The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-03-20

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tan says, "You must get on my saddle,
and I will walk. The Samaritan helps
and tenderly steadies this wounded man
until he gets him on toward the tavern,
the wounded man holding OH with the
little strength he has left, ever and anon
looking down at the good Samaritan
and saying "You are very kind. / had
no right to expect this thing of Sa-
maritan 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, l 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 on 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 in Zarepthath.
Everything dried up There is widow
with 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 arouLN 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 d.
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! Ono
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
shellfish under his coat. He was saving
it for his last morsel He heard little
child cry to her mother; "Oh, mother, l
am so hungry; give me something to
eat. I 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, flee
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 youonot will
ing to make sacrifice for your king?"
and the majority Of those who were IN
the boat leared 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 iInprecation and the obsceni-
ty and the filth into prayer and repent
ance and reformed life The sisters of
charity, IN 1868, on northern and south
ern battlefields, came to boys in blue
and gray while they We're 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
/, 900 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 te
make the world warm!
Count that day lost whose low descending sur
Views from thy hand no generous action done
Christ's Sympathy.
1t was his strong sympathy thai
brought Christ from a warm heaven Il
a cold world. The land where he dwell
had serene sky, balsamic atmosphere
tropical luxuriance. No storm blasts II
heaven. No chill fountains. On colo
December night Christ stepped out of
warm heaven into the worlds frigidlty
The thermometer in Palestine neve
drops below zero, but December is
cheerless month, and the pasturage il
very poor ON thehilltops. Christ stepped
out of warm heaven into the COLI
world that cold December night. Thu
world 3 reception was cold. The surf o
bestormed Galilee was cold. Joseph
sepulcher was cold. Christ came, tn
great warmer, to warm the earth, and al
Christendom today feels the glow. ID
will keep on warming the earth unit
the tropic will drive away the arcti
and the antarctic. He gave an intima
ton of what he was going to do whel
he broke up the funeral at the gate o
Main and turned it into reunion festi
val, and when with his warm lips b
melted the Galilean hurricane and stoo
ON the deck and stamped his foot, cry
ing, "SilenceP' and the waves crouch
ed and the tempests folded their wings
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