The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-12-15

mired IL, stueied IL. absorbed TO- set a
up in your memory for perpetual We.
treshnerit, and realized the force and
magnitude and intensity Of my
text: by the breath Ok God
frost is given.r Oh what a
God we have. What resources are i'm
piled by the fact that He il able to do
that BY the finger Of the frost nfty
times In one minute and on hundred
thousand window panes for thousands
OF winters The great art galleries Of
Venice and Naples and Dresden are
learefully guarded, and governments
protect them, for, once lost, they can
never be reproduced, but God set up in
the Royal Galleries of the Frost pic
lures such as no human art ever pro-
duce, hundreds of thousands of them,
only for four or five hours, and then
rubs them out, making the place clear
for display just as magnificent the
next morning. No one but a God
4 eould afford to do that. Itwonld bank
rupt everything but infinity and om-
Impotence. W E4 80
Next speak of the frost as physi-
clan. Standing at the gates of New
York harbor autumn before last the
frost drove back the cholera, saying:
THUS far shalt thou come and no far
Their" From Memphis and New Or
leans andJaclxsonville hesrnote the fe-.
yer plague TIL IL reeled back and de-
parted. The frost is a physician that
doctors cities, nations and continents.
He medicines the world. Quinine for
malaria, antifebrile for typhoids, sui
phonal for sleepEessness, antispasmodic
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 as the frost. Scotland has had
great physicians, but her greatest doc
tors have been the Abernethies and
Abercrombies that have come down
over the highlands horsed on the north
wind England has had her great ply
sicians, but her greatest doctors have
been the Andrew Clarkes and the Mac
xenzies who appeared the first night
the fields of England were trimmed
With white. America has had its
great physicians, but her great
est doctors have been the Viii
lard Parlxers and Valentine Motifs who
landed from bleak skies while our
ears tingled with the cold. Oh, it is
high time that you add another line
to your liturgy. 1t is high time that
| you make an addendum to your pray
ers 1t is high time that you enlarge
the catalogue of your blessings. Thank
God for frosti 1t is the best of all GER
micides. 1t is the only hope in bacte-
riology. 1t is the medicament OF
continents. 1t is the salvation of
our temperate zone. 1t is the
best tonic that God ever gave
the human race. &c is the only
strong stimulant that has no reaction.
The best commentary on It'll had while
walking near here one cool morning
with my brother John, who spent the
most of his life as missionary in.
China, and in that part of it where
tingling gladness in his nerves indie
scribable, and an almost intoxication
of delight from the fact that it was the
first time for years he had felt the SEN
sation of frost. We complain of it, we
scold it, we frown upon it, when we
ought to be stirred by it to gratitude
| and hoist 1T on dOXOlOgY.
But must go further and spea6 of
the Frost as jeweler. As the snow
is frozen rain, SO the frost is frozen
dew. God transforms it from liquid
into a crystal. 1t is the dew glorified
In the thirty-eighth chapter of that
inspired drama, the Book of Job, God
says to the inspired dramatists, with
ecstatic interrogation: 1.-The hoary
frost of Heaven, who hath gendered
it?" God there asks Job if he knows
the parentage of the frost. He in
quires about about its pedigree He
suggests that Job study up the frost's
genealogical line. minute before
God had asked about the parentage of
rain-drop in words that years ago
gave a suggestive text for sermon:
Hath the rain a father?p But now
the Lord Almighty is catechising
Job about the frost. He practically
says: "Do you know its father? Do
you know its mother? In what cradle
of the leaves did the wind rock it?
But go step further and speak of
the Frost as an evangelist, and text
of Scripture is not of much use to me
unless can find the Gospel in it. The
Israelites in the wilderness breakfasted
on something that looked like frozen
9cw. The mamma fell on the dew, and
nc dew evaporated and left pulver-
Led material, white, and looking like
| frost, but it was mamma, and of that
they ate. So now this morning, mixed
with the frozen dew of my text, there
is mamma on which we may breakfast
our souls. You say the frost kills YES.
it kills some things, but we have al
ready seen that it gives health and life
to others This Gospel is the SAVIOR of
lie unto life or of death unto death. As
the frost is mighty, the Gospel is
mighty. As the frost descends from
Heaven, the Gospel descends from
Heaven. By the breath of God frost
is given. BY the breath of God the
Gospel is given. As the frost purifies,
so the grace of God puriies. As the
frost bestars the earth, so grace be-
jewels the soul. As the frost prepares
for food many things that otherwise
would be inedible, so the frost of trial
ripens and prepares food for the soul
In the tight grip of the. frost the
hard shells Of the walnut and chestnut
and hickory open, and the Idxur.ies of
the woods come into our laps or upon
our tables; so the frost of trial takes
many a hard and pricl1ly shell and
brushes it until that which stung the
soul now feeds it. There are passages