Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-13
BEAUTIFUL SNOW.
DR. TaLMAGE breaches ABOUT
THE emblem OF PURITY.

! New York, N. Y, Feb. 8. 1S91.--Dr.
Talmage's sermon this evening, which he
also preached in the Brooklyn Academy of
Music in the morning, was from Job 3S.
%. blast thou entered into the treasures
of the snow?"
! Grossly malgned is the season Of winter.
The spring and summer and autumn have
had many admirers, but winter, hoary-
headed aud white-bearded winter, hath
had more enemies than friends. Yet with
out winter tho human race would he inane
and effortless. You might speak of the
winter as tho mother of tempests; l take
it rs the father ola whole family Of physi-
cal, mental and spiritual energies. The
most people that know are strong in pro-
portion 10 the number of snow banks they
had TO climb over. or push through, in
childhood, VIII 10 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 fall
ing blossoms of the sky, those white
angels of the atmosphere, those poems of
the storm, those Iliads and Odysseys of the
wintry tempest, l turn over the lea Ies OF
my Bible and-tbough most of it was
written in n cline where snow seldom or
never fell find many of these beautiful
congeations. 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
Were suggestive. Other kings sometimes
take OF their crowns, but Lebanon and
Mount Hermon oil the year round and
through the ages never lift the coronets of
crystal from their forcheads. The first
time we find deep fall of snow in the
Bible is where Samuel describes a fight
between Benaiah and lion in a pit; and
though the snow may have cr.msoned
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, concerning it's
wonders, saying: Hast thou entered into
the treasures of the snowy
rather think that Job may have exam
med the snowflake with a microscopes; 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 Col
iseum was in its full splendor, Moro sat in
.
which held hundred thousand people, and
looked at the combatants through gem in
his fnger-ring which brought everything
close up TO his eye. Four hundred years
before Christ, in the stores at Athens, were
sold powerful glasses called "burning
Spheres" and Layard, the explorer, found
a magnifying-glass amid the ruins of Nine
yah, and in the palace Of Nimrod. Whether
through magnifying instrument or with I'M
aided eye, l cannot say. but | am sure that
Job somehow went through the galleries of
the snowflake and counted its p liars and
! found wonders, raptures, mysteries theolo-
gies maiesties, intinites walking up and
down its corridors. as a result of the ques-
ton which the Lord had asked him, Hast
thou entered into the treasures of the
SNOWY"
And now propose for your spiritual and
everlasting profit, if you will accept my
guidance, to take you through some of
these wonders of crystillzation. And
notice first, God in the Titles. You may
take Alpenstock and cross the Mer de
Glace, the Sea of Ice, and ascend Mont
Blanc which rises into the clouds like a
pillar of the Great White Throne. or with
Arctic explorer ascend the mountains
around the North Pole and see glaciers a
thousand feet high grinding against glaciers
three thousand feet high. But / will take
you on a less pretentious journey and show
you God in the snowflake. There is room
enough between its pillars for the great
Jehovah to stand. In that one frozen drop
on the tip OF your finger you may find the
throne-room of the Almighty. l rake up
the snow in my hand see the coursers of
celestial dominion paving these crystal
pavements. The telescope is grand, but
must confess that l am quite as much
interested in the microscope. The one
reveals the universe above us; the other.
just as great universe beneath us. But
the telescope overwhelms me, while the
microscope comforts me. What you want
and want especially is a God in Titles.
If we were seraphic or arch-aneelic in our
natures. we would want to study God in
the great; but such small weak. short
lived beings as you and l are, want to find
God in the Titles.
When see the Maker of the universe
giving himself to the architecture of q
snowflake and making its shafts, its domes.
its curves its walls, its irradations so
perfect, conclude he will look after our
insignificant affairs. And if we are of
more value than sparrow most
certainly we are of more value
than an ipanimate snowflake. So
the Bible would chiefly impress us with
God in the Titles. 1t does not say, ''Con-
slider the Clouds" but il says Consider
the lilies" IL does not say, "Behold the
tempests!" but, "Behold the fowlsw and
1t applauds cup of cold water, and the
widows two mites. and says the hairs of
your head are all numbered. Do not fear,
therefore, that you are going to be lost
In the crowd. Do not think that because
you estimate yourself as only one snow
fake among three-days' January snow
storm that you will be- forgotten. The
birth and death of drop OF chilled vapor
IL as certainly regarded by the Lord as the
creation and demolition of planet.
Nothing Is big 20 God and nothing Is small.
What makes the honey industries of South
Carolina such a source of livelihood and
uealth2 Ii Is because God teaches the
lady-bug 10 make an opening in the rind of
the apricot for the bee who cannot other
wlss got at the juices of the fruit. SO God
sends the lady-bug ahead 20 prepare the
way for the honey-beo. He teaches the
ant to bite each grain of corn that she puts
In the ground for winter food in order that
10 may not take root aud so ruin the little
Rranary. He teaches tho raven in dry