The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-02-12
THETABERNACIB PULPIT |
DR.. TAlMAoE CONTINUES, HIS SERIES
OF EVANGELICAL SERMONS.

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- |
rnodations on a gigantic scale. DR.. |
Talmages 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-
sire that the Christians present would
pray for their conversion, and after the
regular service Is concluded they speed
lily occupy the orchestra chairs while
DR.. Tamage 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
a thousand persons declared their re-
solve to live Christian lives. DIR. Tai
Mares sermon this evening which he
also preached in the Brooklyn Academy
of Music in the morning, was from job
xxxviii, 60: Hast thou entered into
the treasures of the snowr
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 enell..es than
friends. Yet without winter the human
race would be inane and effortless. You
might speak of the winter as the mother
of teInpests; 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 Iiads and Odysseys of the win
try tempest, l turn over the leaves O.
INV Bible and-though most of 1t wa:
written in q CLINE where snow seldom
or never fell find many of thes'
beautiful congelations. Though TIT
. writer's may seldom or never have fel
the cold touch of the snowflake OF
their check, they had in sight TIVE
! mountains, the tops of which we're sug
p gestive. Other kings sometimes tax
off their crowns, but Lebanon ant
!. Mount Hermon all the year round ant
/, through the ages never lift the coronet
i of crystal from their foreheads.
!. The first time we find a deep fall c
snow in the Bible is where Samuel dc
scribes fight between Benaiah and
= lion in a pit, and though the sno'
may have crimsoned under the wound
of both man and brute, the shagg
;. monster rolled over dead and the giar
e was victor. But the snow is not full
recognized in the Bible until God il
IL terrogates Job, the scientist, concerl
ing it's wonders, saying, Hast tho
u entered into the treasures of the snow
GOD QUESTIONS JOB.
: rather think that Job may have e.
;, amined the snowflake with a lnicr'
= scope; for although it is supposed thu
> the microscope was invented long aft
Jobs time there had been wonders I
L. glass long before the microscope an
- telescope of later day were thought O
So long ago as when the Coliseum W;
in its full splendor Nero sat in the er
peror's box of that great theatre, whie
held hundred thousand people, al
looked at the combatants through
gem in his finger ring which broug
everything close up to his eye.
Four hundred years before Christ,
-. the stores at Athens, were sold powt
e. full glasses called burning spheres
:" and Layard, the explorer, found a ma
IN nifying glass amid the ruins of Nineve
M and in the palace of Nimrod. Wheth
90 through magnifying instruments
no with unaided eye, 1 cannot say, bu
AIN sure LllstL COO SSluShO" We
through its galleries of the snowfla
Or. and counted the pillars and found we
= ders. raptures, mysteries, theologi
majestics, infinities walking up a
down its corridors, as result of
question which the Lord had ask
him, "Hast thou entered into the ire
ures of the snow"
me Oh, it is a wondrcus meteorl Hu
Is boldt studied it in the Andes tive
thousand feet above the level of
sea- De Saussure reveled among th
meteors in the Alps, and DIR. Score
III counted ninety-six varieties of sn'
fake amid the arctics. They are
w shape of stars, in shape of coronets
) shape of cylinders, are globular,
WI. hexagonal, are pyramidal, are cas-
to lated. After a fresh fall of snow
led one walk you crush under your
zee. Tuilleries, Windsor Castles, st. Pa
st. Peters, St Marks cathedrak,
les, hambras and Sydenham palaces
CT Vulnerable. l know it depends m
ON our own condition what impress
7
~ shall not forget two rough and
call pretending wood cuts which sa,
my boyhood side by side: one pic
of prosperous farm house with
signs of comfort, and a lad wal
= clothed looking out of the door L
the first furry of snow, and his L
no doubt filed with the sound of
m ling sleigh bells, and the frolic
playfellows in the deep banks, ane
~ clapping his hands and shouting,
ssh SHOWS! 1t snows!" The other SIX
was of a boy, haggard and he
.rys eyed with hunger, looking from
" broken door of wretched home,
seeing in the falling fakes prophe,
more cold and less bread and gr
privation, wringing his hands and