Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-02-14
TALMAGES SERMON.
THE GOSPEL DISCOURSE OF THE emf
NENT AND ELOQUENT PASTOR OF
TRINITY CHURCH, DELIVERED
LAST SUNDAY MORNING AND
EVENING TO INTEREST
ED THOUSANDS.
He Tells Of the SHOWS Recorded IN inc
Bible. The Comforts, Beauties and
Terrors OF the snow Flakes.

Brooklyn, February S.-Dr. Talmage's
sermon this evening, which he also
preached in the Brooklyn Academy OF
Music in the morning, was from Joo
xxxyiii: %: "Hast thou entered into
the treasures OF the SNOWY"
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 white-bearded
winter, hath had more enemies tnan
frier Is. Yet without winter the human
race would be inane and etfortless. You
might speak Of winter as the mother Oh
tempests; l take it as the father OF q
whole family Of physical, mental ana
spiritual energies. The most people that
l know are strong in proportion to the
number of snow banks they had to CLIMB
over. or push through in childnooo,
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 80 familiar
with the snow, those frozen vapors,
those falling blossoms Of the sky, those
white angels OF the atmosphere, tnoSs
poems of the storm, those LADS anu
Odysseys of the wintery tempest, l turn
over the leaves Of my bible and-thougn
most of it was written in cline where
snow seldom or never fell find many
a these beautiful congelations. Thougn
the writers may seldom or never have
felt the cold touch OF the snowflake on
their cheek, they had in slgnt Two
mountains, the tops Of which were sug'
gestive.
THE SHOWS IN THE BIBLE.
Other kings sometimes take of theii
crowns. Lebanon and Mount Hermon al
the year round and through the ages
never lift their coronets Of crystal from
their foreheads. The first time we fine
a deem fall of snow in the bible is where
samuel describes q fight between
Reniaiah and lion in the pit, ant
Enough the snow may have crimsonet
under The wounds OF both man ant
brute. the shaggy monster rolled Owe
dead and the giant was victor. But thu
snow is not fully recognized IN TN
bible until God interrogates JOB, tne
scientist, concerning its wonders say
ing: Hast thou entered into In
treasures OF the SNOWY"
rather think Job may have examln
ed the snowflake with a microsccpeior
although It is supposed that the micro
scope was invented long after JOB
time. there had been wonders OF glas
long before the microscope and tele
scope of later day were thought OF. -
long ago as when the Coliseum was II
its full splendor, Nero sat in the
,emperor's box Of that great theatre
which held 100000 people, and LOOKED
at the combatants through o gem In MI
finger ring which brought everything
close up to his eye. -Four hundred
wears before Christ, in the stores O
Athens, were sold powerful glasses call
ed "burning spheres, and Layard, the
explorer, found q magnifying glass
amid the ruins OF Nineveh, and in the
palace OF Nimrod. Whether through
magnifying instrument or unaided eye
I can not say, but am sure that Jot
somehow went through the galleries O
the snowflake and counted It's pillars
and found wonders, raptures, mysteries
theologies, majesties, minutes walking
ND and down its corridors, as result O.
the question which the Lord had asked
him, Hast thou entered into the
treasures of the snOw?" o, it Is won
derous meteor! Humboldt studied 1t 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 ninety-six
varieties of snowflake amid the Arctlcs;
They are in shape OF stars, in shape OF
coronets, in shape Of cylinders, are COB
ular, are hexsgonal, are pyramidal, are
nastellated.
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 cathedrsls, Alhambras and
Sydenham palaces innumberable. ]
know it depends much on our own con-
ditioh what impression these flying
meteors of the snOw make. shall not
forget two rough and unpretending
wood cuts which / saw in my boyhood
side by side; one picture of q prosper
Gus farm house with all signs Of comfort,
and q lad warmly clothed looking out
Of the door upon the first furry of snow
and his mind no doubt filed 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 snowsl" The
other sketch was OF boy, haggard and
hollow eyed with hunger, looking from
the broken door of q wretched 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,
crying: 20, my Godl 1t snowsl It
snOwsl" Out Of the abundance that
most of our homes may
there 90 speedy relief to all whom this
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