The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-03-18

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Martha Washington, She comes forth
from her husbands hut in the encamp-
ment, 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 soldiers dying
of the cold. That is better picture
of Martha Washington. Hundreds OF
garments, hundreds of tons OF coal.
hundreds of GLACIERS at broken VIM
dow sashes, hundreds of whole-souled
men and women, are necessary 10
warm the wintry weather. What
are we doing to alleviate the condl-
ton of those not so fortunate as we?
Know We not, my friends, there are
hundreds of thousands of people who (
cannot stand before this cold? 1t is
useless to preach to bare feet, and to
empty stomachs, and to gaunt visages.
Christ gave this world lesson in com
mon sense when before preaching the
Gospel to the multitude in the wilder
ness, He gave them 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 great mansion, and he was
all wrapped in furs and his cheeks were
ruddy, and with glowing countenance
he shouted: at SHOWS! it snowsT On
the next page there was a miserable
tenement, and the door was open, and
a child, wan and sick and ragged and
wretched, was looking out, and he said:
so! my God, it SHOWS"
The winter of gladness or of grief,
according to our circumstances. But,
! nv friends, there is more than one way
of warming up this cold world, for it is
| a 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 great heater intro
duced into all your churches and all
your homes throughout the world. II
is heater of divine patent. 1t has
many pipes with which to conduct heat
and ID has door in which to throw
the fuel. Once get this heater intro
duced 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 o.
Christian sympathy. The question
ought to be, instead of how much hea'
can we absorb? how much heat can W.
throw out? There are men who g
through the world floating ice5ergs
They freeze everything with their Tor
!, , bidding look. The hand with whlcl
!, they shake yours is as cold as the pay
: of a polar bear. If they float into re
!, ligious meeting, the temperature drop
from so above to 10 degrees below zero
i There are icicles hanging from thei
y eyebrows. They float into a religion
q q meeting and they chill everythin
!, !. with their jeremiads Cold prayers
y cold songs, cold greetings, cold se'
mons. Christianity on ice! The churc
y great refrigerator. Christians gon
= into winter quarters. Hibernation! Q
y the other hand, there are people wh
10 90 through the world like the breat
:, of a spring morning. Warm greeting
a warm prayers, warm smiles, war
~ Christian influence. There are SUI
= ,persons. We bless God for them. v
y !, rejoice in their companionship.
G. A general in the English army, Il
O. army having halted for the night, ha
is ing lost his baggage, lay down tir,
OF and sick without any blanket. An OF
v. Ger came up and said, why, "
&c have no blanket; I'll go and get you
D. blanket" He departed for few n
I'd ments and then came back and cover
he the general up with very wal
ct blanket. The general said, "Who
m blanket is this?" The officer replie
m 81 got that from a private soldier
he the Scotch regiment, Ralph Mcdonald
RS "Now," said the general, you take Il
IT. blanket right back to that soldier.
he can no more do without it than !
he do without it. Never bring to me
in blanket of private soldier" III
Ip- manv men like that general would
tn take to warm the world up? The VI
nd majority of us are anxious to get m'
M blankets, whether anybody else
no blanketed or not. Look at the fello
ne feeling displayed in the rocky defile
Ter tween Jerusalem and Jericho in Scr
of t1re times. Here is man who
IDS been set upon by the bandits, and
of the struggle to keep his property
led has got wounded, and mauled, Q
ses stabbed, and he lies there half dead.
,ep priest rides along. He sees him &
len says: "Why, what's the matter W
nd that man? Why, he must be hi
ice lying on the fiat of his back. Ism
to strange that he should lie there?
zen can't stop. l am on my way to t.
IFS. pie services. Go along, you BET
.es, Carry me up to my temple duti'
TO After awhile Levite comes up.
the looks over and says: why, that n
yho must be very much hurt. Gashed
MS the forehead. What pity. Stab
under his arm. Whata pity Tut,
Law What pity. Why, they have ia
' Of his clothes nearly away from him.
.th. haven't time to stop; lead the cl
our up in the temple service. Go ale
ks, you beast. Carry me up to my ten
oo6 duties" After awhile a Samari
in comes along who you might
still pose through national grudge mi
iat- have rejected this poor woun
us Israelite Coming along he sees
this man and says; why, that man 2
out be terribly hurt. / see by his feat
hat he is an Israelite, but he is