Connecticut western news., 1891-02-11
THETABERNACLE PULPIT

HE lADEl1NAOlE II UA IL DR. TALMAGE CONTINUES HIS SERIES
 OF EVANGELICAL SERMONS.
 The Lessons of Winter-wonders Wrought
 by Tiny s.ow1akes of Which It Takes
 Score to Balance 2 Feather-so 1t Is
 with Human Agencies.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 8.-The remarkable movement initiated by The Christian Herald services in the Academy of Music is growing apace, and negotia- hons are pending for additional accom- modations on gigantic scale. Dr. TalInage's seynons have ret 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 desa iSe that the Christians present would pray for their conversion, and after the regular service is concluded they speed fly occupy the orchestra chairs while Dr. Talmage and the large corps d 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. Dr. Tal- mage's sermon this evening, which he also preached in the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the morning, was from Job uviii. 9. Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snowq"
 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 enemies than friends Yet without winter the human race would be inane and efortless. You might speak of the winter as the mother of tempests; 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
 
 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 Iliads and Odysseys of the win try tempest, turn over the leaves of my Bible and-though most of it was written in cline where snow seldom or never fell-1 find many of these beautiful congelations 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 sug gestive Other kings sometimes take of their crowns. but Lebanon and Mount Her1non 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 de- scribes fight between Benaiah and lion in a pit, and though the snow may have cri1nsoned 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 it's wonders, saying, "Hast thoa entered into the treasures of the snow9
 GOD QUESTIONS JoB
 rather think that Job may have ex a1nined the snowflake with 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 it's full splendor Nero sat in the em peror's box of that great theatre, which held hundred thousand people, and 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 full glasses called burning spheres" and Layard, the explorer, found mag nifying glass amid the ruins of Nineveh, and in the palace of Nimrod. Whether through magnifying instruments or with unaided eye. I cannot say, but an sure that Job somehow went through it's galleries of the snowflake and counted the pillars and found won- ders, raptures. mysteries, theologies, majestics. infinities 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 snow9"
 Oh. it is wondrous meteorl Hum boldt studied it in the Andes
 thousand feet above the level of the sea. De Saussure reveled among these meteors in the Alps, and Dr. Scoresby 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 pyramidal, are castel- lated After . fresh fall of snow, in one walk you crush under your feet Tuilleries. Windsor Castles, St. Pauls, St. Peters, St. Marks cathedrals, Al hambras and Sydenham palaces in numerable. know it depends much on our own condition what impression these flying meteors of snow make.
 shall not forget two rough and un- pretending wood cuts which l saw in my boyhood side by side: one picture of prosperous farm house with all signs of comfort. and q lad warmly