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

is not as rapid as hope for, charge
the whole thing to me. Good morn
ing, all" He gets on the beast and
says; "Go along, you beast, but, go
slowly, for these bandits sweeping
through the land may have left some
body else wounded and half dead"
Sympathy Christian sympathy! How
many such men as that would it take to
warm the cold world up? Famine in Ia
repthath. Everything dried up. There
is widow with son and no food ex-
eept a handful of meal. She is gath
ering sticks to kindle 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, thes raven, have got
tired waiting on him. He asks
that woman for food. Now, that hand
full of meal Is to be divided into three
parts. Before 1t was to be divided in
to two parts. Now, she says to Elijah;
Come in and sit down at this solemn
table and take third of the last
morsel." How many women like that
would it take to warm the cold world
up?
Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Views from the hand no generous action done.
1t was His strong sympathy that
brought Christ from a warm Heaven
to a cold world The land where He
dwelt had serene sky, balsamic at
mosphere, tropical luxuriance. No
storm blasts in Heaven. No chill fonn.
tains. On cold December night
Christ stepped out of warm Heaven
into the worlds frigidity. The Their
mometer in Palestine never drops be-
low zero, but December is cherries
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 bestermed
Galilee was cold. Joseph's sepulcher
was cold. Christ came, the great
warmer, to warm the earth, and all
Christendom to-day feels the glow.
He will keep on warming the earth
until the tropic will drive away the
arctic, and the antarctic. He gave an
imitation of what He was going to do
when He broke up the funeral at the
gate of Main and turned it into a re-
union festival, and when with His
warm lips He melted the Galilean hur-
ricane and stood on the deck and
stamped His foot, crying, "Silence!''
and the waves crouched and the
tempests folded their wings.
All lnl 10 he, ~
dawned on the polar
night of the nations. And if Christ is
the great warmer, then the church is
the great dollhouse, with its plants
and trees and fruits of righteousness.
Do yon know, my friends, that the
church is the institution that pro-
poses warmth? 1 have been for 81
years studying how to make the
church warmer. Warmer architec-
ture, warmer hymnology, warmer
Christian salutation. All outside ST.
berian winter, we must have it
princes dollhouse. The only institution
on earth to-day that proposes to make
the world warmer. Universities and
observatories, they all have their
WOAh- lucy PioPoSC W hlAhC WIG
world light, but they do not propose
to make the world warm. Geology in
forms us, but it is as cold as the rock
II hammers. The telescope shows
where the other worlds are, but an
astronomer is chilled with looking
through it. Christianity tells us of
strange combinations and how inferior
81 ,, - ~ NOV he ,vorooo,o nv c,,y,arioy
affinity; but it can not tell how all
things work together for good. World
y philosophy has a great splendor,
but it is the splendor of moonlight
On an iceberg. The church of God
proposes warmth and hope-warmth
Tor the expectations, warmth for the
Oh! l am so glad that
,hese great altar fires have been kim
He'd. Come in out of the cold. Come
N, and have your wounds salved.
Come, and have your sins pardoned.
Come in by the great Gospel fire.
place. Notwithstanding all the modern
inventions for heating, tell you there |
S nothing so full of geniality and So
,iality as the old-fashioned country |
fireplace. The neighbors were to come |
n for winter evening of sociality. In |
he middle of the afternoon, in the best |
Dom in the house, some one brought |
n great back log with great strain |
ind put it down on the back of the |
hearth. Then the lighter wood was
,ut on, armful after armful. Then a
shovel of Goals was taken from another |
Dom and put under the dry pile, and |
he kindiing began, and the cracking, |
ind it rose until it became a roaring |
lame. which filed all the room with ge-
liality and was reflected from the |
amily pictures on the wall. Then the
leighbors came in two by two. They |
at down, their faces to the fire, which |
,ver and anon was stirred with tongs |
md readjusted on the andirons and |
here were such times of rustic repair
zee. and storytelling, and mirth as the
black stove and the blind register new
II dreamed of. Meanwhile the table was
,eing spread. and SO fair was the
10th and so clean was the cutlery they
,listen and glisten in our mind to-day. |
And then the luxury of orchard and
arm yard was roasted and prepared
or the table, to meet the appetites
by the cold ride. Oh! my
riends, the Church of Jesus Christ is
he worlds fireplace, and the woods
re from the cedars of Leba non, and
he fires are fires of love, and with the
liver tongs of the altar we stir the