Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-02-14

THETABERNACLE PULPIT
DR.. TAl-MAeE CONTINUES HIS SERIES
OF EVANGELICAL SERMONS.

OF EVANGELICAL SERMONS.
The Lessons of wintor-wonders Wrought
by Tiny Sno.vGakcs of Which 1t Takes
Score to Balance Fcnther-so 1t Is
with Human Agencies.
New YORK. Feb. e.lThe remarkable
movement initiated by The Christian
Herald services in the Academy Of
Music is growing apace, and negotia-
tions are pending for additional accom-
modations ON a gigantic scale. DR..
TallniIge's. sermons have set thousands
of thepcopIe Of New York to serious
thinking on religious matters At every
ser%ices noWslnel and women rise in all
partssofetlle house to intimate their de
sire thatsthe Christians present would
pray fortlieif conversion and after tile
regular. service ;isconcluded they speed
lily occnpssthe oreliestr. chairs while
Dr. Talinage and the large corps of
workers WHO iares helping him listen to
their; ;;;f33cttlties and give them advice.
Tcarfn eyes and conclusive sobs bear
testimony to tile e,rnestncss OF the.
seekers The New York Herald esti
mates that during January alone over
n thousand persons declared their re-
solve.to live Christian lives. DR.. Tai
lnages sermon this evening. which lie
also preached in the Brooklyn Academy |
OF MllSic in the morning, was from Job
xviii. % Hast thou entered into
the treasures of the snow2"
Grossly malisned 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 cnc.-.es than
friends. Yet without winter the human
r,lce.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 pusll through in child
hood, while their fathers drove tire sled
loaded with logs through the crnnching
drifts high us 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.
lnosphere. those poems Of the storm.
those. Illds and Odysseys of the win.
trystenpest. turn over the leaves OF
my Bible and--though most of it was
written in cline where snow seldom
orr never fell find many of these
beautiful congelations Though the
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 we're sug-
gestive. Other kings sometimes take
off tlIeir crowns, but Lebanon and
Mount Herrnon all the year round and
Though the ages never lift the coronets
of crystal from their foreheads.
Tbesfirst time we find a deep fall OF
snow in the Bible is where Samuel de-
scribes n fight between Bcnaah and a
lion in a 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, concern
ing its wonders, saying, Hast thou
entered into the treasures of tue snow2"
GOD QUESTIONS JOB.
rather think that Job may have ex-
arnined the snowflake with a micro
scope; 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 Coliseum was
in its full splendor Nero sat in the en-
peror's box of that great theatre, which
held hundred thousand people, and
looked at the combatants through
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 power
FIJI glasses called burning spheres,
and I.ayard, the explorer, found mag
nifying glass amid the ruins of Nineveh,
and in the palace of Nilnrod. Whether
through magnifying instruments or
with unaided eye, l cannot say, but I
am sure that Job somehow went
through it's galleries of the snowflake
and counted the pillars and found won
ders. raptures, mysteries, theolosies,
majestics, infnities walking up and
down it's corridors, as result of the
question which the Lord had asked
him, Hast thou entered into the treas.
ures of the snow2"
Oh, it is wondrous meteor Hum
boldt studied it in tho Andes twelve
thousand feet above the level of the
sea. De Saussure reveled among these
meteors in the Alps, and DR.. Scorcsby
counted ninety.six varieties of snow
flake amid the arctics. They are in
shape of stars, in shape of coronets, in
shape of cylinders, are globular, are
hexagonal, are pyranlidal, are castel
lated. After fresh fall of snow, in
one walk you crush under your feet
Tuilleries. Windsor Castles, St. Pauls.
St. Peters. St. Mark's cathedrals, al
hambras md Sydenham palaces in
Vulnerable. know IT, depends much
on our own condition what impression
these flying rneteors of snow make.
shall not forget two rough and I'M
pretending weed cuts which ! saw in
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