Ralph Me-
Donald" Now" said the general,
You take this blanket right back to
that soldier. He can no more do with
out it than l can do without it. Never
bring to me the lanke of a private
soldier" How many men like that
general would it take to warm the
world up? The vast majority of us are
anxious to get more blankets, whether
ANYBODY else is blanketed or not.
Look at the fellow feeling displayed in
the rocky deile between Jerusalem
and Jericho in Scripture times Here
is u man who has been set upon by the
bandits, and il the struggle to keep
his property, he has got wounded, 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 it strange that he should lie
therel But l can't stop. 1 am going
on my way to temple services. Go
along you beast. Carry me up to my
temple duties" After a while a Le-
vite comes up. He looks over and says:
''Why, that man must be very much
hurt. Gashed on h forehead. What
a pity. Tut, tutl What a pityl Why,
they have taken his clothes nearly all
away from, him. But I haven't,time to
stop; l lead the choir up in the temple
service. Go along. you beast. Carry me
up to my temple duties" After awhile
a Samaritan comes along-one who
you might suppose through a national
grudge might have rejected this poor
wounded Israelite. Coming along he
sees this man and says: why, that
man must be terribly hurt. l see by
his features he is an Israelite,
but he is a man, and he is
n brother. Whoar' says the Sa-
maritan, and he gets down off
the beast and comes up to this
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 n chance
for resuscitation, goes to work at him,
takes put of his sack II bottle of oil and
a bottle of wine, cleanses the wound
with some wine, then pours some of
the restorative into the wounded man.
lips, then takes some oil and with it
soothes the wound. After awhile he
takes off a part of his garments for n
bandage. Now the sick and wounded
man sits up, pale and exhausted, but
very thankfully. Now the good
Samaritan says: you must get on my
saddle, and l will walk" The Samari-
tan helps and tenderly steadies this
wounded man until he gets him o n to-
ward the tavern, the wounded man
holding on with the little strength
he has left, ever and anon looking
down at the good Samaritan and say
ing: you are very kind; l had no
right to expect this thing of a Samari-
tan when l am an lsraelite; you are
very hluO " ndAh dho leu " ~
Now, they have come up to the
tavern. The Samaritan, with the help
of the landlord, assists the sick and
wounded man to dismount and puts
him to bed. The Bible says the Sa-
maritan stayed all night In the
morning, l suppose, the Samaritan
went in to look how his patient was.
and ask him how he passed the night.
Then he comes out-the Samaritan
comes out and says to the landlord,
Here is money to pay that mans
board, and if his convalescence is not
as rapid as 1 hope for, charge the
whole thing to me. Good morning,
ALL" He gets on the beast and says:
go along, you beast, but go slowly,
for these bandits sweeping through
the land may nave left somebody else
wounded and half dead" Sympathy
Christian sympathy! How many such
men as hat would it take to warm The
cold world up. Famine in Zarep-
thath. Everything dried up. There
is a widow with a son and no
food except q handful of meal.
She is gathering sticks to kindle
a fire t. cook the handful of meal.
Then she is going to wrap her arras
around her boy and die. Here comes
Elijah. His two black servants, the
ravens have got tired waiting on him.
He asks that woman for food. Now
that handful of meal is to be divided
into three parts. Before, it was to be
divided into W. parts. Now he says
to Elijah, Come in and sit down at
this solemn table and take a third of
the last morsel." How many women
like hat would it take to warm the
cold world up?
1t was His strong sympathy that
brought Christ from q warm Heaven to
a cold world. The land where He
dwelt had a serene sky, balsamic at
m~osphere, tropical Inquiries. No storm
blasts in Heaven. No chill fountains.
On a cold December night Christ
stepped out of a warm Heaven into the
worlds f%rigidity. The Thermometer
in Palestine never drops below zero,
and the pasturage Is very poor on h
hilltops. Christ stepped out of a warm
Heaven into the cold world that cold
December night
The worlds reception was cold. The
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Joseph's %sepulcher was cold. Christ
came, the great warmer, to warm the
earth, and all C~hristendom to-day feels
the glow. He will keep on warming
ing the earth until the tropic will drive
way the arctic and the antarctic. He
rave an intimation of what He was 60
ing to do when He broke up the
funeral at the gate of Main and turned
1t into a reunion festival, and when
with His warm lips He melted the
Galilean hurricane and stood on the
deck and stamped His foot, crying
~''Silence!'' and the waves crouched and
the tempest folded 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 catalepsy and the with
a.n1 n.n, 4aIno roTaonnlnr hnalthy az.