Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-12-04

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GODS INFINITE MAGIC
Standing here between m 49,
OF the pictured woods And ~ 1911. 49, /,
coors OF the transileufed w,odo,, I'm
want to cure my folly ana vorr s s'is''
ionging for glorious things IN IL d;s.a tee ~
while we neglect Appreciation !, 1 sss.iis'
s sl near ~ "oh, i could only "a
anu see tne factories Of lace at Brusselsli,
rays some enc Why. within 20 NJ. ~
where you awaken some December m, NOR y,
ing you Will see richer lace interwovs NJ a.,
your window pane. by divine fingers aob
IL could see thefactories Of silk al n onsai
says some one. Why, without leaving Won,
nome on the north 81 OF your own bouss
on Christmas morning you NAV CO. rvher,,
the Lord has spun siiken threads sb,,s
your windows this way and tbo,-'o,,,.
broideries such as no one but God can ,rt,,I
Alas, for this glorncation of the distsns
and this belittling OF the close bvl NM
crossing OF oceans aud paying high al.
mission In expenses TO look at tina, which
Is not half as well done as something VA
can see by crossing our own room. and
Tree OF charged This praising OF Ranhnels
hundreds OF years gone, when the preatcr
haphael, the frost, will soon be busy AT
the entrances TO your own homel
Next lspeak OF the frost as a physician.
Standing at the gates Of New York barbof
autumn before last, the frost drove hact
the cholera, saying, THUS far shalt thou
come and no iarther" From Memphis and
New Orleans and Jacksonville he smote Tho
fever plague tin Il reeled bncs and depart.
ed. The frost is physician that doctors
cities, nations and continents He medii
eines the world. Quinine for malaria. anti
febrile for typholds, sulphonal for sleepless.
ness, indispensable for disturbed nerves,
but in all therapeutics there is no remedy
like the small pellets prepared by the cold,
and no physician so skillful or so mighty az
the frost.
Scotland has had great physicians, but
her greatest doctors have been the Aberne.
thies and Abercrombies that have come
down over the highlands horsed on tho
north wind England has had her great
physicians, but her greatest doctors lavs
been the Andrew Clnrkos and the Macken.
zies who appeared the first night the fields
OF Englnnd were trimmed with white. Amer
lea has had its great physicians but her
greatest doctors have been tho Willard
Parkers and Valentine Motifs who landed
from bleak skies while our fingers were b.
numbed and our cars tingled with the cold.
Oh, 1t is high time that you add another
line to your liturgy II is high time thar
You make m addendum to your prayers.
1t is high time that you enlarge the catn
logue Of your blessings.
Thank God for frostl It is the best Of all
germicides. 1t Is the only hope in bacteriot
ogy 1t is the medicameut of continents.
It is the salvation Of our temperate zone.
II is the best tonic that God ever gave the
human race It is the only strong stimp
liant which has no reaction. The best com.
mentary on II had while walking near
here one cool morning with my brother
John, who spent tae most OF his life us
missionary in China, and in that part OF II
where there are no frosts. He said there
was n tingllng gladness in his nerves indo'
scribable, and an almost intoxication OF de.
light from the fact that IL was the first
time for years he had felt the sensation Of
frost. We complain of it, we scold it, We
frown upon il, when we ought to be stirred
by il to gratitude and hoist IL on dox'
ology.
THE FROST or HEAVEN.
But must go farther and speak Of the
frost as jeweler. As the snow is frozen
rain, so the frost Is frozen dew, God trans
forms 1t from a liquid into a crystal. II ID
the dew glori1ed In the thirty chap.
ter OF that inspired drama, the book OF
job, God says TO the inspired dramatist
with ecstatic interrogation, "Tho hoary
frost of heaven, who hath gendered itW
God there asks job II he knows the parent.
age OF the frost. He inquiries about it,
pedigree. He suggests that Job study up
the frost's genealogical line A minute be.
fore God had asked about the parentage OF
a raindrop in words that years ago gave mo
a suggestive text for q sermon, Hath the
rain a fatherW But now the Lord Al
mighty is catechising job about the frost
He practically says; no you know its IA,
thery Do you know It's mothert In what
cradle Of tho leaves did the wind rock itf
The hoary frost Of heaven, who hath gen
dered itp"
He is a stupid Christian who thinks 80
much Of the printed and bound Bible that
he neglects the Old Testament OF tho
fields. nor reads the wisdom and kindness
and beauty OF God written in blossoms on
the orchard, in sparkles on the lake, in
stars on tho sky, in frost on the meadows
The greatest jeweler Of all the Garth is the
frost. There Is nothing more wonderful
in all crystallography, Some morning In
December whole continent is found be-
sprent with diamonds, the result OF one
nights work by this jeweler
Do Won make the depreoiatory remark
that the frost is impermanent and will last
only two or three hours9 What OF thatf
we 90 into London tower and look at the
crown Jewels OF England, but we are in a
PROCESSION that the guards keep moving on
md 1--WE minutes or less are your only OPP
portunity Of looking at those crown Jew.
els. but at the crown jewels bestarred OF
tho frost In parks and fields you may stand
to look deliberately and for hours ana no
one to tell you 10 move on.
NATURES DIADEN OF BEAUTY.
oh. these regalias and diadems OF beauty
flung out of heavenl Kings and queens on
celebrative days have come riding through
tbe streets throwing handouts OF silver and
gold among the people, but the queen Of
The winter morning is the only queen rien
enouoh TO throw pearls, and the king oil
frost The only king rich enough to throw
onaIs and sapphires and diamonds. Homer
dsscribes a necklace ofamber given to Pencil
ONE Int the frost necklaces a continent
Tbe carcsnet Of precious stones given 70
Harmonic had pinicns OF orange jasper aun
white moonstone and Indian agate but ~
wns misfortune to any one VINO owned or
inberited It, and It's history, generation ant
-. -. =, hfefnrv of disaster. but