The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-03-25

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glowing gcountenance, he shouted: 1T
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there was miserable tenement, and
the door was open, and a child, wan
and sick and ragged and wretched
was looking out, and he said, "Oh,
my God, it SHOWS" The winter ol
gladness or of grief, according to oul
circumstances. But my friends. there
IS more than one way Of warming W
this cold world, for it is cold worlo
in more respects than one, anc
I am here to consult with you as tc
the best way of warming up the world
I want TO have a great heater intro
duced into all your churches and all
your homes throughout the world. Ii
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 tenn.
perate into the tropics. 1t is the power,
full heater; it is the glorous furnace OF
Christian sympathy. The question
ought to be, instead of how much heat
caa we absorb, How much heat can
we throw out2 There are men who
90 through the world floating icebergs.
They freeze everything with their
forbidding look. The hand with
which they shake yours is as cold a:
the paw of polar bear. II
they float into a religious
meeting, the temperature drops
from so abovs-to 10 degrees be-
low zere. There are icicles hanging
from their eyebrows. They float into
religious meeting, and they chill!
everything with their ieremiads. Cold
prayers, cold songs, cold greetings,
cold sermons. Christianity on ice! The
church great refrigerator. Chris
tians gone into winter quarters. Hib
ernation. On the other hand, there
are people who 60 through the world
like the breath of a 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, hav.
ing lost his baggage, lay down tired
and sick without any blanket. An OF,
fcer came up and said: Why, you
have no blanket. I'll 60 and get you
a blanket" He departed for few
moments and then came back and
covered the general up with a very
warm blanket. The general said,
Whose blanket is thisa" The officer
replied, Il got that from private sol
der in the Scotch regiment, Ralph
Mcdonald" Now" said the general,
''ycu take this blanket right back to
that soldier. He can no more do with.
out it than can do without it, Never
bring to me the blanket of a private
soldier" How many men like that
general would it take to warm the
world up2 The vast majority of. US
are anxious to get more blankets,
whether anybody else is blanketless OF
not. Look at the fellow feeling dis
played in the rocky defile between
Jerusalem and Jericho in Scripture
times. Here is man who has oeen
set upon by the bandits, and in the
struggle TO deep his property he has
got wounded and mauled and stabbed,
and he 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 fat of his back. Isn't it strange
that he should lie there2 But can't
stop. l am on my way to temple SER
vices. Go along you beast. Garry
me up to my temple duties. After
awhile Levite comes up. He looks
over and says: Why, that man
must be very much hurt. Gashed on
the forehead. What pity! Stabbed
under his arm. What a pity. Tut,
tut. What a pity! What, they have
taken his clothes nearly all away from
him. But haven't time to stop. |
lead the choir upiu the temple service.
Go along, you beast. Carry me up to
my temple duties.
After awhile a Samaritan comes
along-one who you might suppose
through a national grudge might have
rejected this poor wounded 1sraelite ::
Coming along he sees this man and
says: why, that man must be terri
bly, hurt. I see by his features he isan
Israelite, but he is a man. and he is a
brother" Whoa. says the Samari-
tan, and he gets down off the beast and
comes up to this wounded man, gets
down on one knee listens to see whe-
ther the heart of the unfortunate man
is still beating, makes up his mind
there is a chance for resucitation, goes
to work at him takes out of his sack a
bottle of oil and bottle of wine,
cleanses the wound with some wine,
then pours some of the restorative into
the wounded mans lips, then takes
some oil, and with it soothes the
wound. After awhile he takes off a
part,of his garments for bandage.
Now the sick and wounded man sits
up, pale and exhausted but very thank
full. Now the good Samaritan says,
''You must get on my saddle, and !
will walk" The Samaritan helps ard
tenderly steadies this wounded man
until he gets him on toward the tav-
ern, 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. I had no right 10 >ex-
pect this thing of Samaritan when |
am an Israelite. You are very kind
to walk and let me 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 Sam
aritan staid all night. In the morn
ing, I suppose, the Samaritan went
10 to look how his patient was and
ask him how 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
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