The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-03-20
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pictures Of Martha Washington repre-
sent her in courtly dress as bowed to by
foreign ambassadors, but Mrs. Kirk
land, in her interesting book, gives &
more inspiring portrait of Martha Wash
ington. She comes forth from her hus
bands hut in the encampment, the hu;
16 feet long by IA feet wide-she comes
sew the patched garments. to console
the soldiers dying of the cold. That is 8
better picture of Martha Washington.
Hundreds of garments, hundreds of tons
of coal, hundreds of GLACIERS at broker
window sashes, hundreds Of whole
souled men and women, are necessary ia
warm the wintry weather. What are
we doing to alleviate the condition OF
those not SO fortunate as we? Know ye
not my friends, there are hundreds OF
thousands of people who cannot stand
before his cold? 1t is useless 10 preach
to bare feet, and to empty stomachs.
and to gaunt visages. Christ gave the
world lesson in common sense when,
before preaching the gospel to the mul,
titude in the wilderness, he gave them O
good dinner.
Winter of Gladness.
When was lad, remember seeing
two rough woodcuts, but they made
more impression upon me than any pic
lures have ever seen. They were Oh OPP
posite pages. The one woodcut repre-
scented the coming of the snow in win,
ter and lad looking out at the door OF
a great mansion, and he was all wrap
ped in furs, and his cheeks were rudy,
and with glowing countenance he shout
ed, ut SHOWS, it snows" 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, ooh, my God,
it snowsi' The winter of gladness or Of
grief, according to our circumstances.
But. nv friends, there is more than one
way of warming up this cold world, fol
it is cold world In more respects than
one, and am here to consult with you
as to the best way of warming up the
world. Iwant to have great heater in
troduced into all 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 door in which to throw the fuel.
Once get this heater introduced and it
will turn the arctic zone into the tenn
perate. and the temperate into the
tropics. 1t 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 everything with
their forbiddiug look. The hand with
which they shake yours is as cold as the
paw of polar bear. If they float into
a religious meeting, the temperature
drops from 80 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 jeremiads. Cold prayers, cold
songs, cold greetings, cold sermons
Christianity ON ice The church great
refrigerator. Christians gone into winter
6narters. Hibernation On the other
hand, there are people who go through
the world like the breath OF sprlIss
morning. Warm greetings, warm pray
ers, warm smiles, warm Christian inf1u'
ence. There are such persons. We bless
God for them. We rejoice in their COM
partnership
Fellow Feeling.
A general in the English army, the
army having halted for the night, hay
ing lost his baggage, lay down tired and
sick without any blanket. An officer
came up and said: why, you have no
blanket. I'll 90 and get you blanket. y
He departed for a few moments and
then came back and covered the general
up with a very Warm blanket. Tine gen
erai said, ''Whose blanket is this?" The
officer replied. 81 got that from prl-
yate soldier in the Scotch regiment,
Ralph Macdonald. "Now," said the
general. "you take this blanket right
back to that soldier. He can no more dc
without it than / can do without IT.
Never bring to me the blanket of a pri
vate soldier" How many men like thai
general would it take to warm thu
world up? The vast majority of us are
anxious to get more blankets, whethe
ANYBODY else is blanketed or not. Lool
at the fellow feeling displayed in thu
rocky defile between Jerusalem ant
Jericho in Scripture times. Here is
man who has been set upon by tn
bandits, and in the struggle to keep hi
property he has got wounded ant
mauled and stabbed, and he lies Their
, half dead. A priest rides along. He see
him and says: why, what's the mat
ter with that man? Why, he must b
hurt, lying on the fiat of his back. Ism
it strange that he should lie there! Blu
can t stop. am on my way to tempt
, services Go along, you beast. Carr
, me up to my temple duties" Ate
, awhile a Levite comes up. He look
over and says: why, that man mus
be very much hurt. Gashed on the fore
, head. What a pity. Stabbed under hi
{ arm. What pity. Tut, tut What
3 pityl Why, they have taken his clothe
, nearly away from him. But l haven
, time to stop. lead the choir up in tn
temple service Go along, you beast
, Carry mo mn To nv temple duties.