Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-16
verv thankful Now the good Samari-

tan saws. "You must get on my saddle.
and I will walk. :" The Samaritan helps
and tenderlv 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. I had
no right to expect this thing of a Sa-
marian when [ am an Israelite You
are very kind to walk and let me ride
Now they have come up to the tav-
ern The Samaritan, with the help of
the landlord, assists the sick and wound |
ed man to dismount and puts him to
bed The Bible says the Samaritan staid
all night In the morning, 1 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 and says to the
landlord: 'Here is money to pay that
mans board, and if his convalescenco
is not as rapid as / hope for charge the |
whole thing to me. Good morning, ALL -
He gets Oh the beast and says, GO |
along, you beast. but go 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 i'll Zarepthath |
Everything dried up. There is a widow
with a son and no food except hand |
full Of meal She is gathering sticks to
kindle 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 Oh
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, sho |
says to Elijah, "Come in and sit down
at this solemn table and take a 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! Ono
Hail IL CuOuS5II O1 tIllS e1iS
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 a rocky |
island. The passengers and the crew
were without food, and a sailor had a
shellfsh under his coat He was saving |
it for his last mOrsel. He heard q little !
Chi i'd 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 q
boat. A great many Persians leaped in
to the same boat and the boat was sink |
ing. Some one said, care you not will |
ing to make sacrifice for your king?'
and the majOrlty Of those who Were III
the boat leaped overheard and drowned |
to save their king. How many men like
that would it t, lse to warm up this cold /
world? Elizabeth Fry went into the
horrors of Newgate prison, and sho
turned the imprecatiOn and the Obsceni-
ty and the filth into prayer and repent
ance and a reformed life The sisters of
charity, in 1868, on northern and south
eTn battlefields, came to boys in blue |
and gray while they were bleeding to
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 |
l 1000 miles from home that it was any
thing but an angel that looked him in |
the face. ON, 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.
Christs Sympathy.
1t was his strong sympathy that |
brought Christ from a warm heaven to |
q cold world. The land where he dwelt |
had a 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 a warm heaven into the cold |
world that cold December night The |
worlds reception was cold. The surf of |
bestormed Galilee was cold. Joseph's |
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 t
and the antarctic. He gave an Ultima
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-