Connecticut western news., 1896-03-19

ped In furS, and his cheeks were ruudy, and with glow ing conntenance he shout. ed. "It sRows. it snowsH On the next page there was miserable tenement, and the door was open. and a child. wan and sick and ragged and wretched, WAS looking ont. and he said, "oh. my God, it snows.' The winter of gladness or of grief, according to onr circumstances. But, my friends, there is more than one way ot warming up this cold world. for is is a cold world in more respects than one, and am here to consult with you as to the best way of warming up the world. lwant 10 have a great heater in- trodnced into all your churches and all your homes throughout the world. It is a heater of divine patent. It has many pipes with which to conduct heat, and 1t bss a door in which to throw the fuel Once get this beater introduced and 1t will turn the arctic rome into the tenn perate, and the temperate into the tropics. IL is the powerful heater, it Is the glorious furnace of Christian sympa- thy. The question ought to be, instead of how much heat can we absorb. How much heat can we throw out? There are men who go through the world floating icebergs- They freeze every thing with their f9hiddiag look. The hand with which they shake yours is as cold as the paw of a polar bear. If they float into a religious meeting, the temperature drops from so above to 10 degrees below zero. There are icicles hanging from their eyebrows, They float into reli- gious meeting and they chill everything with their leremiads. Cold prayers, cold songs. cold greetings, cold sermons. Christianity on feel The church a great refrigerator. Christians gone into winter quarters, Hihernationi On the other hand, there are people who go through the world like the breath of a spring morning. Warm greetings, warm pray CTS, warm smiles, warm Christian inf1u- ence. There are such persons. We bless God for them. We rejoice in their com- psnionship.
 Fellow Feeling.
 A general in the English army, the army having halted for the night, bav- ing lost his baggage. lay down tired and sick without any blanket. An officer NuIbc Rp Aho c<htus Nuo navy AS blanket. I'll go and ses you blanket, " He departed for a few moments and then came back and covered the general up with a very warm blanket. The gen. eral said, Whose blanket is thisy" The officer replied, "I got that from pri- vate soldier in the Scotch regiment, Ralph Macdonald. :" Now" said rhe general. 'yun take this blanket right back to that soldier He can no more do without il than I can do without is. Never bring to me the blanket of pri- yate soldier" How many men like that general wc1ld 1t take to warm the world up? The vast majority of us are anxious to get moro blankets. whether anybody else is blanketed or nor. Look at the fellow feeling displayed in the rocky 6efile between Jerusalem and Jericho in Scripture times. Here is . man who has been set upon by the bandits, and in the struggle to keep his property he has got wounded and mauled and stabbed. and he Hes there half dead A priest rides along. He sees him and says: Why, what's the mat ter with that man? Why. he must be hurt, lying on the flat of his back. Isn't it strange that he should lie there! But can't stop. am on my way 10 temple services. Go along, you beast. Carry me up to my temple duties" After awhile Levite comes up. He looks over and says: ''Why. that man must be very much hurt. Gashed on the fore head. What pity. Stabbed under his arm. What pity. Tut. tuti What a pity! Why, they have taken his clothes nearly away from him. But haven't time to stop. I lead the choir up in the temple service Go along, yul beast. Carry me up to my temple duties"
 After awhile Samaritan comes along -one who you might suppose through national grudge might have rejected this poor wounded Israelite. Coming along he secs this man and says: "Why, that man must be terribly hurt. I see by his features he is an Israelite, but he is man and he is a brother. Whoa P" says the Samaritan, and he gets down of the beast and comes up to this wounded man, gets down on one knee, listens to see whether the heart of theunforsunate 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 If oil and bottle of wine, cleapses the wound with some wine. then pours some of the restorative in the wounded mans lips. then takes some oil and with 1t soothes the wound. After awhile he takes off part of his garments for bandase. Now the sick and wounded man sits ulh pale and exhausted. but very thankful Now the good Samari- tan 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 wounded man holding on with the little strength he has left, ever and anon looking down at the good Samaritan and saying: Ton are very kind. had no right to expect this thing of Sa- maritan when | am an Israelte. You are very kind to walk and let me ride. |"
 Now they have come up to the tav- ern The Samaritan, with the help of the landlord. assists the sick and wound ed man to dislnount and puts him to bed. The Bible says the Samaritan staid all night. In the morning, 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 ont and says to the landlord: ''Here is monsy to pay that mans board, aud if his con salcscence is not as rapid as I 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 those bandits sweeping through the
 land may have left somebody else
 wounded and half dead" Sympathy Christian sympathy! How many such
 men as that would it take to warm the cold worli up? Famine in Zarepthath
 Everything dried up. There is widow
 with a son and no food except hand ful of meal She is gathering sticks to