Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-03-21

those bandits sweeping through the
land may have left somebody else
wounded and half dead" Sympathy
Christian sympathy! How many such
men az that would it take to warm the
cold world up? Famine in Zarepthath.
/ Everything dried up. There is widow
with son and no food except hand
full of meal She is gathering sticks to
kindle Gle 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,
the ravens, have got tired waiting on
| him. He asks that woman for food.
Now, that handful of meal is to be d.
vided into three parts. Before, it was
to be divided into 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?
Warming the World.
Recently all engineer in The south
west. on locomotive, saw train COM
ing with which he must collide. he re-
solved to stand at his post and slow up
/ the train until the last minute, for
there were passengers behind The en-
gineer said to the fireman: Jump One
man is enough OH this engine! Jump!'
The fireman jumped and was saved
The crash came. The engineer died at
his post How many men like that en-
gineer would ii take to warm this cold
world up? A vessel struck on rocky
island. The passengers and the crew
were without food, and sailor had a
shellfish under his coat. He was saving
it for his last morsel. He heard little
child cry to her mother :"Oh, mother,
am so hungry; give me something to
eat. l 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, fee
ing from his enemy, got on board q
boat. A great many Persians leaped in
to the Same boat and the boat was sink
ing. Some one said, "Are you not will
ing to make sacrifice for your king"
and the majority of those who were i'll
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 obsceni-
ty and the filth into prayer and repent
ance and reformed life. The sisters of
charity, in 1868, on northern and south
ern battlefelds, came to boys i'll blue
and gray while they were bleeding to
death. The black bonnet with the sides
pinned 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
900 miles from home that it was any
thiry but an angel that looked him III
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 uone
Christ's Sympathy.
It was his strong sympathy that
brought Christ from a warm heaven to
cold world. The land where he 6welt
had serene sky, balsamic atmosphere,
tropical luxuriance. No stem blasts in
heaven. No chill fountains. On cold
December night Christ stepped out of a
warm heaven into the world frigidity.
The thermometer in Palestine never
drops below zero, but December is a
cherries month, and the pasturase is
very poor OH the hilltops. Christ stepped
out of warm heaven into the cold
world that cold December night. The
world s 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 tropic will drive away the arctic
and the antarctic. He gave an intima-
ton of what he was going to do when
he broke up the funeral at the gate Of
Main and turned it into reunion festi
val, and when with his warm lips he
melted the Galilean hurricane and stood
On the deck and stamped his foot, cry
ing, "Silence!'' and the waves crouch
ed and the tcmpests 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 dark
est crypt of the mausoleum. In his gen
ial 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, and the
ear that could not hear an avalanche
catches leafs rustic, and the tongue
that could not articulato trills quat-
rain, and the blind eye was relumed,
and Christ, instead Of staying three
days and three nights III the sepulcher,
as was supposed, as soon as the worldly
curtain Of observation was dropped be-
gan the exploration OF all the under
ground passages Of earth and sea, whor-
ever Christians grave may after
awhile be, and started light of Chris
IAN hope, resurrection hope, which shall
lot go out until the last cerement is
:aken off and thu last mausoleum breaks
open.
Warmth and Hope.
All! 1 am so glad that the Sun of
Righteousness dawned Gu the polar
night of the nations And if Christ is
the great warmer, then the church is
the great hothouae, with It's plants ard
trees and fruits Of Righteousness. Do
you know, my friends, that the church
is the institution that proposes warmth:
1 have been for 81 years studying how
to make the church warmer. Warmer
architecture, warmer hymnology, warm
er Christian salutation. All outside ST.
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