The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-19
THETABERNACLE PULPIT
DR.. TALMAee CONTINUES HIS SERIES
OF EVANGELICAL SERMONS.

OF EVANGELICAL SERMONS,
The Lessons of winter-wonders Wrought
by Tiny Snowaakes of Which 1t Takes
a Score to Balance Feather-So 1t Is
with Human Agencies.
New YORK, Feb. S.-The remarkable
movement initiated by The Christian
Herald services in the Academy of
Music is growing apace, and negotia'
tons are pending for additional accom-
modations on gigantic scale, DR..
Talmage's sermons have set thousands
of the people of New York to serious
thinking on religious matters. At every
service now men and women rise in all
parts of the house to intimate their de-
pray for their conversion, and after the
regular service is concluded they speed
ily occupy the orchestra chairs while
Dr. Talmage and the large corps OF
workers who are helping him listen to
their difficulties and give them advice.
fearful eyes and convulsive sobs bear
testimony to the earnestness of the
seekers. The New York Herald esti
mates that during January alone over
thousand persons declared their re,
solve to live Christian lives, Dr. Tai
mage's sermon this evening. which he
also preached in the Brooklyn Academy
of Music in the morning. was from Job
xviii, 22' Hast thou entered into
the treasures of the snowy
Grossly maligned is the season of
winter The spring and summer and
autumn have had many admirers, but
winter, hoary headed and white beard
ed winter hath had more enemies than
friends Yet without winter the human
race would be inane and effortless You
might speak of the winter as the mother
of tempests; 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 child
hood, while their fathers drove the sled
loaded with logs through the crunching
drifts high as the fences
At this season of the year when we
are so familiar with the snow, those
frozen vapors, those falling blossoms OF
the sky those white angels of the at
mosphere, those poems of the storm,
those Iliads and Odysseys of the win
try tempest turn over the leaves of
my Bible and though most of it was
written in cline where snow seldom
or never fell find many of these
beautiful congeiations Though the
writer's may seldom or never have felt
their cheek, they had in sight two
mountains, the tops of which we're sug-
gestive Other kings sometimes take
off their crowns, but Lebanon and
Mount IIermon all the year round and
through the ages never lift the coronets
of crystal from their forehcads
The first time we find deep fall OF
SNOW in the Bible is where Samuel de
scribes II fight between Benaiah and a
lion in IA pit, and though the snow
may have crimsoncd 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
terrogates Job. the scientist, concern
ing its wonders. saying, Hast thou
entered into the treasures of the snowr
GOD QUESTIONS JOB.
rather think that Job may have ex;
amined the snowflake with micro
scope; for although it is supposed that
the microscope was invented long aftei
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 Coliseum was
in its full splendor Nero sat in the elm
peror's box of that great theatre, which
held hundred thousand people, and
looked at the colnbatants through q
gem in his finger ring which brought
everything close up to his eye.
Four hundred years before Christ, il
the stores ut Athens. were sold power
full glasses called burning spheres,
and I.ayard, the explorer, found mag
nifying glass amid the ruins of Nineveh
and in the palace of Nimrod Whether
through magnifying instruments Oh
will, nnaid",l eye, cannot say, but
am sure that Job somehow Wen
through its galleries of the snowflake
and counted the pillars and found won
ders, raptures, mysteries theologies
majeStics infinities walking up an(
down its corridors as result of thu
question which the Lord had asked
him. Hast thou entered into the treas
ures of the snow"
Oh, it is a wondrous meteor! Hum
boldt studied it in the Andes twelv,
Thousand feet above the level of the
sea De SalisSure reveled among thes'
Ineteors in the Alps. and DR. Scoreab.
counted ninety six varieties of snow
flake amid the arctics. They are il
shape OF stars, in shape of coronets, il
shape Of cylinders, are globular, ar
hexagonal, are pyramidl, are castel
lated After fresh fall of snow, il
one walk you crush under your fee
Tuilleries Windsor Castles, st. Pauls
St. Peters, st Marks cathetirals, Al
halnbras and Sydcnham palaces in
Vulnerable | know it depends mucl
on our own condition what impression
these flying meteors of snow make.
| shall not forget two rough and un
pretending wood cuts which | saw il
my boyhood size by side; one pictur
of a prosperous farm house with al
signs of comfort, and a lad warInl
clothed looking out of the door upol
the first furry of snow, and his min'
no doubt filled with the sound of jing
ling sleigh bells, and the frolic witt
playfellows in the deep banks, and b
Won ccIr ME he IL the GOu TIE snow
flake you tell me something can hole
and measure and realize. Thus the
smallest snowflake contains a jewe