The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-04-25

essary to warm the wintry weather.
What are we doing to alleviate the
condition of those not SO fortunate as
we? Know We hot, my friends, there
are hundreds OF thousands of people
who can not stand before His cold? Il
is useless to preach to bare feet, and to
empty stomachs, and to gaunt visages
Christ gave the 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 l have ever seen. They were
on opposite pages. The one woodcut
represented the coming of the snow in
winter, and a lad looking out at the
door of great mansion; and he was
all wrapped in furs, and his cheeks
were ruddy, and with glowing counte-
nance he shouted: at SHOWS! it
snows!" On the next page there was
a miserable tenement, and the door
was open. and child, wan and sick
and ragged and wretched, was looking
out, and he said: ''Oh! my God, it
SHOWS" The winter of giadness or of
grief, according to our circum-
stances. But, my friends, there is
more than one way of warming up
this cold world, for it is cold world in
more respects than one. and am here
to consult with you as to the best way
of warming up the world. want to
have a great heater introduced in to all
your churches and all your homes
throughout the world. 1t is heater
of divine patent. 1t has many pipes
with which to conduct heat; and it has
door in which to throw the fuel.
Once get this heater introduced, 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 of Chris
tian sympathy. The question
ought to be, instead of how
much heat can we absorb? how much
heat can we throw out? There are
men who go through the world float
ing icebergs. They freeze everything
with their forbidding look. The hand
with which they shake yours is as cold
as the paw of polar bear. If they
float into religious meeting, the tenn
perature drops from 80 above to 10
degrees below zero. There are icicles
hanging from their eyebrows. They
float into religious meeting, and they
chill everything with their terminals.
Cold prayers, cold songs, cold greet
ings, cold sermons. Christianity
on ice! The church great
Christians gone into
winter quarters. Hibernation! On
the other hand, there are people who
go through the world like the breath
of spring morning. Warm greetings,
warm prayers, warm smiles, warm
Christian influence. There are such
persons. We bless God for them. We
rejoice in their companionship.
A general in the English army, the
army having halted for the night, hay
ing lost his baggage, lay down tired
and sick without any blanket. An Of
ficer came up and said: "Why, you have
no blanket. I'll go and get you a
blanket" He departed for a few mo-
ments and then came back aa1 cov-
cred the general up with very
warm blanket. The general said:
Whose blanket is this?" The Of
ficer replied: 81 got that
from private soldier in the Scotch
regiment, Ralph Mcdonald" ''Now,"
said the general, ''you take this blan-
ket right back to that soldier. He can
no more do without it than I can do |
without it. Never bring to me the |
blanket of private soldier" How |
many men like that general would it |
take to warm the world up? The vast |
majority of us are anxious to get more
blankets, whether anybody else is |
blanketed Or not. Look at the fellow |
feeling displayed in the rocky defile be-
tween Jerusalem and Jericho in Scrip |
lure times. Here is a man who has |
been set upon by the bandits, and in
;he struggle to keep his property, he
has got wounded, and mauled. and |
and he lies there half dead. |
priest rides along. He sees him and |
'ays: 'Why, what's the matter with
hat man? Why, he muse be hurt, ly-
ng on the fat of his back. Isn't it |
strange that he should lie there? !
But / can't stop. am on
ny way to temple services Go
long, you beast. Carry me up
% my temple duties" After awhile a
4evite comes up. He looks over and
avs: why that man must be very
much hurt. Gashed on the forehead. |
What a pity. Stabbed under his arm.
What pity. Tut, tut! What pity!
Why, they have taken his clothes near
y all away from him. But I haven't |
lime to stop; l lead the choir up in the
emple service. Go along, you beast.
Carry me up to my temple duties"
After awhile a Samaritan comes
llong, one who you might suppose
through national grudge might
lave rejected this poor wounded Is
aelite. Coming along he sees this
nan and says: why, that man must
'e terribly hurt. 1 see by his fea-
ures he is an Israelite, but he is man
md he is a brother" ''Whoa!" says
he Samaritan, and he gets down off
he beast and comes up to this wound
d man, gets down on one knee, listens
o see whether the heart of the unfor-
innate man is still beating, makes
Up his mind there is chance for re-
goes to work at him, takes
ut of his sack bottle of oil
nd bottle of wine, cleanses the