The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-18
REV. DIR. TALMAGE ON SNOW.
THE LESSONS IT TEACHES MANKIND.
Gods Power Manifested I'm Little Things
The Tremendous Force OF Accumulated
In1usnces-Benefits to Mankind of
Adversely = The Soul Cleansed.

The remarkable movement initiated By
Inc Christian Herald services in the
academy of music, New York City, is
growing space, and negotiations are pend
ing for additional accommodations on
gigantic scale DIR. Talmage's sermons
have set thousands of the people OF New
York to serious thinking on religious mat
tiers. At every service now, men and
women rise in all parts OF the house to in
innate 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.. Talmage 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 seek
ers. The New York Herald estimates that
during January alone over one thousand
persons declared their resolve to live
Christian lives. DIR. Talmage's sermon
Sunday evening, which he also preached
in the Brooklyn academy Of music in the
morning, was from Job xxxviii, %: "Hast
thou entered into the treasures of the
snow7"
Grossly maligned is the season of win
ter. The spring, and summer, and
autumn have had many admirers, but win
ter, hoary-headed and white-bearded win
ter, hath had more enemies than friends.
Yet without winter the human race would
De insane and effortless. You might
speak of the winter as the mother of tenn
pests 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 childhood, 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 atmosphere, those poems
of the storm, those Iliads and Odysseys of
the wintery tempest, l turn over the
leaves OF my bible and-though most of it
was written where snow seldom or never
fell find many of these beautiful con-
gelations. Though the writers 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 off their crowns, but Lebanon and
Mt. HermOn all the year round and
through the ages never lift the cOronets OF
crystal from their fOreheads The first
time we find deep fall of snow in the
bible Is where Samuel describes fight be-
tween Benaiah and lion in pit; and,
though the snow may have crimsoned I'M
der 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: blast thou entered
into the treasures of the snOw?"
/ rather think that Job may have ex-
amined the snowflake with a microscope;
Tor, although it is supposed that the mi
crOscOpe was invented long after Jobs
time, there had been wonders of glass
long before the microscope and telescope
of latter day were thought of So long
ago as when the Coliseum was in its full
splendor Nero sat in the emperor's box
Of that great theater, which held 100000
people, aud looked at the combatants
through a gem in his lingering, which
brought everything close up to his eve.
-Four hundred years before Christ, in the
stores of Athens, were sold powerful
glasses called burning Spheres" and
Layard, the explorer, found a magnifying
glass amid the ruins of Nineveh, and in
the palace Of Nimrod. Whether through
magnifyIng instrument or with unaided
eye can not say, but / ann sure that Job
somehow went through the galleries of
the snowflake and counted its pillars and
found wonders. raptures, mysteries, the
O.ogies, majesties, infinites walking up
ana down its corridors, as a result of the
question which the Lord had asked him,
Hast thou entered into the treasures of
the snow"
Oh, it Is a wOndrous meteor Hum
bolt studied it in the Andes 1900 feet
above the level of the sea. De S'aussure rev
eled among these meteOrs in the Alps,
and DIR. ScOresby counted ninetv-six
varieties of snowflake AMID the Arctics
They are in shape OF stars, in shape of
coronets. il shape of cylinders, are giobu-
lar, are 'hexagonial, are pyramidal, are
castelated. Alter a fresh fall OF snow, in
one walk you crush under your feet Tuil-
cries, Windsor castles, st. PauPs. st. Peters,
81. Marks cathedrals, Alhambras and
Sydenham palaces innumerable. l know
1t depends much on our own condition
what impression these flying meteors of
the snow make / shall not for
get two rough and unpretending
wOod-cuts winch | saw in my
boyhocd side by side; one picture OF a
prosperous farm house 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 filled with
the jingling sleigh-bells and the frolic
with playfellows in the deep bank, and
he clapping his hands and shouting: at
SHOWS. It snows" The other sketch was
Of boy, haggard and hollOw-eyed with
hunger looking from the broken door OF
wretched home and seeing in the falling
flakes prophecy of more cold and less
bread and greater privation, wringing his
hands and with tears rolling down his wan
cheeks, crying: "Oh, my Godl 1t snowsl
1t snOwsW Out of the abundance that
characterizes most OF our homes may
there 90 speedy relief TO all whom this
winter finds in want and exposure.
And now | propose for your spiritual
and everlasting profit, if you will accept
my guidance, to take you through some of
these wonders Of crystalizalion. And notice.
first God in the Titles. You may take
alpenstock and cross the Mer de Glaca.
the Sea OF Ice, and ascend Mount Blanc,
which rises into the clouds like pillar 81
the great white throne, or with Arctic
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