Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-02-09
A COOL SUBJECT.
REy. DR.. TALMAGg PREAOaES on SNOW AND
ITS LESSONS.
The Distinguished Preacher Compares the Virgin Fall
Of Snow to the Parity Of the Christian Oharac-
tsr-The Power q Very Little Things.
An Object L,Sson Ia Frczsn
Truths.


| Special telegram % ne Register.
New YORK. February s.-The re-
markahie movement Initiated by the
Christian HCruld services in the Aca-
DENY OF Music is growing apaco, and
negotiations are pending for additional
accommodations on a gigantic scale.
| DR.. Talmage's sermons have set thou
sands Of the people Of New York to ser
ious thinking on religious matters. At
every service now, men and women rise
in all parts Of the house to intimate
their desire that the'ChriStianS present
would pray for their conversion, and
after the regular service is concluded
they speedily occupy the orchestra
chairs while DR.. TGlmage and the large
corps OF workers who are helping him
listen TO their difficulties ond give them
advice. fearful eyes and cOnvulsive
sObs bear testimony TO the earneStneSs
Of the seekers. The New York Herald
estimates that during January alone
over a thousand persons declared their
resolve TO live Christian lives. DR..
Talmage'S sermon this evening, which
he also preached in the Brooklyn Aca-
deny Of Music this morning. was from
Job IS: 30: "naSt thou entered into
the treasures of the snow?"
Grossly maligned is the season Of
winter. The spring and summer and
autumn have had many admirers, but
but winter, hOary-headed and white
bearded winter, hath had more enemies
than friends. Yet without winter the
human race wOsld be iuane and effort
less, You might speak of the winter
as the mother of tempeStS; | take it as
the father Of whole family of physical,
mental and spiritual energies. The
most people that | know are strong in
proportion TO the number of snow
beakS they had 10 climb over, or push
through. in childhood. while their fa
theirs drove the sled loaded with logs
through the crunching drifts aS high as
the fences. At this season of the year
when we are so familiar with the snow.
those frozen VapOrS, those falling bios
SONS of the sky, those white angels of
the atmosphere, those poems OF the
storm. those lliadS and OdySSeyS of the
winter tempest. turn over the leaves
of my Bible and-thOugh most Of it was
written I'm a cline where snow seldom
or ever 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 check, they had in sight TWO
mountains, the tops of which were sug
gestivc. Other kings sometimes take
of their crowns, but Lebanon and
Mount Hermou all the year round and
through the ages never lift the coronets
of crystal from their foreheadS. The
first time we mud a deep iall OF snow in
the Bible is where Samuel describes
fight between Bcnaiah and lion in "A
pit: and though the snow may have
crimSoued under the wounds of both
man and brute, the shaggy monster
rolled over dead and the giant was vic
tor. But the snow is not fl y recog-
nized i'm tine Bible until God .errog@tes
job, the scientist, conc ~ It's won
ders, saying: Hast tho ntered into
the treasures or the Snow?n