Telegram-herald., 1891-02-09
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| Herald services IA the AesS<my II Music
b growing spA1s. aad nzxotiatioas Srs
| psnaiag for additional recommendation ea
| 0xsntsc scale. DR.. Tslmass's ssrmoss
hare - thousands Of tbs peepls IT Ne~
York - serious thinking on religious mat
terra A. every service now n<n and
| wo.aen rsss Ia al parts OF the house To IN
iGmsts their desire that the Christians
present would pray for their conversion.
aHd after the regular service u concluded
tbey speedily occupy the orchestra chairs
while DR. TAlmase and the large corps of
| workers who are helping him listen 70
their dificalties and give them adyioe.
l fearful eyes and eoavutsive sobs bear
l testimony 20 the earnessness OF the seekers
| The New York Herald estimates that dur
| ING January alone over a Thousand persons
declared thoir resolve to live Christian
| lives. Or. Taln,age's sermon this evening,
which he also preached in the Brooklyn
| Academy OF Music in tho morning. was
from Job xxxviii, =. Hast thou entered
into the treasures Of the snows"
Grossly maligned Is the season OF winter
| The spring and summer and autumn have
had many admirers. but winter, hoary
headed and white bearded winter, hath
had moro enemies than friends. Yet with
| cut winter the human race would lie inane
and eyortless. You might speak OF tho
| winter as tho mother OF tempests. / take
il a. the father Of a whole family Of physi-
cal, mental and spiritual energies. The
most people that know arc strong in pro-
portion 10 tho 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 rs the fences.
AT this season Of the year, when we - 50
familiar with the snow, those frozen
vapors, those falling blossoms of the sky,
those white angels Of the atmosphere, those
poems OF the storm, those Iliads and Odys-
seys Of the wintery tempest, turn over
the leaves of my Bible and-thouSh most
Of 1t was written in cline where snow
seldom or never fell find many of these
beautiful congelations. Thoughtb writer's
may seldom or never have felt the cold
touch Of the snowflake on their cheek,
they had In sight two mountains, the tops
OF which were suggestive. Other kings
sometimes take of their crowns, but Leb-
anon and Mount Hermon 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 a
fight between Benaiah and lion in 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
terrogates Job, the scientist concerning its
wonders, saying, Hast thou entered into
the treasures Of the snow."
JOB, THE LEARNED SCIENTIST.
rather think that job may have exam
ined the snowflake with microscopes; for,
although it Is supposed that the microscope
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, NeyA at in
the emperor's box of that great IL ,atre,
which held hundred thousand people,
and looked at the combatants through a
gem in his finger ring which brought
everything close up to his eye.
Four hundred years before Christ, in the
stores at Athens, were sold powerful
glasses called burning Spheres" and
Layard, the explorer, found magnifying
glass amid the ruins of Nincveh and in
the palace of Nimrod Whether through
magnifying instrument or with unaided
eye l cannot say, but / am sure that Job
somehow went through the galleries of the
snowflake and counted it's pillars and
found wonders, raptures. mysteries, theol-
ogies, majesties, infinities walking up and
down its corridors, as a resul: Of the ques-
ton which the Lord had asked him, Hast
thou entered into the treasures of the
snow?"
Oh, it is a wondrous meteorl Hum
boldt studied it in the Andes, twelve thou
sand feet above the lcyel OF the sea- De
Saussure reveled among these meteors in
the Alps, and DR.. Scoresby counted ninety
six varieties Of snowflake amid the arc
tics. They are in shape of stars, in shape
of coronets, in shape Of cylinders; are glob-
ular, are hexagonal, are pyramidal, are
castellated. 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 innumeraole. l
know 1t depends much on our own condi-
tion what impression these flying meteors
of the snow make
shall not forget two rough and unpre-
tending wood cuts which saw in my boy
hood side by side: one picture Of a prosper
ous farmhouse, with all signs Of comfort,
and lad warmly clothed looking out OF
the door upon the first furry of snow, and
his mind no doubt filed with the sound OF
| jingiing sleigh bells and the frolic with
playfeliows in the deep banks. and he,
clapping his hands and shouting, 1T snowsl
10 snowsl" The other sketch was OF q boy,
hsggari and hollow eyed with hunger,
looking from the broken door of wrctched
home, aud seeing in the falling fakes proph-
ecy of more cold and less bread and great
er privation, wringing his hands and with
tears rolling down his wan cheeks. crying.
"Oh. my Godl 1t snowsl II snowsr' Out
OF the abundance that charactsrizns moet
Of our homes may there GO speedy relief to
all whom this winter finds In want and
exposure
GOD Nv THE SNOWFLAKE
And now / propose, for your spiritual
aud everlasting profit, IL you viii accept
my guidance. 20 take you through some Of
taexs wonders Of capitalization Ard
notice first God In the Titles. You may
take aipenstock and cross the Mer de
Glace. tho sea Of Zoe, and ascend Mont
Blanc which riees into the clouds like a
pillar Of the arest white Throne. or with
arctic explorer ascend the mountains
around the north pose. aud see glaciers q
thousand fee< high grinding against eisc-
iers three Thousand feet high. Bot will
take yoz1 on less pr~tenfsous jousney apd
show you God in the snowflake There is
room enough between its pillars For the
rrret Jehovah 70 Stand In that one frozen
drop on the tip of yosr finger roo mar and