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but it has no notion of melting ice or warming the 

 earth. And it is just like that with head religion 

 there s no warmth, no life in it. There ain t ne er 

 a one of us here as would be so green as to hold our 

 hands out to the moon to warm them ; but there are 

 folks foolish enough to try and heal broken hearts, and 

 to warm their cold souls with head religion. Then 

 when they find it is all a failure, they blame God and 

 the Bible. They say there s nothing in any religion, 

 it s all a farce, and they ll have nothing to do with it. 

 Poor things ! They re moon-blmd, or they would 

 see the truth as God tries to teach it all through the 

 Bible, that it is with the heart man believeth unto 

 righteousness. &quot; 



Here the good old man tucked his book under his 

 arm, rubbed his hands together with an almost 

 boyish glee, as he continued : &quot; Hallelujah ! for the 

 sunshine God s sunshine the joy of theLord ! Why, 

 look here. The other night when that little chap 

 was singing his ditty on the upper deck, I love the 

 merry sunshine, you remember how everybody 

 clapped him, and encored. I could not help wishing 

 that a few of them would learn to love God s heart- 

 sunshine. Thank God, He has made it so easy to 

 have heart religion ! Everyone has the power to 

 trust, to believe.&quot; 



A few more words from John Martin, and on 

 they read : &quot; And thou shalt bind them for a sign 

 upon thine hand.&quot; 



