Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-02-26
BEAUTIFUL SNOW.
DR.. TALMAGE BREACHES ABOUT
TIE EMBLEM OF PURITY,
The Wonders and NJ 5steries Com
tanned in y Snowhakc.--God Re-
vealcu in II Frozen Kain-drop.-
How the Sinner May Become
Whittier Than Snow"

Kntnnc
"Whiter Than SNOW"
NEW YORK, n. ". Feb. $. lS3l.-Dr.
Talmages sermon this evening. which he
aloe ,r,o,hoa i, ,bo p,.oo,,,,r Ac,5o,rv of
"a,
MUSIC III 'no ii'"' ming was NUN 'oo 49,
-. iast thou entered lhlo Tue treasures
of the snow"
Crosslv ra,i,red is tbo season Of winter
The snrinp and summer and autumn have
had many admirers but winter hoarv-
headed and white bearded winter hath
had moro enemies than friends YSt with
ont winter the human race would he inauc
| and etfor,lcss Van MIGHT sneak Of tho
| winter as tho norman If t,,nn,sts. take
| i, &C tho f,tbcr of , whole family of physi !
| cal mental and sniri,uol encrpics The !
| mas, neonIe that | know are s,ron,, in pro !
| nor.inn 10 III, uup,b.r of snow hanks they
| had To climb ovor or nush through in
! childhood ,yh;1o ,bn;. father. arov, the
sled loaded with locs ,brough the crun,hiug
| drifts high ne the fences At this season
of tho ve,r whom ~. ar, ca familiar with
tho sno,v those frozen yapors. those fall
inc blossoms Of fine skv. those white
anoe,s If ,hn ,tmosnherc those poems of
the storm those Ilia1s and Odysscys of the
w;ntry tnmncst I INN over the lea .cs at
INV. 1ihIn tpa tbourb most If If WAS
,-,;,,o, i, , ,1i,,o ,vhern snow seldom M
,o,or fou I 6na p,uv Of those beautiful
cancellations Thourh the writers may
s.,dor, ~ ,evo, have relt the cold touch of
/ ,bn snowflake an their ch,el, they had in
si,b+ two mountains tho tons of which
vnrn sngoestive Other kings sometimes
t,lxc off tbcir crowns hut Lebanon and
Nouu. prrn,on MI the wear round and
tbrorrb tho o,r.s nover ,ft the coroucts of
.i,ro wa su1 g, doom fan of snow in the
Eih,e is ,yhere samuel Describes a fight
hetween Rcnaioh and a lion in a nit: and
,bouob ,ha sno,v NAV have cr:msoned
under IN. wounds of Hath man and brute
tbn shogov munster rolled over dead and
, ! tho riant was victor But the snow is not
rnllv rccogniyea in the Riblc until God in
,, terropates .yob the scientist concerning its
wonders saving. ..Hast thou entered into
rho treasures Of tho snovo,
: I rather mini; that lob NAV have exam
: ined the snowflake with "a microscopes: for.
.lthonoh i, is sunnosed that the mici oscope
wac invented long after Jobs time. there
:, bad hccn wonders of glass long before the
,,icroscone and to,cscone of later day were
@hongbt nf 60 lone AGO as when the Col
iseum was in its full splendor. Nero sat in
the emneror's box of that grand theatre
q which held n hundred thousand people and
5 looked at the combatants through a gem in
lie fnoer-rjnp which brought everything
a close un 70 his eve. -Four hundred wears
) before Christ in the stores at Athens. were
:, sold powerful glasses called "burning
- snhercs and Layard. the explorer found
magnifying- glass amid the ruins of Nine
u yah and in the nalacc of Nimrod. Whether
tbrongb maonifviny instrument or with un
II aided eve / cannot say. but am sure that
I lob somehow won't through the galleries OF
-, tho sroyAaLe and counted its pillars ant
- found wonders. raptures. mysteries theolo
~ pias maiesties intiuites walking up an,
/ down it's corridors. as a result of the cues
tim which the Lord had asked him, Has
4 thou entered into the treasures of tn
t. shows,
And NOW propose for your spiritual an
everlasting profit if you will accept IN
Guidance tn take YOU through some O
OF tbese wonders of crystillization. An
lg notice first God in the Titles, You ma
d. talc Alnenstoc, and cross the Mer d
Clace the Sea of Ice. and ascend Mon
A. blanc which rises into the clouds like
nillar of the Great White Throne, or wit
Arctic exn,orer ascend the mountain
60 around the North Pole and see glaciers
nc Thousand feet high grinding against glacie,
re ,brea thousand feet high. But will tax
Won on less pretentious Journey and sho
at Won God in the snowflake. There is roo
enough between its pillars for the gre;
- Jehovah to stand. In that one frozen dre
GU on the tin of your finger YOU may fird IL
ith thronc-room of the Almighty ! rake |
us the snow in my hand see the coursers
l celestial dominion paving these cryst
We pavemcnts The telescope is grand, but
ny must confess that l am quite as mu'
We interested in the microscope. Inc o.
Ia reveals the universe above us; the othe
nd just as great universe beneath us. y
~ the telescope overwhelms me, while t
;, microscope comforts me. What you wa
~. and want especially is God in little
'ou If we we're seraphic on arch-angelic in o
natures. we would want to study Goo
" ~ the great; but such small, weak, sho1
"a lived beings as you and l are, want to ii