News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-12
THE TABERNACLE PULPIT.
DR.. TALMAGE CONTINUES HIS
SERIES OF EVANGELICAL
SERMONS.

The Lessons of Wintcr-Wonders WroucIi
by Tiny Snowflakes of Which 1t Take
a Score to Balance "a Feather-So 1t /
with Human Agencies.
New YORK. Feb. S.-The reznarkabl
movement initiated by The Christian
Herald services in the Academy O
Music is growing apace, and negotia
lions are pending for additional accom-
modations on a gigantic scale. DIR
Talmage's sermons have set thousand
of the people of New York to serious
thinking on religious matters. At every
service now men and women rise in al
parts of the house to intimate their de
sire 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 and the large corps OF
workers who are bel ping him listen tc
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
thousand persons declared their re-
solve 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 snow2'
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 effortless You
might speak of the winter as the mother
of telnpests; take it 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 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, these 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 a cline where snow seldom
or never fell find many of these
beautiful congelations. 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 we're sug-
gestive Other kings sometimes take
off their crowns but Lebanon and
Mount 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 wsere Samuel de
scribes fight between Benaiah and a
lion in II pit, and though the snow
may have crilnsoned 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 its wonders, saying, Hast thou
entered into the treasures of the snow?'
GOD QUESTIONS JOB.
rather think that job may have ex-
ainined the snowflake with a 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 its full splendor Nero sat in the EN-
peror's box of that great theatre, which |
held hundred thousand people, and |
looked at the colnbatants through a |
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
FIJI glasses called burning spheres,
and Layard, the explorer, found a mag
nifying glass amid the ruins of Nineveh,
and in the palace of Nirnrod Whether
through magnifying instruments or
with unaided eye, cannot say, but
an sure that Job somehow went
through its galleries of the snowflake
md counted the pillars and found Won
lers. aptures, mysteries, theologies,
infinities walking up and
Town its corridors, as q result of the
question which the Lord had asked
him. Hast thou entered into the treas.
Tres of the snow2"
Oh, it is a wondrous meteorl Hum
,oldt studied it in the Andes twelve
thousand feet above the level of the
ea. De Saussure reveled among these
neteors in the Al ps, and DR.. Scoresby
ounted ninety-six varieties of snow
lake amid the arctics. They are in
hape of stars, in shape of coronets, in
hape of cylinders, are globular, are
lexagonal, are pyramidal, are castel ;
ated After a fresh fall of snow, in
ne walk you crush under your feet
'uilleries, Windsor Castles, St Pauls. s
It. Peters. St Marks cathedrals. Al
lambras and Sydenham palaces in
Vulnerable | know it depends much
N our own condition what impression
hese flying meteors of snow make.
| shall not forget two rough and un- ,
wood cuts which saw in
ny boyhood side by side; one picture
f a prosperous farm house with all |
gns of comfort, and lad warmly
lothed looking out of the door upon {
be first Hurry OF SNOW, and his mind c
o doubt filed with the sound of ling Z
ng sleigh bells. and the frolic with {
layfellows in the deep banks. and he S
apping his hands and shouting, 'It c
lows! 1t snows!' The other sketch t
as of a boy, haggard and hollow b
yed with hunger, looking from the 2
rokcn door of a wretched home, and o
eing in the falling flakes prophecy of P
ore cold and less bread and greater "
ovation, wringing lis hands and with n
airs rolling down his wan cheeks, cry T
g: "Oh, my God 1t SHOWS! Il II
lows" Out of the abundance that Ii
most of cur homes may b
ere go speedy relief to all whom this L
inter finds in want and exposurel I'll
THE INFINITE IN INFINITEsIMALs.
And now propose, for your spiritual o
I'd everlasting profit, if you will ac- U
pit my guidance, to take you through
me of these wonders of crystalliza- 7
N. And notice first Sod in the Titles. ta
ou may take alpenstock and cross the u
or de Glace, the sea of ice, and as d
nd Mont Blanc, which rises into the n
buds like pillar OF the great white X
rome; or with arctic explorers ascend ST
e mountains around the north pole, el