The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-20

Wuy, you nhNo no DldHk0t. III 40 anu
get you u blanket" He departed for a few
moments and then came back and covered
the General up with a very warm blanket.
The General said: Whose blanket Is this2''
The o ficer replied: "I got that from q pri.
yate solder In the Scotch regiment, Ralph
"you take this blanket right back to that
! goldier. He can no more do without II than
can do without It. Never bring to me the
blanKet of a private soldier" How many
men like that General would II take to
warm the world up2 The vast majority OF
US are anxious 10 get more blankets, whether
anybody else is blanketed or not. Look
at the fellow feeling displayed In the
rocky defle between Jerusalem and
J Jericho in Scripture times. Here 10 O mar
who has been set upon by the bandits, and
In the struggle to keep his DroDerty he has
got woundsd and msdied ana stabbed, III
be lies there half dead. A priest idesalong.
He sees him and says: "Why, what's the
matter with that MANI Why, he must be
strange that he should lie there! But / q
stop. 1 am on my way to temple services.
Go along. you beast. Garry me up to my
temple duties" After awhile a Levite comea
up. He looks over and says: why. that
man must be very much hurt. Gsshed on
The forehead, What a pity. Stabbed under
his arm, WHAT q pity. Tut, tut! What a
pityi Why. they have taken his clothes
nearly away from him. But I haven't time
to stop. lead the choir up In the temple
service. Go along you beast. Garry me up
TO my temple duttes."
,ne who you might suppose through a Ma.
tional grudge might have rejected this poor
und Israelite. Coming along he sees
this man and says: 'Why, that man must
be terribly hurt. / see by his features he Ia
an Israelte, but he Is a man and he Is a
k-1Ahn- NTuhNnbt y no ma tho Gop Rikan md
he gets Town of the beast and comes up to
this wounded man, gets down on one knee,
listens to see whether the heart of the I'M
fortunate mar Is still beating, makes up his
mind there is q chance for resuscitation,
goes to work at him, takes out OF his sack a
bottle of oil and a bottle of wine, ~cleanses
the wound with some wine, then pours
some of the restorative in the wounded
, mans lips, then takes some oil and with
1t sooths the wound. After awhile he
takes of a part Of his garment for
a bandage. Now the sick and wounded
man sits up, pale and exhausted, but
very thankful. Now the good Samaritan
says, "You must get on my saddle, and
will walk" The Samaritan helps aud ten
derby steadies this wounded man until he
gets him on toward the tavern, the wounded
man holding on with the little strength he
has left, ever and anon looking down ut the
good Samaritan m saying: ''You are very
kind. l had no right to expect this thing OF
q Samaritan when l am an Israelite. You
are very kind to walk and let me ride"
Now they have come up to the tavern. The
Samaritan, with the help OF the landlord,
assists the sick and DUNDEE man to dis
mount and puts him to bed. The Bible says
the Samaritan staid all night. In the
morning, 1 suppose, the Samaritan went in
70 look how his patient was and ask MIN
aow 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 IL his commissioned
Is not as rapid as 1 hope for, charge the
whole thing to me. Good-morning, ALL" He
gets OH the beast and says: $50 along, you
Seast, but go slowly, for those bandits sweep
ng through the land may have left some
body else wounded and half dead" Sym
pathy! Christian sympathy How many
such men as that would 1t take to warm the
cold world up2 Famine in Zarepthath.
Everything dried up. There is a widow with
Q son and no food except a handful OF meal
She Is gathering sticks to kindle a fire to
cook the handful Of meal. Then she Is go
Ing to wrap her arm around her boy and
, die. Here comes Elijah. His two black
servants, the ravens, have got tired waiting
on him. He asks that woman for food. Now,
that handful OF meal Ii to be divided into
three parts. Before, It was to be divided
into two parts. Now, she says to Elijahi|
"Come in and sit down at this solemn table
I hHu thhC u tuiIu u II iAoN lhNhpN' ASW
many women like that 1t take to warm
the cold world up2
Recently an engineer In the Southwest, on
/ locomotive, saw a train coming with which
he must collide. He resolved to stand at bis
! post and slow up the train until the last min
ute, for there were passengers behind. Tho
engineer said to the fireman: "Jumpl One
man ia enough on this engine! Jump The
fireman Jumped and was saved. The crash
same. The engineer died at his post. How
many men like that engineer would 1t take
o warm this cold world up2 A vessel struck
IN q rocky island. The passengers and the
rev were without food, and a sailor had a
lhellhsh under his coat. He was saving Il
br his last moIsel. He heard o little child
nv to her mother: "Oh, mother, ! am so
anngry; give me something to eat. l am 30
lungry!" The sailor took the shell1sh from
ander his coat and said, Here! Take that.
How many men like that sailor would It take
10 warm the cold world up2 Xerxes,
losing from his enemy, got On board d
boat. A great many Persians leaped into
lhe same boat and tie boat was sinking.
Some one said, "Are you not willing to make
; sacrifice for your king2" and the majority
, II those who were In the boat leaped over
! board and drowned to save their king How
many men like that would 1t take to warm
10 this cold world2 Elizabeth Fry went into
he horrors Of Eewgate prison, and she
turned the imprscation and the obscenity
and the filth into prayer aud repentance and
4 reformed life. The sisters of charity, In
1868. on Northern and Southern battlefelds,
same to bows 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 tina soldier dying 1000
miles from home that 1t was anything but an
angel that looked him in the face. oh, with
CHEEKY look, with helpful word, with kind
.ction. try to make the world warmi
Count that day lost whose low descending
Views from thy hand no generous action
done.
II was His strong sympathy that brought
, Christ from a warm heaven to q cold world.
: The LIANT where He dwelt had a serene sky
balsamic atmosphere, tropical luxuriance.
No storm blasts In heaven. No chill foun'
Ilains. On a cold December night Christ
stepped out Of a warm heaven into the
worlds frigidity. The thermometer IN
Palestine never drops below zero. but De
/. tcember is a cherries month, and the pastur,
| age IL very poor on the hilltops. Christ
t stepped out OF a warm heaven into the cold
! world that cold December might. Ihe
, worlds reception was cold. The surf OF be-
: stormed Gaillee was cold. Joseph's sepul'
3 cher was cold. Christ came, the great
+ warmer, to warm the earth, and all Christen'
! dom to-day feels the glow. He will keep or
| warming tine earth until the tropic will drive
j.. 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 o
| Main and turned 1t into r reunion festiva
: aud when with His warm lips He melted the
I Galilean hurricane and stood on the deol
? snd stamped His foot, crying "silsnceT' and
the waves crouched and the tempests folded
their wings.
Oh, 1t was this Christ who warmed thu
shllled disciples when they had no food BY
giving them plenty to eat, and who In tbs
tomb of Lazarus shattered the shackles un'
III the broken link OF the chain of death
ratified into the darkest crypt OF this
I mausoIeum. In His genial presence the girl
who had fallen into the fire and the water ID
healed of the catalepsy, and the withered
Arm takes muscular, healthy action, and the
! sar that could not hear an avalanche catches
I leafs rustic, and the tongue thai could moi
! articulate trills = quetrain, and the blind
q eye was relumed, and Christ, instead oil
! staying three days and three nights in the
: bepulcher, as was supposed, az soon as the
Z worldly curtain Of observation was dropped
began the exploration of all the under