Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-03-25


A General in the English army, the arm
having halted for the night. having lost hl
lbegga8e, lay down tired and stck withor
any blanket. An oflicer came up and said
l"Why, you have no blanket. I'll 70 an
get you u blanket" He departed for fe
the General up with q very warm blanke
The General said: Whose blanket Il this?
The o nicer replied: IL got that from Q Or
vate solder In the SCOTCH regiment, Ralp
Macdonald" ''Now." said the Con. ra
"you take this blanket right back to ths
soldier: He can no moro do without It tina
can do without 1t. Never bring to me tn
blanket Of a private soldier" How man
| men like that General would Il take I,
warm the world up? The vast majority o
| us are anxious to get moro blankets, whsthe
anybody else II blanketed or not. Lool
It the fellow feeling displayed in tn
sooky dsale between Jerusalem an,
VINO has been set upon BY the bandits. ant
IN the struggle to ksap bis nropsrty hs ha
got WOUNDED ana mldIed AHd NNDs6, and
he lies there half dead. A priest rides along.
he secs him and says: why. what's the
matter With that man2 Why, he must be
hurt, lying on the fiat Of his back. Isn't IL
strange that he should lie therel But can't
stop. am on my way to temple services.
!snIa 60 along, s, you os:;s Garry s me Up up to my
up. He looks over and says: "Why, that
man must be worry much hurt. Gashed on
the forehead. What . pity. Stabbed under
bis arm, WHAT pity. Tut, tutl What .
pityl Why. they have taken his CLOTHES
nearly away from him. But haven't tims
to stop. lead the choir up In the temple
service. Go along. you beast. Garry me up
After awhile . Samaritan comes along
one who You might suppose through . Ma.
honal grudgs might have rejected this poor
wounded lsraelits. Coming along he sees
this man and ssyss "Why, that man must
bs terribly hurt. I see by his features he u
m Israelito. but ho is q man and he is q
brother. 'Whoa!" says the Samaritan, and
hs gets down on the beast and comes up to
this wounded man, gets down on ono knee,
listens to see whether the heart Of the un.
fortunate man u still beating, makes up his
mind there Il q chance for resuscitation,
goes to work at him, takes out Of his sack q
bottle of oil and . bottle of wine, cleansea
the wound with some wine, then poura
some of the restorative in the wounded
mans lips. then takes some oil and with
1t sooths the wound. After awhile he
takes of q part of his garment for
bandage. Now tho sick and wounded
man sits up, pale aud exhausted, but
very thankful. Now the good Samaritan
says, "You must get on my saddle, and ]
will walk" The Samaritan helps aud ten
derly 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
coed Samaritan and saying: "You are very
kind. 1 had no right to expect this thing OF
Samaritan when l am an Israelite. You
are very kind to walk and let me ride"
Now they have come up to the tavern. The
Samaritan, with the help Of the landlord,
assists the sick and wounded man 10 dis
mount and puts him to bed. The Bible says
the Samaritan staid all night. In the
morning, suppose, the Samaritan went in
20 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 il his convalescencS
Is not as rapid as 1 hope for. charge the
whole thing to me. Good-morning, ALL" He
gets on the beast aud says: go along. you
BEAST, but 20 slowly, for those bandits sweep
ng through the land may have left some
body else wounded and half dead" Sym
pathy! Christian sympathy! How many
such men rs that would 1t take to warm the
cold world up? Famine in Zarepthath.
Everything dried up. There Is a widow with
p son and no food except handful Of meal
She is gathering sticks to kindle Il fire to
cook the handful OF meal. Then she is 60
Ing to wrap her arms around 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 divided 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 a third OF the last morsel." How
many women like that would 1t take to warm
the cold world up?
Recently an engineer In the Southwest, on
4 locomotive. saw train coming with which
he must collide. He resolved to stand at his
post and slow up the train until the last min
ute, for there were passengers behind. The
engineer said to the fireman: "Jump! One
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 engineer would 1t take
% warm this cold world up2 A vessel struck
IN rocky island. The passengers and the
srew were without food, and sailor had q
,hellflsh under his coat. He was saving II
lor his last morsel. He heard q little child
Dry to her mother: "Oh, mother, ] am SO
sungry; give me something to cat. I am SO
lungry!" The sailor took the shellnsh from
lndsr his coat and saidi "Herel Take that
How many men like that sailor would 1t take
Reeing from his enemy, got on board q
boat. A great many Persfans leaped into
|he same boat and tie boat was sinking.
Bome one said, ''Are you not willing to make
J sacrifice for your klng2" and the majority
,f those who were In the boat leaped over
board and drowned to save their king. How
many men like that would It take to warm
,p this cold world? Elizabeth Fry went into
he horrors Of Newgate prison, and she
urned the tmprecation and the obscenity
Ind the filth into prayer and repentance and
reformed life. The sisters Of charity, In
1858, on Northern and Southern battlef1elds,
'ame to bows IA blue and gray while they
~nIr
With the sides pinned back and the white
,antage on the brow may not have answered
III the demands of elegant taste, but You
.ould not persuade that soldier dying 1000
niles from homo that It was anything but an
nigel that looked him in the facs. Oh, with
heery look, with helpful word, with kind
lction. try to mako the world warmi
>ount that day lost whose low descending
7iews from thy hand NO generous action
1t was His strong sympathy that brought
)hrist from Q warm heaven to . cold world |
The Ian where he dwelt had . serene sky,
,alsamic atmosphere. tropical luxunancs.
10 storm blasts In heaven. No chill foun.
aims. On q cold December night Christ
topped out OF Q warm heaven into the
worlds frigidity. Tho thermometer in
PALESTINE never drops below zero. but De-
ember is a cherries month, and the pastur.
Ige Is very poor on the hiiltops. Christ
tepped out OF q warm heaven into the cold |
world that cold December night. The
worlds reception was cold. The surf OF be- |
formed Gaiilee was cold. Joseph's sepul |
her was cold. Christ came. the great |
warmer, to warm the earth, and all Christen |
lom to-day feels the glow. He will keep OF
warming the earth until the tropic will drive |
Iway the arctic and the antarctic. He gav'
IN intimation OF what He was going to DE-
when He broke up the funeral at the gate
Sain and turned it into a reunion festiva
md when with His warm lips He melted the
1alilean hurricane and stood on the dscl
nd stamped his foot, crying ''silence!'' and
he waves crouched and the tempests folded
heir wings.
Oh, it was this Christ who warmed thu
hilled disciples when they had no food BY
living them plenty to eat, and who in the
Omb Of Lazarus shattered the shackles une
II the broken link OF the chain of death
att!ed into the darkest crypt of the
In His genial presence the girl
Who had fallen into the fire and the water 10
healed of the catalepsv and the withared