Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-20

and the white bandage en tho brow, may
not have answered all the demands of ele-
giant taste, but you could not persuade
that soldier dying a thousand miles from
home that 10 was anything but an angel
that looked him In the face Oh, with
CHEEKY look, with helpful word, wish kind
action Try 10 mako the world warm!
Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand no generous actio-i done.
Warmed by Christ.
Itwas his strong sympathy that brought
Christ from "a warm heaven to cold
world, The land whose he dTct had g
serene sky, balsuniG atmosphere, tropical
luxuaiance; 20 storm llihsts in heaven;
no chill feuntains On ruld December
night Christ stepped out Of a warm heaven
into the worlds frigiiity. The thcrmon,e
ter IN Palestine neycF drops below zero,
but Dacombtr IS chuerles, month, and
the pasIuraee is very pc,,i. ON Inc hilltops.
Christ stepped Out Of a. warm heaven into
the cold world that cold December night.
The worlds reception was cold. The surf
of hestormed GHlilee was cold. Josephs
sepulchor was cold. Christ CAME tile
great warmer, to warm the earth, and all
Christendum today feels tho glow. He
will keep on warming the earth until the
tropic will drive away the arctic and the
antarctic. lie gave AN intimation OF
what he was going to do when he broke
up tho funeral AT the gate of Main and
turned it into % reunion festival, and
when. with his warm lips, he melted the
Galilaan hurricane and stood on the deck
and stamped bis fout, crying, "Silencel'
and the waves cTouched, and the tempests
folded their wings,
Oh &c was this Christ who warmed the
chilled disciples when they had no food by
giving them plenty TO cat and who in the
tomb Of Lazarus shattered the shackles
until tho broken links of the chain Of death
ratified into the darkest crypt of the maui
soleum. In his genial presence the girl
who had fallen into the fire and the wat9r
is healed of the Uatalepsy, and the wither-
cd arm takes muscular, healthy action
and the ear that could not hear an ava
lancha catches leafs rustic, and the
tongue that could not articulate trills
0uatrain. and the blind eye was reilluned
and Christ, instead Of staying three days
aud three nights in tho sepulcher as was
supposed rs soun as tho worldly curtain Of
observation was dropped began the explo-
ration of all the underground passages Of
earth and sea, wherever n Christians
/ grave may after awhile be, and started a
/ light Of Christian hope, resurrection hope,
/ which shall not go out until the last cere-
ment is taken off and the last mausoleum
( breaks opon.
All, 1 am so glad that tho Sun of Right
/ eousness dawned on the polar night of the
nationsl And il Christ is the great warm
/ er then the church is tho great dollhouse,
with its plants and trees and fruits Of
Righteousness. Do YOU know, my friends,
] = f,f, fnefifnffnra fhuf
poses warmth? l have been for % years
studying how to make the church warmer.
Warmer architecture warmer hymnolOgy,
warmer Christian sulutatiun. All outside
! Siberian winter we must have it a princes
| dollhouse The only institution on earth
today that proposes to make the world
/ warmer Universities and Ohservatories,
they all have their work, They propose
to make the world light, but they do not
propose to make the world warm. Geology
informs us, but it is as cold ms the rock it
hammers. The telescope shows where the
other worlds are but an astronomer is
chilled whil0 looking through it. Chris
tianity tolls us Of strange combinations
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 u great splendor, but 1t
is the splendur of moonlight on an iceberg.
The church Of God proposes warmth and
hope-warmth for tho expectations,
warmth fer tbs sympathies. Oh, am so
glad that these great altar fires have been
kindled. Como in out Of the cold Come
in and have your wounds salved. Come
and have your sins pardoned Come in 10y
the great gospel fireplace.
The Worlds Fireplace.
notwithstanding all the modern inven-
lions for heating toll you there is moth
ing so full Of goniality and sooiability as
tic old fashioned country fireplace. The
, neighbWs wer0 to como in for winter
evening of sosiIDility. In tho middle oil
the afternoon, in the best room in the
house, some one brought in IA great back
log, with great strain, and put it down on
, tE9 back Of the hearth Then the tighter
wood was put on, nrmfu after armful.
Then shovel Of GOALS was taken from an
: other room aud put under the dry pile
and tho kindling began, and the cracking
and il rose until 1t became IA roaring flame
which filled ali the room with geniality
and was reflected from tho family pictures
on the wall Then tho neighbors came il
two by two They sat down, their faces
to the fire, which ever and anon was stir
red with tongs and readjusted on the and
J irons, and there were such times of rustic
, renartee and story telling and mirth as thu
D black stove and blind register nevel
{ dreamed Of Meanwhile the table was be
Z ing spread, and so fair was the cloth ant
e so clean was the cutlery they elsten ant
1 glisten in our mind today. And then thu
o best luxury of orchard and farmyard was
roasted and prepared for the table to NEE
O the appetites sharpened by the cold ride.
Oh my friends, the church of Jesu
. Christ is the worlds fireplace, and tn
a woods are from the cedars of Lebanon
' and tho fires are fires of love- and witt
{ the silver tongs of the altar we stir tn
! 6amo and tho light is reflected from al
@ the family pictures on tho wall-picture
\ IF those who waTa here and are gone now
@ Oh, come up close to tho fireplace. Hav
II your worn flees TRANSPORTED in the light
S Put your cold feet weary of tho journey
# close no 10 the blessed coniiugrati1n
S Chilled through with trouble and dis1p
IS polntmeut. como close up until you cal
! get warm clear through. Exchange tx
e perience, talk over the harvests gathered
Il tell all the gospel news Meanwhile tn
% table is being spread On it bread Of life
q On it grapes Of EshoOl. On it new win
N from the Kingdom. On it n thousand lux
d uries celestial. Hark, as wounded han
" taps on the table and tender voice come
q through saying: Come for all things Al
now ready Eat, oh, friends Drink, yes
+ driak abundantly, oh, beloved"
!, My friends, that is the way tho col
q world is going to be warmed up by III
n great gospel fireplace All nations wi
s. como in and sit down at that banque
"a While l was musing tho fire burned
n Como in ont of the cold Come in OF
d of the ooldl"
Onion Is Strength.
m Travellers in Spain and in several 9th
n parts of Europe are invariably struck wit
IL tho simplicity of the diet Of the poorer n
"a tives. The quantity and apparent muir
20 two quality OF the food found necessary
Ie sustain the Spanish day laborer for il
stanoa caan,q ludicrourly fiisnrnnortiOna