Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-03-21

the night. Then he comes out-the
Samaritan comes cut and says to the
landlord: Here is money to pay that
mans board, and if his convalescence
is not as rapid as hope for, charge the
whole thing to me. Good morning, all. !"
He gets on the beast and says, go
along, you beast, but 60 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 world up? Famine in Zarepthath.
Everything dried up. There is widow
with son and no food except hand
full of meal She is gathering sticks to
kindle a fire to cook the handful Of
meal. Then she is going to wrap her
arms 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 di-
vided into three parts. Before; it was
to be divided into two parts Now, she
says to Elijah, "Come in and sit down
at this solemn table and take third of
the last morsel How many women
like that would it take to warm the
cold world up?
Warming the World.
Recently an engineer in the south
west, on locomotive, saw train COM
ing with which he must collide. He re-
solved TO stand at his post and slow up
the train until the last minute, for
there were passengers behind. The en-
gineer said to the fireman: jump One
man is enough ON this engine Jump!"
The fireman jumped and was saved.
The crash came. The engineer died at
his post. How many men like that en-
gineer would it take to warm this cold
world up? A vessel struck on rocky
island. The passengers and the crew
were without food, and sailor had a
shellish under his coat. He was saving
it for his last morsel. He heard little
child cry to her mother: "Oh, mother, ]
am SO hungry; give me something to
eat. am so hungry" The sailor took
the shellfish from under his coat and
said: "Here Take that" How many
men like that sailor would it take to
warm the cold world up? Xerxes, fee
ing from his enemy, got on board a
boat. A great many Persians leaped in
to the same boat and the boat was sink
ing. Some one said, ''Are you not will
ing to make sacrifice for your king?'
and the majority of those who were in
the boat leaped overheard and drowned
to save their king. How many men like
that would it take to warm up this cold
world? Elizabeth Fry went into the
horrors of Newgate prison, and she
turned the imprecation and the obsceni-
ty and the filth into prayer and repent
ance and reformed life. The sisters OF
charity, in 1868, Oh northern and south.
ern battlefelds, came to boys in blue
and gray while they were bleeding tc
death. The black bonnet with the sides
pinned back and the white bandage on
the brow may not have answered all
the demands of elegant taste, but you
could not persuade that soldier dying
1000 miles from home that it was any
thing but an angel that looked him in
the face. Oh, with CHEEKY look, with
helpful word, with kind action, try to
make the world warm
Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand no generous action done.
Christ's Sympathy.
1t was his strong sympathy that
brought Christ from warm heaven to
a cold world. The land where he dwelt
had serene sky, balsamic atmosphere,
tropical luxuriance. No storm blasts in
heaven. No chill fountains. On cold
December night Christ stepped out of a
warm heaven into the world s frigidity.
The thermometer in Palestine never
drops below zero, but December is a
cherries month, and the pasturage is
very poor on the hilltops. Christ stepped
out of warm heaven into the cold
world that cold December night. The
worlds reception was cold. The surf of
bestormed Galilee was cold. Joseph IS
sepulcher was cold. Christ came, the
great warmer, to warm the earth, and all
Christendom today feels the glow. He
will keep ON warming the earth until
the tropic will drive away the arctic
and the antarctic. He gave an intima-
ton of what he was going to do when
he broke up the funeral at the gate Of
Main and turned it into reunion festi-
val, and when with his warm lips be
melted the Galilean hurricane and stood
on the deck and stamped his foot, cry
ing, "SileDcel" and the waves crouch
ed and the tempests folded their wings,
Oh, it was this Christ who warmed
the chilled disciples when they had nc
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 dark.
est crypt of the mausoleum. In his gen.
ial presence the girl who had fallen
into the fire and the water is healed of
the catalepsy, and the withered arm
takes muscular, healthy action, and the
ear that could not hear an avalanche
catches leafs rustic, and the tongue
that could not articulate trills a uuat-
rain, and the blind eye was relumed,
and Christ, instead of staying three
days and three nights in the sepulcher,
as was supposed, as soon as the worldly
curtain of observation was dropped be-
gan the exploration of all the under
ground passages of earth and sea, wher.
ever a Christians grave may after
awhile be, and started light of Chris
tian hope, resurrection hope, which shall
not go out until the last cerement is
taken off and the last mausoleum breaks
open.
Warmth and Hope.
ALL / am SO glad that the Sun of
Righteousness dawned ON the polar
night of the nations. And if Christ is
the great warmer, then the church is
the great dollhouse. with its plants and
trees and fruits Of righteousness 10