The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-09
ON THE SNOW.
WINTER DECLARED GROSSLY MA
LIGNED.

Aho WOhGOEo VI OPIlbud1 (Ty5bdl~
iization.
New YORK. Feb. s-The remarkable
movement initiated by The Christian
Herald services in the Academy Of Music
is growing apace, and negotiations are
pending for additional accommodations ON
a gigantic scale. DIR. Talmages sermons
have set thousands OF tine people of New
York to serious thinking on religious mat
ters. At every service now, men and wo-
men rise In all parts Of the house to inti-
mate their desire that the christians present
would pray for their conversion, and after
the regular service is concluded they speed
lily occupy the orchestra chairs while DR..
Talmage aud the large corps of workers
who are helping him listen TO their difficult
ties and 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 thousand persons declared their
resolve TO live christian lives. DR.. Tai
mage's sermon this 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 snowT'
Grossly maligned Is the season of winter.
The spring and summer and autumn have
had many admirers, but winter, hoary-
headed and white-bearded winter, hath bad
more enemies than friends. Yet without
winter the human race would be inane and
effortlesa You might speak of the winter
as the mother OF Co npests; take 1t 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 banks they had to climb
over, or push through in childhood, while
their fathers drove the sled loaded with logs
through the crouching 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 wintry tempest, turn over
the leaves OF the Bible and-though most
of 1t was written in a cline where snow
seldom or never fell 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 mountainss
tho tops of which were suggestive.
Other kings sometimes take Off
their crowns, but Lebanon and Mount Her
mon all the year round and through the
their foreheads. The first time we find a
| deep fall OF snow In the Bible Is where Sam
| uel describes fight between Benaiah aud q
| lion in the pit; and though the snow may
have crlmsoned under the wounds of both
man ard brute the shaggy monster rolled
over dead and the giant was victor. But
the snow is not fully recognized in the
Bible until God interrogates job, the scen-
tist, concerning It's wonders, saying: HAST
thou entered into the treasures OF the
snowp
rather think that Job may have exams
ined the snowflake with a microscope; for,
although IL 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 days 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 hundred thousand people, and
looked at the combatents through q gem in
his finger ring which brought everything
close up to his eye. -Four hundred
years before Christ, in the stores
Of Athens, were sold powerful
glasses called burning Spheres" and
Layard, the explorer, found magnifying
glass amid the ruins of Nineveh, an6 In the
palace of Nimrod. Whether through mag
nifying instrument or with unaided eye 1;
cannot say, but am sure that Job somehow
went through the galleries OF the snowflake
and counted its pillars and found wonders,
raptures, mysteries, theologies. majestics.
| infinities walking up and down its corridors,
as q result of the question which the Lord
had asked him, "Hast thou entered into the
treasures OF the snowp
O. isa wonderous meteori Humboldt
studied 10 In the Andes twelve Thousand
feet above the level of the sea. De Saus-
sure revelsd among these meteors in the
Alps andDr. Scoresby counted ninsty-six
varieties of snowflake amid the Arctics.
shape Of coronsts, in shape Of
cylinders, are gobular, are hexagonal, are
pyrainidal, are castellated. After q fresh
tall of snow, in one walk you crush under
your feet Tuilleries, Windsor Castles, st.
Paul's, st. Peters, St. Marks cathedrals.
Alhambras and Sydenham palaces innumer-
able. know it depends much on our own
condition what impression these flying
meteors Of the snow make. | shall
not forget two rough and unpretend-
ing wood-cuts which l saw in my
boyhood eide by side; one picture OF
a prosperous farmhouse with all signs Of
comfort, and a lad warmly clothed looking
out Of the door upon the first furry of snow,
and his mind no debut filled with the sound
of jingling sleigh bells, and the frolio
with play fellows In the deep banks, and he,
clapping his hands and shouting: ''It
snowsl 1t sno9s!n The other sketch was OF
q boy, haggard and hoIlow-eyed with hum
ger, looking from the broken door Of a
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: 20, my Godl 1t snowsl 10
snowsn Out OF the abundance that charac-
| terizes most Of our homes may there go
speedy relief to all whom this winter finds
| in want and exposure.
And now propose for your spiritual and
everlasting profit, IL you will accept my
guidance, to take you through some of these
wonders Of capitalization. And notice
first, God in the littles- You may take
alpenstock and cross the Mer de GLGce, the
Sea Of Ice, and ascend Mont Blanc, which
rises into the clouds like pillar OF the
Great White Throne, or with Arctic ex-
plorer ascend the mountains around the
North Pole and see glaciers thousand feet
high grinding against glaciers three
thousand feet high. But win take you on
less pretentious journey and show you
God Ia the snowflake. There is room
enough between its pillars tor 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
| take up the snow in my hand and see the
coursers of celestial dominion paving these
crystal pavements. The telescope Is grand,
b,sf I rnrst confaax That II am ot1ifa az much