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

looking down at the good Samaritan
and saying; "You are very kind; had
no right to expect this thing OF. q Sa-
imaritan when am an Israelite; you
are very kind to walk and let me ride.
Now they have come up to the tav-
ern. The Samaritan, with the help OF
the landlord, assists the sick and
wounded man to dismount and puts
him to bed. The Bible says the Sa-
maritan staid all night. In the morn
ing, suppose the Samaritan went in
to 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 II
his convalescence is not as rapid as
hope for, charge the whole thing to
me. Good morning, all" He gets on
his beast and says: go along, you
beast, but go slowly, for those bandits
sweeping through tie land may
have left somebody else wounded
and half dead" sympathy! Chris
tian sympathy! How many such
men as that would it take to warm the
cold world up? Famine in Zarepthath.
Everything dried up. There is widow
with son and no food except hand
full of meal She is gathering sticks to
kindle a fire to cook the handful of
meal. Then she is going 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 the 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 it take to warm
the cold world up?
Elizabeth Fry went into the horrors
of Newgatc Prison, and she turned the
imprecation and the obscenity and the
filth into prayer and repentance and a
reformed life The Sister of Charity
in 1868, on northern and southern bat
tlefelds, came to boys in blue and gray
whfle they were bleeding to death
The black bonnet with the s:les pinnet
back and the white bandage on the
brow may not have answered all the
demands of elegant taste, but yo'
I could not pursuade that soldier dying
thousand miles from home that i
/ was anything 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!
Count that day lost whose low descending su
Views from the hand no generous action dom
1t was His strong sympathy tina
brought Christ from warm Heaven
cold world. The land where He dwel
. had serene sky, balsamic atmospher'
2 tropical luXuriance. No storm-blas'
y in Heaven. No chill fountains. On
. cold December night Christ steppe
d out of warm Heaven into the col
3 worlds frigidity. The thermometer
|, Palestine never drops below zero, b'
- December is cheerless month and I'll
y pasturage is very poor on the hilltop
= = Christ stepped out of warm Heav'
~ into the cold world that cold Decemb
~ night. The worlds reception was col
. The surf of bestormed Galilee was col
- :, Joseph's sepulcher was cold. Chr
~ ~ came, the great Warmer, to warm t
- earth, and all Chr;stendom to-day fe'
1.-THE glow. He will keep on warmi
he the earth until the tropic will dri
" away the Arctic and the Antarct
ed He gave an intimation of what He W
IL going to do when He broke up t
OH funeral at the gate of Main and turn
a it into reunion festival, and wh
10 with His warm lips He melted
ed Galilean hurricane and stood on
'm deck and stamped His foot, cryil
,se 'silence!' and the waves crouched a
ID, the tempest folded their wings.
in Notwithstanding all the modern
l." ventions for heating l tell you there
his nothing 50 full of geniality and soc
He ity as the old-fashioned country Il
an place. The neighbors were to come
he for q winter evening of sociality.
ow the middle of the afternoon, in
it best room of the house, some (
asst brought in great backlog with gr
ore strains and put it down on the back
is the hearth. Then the lighter W,
wv was, put on, armfIl after armful. III
be- q shovel of coal was taken from
ip- other room and put under the dry p
mas and the lSindling began, and the era
in ling, and it rose until it became rt
he ing flame, which filled all the re
Ind with geniality and was reflected II
A the family pictures on the wall. II
md the neighbors came in two by t
ith They sat down, their faces to the
lrt, which ever and anon was stirred "
t it tongs and readjusted on the andre
But and there were such times OF ru
en- repartee, and story telling, and M
lst. as the black stove and the blind
es." ister never dreamed, of Meanw
He the table was being spread, and so
nan was the cloth and, so clean was
en- cutlery, they glisten, and glisten in
bed mind to-day. And then the best lux
tut! of orchard and fnrmyard was roa'
ken and prep pared for the table, to meet
But appetites sharpened by the cold I
noir OH INV friends, the Church of Jt
,np. Christ is the worlds fireplace, and
,nIe woods are from the cedars of Lebal
H. and the fires are fires of love, and '
.s'~ .s"l the silver tongs of the altar we
sup the flame and TIE light is refie
ght from all the family pictures on the
ded pictures of those who were here
this are gone now OH come up c
aust to the fireplace. Have your "
nres faces transfgured in the light.
man your cold, feet weary of the
nev. close up to the blessed