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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 j 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 woow-blind, 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.' " 



Here the good old man tucked his book under his 

 arm, rubbed his hands together with an almost 

 boyish glee, as he continued : " 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." 



A few more words from John Martin, and on 

 they read : " And thou shalt bind them for a sign 

 upon thine hand." 



