Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-03-19

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pages. The one woodcut represented the
coming Of the snow In winter and q lad
looking out at the door of q great man.
sion, and he was all wrapped In furs, and
his cheeks were ruddy, and, with glowing
countenanoe, he shouted: sit snowsl 1t
snowsG' On the next page there was a
miserable tenement, and the door was
open, and q child, wan and sick and rag
ged and wretched, was looking out, and
he said, "Oh, my God, it snowsl" 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 1t 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. want to have o
great heater introduced into all your
churches and all your homes throughout
the world. 1t is 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
temperate, and the temperate into the
tropics. 1t 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
icebergs. 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 80 above to 10 degrees below zero.
There are ioicles hanging from their eye
brows. They float into religious meet
ing, and they chill everything with their
jeremiads. Gold prayers, cold songs, cold
greetings, cold sermons Christianity on
ice! The church a great refrigerator.
Christians gone into winter quarters.
Information! On the other hand, there
are people who go through the world like
the breath Of spring morning. Warm
greetings, warm prayers, warm smiles,
warm Christian influence. There are
such persons. We bless God for them.
We rejoice 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.
I'll 60 and get you blanket" He de-
parted for 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, II got that from private soldier
in the Scotch regiment, Ralph McDon-
ald." "Now," said the general, 'you
take this blanket right back to that SOL
dier. He can no more do without 1t than
can do without 1t. Never bring to me the
blanket of private soldier" How many
men like that general would it take to
warm the world upP 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 defile 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. A priest rides
along. He sees him and says: "Why,
what's the matter with that MANI Why,
be must be hurt, lying on the fiat of his
back. Isn't it strange that he should lie
there2 But 1 can't stop. am on my
way to temple services. Go along, you
beast. Garry mo 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 forehead.
What pity Stabbed under his arm.
What pity! Tut, tut What pity
Why, they have taken his clothes nearly
all away from him. But haven't time
to stop. lead the choir up in the temple
service. Go along, you beast. Garry me
up to my temple duties"
After awhile Samaritan comes along
one who you might suppose through 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. l see by his fea-
lures he is an Israelite, but he is a man,
and he is 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 q
chance for resuscitation, goes to work at
him, takes out of his sack bottle Of oil and
a bottle of wine, cleanses the wound with
some wine, then pours some Of the restor
ative into the wounded mans lips, then
takes some oil, and with it soothes 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 very thankful. Now the
good Samaritan says, "You must get or
my saddle, and will walk" The Samar.
itan helps and tenderly steadies this
wounded man until ha gets him Oh toward
the tavern, the wounded man holding OF
with the little strength he has left, ever
and anon looking down at tho good Sa
maritan and saying: "You are very kind
I had no right to expect this thing of q
Samaritan when I am an Israelite You
are very kind to walk and let me ride"
Christian Sympathy.
Now they have come up to the tavern
Tho Samaritan, with the help of the land
lord, assists the sick and wounded man tC
dismount and puts him to bed. The Bible
says the Samaritan staid all night. In the
morning, I 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 out, anG
says to the landlord: "Here is money tc
pay that mans board, and, if his conva
lescence is not as rapid as l hope for charge
the whole thing to me. Good morning
ALL" He gets on the beast and says, "Ge
along, you beast, but go slowly, for those
bandits sweeping through the land may
have somebody else wounded and hall
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
a handful of meal. She is gathering sticks
to kindle fire to cook the handful o.
meal. Then she is going to wrap her armt
around her boy and die. Here comes
Elijah. His two black servants, the ra
vens, have got tired waiting on him. HI
asks that woman for food. Now that
handful of meal is to be divided into three
parts. Before it was to bo divided into
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