Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-03-25

Before il was to be divided in two parts.
Now she says TO Elijah: Come in and
sit down at this solemn table and take n
third of the last morsel." How many
women like that would il take to warm
the cold world up?
Recently an engineer in the south
west, on a locomotive, saw n train COM
ing with which he must collide. He
resolved to stand at his post and slow
up the train until the last minute, for
there were passengers behind The
engineer said to the fireman: .Dump,
One is enough on this engine. Jump.
The fireman jumped and was saved. The
crash came. The engineer died ut his
post. How many men like THAI en-
gineer would it take to warm this cold
world up? A vessel struck ON a rocky
island. The passengers and Tie crew
were without food and sailor had a
shellfish under his coat. He was saw
ing IL for his last morscl. He heard a
little child cry to her mother: "oh,
mother, am SO hungry; give me some
thing 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 il
take TO warm this cold world up? Ner-
xes, fleeing from his enemy, got ON
board n boat. A great many Persians
leaped into the same boat and the boat
was sinking. Some one said: Are YOU
not willing to make n sacrifice for YOUR
king?' and the majority of those who
were in the boat leaped overheard and
drowned to save their king. How
many men like that would il take to
warm mp this cold world? Elizabeth
Fry went into the horrors of Newpate
prison, and she turned the imprccation
and the obscenity and the filth into
prayer and repentance and n reformed
life. The Sisters of Charity, in 1868, on
northern and southern battle fields,
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 a thou
sand miles from home, that il was any
thing but an angel that looked him in
the face. oh, with CHEEKY look, with
helpful word, with kind action, try to
make the world warm!
descending
Views from thy hand no generous action done.
1t was his strong sympathy that
brought Christ from n warm Heaven to
cold world. The land where he dwelt
had serene sky, balsamic atmosphere,
tropical luXuriance. No storm-blasts
in Heaven. No chill fountains On a
cold December night Christ stepped
out of n warm Heaven into the worlds
frigidity. The thermometer in Pales-
tine never drops below zero. but De-
cember is n cherries month. and the
pasturage is very poor on the hilltops.
Christ stepped out of warm Heaven
into the cold world that cold December
night. The worlds reception was cold.
The surf OF bestormed Gallilce was
cold. Joseph's sepulchre was cold.
Christ came, the great warmer, TO warm
the earth, and all Christendom feels
the glow.
lie will keep on warming the earth
until the tropic will drive away the
Arctic and the Antarctic. He gave an
intimation of what He was going to dc
when He broke up the funeral at the
gate of Main and turned il into a reun-
ion festival, and when, with His warm
lips, He melted the Gallilean hurricane
and stood on the deck and stamped His
foot, crying. "Silence! and the waves
crouched and the tempests folded their
wings.
Oh, it was this Christ who warmed the
chilled disciples when they had no food
by giving them plenty to eat, and who
in the tomb of Lazarus shattered the
shackles until the broken links of tho
% 4. T..
crypt of the mausoleum. In his genial
presence the girl who had fallen into
the fire and the water is healed of the
catalepsy, and the withered arm takes
muscular. healthy action, and the ear
that could not hear an avalanche
catches n leafs rustic, and the tongue
that could not articulate trills a qua
train, and the blind eye was relumed.
and Christ, instead of staying three
days and three nights in the sepulchre,
as was supposed, as soon as the worldly
curtain of observation was dropped be-
gan the exploration of all the un.
foreground passages of earth and sea,
wherever Christians grave may after
awhile be, and started light of Chris
tian hope, resurrection hope, which
shall not go out until the last cerement
is taken off and the last mausoleum
breaks open.
All! am so glad that the Son OF
Righteousness dawned on the polar
night Of the nations. And IL Christ is
the great warmer, then the church is
the great dollhouse, with its plants and
trees and fruits of righteousness. DC
You know, my friends, that the church
is the institution that proposes warmth?
have been for % years studying how
to make the church warmer. Warmer
architecture, warmer hymnology,
warmer Christian salutation. All out
side Siberian winter, we must have IL a
princes dollhouse. The only institu.
ton on earth to-day that proposes TO
make the world warmer. Universities
and observatories, they all have their
work. They propose 10 make the world
light, but they do not propose to make
the world warm. Geology informs us,
but it is as cold as the rock IL hammers.
The telescope shows where the other
worlds are, but an astronomer is chilled
while looking through it. Chemistry
tells us OF stranger combinations and
how inferior affinity may be overcome
by superior affinity; but IL can not tell
how all things work together for good.
Worldly philosophy has great splen.