The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-28

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Hat that bare head. Coat that
bare back. Sleeve that bare arm.
Nearly all the pictures OF Martha
Washington represent her In courtly
dress as bowed to by foreign embassa'
doris; but Mrs. Kirkland, In her inter.
esting book, gives a more inspiring
portrait of Martha Washington. She
comes forth from her husbands hut in
the encampment, the hut 16 feet long
by IA feet wide-she comes forth from
that hut to nurse the sick, to sew the
patched garments, to console the sol.
diers dying Of the cold. That is bet
ter picture of Martha Washington.
Hundreds of garments, hundreds OF
tons of coal, hundreds Of GLACIERS at
broken window-sashes, hundreds OF
whole-souled men and women, are moo
essary to warm the wintry weather.
What are we doing to alleviate the
condition Of those not SO fortunate as
we? Know We not, my friends, there
arc hundreds Of thousands of people
who can not stand before His cold? It
In useless to preach to bare feet, and to
empty stomachs, and to gaunt visages.
Christ gave the world lesson in COM
mon sense when, before preaching tho
Gospel to the multitude in the wilder
ness, He gave them a good dinner.
When was lad remember seeing
two rough woodcuts, but they made
more impression upon me than any
pictures 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 a great mansion; and he was
all wrapped in furs, and his cheeks
were ruddy, and with glowing counte-
nance he shouted: 1T SHOWS! it
snows" On the next page there was
a miserable tenement, and the door
was open, and child, wan and sick
and ragged and wretched, was looking
out, and he said: "Oh! my God, It
SHOWS" The winter of gladness or of
grief, according to our circum-
stances. 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 am here
to consult with you as to the best way
of warming up the world. Iwant to
have a 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 neat; and it has
a 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 Chris
tian sympathy. 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 float
ing icebergs. They freeze everything
with their forbidding look. The hand
with which they shake yours is as cold
as the paw of a polar bear. II they
float into religious meeting, the tenn
perature drops from 80 above to 10
degrees below zero. There are icicles
hanging from their eyebrows. They
float into religious meeting, and they
chill everything with their terminals.
Cold prayers, cold songs, cold greet
ings, cold sermons. Christianity
on ice! The church great
Christians gone into
winter quarters. Information! On
the other hand, there are people who
go through the world like the breath
of a 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.
A general in the English army, the
army having halted for the night, hav-
ing lost his baggage, lay down tired
and sick without any blanket. An Of
fcer came up and said: "Why, you have
no blanket I'll go and get you
blanket" He departed for few mo-
ments and then came back and COW
cred the general up with a very
warm blanket. The general said:
"Whose blanket is this?" The Of
fcer replied: 81 got that
from private soldier in the Scotch
Ralph Mcdonald" Now"
said the general, 'you take this blan-
ket right back to that soldier. He can
no more do without it than 1 can do
without it. Never bring to me the
blanket of 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
blanketed or not. Look at the fellow
feeling displayed in the rocky defile be-
tween Jerusalem and Jericho in Scrip
ture times. Here is a 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 man? Why, he muse be hurt, ~
ing on the fat of his back. Isn't it
strange that he should lie there?
But can't stop. l am on
my way to temple services. Go
along, you beast. Carry me up
to my temple duties" After awhile a
Levite comes up. He looks over and
says: why that man must be very
much hurt. Gashed on the forehead.