The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-20
NUMBER 80.

sousness awhe1 oa me polar night Of Tho
Nations. And II Christ Is the great warmer,
then the church Is the great dollhouse, with
Its plants and trees and fruits Of righteous
hess. Do you know, my friends, that the
church Is the institution that proposes
WARMTH l have been for twenty-seyen years
studying how to make the church warmer.
Warmer architecture, warmer hymnology,
warmer Christian salutation. All outside
Siberian winter, we must have Il a princes
dollhouse. The only institution on earth to-
day that proposes to make the world warmer.
Universities and observstories, they all h I'VE
, sorIa wos.' ,r, Tasy propose to make the
the world warm. Geology informs us, but 1t
d as cold as the rock It hammers. The tele-
copeshows where the other worlds are, but
an astronomer is chilled while looking
through 1T. Chemistry tells US OF strange
combinations and how inferior affinity may
be overcome BY superior affinity; but 1t can
not tell how all things work together for
good. Worldly philosophy has q great
Splendor, but 1t Ia the splendor Of moonlight
on an iceberg. The church OF God proposes
warmth and hope-wArmth for the expecta-
Hons, warmth Tor the sympathies. Oh! I
am so glad that these great altar fires have
been kindled: Come In out Of the cold.
Dome In, and have your wounds salved.
Come, and have your sins pardoned. Come
blythe great gospel fireplace.
Notwithstanding all the modern inyen.
dons for heating, I tell you there Ia nothine
20 full Of genislity and s~ociality as the old
fashioned country fireplace. The neigh
oors were to come In for a winter evening
81 socialtty. In the middle OF the afternoon,
N the best room Of the house, SOM one
brought in . great backlog with great strain
md put It down on the back OF the hearth.
rh"n the lighter wood was put on, ar1nful
Ifter armfuL. Then a shovel Of Goals was
AIKEN from another room and put under the
Try pile, and the kindling began, and the
tracking, and It rose until 1t became a roar
ing flame, which hlled all the room with
yentality and was reflected from the family
pictures on the walls. Then the neighbors
same In two by two. They sat down, their
Iaces to the fire, which ever and amor was
stirred with tongs and readjusted on the
lRdirons. n there were such times of
rustic repartee and story telling and mirth
IS the black stove and the blind register
never dreamsd OF. Meanwhile the table was
being spread. and so fair was the cloth and
10 clean was the cutlery, they glisten and
ylisten in our mind to-day. And then the
best luxury Of orchard and farmyard was
roasted and prepared for the table, to meet
ippetites ~sharpened by the cold ride.
o. my friends, the church Of Jesus Christ
rom the cedars of Lebanon, and the fires are
ares Of love, and with the silver tonga of the
altar we stir the flame, n the light is re-
lected from all the family pictures on the
wall-pictures of those who were here and
are gone now. o, come up close to the fire.
place! Have your faces TRANSPORTED In the
light. Put your cold feet. weary Of the jour-
ney. close up TO the blessed conflagratton.
Chilled through with trouble and disappoint-
ment, come close up until you can get warm
,lear through. Exchange experience, talk
over the hsryests gathered, tell all the Ros-
pei news. Meanwhile the table Is being
spread. On 1t, bread OF life. On it, grapes
81 Eshcol. On 1t, new wine from the king
1om. On It, a thousand Injuries celestial.
HarkI as a wounded hand raps on the table
md a tender voice comes through saying:
Come, for all things are now ready. Eat,
D frlendsl drink, yea, drink abundantly, o
oeloved!'
My friends, that is the way the cold world
IS going to be warmed up, by the great gos-
pei fireplace. All Nations will come in and
VT down at that banquet. While l was mus
lng the fire burned. "Come In out of the
told, come in out Of the coldI"