Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-02-09
THELESSONS OF WINTER.
ALL SEASONS HAVE THEIR LESSONS
FOR THE CHRISTIAN.

Beautiful Imagery OF the biDies Ae"O"
ing Lessons from Nature-The SHOWS OF
Iobanon aud Mount EIcrmon-The Dogs
of st. Bernard.
NEW YORK, Feb s.-The remarkable
r,ovement initiated by The Christian
Herald services in the Academy of Music
is growing apace, and negotiations are
pending for additional accommodations on
n gigantic scale Dr. Talmage's sermons
have set thousands of the people of New
York TO serious thinking on religious mat
ters At every service now men ana
women rise in all parts of the house to IN
innate their desire that the Christians
present would pray for their conversion,
and after the regular service Is concluded
they speedily occupy the orchestra chairs
while DR. Talmage and the large corps OF
| 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 estimates that dur
ing January alone over thousand persons
declared their resolve to live Christlan
lives. Dr. Talmage'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 snowf"
Grossly maligned is the season OF winter.
The spring and summer and autumn nave
had MANY admirers, but winter, hoary
headed aud white bearded winter, hath
: had more enemies than friends. Yet With
, out winter the human race would be lnane
and effortless. You might speak of the
I, winter as the mother of tempests. take
= it ms the father of II whole family of physi-
!. cal. mental and spiritual energies. The
' most people that know are strong in pro-
= = norton 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 crunchlng
: drifts high as the fences.
. AT this season Of the year, when we nre so
u familiar with the snow, those frozen
=, vapors, those falling blossoms of the sky,
" those white angels of the atmosphere, those
y noems of the storm, those Iliads and Odys-
" seys of the wintery tempest, turn over
}, the leaves of my Bible and-though most
D" of IL was written in q cline where snow
seldom or never fell find many of these
i. beautiful conlelations Though the writers
~ NAV seldom or never have felt the colu
- touch OF the snowflake on their cheek,
II they had in sight two mountains, the tops
~ OF which were suggestive. Other kings
" sometimes take Off their crowns, but Deb-
:" anon and Mount Hernon all the year
u u round and through the ages never lift the
yy coronets of crystal from their foreheads.
ne " The first time we find deep fall Of snow
ys in the Bible is where Samuel describes
81 ight between Benaiah and n lion in a pit,
~ and though the snow may have crimsoneu
w. under the wounds of both man and brute,
a. the shaggy monster rolled over dead, ana
W the giant was victor. But tho snow IL not
o' fully recognized in the Bible until God in
gu terropates Job, the scientist. concerning its
i',a wonders, saying, Hast thou entered into
I" the Treasures of the snowp
wv JOB, TIE LEARNED SCIENTIST.
no rather think that job may have exam
- Ined the snowflake with microscopes; for,
J, is although il is supposed that the microscope
,,I was invented long after Jobs time, there
~ Wv Ind been wonders Of glass long before the
~, microscope and telescope of later day were
20 thought Of SO long ago as when the Col
''' lseum was in it's full splendor, Nero sat In
the emperor's box Of that great theatre,
W. which held hundred thousand people,
y, and looked ut the combatants through a
- gem in his finger ring which brought
- everything close up to his eye.
tH IN Four hundred years before Christ, In the
orh stores ut Athens, were sold powerful
o'N glasses called burning spheres" and
Layard, the explorer found magnlfylnp
plnss amid the ruins OF Nineveh and II
the nalace of Nimrod Whether through
old mapnifying instrument or with unaideo
Ion eve I cannot say, but am sure that Jol
and somehow went through the galleries OF th'
snowGake and counted It's pillars ant
men found wonders, rapturcs, mysteries theol
ot,ies naiesties, innnities walking up an'
sab down ts corridors as "A result OF the ques
sson ton which the Lord had asked him, las
thou entered into the treasures OF Tn
snow"
rob Oh. it is wondrous meteorl Hum
ghen boIdt studied il in the Andes, twelve thou
ould sapd feet above the level OF the sea. ID
ut" Saussure reyeed among these meteors 4
good the Alps and DR.. Scoresby counted ninety
six varieties Of snowflake amid the arr
, be tics They are In shape OF stars, In shap
b, ! of coronets in shape Of cylinders; are glot
hou- ular, are hexagonal, are pyramidal, Ar
castellated. After fresh fall OF sno"
hind i'm one walk YOU crush under your fes
Tuilleries. Windsor castles, St. Pauls, s
I 20 Peters 81. Marks. cathedrals, Alhambru
keep and SydenhAm palaces innumerable.
;ules know il depends much on our own eond
an / tion what impression these dying meteor
De Of the snow make
or or sball not forget two rough and unpr
i'm tending wood cuts which saw In my bo
ss hood side by side; one picture OF "A aprospe
ous farmhouse, with all signs OF couhlof
and n lad warmly clothed looking out
and the door upon the first furry OF snow, al
,nius his mind no doubt filled with the sound
Tered iingling sleigh bells and the frolio WI
,ersa. playfellows in the deep banks, ana
him clapping his hands and shouting, 1T sno"
with n snows" The other sketch was OF a bo
am. bnagnrd aud hollow eyed with hung'
looking from the broken door OF wretch
where home. and seoing In the falling fakes prop
nong eey Of more cold and less bread and gre.
b cut er priyatlon, wringing his hands and vi
! the tears rolling down his wan cheeks, orylu
1 the "Oh. my God 10 snowsl II snowsF
of tho abundance chat caaracterizes me
his of our homes may there 20 speedy RELIEF
,iliar- ali whom this winter hnds In want a
exposure,
4 not COD ~ THE SNOWFLAKE.
And now I propose, for your spirits
and everlasting profit, II you VIII aees
NJ ny guidance, 20 take you through some
these wonders OF capitalization A
notice first God in the Titles. You "a
take alsenstock aud cross the Mer
ed 10 Clace. tas sea of Ice, aud aseend NC
tatag, Blanc. which rises into the clouds hk'
n rnp pillnr of che great white Throne; or VI
,ritie, arctle explorer ascend the mountl
,tions around the north pole, aud see glaciers
or d, thousand feet high grinding agelnst q
AZ be len. three Thousand feet high, but
,tsnt tale YOU on a less pretentious Journey
show YOU God In the snowflake. Ihef'
,l,,, anot,tfh between is pillars Tor