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

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hungry. Give me something to eat.
l am so hungry" The sailor took the
shellish from under his coat and said,
Here take that. How many men
like that sailor would i: take to warm
the cold world up? Nerxes. fleeing
from his enemy, got on board boat.
\ great many Persians leaped into t::e
same boat, and the boat was sinking.
Some one said, Are you not willing
to make a sacrifice for your king
And the majority of those who We're
in the boat leaped overheard aud
drowned to save their king. How
many men like that would it take to
warm up this cold world2 Elizabeth
Fry went into the horrors of Newgate
prison, and she turned the mprecation
and the obscenity and the filth into
prayer and repentance and a reformed
life. The sisters of charity, in 1868,
on the northern and southern battle
fields, came to boys in blue and gray
while they were bleeding to death.
The black bonnet with the sides pinn
ed back and the white bandage on the
brow, may not have answered all the
demands of elegant taste, but you
could not persuade that soldier dying
q 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 acton,
try to make -the& e&ss4saassw'arm
1t was his strong sympathy that
brought Christ from warm heaven
to cold world. The land where he
dwelt had serene sky. balsamic at
mosphere. tropical luxuriance; no
storm blasts in heaven; no chill foun-
tains. On a cold December night
Christ stepped out of warm heaven
into the worlds frigidity. The ther'
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
warm heaven into the cold world
that cold December night The worlds
reception was cold. The surf of be-
stormed Galilee was cold. JJosephs
sepulcher was cold. Christ came, the
great warmer to warm the earth, and
all Christendom today feels the glow.
He,will keep on warning the earth
until the tropic will DIVE away the
arctic and the antaictic. He gave an
intimation of what he was going to
do when he broke up the funeral at
the gate of Main and turned it into a
reunion festiva4, and when, with his
warm lips, be melted the Galilean
hurricane and stood on the deck and
stamped his foot. crying, Silence!
and the waves crouched, and the tenn
pests folded their wings.
Oh, it was this Christ who warmed
the chilled disciples when they had no
food by giving them plenty to eat 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 mausoleum. In
his genial presence the girl who had
fallen into the fire and the water is
healed of the catalepsy, and the
| withered arm takes muscular.
healthy action, aud the ear that
could not hear an avalanche catch
es leafs rustic, and the tongue
that could not articulate trills quat-
rain, and the blind eye was relllumed,
Count that day not lost whose low des-
cerding sun
Views from that hand 20 generous action
done.
and Christ, instead of staying three
days and three nights in the esepulcher,
as was supposed, as soon as the world
" curtain of observation was dropp-
ed began the exploration Of all the
| underground passages Of earth aud
sea, wherever Christians grave may
after awhile be, and started light OF
Christian, hope, resurrection hope,
| which shall not 60 out until the last
; cerement is taken off and the last
mausoleum breaks open.
All, am so glad that the Sun Of
Righteousness dawned on the polar
night of the nations! And If Christ is
the great warmer, then the 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 proposes warmth?
| l have been for 81 years studying how
to make the church warmer. Warm
er architecture, warmer hymnology.
warmer Christian salutation. al
outsid Siberian winter we must have
it princes hothouse. The only in-
stitution on earth today that proposes
to make the world warmer. Univer-
sites and observatories, they ali have
their work. They propose to make
the world ligh;, but they do not pre-
pose to make the world warm. Geol-
ogv informs US, but it is as cold as the
rock it hammers. The telescope shows
where the other words are, but an as
tronomer is chilled while looking
through it. Christianity tells US of
strange combination 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. a great splendor,
but it is the splendor of moonlight on
an iceberg. The church Of God pro.
| poses warmth and hope-warmth for
the expectation, warmth for the SYM
pathies. Oh, I am 50 glad that these
great altar fires have been klndled.
Come in out of the cold. Come IN
and have your wounds salved. Come
in and have your sins pardoned. Come
in by the great gospel fireplace.
Notwithstanding all the modern IN
ventions for heating, | tell you there
is nothing so full of geniality and so.
ciability as the old fashioned country
| fireplace. The neighbors were to
come in for winter evening socia
bility. In the middle of the after
| noon, 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. Then the
lighter wood was put on, armful after
armful. Then shovel of Goals was
taken from another room and put un-
der the dry pile, and the kindling be-
oon and the crackinr and il rose un-