The Penn's Grove record., 1891-02-20
REF DR.. TALMAGE
The Brooklyn Div1ne-s Sunday
Sermon.


The Dfv1neB 5unuey
Sermon.
subject, THE Lessons Of Winter"
TEXT: Hast thou entered into the treas
ures of the ssotDY'-Job xxxviii., ~.
Grossly maliened IL the season Of winter.
The spring and summer and autumn have
had many admirers but winter, hoary
headed and white bearded winter, hath had
more enemies than friends. Yet without
winter the human race would be inane and
effortless. You might speak OF the winter az
the mother Of tempests. l take it as the
father Of a whole family Of physical, mental
and spiritual energies. The most people thai
1 know are strong in proportion to the num-
Der Of snow banks they had to climb over OF
push through in childhood, while their
fathers drove the sled loaded with logs
through the crunching drifts high as tne
fences.
At this season of the year, when we are
90 familiar with the snow, those frozen vap-
pors, those falling blossoms Of the sky, those
white angels of the atmosphere, those poems
Of the storm, those Iliads and Odysseys OF
the wintery tempest, I u over the leaves
Of my Bible and-though most OF IL was
written in q cline where snow seldom or
never fell find many Of these beautiful
congelations. Though the writers may sell
dom or never have felt the cold touch Of the
snowflake on their cheek, they had in sight
two mountains, the tops Of which were sug-
gestive. Other kings sometimes take OH
their crowns, but Lebanon and Mount Her
mon all the year round and through the
ages never lift the coronets OF crystal from
their foreheads.
The first time we find a deep fall Of snow
in the Bible Is where Samuel describes q
fight between Benaiah and q lion in a pit,
and though the snow may have crimsoned
under the wounds Of both man and brute,
the shaggy monster rolled over dead, and
the giant was victor. But the snow Is not
fully recognized in the Bible until God in
t~errogates Job, the scientist, concerning its
wonders, saying, 'Hast thou entered into
the treasures Of the SNOWY
I rather think hat Job may have exam
ined the snowflake with q microscope; for,
was invented long after Jobs time, there
had been wonders Of glass long before the
microscope and telescope Of later day were
thought Of. So long ago as when the Col
iseum was in its full splendor. Nero sat in
the emperor's box OF that great theatre,
which held q hundred thousand people, and
looked at the combatants through a gem in
his finger ring which brought everything
I close up to his eye.
Four hundred years before Christ, in the
stores at Athens, were sold powerful glasses
| called burning spheres, y and Layard, ths
explorer, found a magnifying glass amid the
ruins Of Nineveh and in the palace Of MIN
rod. Whether through magnifying instru'
ment or with unaided eye I cannot say, but
! am sure that Job somehow 9 through
the galleries of the snowflake and counted it,
| pillars and found wonders, raptures, mys
teries, t~heologies, majesties, infinities walk
ing up and down its corridors, as a result Of
the question which the Lord had asked him,
"Hast thou entered into the treasures OF the
mowf'
oh, It is q wonderous meteori Memboldi
studied it in the Andes, twelve thousand feet
above the level Of the sea. De Saussure re
veled among these meteors In the Alps, and
DIR. Scoresby counted ninety-six varieties Of
snowflake amid the arctics. They are II
shape Of stars, in shape Of coronets, in snaps
Of cylinders; are globular, are hexagonai.
are pyramidal, are castellated. After a fresh
fall Of snow, in one walk you crush under
your feet, Tuilleries, Windsor castles. st.
Pauls, st. Peters, st. Marks cathedrals,
Alhambrss and Sydenham palaces innumer-
able. know it depends much on our own
condition what Impression these flying
mstsors Of the snow mako.
shall not forget rough and UMPIRE
tending wood cuts which I saw in my boy
hood side by dido; one . picture Of aprosper'
Gus farmhouse, with all signs of comfort,
and q lad warmly clothed looking out Of thi
door upon the firYt furry Of snow, and hi
mind no doubt filled with the sound Of jim
Cling slsigh balls and the frolic with playfel
Iows In the deep benks. and be. clapping hi
hands and shouting, at smowsi it snowsp
I The other sketch was of . boy, haggard and
hollow eyed with hunger, looking from ths
broken door of . wretched home, and seeing
IN tho falling flakes prophecy Of more cold
and les bread and greater privstion, wiring
ing his hands and with tears rolling. down
bis wan cheeks crying, 'tOh, my Godi Il
mowsI 1t mowsP' Out Of the ~sbundanc,
that charactsrizse most Of our homes may
thor b reedy relief to ali whom this win.
tar 6ndsin want and EXPOSURE.
And now / propose, for your spiritual and
eysrlasting profit II you win accept my guild
anca. 70 tsks yuu through some Of these won
ia TIE lftNes, You MAJ take alpenstock ant
GRO TIRE Ner Dc 0lacA the sea of ice and
sscend Mont Blanc. which rises into tn,
| cloudll Ike 4 pillar q the great white Throns
or With arctic cxplorer ascend the mountain
around ne north polk, and see glacier: |.
three thotlundf sst hieh. But I win tax,
Won On { - prstsntdous tourney and show
YOU God IN the mownake, There is room
snouch between n uiljars for the great Je
lhova6 to stand. In that one frozen drop OF
~ To Of your 6nrer Won may ind the thron,
room Of tie Almighty. take up the SNOW
in INV hand and - The coursers Of ceIestia
Il DOMINION OAWI0R I0189 Cyul8l p8N6ulcutS.
Il telescope 4 Fraud. but I must COMES.
that I AM quite q much interested in the
uicroscope. The one reveals the universe
above -: the other lust q treat & universe
benesth -. But the teleecope overwhslmi
me. while the microscopes comforts me. What
vnn want and I want especially is a God ID
fittlss. II We were seraphic or a~rchangelie
in our natures We would want to study God
in Che great: but such small, weak, short
lived be3noa a. YOU and I are want to find
Goa IN the Tttles.
when I - the Maker of the universe civ
inc HimseH to ths Architecture Of q snow
fiske apd making its shaft. it's domes. ii
cnrves- n walls It's irradiations 10 perfect
roncinde Hs viii iook After our insieniHcsn,
Mir And II ~ are 81 mora yaIue thar
snsrrow most Certainly VA are Of mory
vaira than an inanimate movdake. So ia,
Rihie would Chiefly impress ~ With God Il
the Htties. Il does mot say. ssCongider tht
clo,,de y INIT II sava ssCorgidsr tina lilies ~ 4
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