Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-03-19

ike that engineer would l6 take TO warm
this cold world upP A vessel struck on a
rocky island. The passengers and the
crew were without food, and a sailor had
q shellfish under his coat. He was saving
1t for his last morsel He heard q little
child cry to her mother: "Oh, mother,
am Sc hungry Give me something to eat
am so hungry" The sailor took the
shellfish from under his coat and said,
"Here, take that" How many men like
that sailor would it take to warm the cold
world up? Xerxes, fleeing from his enemy,
got on board boat. A great many Per-
slams leaped into the same boat, and the
boat was sinking. Some one said, "Are
you not willing to make a sacrifice for
your kingP" 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 went into
the horrors of Newgate prison, and she
turned the imprecation and the obscenity
and the filth into prayer and repentance
and reformed life The sisters of chari-
ty, in 1868, on the northern and southern
battlefelds, came to boys in blue and gray
while they were bleeding to death. The
and the white bandage on the brow, may
not have answered all the demands of ele-
CANT taste, but you could not persuade
that soldier dying thousand miles from
home that it 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 sun
Views from thy hand no generous action done.
Warmed by Christ.
1t was his strong sympathy that brought
Christ from a warm heaven to cold
world. The land where he dwelt had a
serene sky, balsamic atmosphere, tropical
luxurianoe; 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 thermome-
ter in Palestine never drops below zero,
but December is a cheerless month, and
the pasturage 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, to warm the earth, and all
Christendom today feels the glow. He
will keep on warming the earth until the
tropio will drive away the arctic and the
antarctic. He gave an intimation Of
what he was going to do when he broke
| up tho funeral at the gate of Main and
turned 1t into reunion festival, and
when, with his warm lips, he melted the
Galilean hurricane and stood on the deck
and stamped his foot, crying, "SilenceW
| 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 cat and who in the
| tomb of Lazarus shattered the shackles
until the broken links of the chain of death
ratified into the darkest crypt of the maui
soleum. In his genial presence the girl
who had fallen into the fire and the water
is healed of the catalepsy, and the wither-
ed arm takes muscular, healthy action,
and the ear that could not hear an ava
lanche catches a leafs rustic, and the
tongue that could not articulate trills a
quatrain, and the blind eye was reillumed,
and Christ, instead of staying three days
and three nights in the sepulcher, as was
supposed as soon as the worldly curtain of
observation was dropped began the explo-
ration of all the underground passages of
earth and sea, wherever Christian S
grave may after awhile be, and started a
light Of Christian hope resurrection hope,
which shall not 60 out until the last cero-
ment is taken off and the last mausoleum
breaks open.
All, 1 am so glad that the Sun of Right
eousness dawned on the polar night of the
nations! And if Christ is the great warm
or, then tho church is the great hothouse,
with Its plants and trees and fruits of
righteousness. Do you know my friends,
that the church is the institution that pro.
poses warmth? have been for ~ years
studying how to make the church warmer.
Warmer architecture, warmer hymnology,
warmer Christian salutation. All outside
Siberian winter we must have it q prince s
hothouse. The only institution on earth
today that proposes to mako the world
warmer. Universities and observatories,
they all have their work. They propose
to 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 it
hammers. The telescope shows where the
other worlds are, but an astronomer is
chilled while looking through it. Chris
tianity 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. World
ly philosophy has great splendor, but 1t
Is the splendor Of moonlight on an iceberg.
The church Of God proposes warmth and
hope-warmth for the expectations,
warmth for the sympathies. Oh 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.
The Worlds Fireplace.
Notwithstanding all the modern inven-
tions for heating tell you there is moth
ing SO full Of geniality and sociability as
tho old fashioned country fireplace. The
neighbors were to come in for winter
evening of sociability. In the middle of
the afternoon, in the best room in the
house, some one brought in great back
log, with great strain, and put it down on
the back Of the hearth. Thon the lighter
wood was put on, armful after armful.
Then shovel of Goals was taken from an
other room and put under tho dry pile,
and the kindling began, and tho cracking,
and it rose until it became roaring flame,
which filed all the room with 9nniality
Not to be Trified With.
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