The Forrest City times., 1891-02-13
BEAUTIFUL SNOW.
OR TALMAGE BREACHES ABOUT
 THE EMBLEM OF PURITY.

The Wonders and Mysteries Con.
 tained in a Snowfiake.-GodR Re-
 vealed in q Frozen Rain-drop.-
 How the Sinner May Become
 Winter Than Snow."
 NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. s. 1S91.-Dr.
 'almage's sermon this evening, which he also preached in the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the morning, was from Job SS. 22. "Hast 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 winter, hoary- headed and hite-bearded winter, hath had more enemies than friends. Yet with out winter the human race would be inane and effortless. You might speak of the winter as the mother of tempests; l take it as the father of whole family of physi- cal, mental and spiritual energies. The most people that know are strong in pro portion 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 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, turn over the leaIes of my Bible and--though most of it was written in a cline where snow seldom or never fell--I find many of these beautiful congelations. Though the writers may seldom or never have felt the cold touch of the snowflake or their cheek, they had in sight two mountains, the tops of which were suggestive. Other kings sometimes take off their crowns, but Lebanon and Mount Hermon all tho 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 between Benaiah and a lou 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, concerning its wonders, saying: Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snowp"
 rather think that Job may have exam ined 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 it's full spleudor, Nero sat in the emperor's box of that grand theatre which held a hundred thousand people, and looked at the combatants through gem in his fnger-ring which brought rythng 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 magnfying- glass amid the ruins of Nine yah, and in the palace of Nimrod. Whether through magnifying instrument or with un- aided eye, cannot say. but 1 am sure that Job somehow went through the galores oi the snowflake and counted it's pillare and found wonders, raptures, mysteries, theolo- gies, maiesties. minutes walking up and down it's corridors, as result of the ques- tion which the Lord had asked him, Has, thou entered into the treasures of the snow?"
 And now I propose for your spiritual and everlasting profit, if you will accept my guidance, to take you through some oi these wonders of specialization. And notice first, God in the littles. You may take Alpenstock and cross the Mer de Glace, the Sea of Ice, and ascend Mont, Blanc which rises into the clouds like 6 pillar of the Great White Throne. or with Arctic explorer ascend the mountains around the North Pole and see glaciers 8 thousand feet high grinding against glacier, three thousand feet high. But I will take you on 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 dror on the tip of your finger you may find the throne-room of the Almighty. l rake ur the snow in my hand see the coursers oi celestial dominion paving these crystal pavements. The telescope is grand, but must confess that I am quite as much interested in the microscope. The one reveals the universe above us the other. just as great q universe beneath us But the telescope overwhelms me, while the microscope comforts me- What you want and want especially is God in littles. If we were seraphic or arch-anR clio in our natures. we would want to study God in the great; but such small, weak short lived beings as you and I are want to find God in the littles.
 When see the Maker of the universe giving himself to the architecture of a snowflake and making its shafts it's domes. It's curves, it's walls, its irradiations co perfect, l coaclude he will look after our insignificant affairs. And if we are ol more value than sparrow most certainly we are of moro value than an inanimate snowflake Sc the Bible would chiefly impress us with God in the littles. It does not say, Con sider the clouds" but it says "Consider the lilies" It docs not say, ''Behold the tempestsw but Behold the fowlsl" and it applauds a cup of cold water, and the widows two mites. and says the hairs oi 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 flake among three-days January snow storm that you will be forgotten. The birth and death of drop of chilled vapor is as certainly regarded by the Lord as the creation and demolition of planet. Nothing is big to God and nothing is small What makes the honey industries of South Carolinla such source of livelihood and wealth? It is because God teaches the lady-bug to make an opening in the rind of the apricot for the bee who cannot other wise get at the juices of the fruit. So God sends the lady-bug ahead to prepare the way for the honey-bee. He teaches the ant to bite each grain of corn that she puts in the ground for winter food in order that 1t may not take root and so ruin the little granary. He teaches the raven in dry weather to throw pebbles into hollow