The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-08
hundred thousand window panes for
thousands of wintersl


could ever produce, hundreds of thou
sands of them, only for four or five
hours, and then rubs them out, making
the place clear for display just as mag
nificent the next morning, No one but
a God could afford to do that. 1t would
bankrupt everything but infnity and
omnipotence.
Standing here between the closed doors
of the pictured woods and the opening
doors Of the TRANSPORTED window glass,
| want to cure my folly and your folly
of longing for glorious things in the dis
lance, while we neglect appreciation Of
glorious things close by, "Oh, If could
only go and see the factories Of lace at
Brussels" says some one. Why, within
20 feet Of where you awaken some De-
cember morning you will see richer lace
interviewer for your window panes by
divine fingers. "Oh, if could see the
factories of silk at Lyonsr says some one.
Why, without leaving your own house
on Christmas morning you may see
where the Lord has spun silien threads
about your windows this way and that
-embroideries such as no one but God
can work.
Alas, for this glorification of the dis
tant and this belittling of the close by!
This crossing of oceans and paying high
admission in expenses to look at that
which is not half as well done as some-
thing we can see by crossing our own
room, and free of charge. This praising
of Raphaels, hundreds of years gone,
when the greater Raphael, the frost, will
soon be busy at the entrances to your
own home.
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 farther"
From Memphis and New Orleans and
Jacksonville he smote the fever plague
till it reeled back and departed. The
frost is a physician that doctors cities,
nations and continents. He medicines
the world. Quinine for malaria, antife-
brile for typhoids. sulphonal for sleep
lesSness, 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 50 mighty as the frost.
Scotland has had great physicians,
but her greatest doctors have been the
Abernethies and Abercrombies that
have come down over the highlands
horsed on the north wind. England has
had her great physicians, but her great
est doctors have been the Andrew
Clarkes and the Mackenzies who ap-
peared the first night the fields of Eng
land were trimmed with white. America
has had its great physicians, but her
greatest doctors have been the Willard
Parkers and Valentine Motifs who land
ed from bleak skies while our fingers
were benumbed and 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 adden-
DUN to your prayers 1t is high time
that you enlarge the catalogue of your
blessings.
Thank God for frost! 1t is the best of
all germicides. 1t is the only hope in
bacteriology. 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. 1t is
the only strong stimulant which has no
| reaction. The best commentary on it |
had while walking near here one cool
morning with my brother John, who
| no IF I, n
in China, and in that part of it where
there are no frosts. He said there was
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 sensa-
ton Of frost. We complain of it, we
Icold it, we frown upon it, when we
ought to be stirred by it to gratitude
and hoist it on doxology.
But must so farther and speak Of the
frost as jeweler. AS the snow is frozen
rain, so the frost is frozen dew. God
transforms it from a liquid into crystal.
It is the dew glorified. In the thirty
eighth chapter of that inspired drama,
the book of Job, God says to the inspired
dramatist 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 its pedigree. He suggests
that Job study up the frost's genealogical
| line. A minute before God had asked
about the parentage of raindrop in
words that years ago gave me suggest
| i've text for u sermon, Hath the>rain g
father But now the Lord Almighty is
catechising Job about the frost. He
practically says: "Do you know its ia
ther? Do you know itsmother? In what
cradle of the leaves did the wind rock iii
The hoary frost of heaven, who hath
gendered it? ("
He is stupid Christian who thinks SC
much of the printed and bound Bib,
that he neglects the Old Testament O
the fields nor reads the wisdom ant
kindness and beauty of God written il
blossoms on the orchard, in sparkles OF
the lake, in stars on the sky, in frost OF
the meadows. The greatest jeweler O
all the earth is the frost. There isnoth
ing moro wonderful in all crystallog
raphy. Some morning in December
whole continent is found besprinklet
with diamonds, the result of ore night
work by this jeweler.
Do you make the depreciatory remarl
that the frost is impermanent and will
last only two or three hours? What 0
that? We go into London tower AM
look ut the crown jewels of England, bu
we are in procession that the guard
keep moving on, and five minutes or les
are your only opportunity of looking a
those crown jewels, but at the crow
jewels bestarred of the frost in park
and fields you may stand to look DELHI
erately and for hours. and no one to tel
; you to move on.
! Oh, these regalias and diadems o
beauty flung out Of heaven! Kings an,
queens on celebrative days have com
riding through the streets throwing
handfuls of silver and gold among tn
people, but the queen of the winte
morning is the only queen rich enougl
to throw pearls, and the king of fros
the only king rich enough to throw opal