Connecticut western news., 1896-03-19

the stlSlLHSn ITNIn u0ucr Qls COht unu said: .Herel 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 boas was sink ing. Some one said. Are you not will ing to make a sacrifice for yodr kings" and the majority of those who were in the boat leaped overheard and drowned to save their king. How many men like that would it take to warm up this cold world? Elizabeth Fry wens into the horrors of New2a,e prison, and she turned the imprecation and the ohsceni- " and the filth into prayer and repent ance and a reformed lifa The sisters of charity, in iS6a, on northern and south srn batslenelds, came to boys in blue and gray while they were bleeding tc death. The hlack bonnet with the sides pinned back and the white bandage on the brow may not have answered all tho demands of elegant taste, but you could not persuade that soldier dying 1000 miles from home that it was any thing but sn angel that looked him in the face. Oh, with cheery look. with helpful word. with kind action, try to make the world warmi
 Count that Gay lost whose low descending sun Views froru thy hand DO generous action done.
 Chrixt'x Sympathy.
 It was his strong sympathy that brought Christ from warm heaven to cold world. The land where he dwelt l T ~-l-.~ M tropical luxariance. No storm blasts in heaven. No chill fountains. On Q cold December night Christ stepped out of a warm heaven into the worlds frigidity. The thermometer in Palestine never drops below zero, but December is a cheerless month, and the pastursge is very poor on the hilltops, Christ stepped out of a warm heaven into the cold world that cold December night The worlds reception was cold. The surf of bestormed Galilee was cold. Joseph s sepulcher was cold. Christ came, the great warmer, % warm the earth, and all Christendom today feels the glow. He will keep on warming the earth until the tropic will drive away the arctic and the antarctic. He gave an intima- tion of what he was going to do when he broke up the funeral at the gate of Main and turned it into reunion fssti- val, snd when with his warm lips he melted the Galilean hurricane and stood on the deck and stamped his foot, cry ing, "SileEcei'' and the waves crouch ed 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 tcnb of Lazarus shattered the shackles until the broken links of the chsin of death rattled into the dark est crypt of the mausoleum. In his gen. ial presence. the girl who had fallen into the fire and the water is healed of the catalepsy. and the withered arm ear that could not hear an avalanche catches leafs rustic, and the tongue that conld not articulate trills quat- rain. and the blind eye was relumed. and Christ, instead of staying three days and three nights in the sepuleher, as was supposed, as soon as the worldly curtain of observation was dropped be- gan the exploration of all the under ground passages of earth and sea, wheI- ever a Christians grave may after awhile be. and started light of Chris- tian hope, resurrection hops wbicn snail not go out until the last cerement is taken off and the last mausoleum breaks oIrsl.
 Warmth and Hope
 Ahl I am so glad that the Sun of Righteousness dawned on the polar night of the nations And if Christ is the great warmer, then the church is the great hothonse. with its plants and trees and fruits of righteousness Do you know, my friends, that the church is the institution that proposes warmth I have been for 27 years studying how to make the church warmer. Warmer architecture, warmer hymnology, warm CT Christian salutation. All outside Si- herian winter, we must have As prince g hothouse. The only institution on earth !. today that proposes to make the world warmer. Universities and ohservatories, they all have their work. They propose to make the world light, but they do not propose to make the world warm. ' the rock it hammers The telescope shows where the other worlds are, but an astronomer is chilled while looking through it. Christianity tells us of strange combinations and how inferior | affinity may be overcome by superior affinity; but it cannot tell how all things work together for good. Worldly philosophy has great splendor, but II is the splendor of moonlight on an ice berg. The church of God proposes warmth and hope-warmth for the ex- pectations, warmth for the sympathies. Ohi am so glad that these great altar fires have been kindled. Come in out of the cold. Come in, and have your wounds salved Come, and have your sins pardoned Come in by the great gospel fireplace,
 A Blessed CoDaagration-
 Notwithstanding all the modern in ventions for heating. tell you there is nothing so full of geniality and social. ity as the old fashioned country fire place, The neighbors were to come in for winter evening of sociality. In the middle of the afternoon, in the best loom in the house, some one brought in a great backlog with great strain and I put it down on the back of the hearth. Then the lighter wood was put on, arm- Sful after armful Then shovel of coals was taken from another room and put under the dry pile, and the kindling be- gan, and the cracking, and it rose un til 1t became a roaring flame. which ' filled all the room with geniality and was reflected from the family pictures cn the wall Then the neighbors came
 in two by two They sat down, their | faces to the fire, which ever and anon was stirred with tongs and readjusted on the andirons, and there were such times of rustic repartee and story tell ing and mirth as the black stove and the blind register never dreamed of. | Al l.