Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-03-21

those not so Fortunate US we! hnOW ye
not, my friends, there are hundreds Of
thousands OF people who cannot stand
before his cold? 1t is useless to preach
80 bare feet, and to empty stomachs.
and TO gaunt visagcs. Christ gave the
world lesson in common sense when,
before preaching the gospel to the null
titude III the Wilderness, he gave them
good dinner.
Winter of Glndness.
When / was Il lad, | remember seeing
two rough woodcuts, but they made
more impression upon me than any pic
lures | have ever suen. They were Oh OPP
posite pages The one woodcut repre-
sented the coming of Tho snow in win
ter and lad looking out at the door of
a great mansion, ard he was all wrap
ped in furs, and his cheeks were ruddy,
and with glow ing countenaDce he shout
cd, 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 ont, 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 cold world in more respects than
one, and I am here TO consult with you
as to the best way Of warming up the
world. WANT to have great heater in
troduced into all your churches and all
your homes throughout the world. 1t is
Il heater Of divine patent. 1t has many
pipes with which to conduct heat, and
it has Il door i'll which to throw tho fuel.
Once get this heater introduced and it
will turn tho arctic zone into the tenn
perate, and the temperate into the
tropics. 1t is the pow erful heater, it is
the glorious furnace of Christian sympa-
thy. The question ought to be, instead
of how much heat can wo absorb, How
much heat can We throw out? There ere
men who go through the world floating
icebergs They freeze everything with
their fcrbiddiug look. The hand with
which they shake yours is as cold as the
paw of polar hear. If they float into
religious meeting, the temperature
drops from SO above to 10 degrees below
zero. There are icicles hanging from
their eyebrows They float intoa reli-
gous meeting and they chill everything
with their jeremiads. Cold prayers, cold
songs, cold greetings, cold sermons.
Christianity on ice! The church a great
refrigerator. Christians gone into winter
quarters. Hibernation On the other
hand, there are people who go through
the world like the breath of spring
morning. Warm greetings, warm pray
ers, warm smiles warm Christian infu-
ence. There are such persons. We bless
God for them. We rejoice i'll their COM
partnership.
Fellow Feeling.
A general il the English army, the
army having halted for the night, hay
Jig lost his baggage, lay down tired and
sick without any blanket. An officer
ca ne up and said: "Why, you have no
blanket. I'll 80 and get you blanket.
he departed for few moments and
then came back and covered the general
up with Il very warm blanket. The gen
eral said, "Whc>e blanket is ths?'' The
officer replied, 81 got that from a pri-
waite soldier in the Scotch regiment,
Ralph Mac. >onald. " "Now," said the
general, you take this blanket right
back TO that soldier He can 10 more do
without it than ] can do without it.
Never bring to Inc the blanket of pri-
vate soldier" How many men like that
general would it take to warm the
world up? The vast majority of us are
anxious to get nero blankets, whether
anybody else is blanlIeted OF not Look
at the fellow feeling displayed in the
rocAy deflo between Jerusalem and
Jericho in Scripture times. Here is
man who has been set upon by the
bandits, and i'll the struggle to keep bis
property he has got wounded and
mauled and stabbed, ard he lies there
half dead A priest rides along. He sees
Linn and says: "Why, what's the mat
ter with that man? Why, he must be
hurt, lying Oh the flat of his back. Isn't
it strange that lie should lie therel But
can t stop. am on my way to temple
services Go along, you beast. Carry
me up to my temple duties. " After
awhile Levite comes up. He looks
over aud says: "Why. that man must
be very much hurt. Gashed Oh the fore
head. What pity. Stabbed under his
arm. What pity. Tut, tut What
pityl Why, they have taken his clothes
nearly away from him. But l haven't
time to stop I lead the choir up IN the
temple service. Go along, you beast.
Carry me up to my temple duties. y
After awhile Samaritan comes along
-one who you might suppose through
national grudso might have rejected this
poor wounded Israelite. Coming along
lie secs this man aud says: "Why, that
man must be terribly hurt. 1 see by his
features he is an Israelite, but he is
man and lie is brother. whoa ," says
the Samaritan, and he gets down off the
bcast and comes up to this Woundeu
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 chance for resuscitation, goes
10 work at him, takes out of his sack
bottle of oil and bottle of wine, cleanses
the wound with some wine, then pours
some Of the restorative in the wounded
mans lips, then takes some oil and with
i soo;hes the wound After awhile he
takes off part of his garments for
bandage. Now the sick and wounded
man sits up, pale and exhausted, but
cry thankful Now the good Samari-
AN says, You must get on my saddle,
ard 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 Samaritan
and saying "You are very kind. had