The Iola register., 1891-02-13
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE GOSPEL DISCOURSE OF THE EMI-
SENT AND ELOQUENT PASTOR OF
TRINITY CHURCH, DELIVERED
LAST SUNDAY MORNING AND
EVENING TO INTEREST
ED THOUSANDS.
lie Tells of the SHOWS Recorded i'm the
.,hIa. The Comforts. beauties and
Terrors of the Snow Flakes.

preached in the Brooklyn Academy ol
Music in the morning, was from JOB
xxxyiii: 80: Hast thou entered into
the treasures of the snow?"
Grossly maligned is the season OF win
ter. The spring and summer and aut-
umn have had many admirers, but win
ter, hoary headed and whtte-bearded
winter, hath had more enemies than
friends. Yet without winter the human
race would be inane and effortless. You
might speak of winter as the mother OF
tempests: l take it as the father OF a
whole family of physical, mental and
spiritual energies. The most people that
know are strong in proportion to the
number of snow banks they had to climb
over, or push through In chlldhooa,
while their fathers drove the sled load
ed with logs through the crunchlng
drifts high as the fences. At this sea-
son of the year when we are so famlllar
with the snow, those frozen Vapors,
those falling blossoms OF the sky, those
white angels of the atmosphere, those
poems of the storm, those lads and
Odysseys of the wintery tempest, turn
over the leaves of my bible eand-though
most of it was written in CLINE where
snow seldom or never fell lind many
of these beautiful congelations. Though
the writer's may seldom or never nave
feiC the cold touch of the snowflake on
their cheek, they had in sight two
mount aims, the tops of which were sug-
gestive.
THE SHOWS IN THE BIBLE.
Other kings sometimes take off their
crowns, Lebanon and Mount Hermon all
the wear round and through the ages
never lift their coronets of crystal from
their foreheads. The first time we find
a deep fall of snow in the bible is where
Samuel describes hight between
Beniaiah and lion in the pit, and
though the snow may have crlmsoned
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 interrogates Job, the
scientist, concerning its wonders, say
ing: Hast thou entered into the
treasures OF the SHOW!
| rather think Job may have examin-
ed the snowflake with microsccpe;for,
although it is supposed that the micro
scope was invented long after JOBS
time, there had been wonders OF glass
long before the microscope and tele-
scope of later day were thought OF. SO
long ago as when the Coliseum was In
its full splendor, Nero sat In the
emperors box of that great theatre,
which held 100000 people, and looked
at the combatants through gem IN his
finger ring which brought everything
close up to his eye. -Four hundred
wears before Christ, in the stores OF
Athens, were sold powerful glasses call
ed burning spheres, and bayard, the
explorer. found a magnlfylng glass
amid the ruins Of Nineveh, and in the
palace of Nimrod. Whether through
magnifying instrument or unalded eye,
| can not say, but am sure that JOB
somehow went through the galleries OF
the snowflake and counted its pillars
and found wonders. raptureS, mysteries,
theologies, majesties, minutes walking
I'D and down its corridors, as result OF
the question which the Lord had asked
him, Hast thou entered into the
treasures of the snOw?" ., 1t Is Won
derous meteor! Humboldt studied it In
the Andes twelve thousand feet above
the level of the sea. De Saussure revell-
ed among these meteors in the Alps
and DIR. Scoresby counted nlnety-slX
varieties of snowflake amid the Arctlcs.
They are in shape of stars, in shape OF
coronets, in shape of cylinders, are COB
ular. are hexagOnal, are pyramidal, are
castellated.
JOY OR DEEP SORROW FELT.
After fresh fall of snow, in one walk
YOU crush under your feet Tuilleries,
Windsor castles, st. Pauls, st. Peters,
St. Marks cathedrals, Alhambras and
Sydenham palaces innumberable.
know it depends much on our own con-
dition what impression these flying
meteors of the snow make. l shall not
forget two rough and unpretending
wood cuts which saw in my boyhood
side by side; one picture of a prosper
Gus farm house with all signs of comfort,
and a lad warmly clothed looking out
of the door upon the first furry of snow
and his mind no doubt filled with the
sound of iingling sleigh bells and the
frolic with playfellows in the deep
banks. and he clapping his hands and
shouting: 1T SHOWS. 1t snows!" The
other sketch was of boy, haggard and
hollow eyed with hunger, looking from
the broken door of a wretcned home.
and seeing the falling flakes prophecy
of more cold and less bread and greater
privation, wringing his hands and,
with tears running down his wan cheeks,
10 NnHf
snows!" Out of the abundance that
characterizes most of our homes may
there 60 speedy relief to all whom this
winter finds in want and exposure.
And now propose for your spiritual
and everlasting profit, If you will eX'
cept nv guidance, TO take you through
some of these wonders of crystallization
And notice first God in the Titles. You
may take the alpenstOck and cross the
Mer de Glace. the sea of ice, and ascend
Mont Blanc, which rises into the clouds
like pillar of the great white throne
mountains around the north pole and
see glacieres a Thousand feet higl
grinding against glaciers three thous
and feet high. But | will take you OF
a less pretentious journey and SHOW
you OOu III Ine SHOhHdhc- 1nSre l.
room enough between its pillars for tn,
great Jehovah to stand. In that on,
frozen drop on the tip of your finge
you may find the throne room of tn,
Almighty.
FINDING COMFORT IN LITTLES.
/ take up the snow in my hand ant
see the coursers of celestial dominion
paving these crystal pavements. Tn
telescope is grand, but / must confes
that / am quite as much interested i
the microscope. The one reveals tn