The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-16
HOODS
SarsapariIIa

who go through the world floating ice
bergs. They freeze everything with their
torbidding look. The hand with which
they shake yours Is as cold as the paw OF
a polar bear. If they float into "A religious
meeting, the temperature drops from 50
above to 10 degrees below zero. There are
lelcles hanging from their eyebrows.
Ihey float into religious meeting and
they chill everything with their ieremiads.
Cold prayers. cold songs, cold greetings,
cold sermons. Christianity on ice! The
church a great refrigerator. Christians
gone into winter quarters. Hibernation!
ON the other hand there are people who
go through the world like the breath of
a spring morning. Warm greetings,
warm prayers, warm smiles, warm
Christian influence. There are such per-
sons. We bless God for them. We rejoice
In their companiOnship.
A general in the English army, the army
having halted for the night having lost
his baggage, lay down tired and sick
without any blanket. An officer came up
IN go and get you "a blanket" He de-
parted for a few moments and then came
back and covered the general up with a
Whose blanket is this?" The officer RE- re-
piled, II got that from private soldier
in the Scotch regiment, Ralph Melon
take this blanket right back to that sol
der. He can no more do without Ii than
! can do without 1t. Never bring to me
the blanket OF private soldier How
many men like that general would ii take
TO wanm the world up? The vast major
ity of us are anxious to get more blankets
whether anybody else is blan!Ieted or not
Look at the fellow feeling displayed in
the rocky defile between Jerusalem and
Jericho in Scripture times. Here is a man
who has been set upon by the bandits
and in the struggle to keep his property.
he has got wounded and mauled, and
stabbed, and ne lies there half dead. A
priest rides along. He sees him and says:
why, what's the matter with that MANI
Why, he must be hurt, lying on the fiat
- - ha he
should lie therei But | can't stop. l am
on my way to temple services. Go along,
you beast. Carry me up TO my temple du-
ties; After awhile Levite comes up.
He looks over and says: Why. that man
must be very much hurt. Gashed on the
forehead. What a pity. Stabbed under
a pity! Why, they have taken his clothes
nearly all away from him. But | haven't
time to stop; l lead the choir up in the
temple service Go along, you beast.
Garry me up to my temple dutiesr' After
awhile a Samaritan comes along-one
who you might suppose through a
national grudge might have rejected
this poor wounded Israelite. Coming
along he sees this man and says: why.
that man must be terribly hurt. l see by
his features he is an lsraelite but he is a
man and he is a brother 'Whoai" says
the Samaritan, and he gets down off the
beast and comes up to this wounded man,
gets down on one knee, listens TO see
whether the heart of the unfortunate man
is still beating, makes up his mind there
is a chance for resuscitation, goes to work
at him, takes out of his sack a bottle of
oil and a bottle of wine. cleanses the
wounded with some wine. then pours some
of the restorative into the wounded mans
lips, then takes some oil and with ii
soothes the wound. After a while he takes
off a part of his garments for a BAN
dage. Now the sick and wounded man sits
up pale and exhausted, but very thank
fully. Now the good Samaritan says:
''You must get on my saddle and l will
walk" The Samaritan helps and tenderly
steades 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 at
the good Samaritan and saying: You are
very kind | had no fight TO expect this
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 Samaritan staid all
night. In the morning, l suppose, the
Samaritan went in to look how his pa
tent was, and ask him how he passed
the night. Then he comes out-the Sa-
maritan comes out and says to the land
lord, Here is money TO pay that man 5
board, and If his convalescence is not as
rapid as l hope for, charge the whole
thing to me. GOod-mOrning, all" He gets
on the beast and says: GO along, you
beast, but go slowly. for those bandits
sweeping through the land may have
left somebody else wounded and half
dead" Sympathy! Christian sympathy.
How many such men as that would it
take to warm the cold world up? Fam
inc in Zarepthath. Everything dried up
There is a widow with a son and no food
! except a handful of meal She is gather
| ing sticks to kinde 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 SER
/ wants, the ravens, have got tired waiting
\ on him. He asks that woman for food
/ Now, that handful of meal is to be al
/ vded into three parts. Before II was
/ to be divided into two parts Now she
| says to Elijah. Come i'm and sit down at
! this solemn table and take a third of the
last morsel. How many women like
/ up? "O' ."
Recently an engineer in the southwest
/ on a locomotive, saw train coming with
/ which he must collide. He resolved 10
/ stand at his post and slow up the train
| until the last minute for there We're pas
! sengers behlnd. The engineer said to the
i nreman: Jump! one man is enough on
/ this enginei jump" The fireman iunned
! and was saved. The crash came The en-
glneer died at MS post. How many men
/ like that engineer would IT take to warm
/ this cold world up? A vessel strllck on n
I rocky island, The passengers and the crew
/ shell fish under hiscoat He was savinq, a.
| for his last morsel He heard a little child
/ cry TO her mother: oh, mother, l am so
! hungry, give me something to eat-I am SO
/ hungry The sailor took the she'll Ash
/ from under his coat and said: Here take
| that; How many men like that sailor
/ cold world up? Xerxes, aeeine
! from his enemy. got on board ,
boat A great many Persians leaped into
/ the same boat and the boat was sinking
| Some one said: Are YOU nor WILLING 20
/ make sacrifice for your king?" and the
majority of those who were in the hoat
! leaped overheard and drowned 70 save
4 their king. How many men like thai
would It take to warm up this cold
rors of the Newgate prison, and She
turned me imprecation and the obscenity