Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-21

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and to empty stOmachs, and TO gaunt Wis
ages Christ gave the world lesson IL
common sense when, before preaching the
gospel to the multitude in the wilderness,
he gave them a good dinner.
When | was a lad, L remember seeing
two rough woodcuts, but they made more
impression upon me than any pictures l
have ever seen. They were on opposite
pages. The one wOOdcut represented the
coming of the snow in winter and lad
looking out at the door of n great man
sion. and he was all wrapped in furs, and
his cheeks were ruddy, and. with glowing
countenance, he shouted, 1T SHOWS. 1t
SHOWS" On the next page there was
miserable tenement, and the door was
| open, and Il child. wan and sick and rag
Ged and wretchcd, was looking out, and
! he said, "Oh, my God, it SHOWS The
winter 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 it is a cold world
| in more respects than one. and L am here
To consult with you as TO the best way OF
warming up the world. l want to have a
great heater introduced into all your
churches and all your homes throughout
the world. Ii is n heater of divine patent.
| 1t has many pipes with which to conduct
! heat. and it has 4 door in which TO throw
| the fuel. Once get this heater introduced,
and it will turn the arctic zone into the
temperate. and the temperate into the
| tropics. IL is the powerful heater; it IS
| the glorious furnace of Christian sym
pathy. 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
! icebcrss. They freeze everything with
their forbidding 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 50 above to 10 degrees below zero.
| There are iciclcs hanging from their eye
brows. They float into Il religious meet
ing. and they chill everything with their
! jeremads. Cold prayers, cold songs. cold
greetings. cold sermons. Christianity on
ice. The church a great refrigerator.
! Christians gone into winter quarters. Hi
bernation. On the other hand, there are
people who go through the world like the
breath of spring morning. Warm greet
mgs. warm prayers, warm smiles, warm
Christian influence. There are such per
sons. We bless God for them. We re
Joice in their companionship.
The Good Samaritan.
A general in the English army. the
army having halted for the night, having
lost his baggage, lay down tired and sick
without any blanket. An officer came up
and said: why, you have no blanket
Ill go and get you a blanket" He de-
parted fer few moments and then came
back and covered the general up with a
very warm blanket. The general said
Whose blanket is this?' The officer re-
piled. Il got that from Il 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 it than l can do
without it. Never bring to me the blanket
of Il 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 blanketless or not. Look
at the fellow feeling displayed in the rocky
| dehle 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
| lies there half dead. \ priest rides along
He sees him and says: why, what's the
matter with that man? Why, he must
be hurt, lying on the fiat of his back
Isn't it strange that he should lie there =?
But l can't stop. | am on my way to
temple services. Go along, you beast.
Carry me up to my temple duties" After
awhile Il Levite comes up. He looks over
and says: why, that man must be very
much hurt. Gashed on the forehead.
What pity! Tut, tut! What a pity
Why, they have taken his clothes nearly
all away from him. But 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 Samaritan comes along
one who you might suppose through a ma
tional grudge might have rejected this
poor wounded Israelite. Coming along. he
sees this man and says: why, that man
must be terribly hurt. / see by his fea-
lures he is an Israclite, but he is a man.
and he is n brother" Whoa SAYS the
Samaritan, 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 a
chance for resusctati0n, goes to work AT
him, takes out of his sack a bottle of oil
and bottle of wine, cleanses the wound
with some wine, then pOurs some of the
restorative into the wounded mans lips
then takes some oil, and with it sOothes
the wound. After awhile he takes off a
part of his garments for bandage Now
the sick and wounded man sits I'D, pale
and exhausted, but very thankful Now
the good Samaritan says, You must get
on my saddle and l 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 Sa
maritan and saying: You are very kind
/ had no right to expect this thing of |;
Samaritan when l am an Israelite. You
are very kind to walk and let me ride"
Christian Sympathy.
Now they have come up to the tavern
, The Samaritan, with the help of the land
lord, assists the sick and wounded maj
, to dismount and puts him to bed. Tn,
Bible says the Samaritan staid all night
, In the morning, l suppose, the Samaritan