The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-12-30
An THE TABERNACLE


d.. Illustrations In job Frost rs an En-
n,an OF diversity.
Eul..lyN. Dec. 8.-Before the usual
.t#,.L- chat for nearly 2j years have gath
.sa. no the first, second and third BROOKLYN
lal,uaclps successfully, DIR. Talmage this
.faanIon preached this gospel sermon, after
.l8 urutng upon an appropriate Scripture
lessor and giving out the most inspiriting
b a.s The subject was, "Thc Mission Of
q cost" IeXt-Job xXNvii, 10, by the
n. breath OF God frost is given.n
Nothing b. more embarrassing to an or
...l.-. og pianist Lhan Co put his finger on
key ~ the Instrument and have 1t make no
r.. .pulse Though all the other keys are in
.u1 Hr tuuJ one silence destroys the mu-
a. soiu the Great cathedral Of nature. IL
ue nurt fails TO praise the Lord the ha~-
ION, Is halted and lost. While fire and
I'D now and v1p0- respond to the toucL
INSPIRATION. If the frost made no utter
me. H orchestral rendering would he
Hp-..s- damaged and the harmony FOR
Ner nmpIete. | am more glad than can
.. rl4U the white key of the frost sounds
lrth ui Chilly as any of the other keys,
n Ier David touches 1t ia the Psalms
sound. forth the words, He scattereth
.4 H0ar frost like ashes.n and when job
fucbaa 10 my text it resounds with the
.1rd- By the breath of God frost is given"
As ug one seems disposed to discuss the
mission II frost depending on divine help
uIder-4 axe 30. This Is the first Sabbath Of
.utg. The leaves are down. The warmth
eUu. out Of the air. The birds have
uu. cir winged march southwark. The
Fulscape has been SCARED by the autum-
Ial .qu.luS. The huskers have rihed the
orusaucEs. The night sky has shown the
lsunI UatrOTig restlessness Of November.
lhree seasons of the year are past, and the
Uurth and last has entered. Another ele-
neur now comes IN to bless and adorn and
instruct the world 1t Is the frost. The
palaces of this king are far up In the
uutic. Their walls are glittering CON
collation.. Windsor castles and Tuileries
and winter palaces and Kenilworths and
Alhambras of ice, temples with pendant
chandeliers of ice, thrones of iceberg on
which eternal silence reigns, theaters on
y hose stage eternal cold dramatizes eter-
uii winter, pillars of ice, arches Of ice,
crowns of ice, chariots of ice, sepulchers
OF ice mountains of ice, domiuions of ice
eternal frigidityl From those hard, white,
FURNISHED portals King Frost descends and
waves his silvery sCepter over our temperate
zone. You will soon hear his heel on the
skating pond. You already feel his breath
iu che night wind. BY most considered an
enemy coming here to benumb and hinder
aud slay, | shall show you that the frost is
d friend, with benediCtiou divinely pro.
uouuCgd, and charged and surcharged with
lessons potent, beueticeut and tremendous.
gle Bible seven times alludes to the frost,
and we must not ignore it. by the breath
Of God frost is given
hA~rEE'a atARvELs IN ART.
First think Of frost as "a painter He be-
gins has work on the leaves and continues
it on the window panes. With palette GOV.
erred with all manner of colors in his left
hand and pencil of crystal in his right
hand, he sits down before the humblest
bush in the latter part of September and
begins the sketching of the leaves. Now
he puts upon the foliage "A faint pallor, and
then a touch of brown, and then hue OF
orange, and last flame of fire The beech
and ash and oak are turned first into sun.
rises and then into sunsets of vividness and
splendor. All the leaves are penciled one
by one, but sometimes whole forest in the
course Of few days shows great velocity
ol work.
WeeuiX, the Dutch painter could make
in a summer day three portraits Of life
isize, but the frost in 10 days can paint II
mountains in life size. 1t makes the last
days of an autumnal wood the Gays of it.
chiefest glOry-LuXembou in the Adiron
dacks, Louvres in the Sierra Nevadas, at
leans in the White mountains The work
of other painters you must see in the right
light to fully appreciate, but the paint
ings of the frost in all lights are enchaut
ing from the time when the curtain of the
morning lifts to the time when the curtain
Of the night drops.
Michael Angelo put upon one ceiling hi,
representation Of the last Judgment, but
the frost represents universal cOnhagratiOT
upon 5000 miles of stretched out grandeur
Leonardo da Niuci put upon a few feet
of canvas our Lords last supper for al
ages to admire but the frost puts tn,
cleaning chalices of the imperial glorie.
of the last supper of the dying year il
the heights and lengths and breadths o.
the Alleghanies. When Titan first gazel
Don sketch Of COrregEio, he was wrought
up into such ecstasy that he cried out, II
] were not Titan, would be Correggio,
and so great and overpowering are tn,
autumnal scenes Of our American forest,
that one force Of asture might well ex
claim to another, IF ] were not the sun
light, | would Dee the frost"
Rugendas, the German painter suffering
from weakness in his right hand, laborious
ly learned to paint with his left hand, bu
the frost paints with both hands, anC
mas In them more skill than all the Rem
brandts and Rubens and Vests and Pous
sins and Albert Durers and Paul Veronese
and Claudes gathered in one long art gal
lery. But the door of that great museum
of autumnal coloring is now closed for
twelyemonth, and another spectacle jus
as wonderful is now open. put you OF
the alert and ask you to put your children
N the alert.
Tired of working on thu leaves, the fros
will soon turn to the window panes. Yol
will soon waken on a cold morning ant
find that the windows of your home hav
during the night been adorned with curves
with coronets, with exquisiteness, witt
pomp, with almost supernatural spectacle
Then you will appreciate what my tex
says as il declares, BY the breath of Go,
frost Is given You will see on the win
dow pane, traced there by the frost, Who'll
gardens Of heauty-ferus, orchids, daffodil-
ues, hounds on the chase, roebucks plung
ing into the stream, battle scenes with dy
ing and dead catafalques of kings, tli
umphal professions and as the morning
sun breaks through you will see cities ol
fire, and bonn bardment with bursting shell
and Examinations rs for some great victc
~, coronations and angels on the wing.
All night long while you were sleeping
the frost was working, and you ought no
let the warmth obliterate the scene unit
you have admired it, studied it, absorbe
It, set it up in your memory for perpetus
refreshment and realized the force an
magnitude and intensity Of my text, "B
the breath Of God frost is given" Oh
shat GOD we havel What resources al
implied by the fact that he is able 10 d
hat by the finger of the frost 10 times i
one winter and on a hundred Thousand
a.. ,,a,.a for . l. Of nj apqf