South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-12-07
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divins's Sun.
day Sermon.

The Eminent Brooklyn Divins's Sun.
day Sermon.
Subject: "Tho Mission Of tho Frost"
.TkIT: "By ote breath Of Cod Jros. IS
3scen. Job xxxvii., 10.
Nothing Is moro embarrassing to ali organ.
ist or pianist than to put his finger on a Icv
OF tho instrument ard have It make no re-
sponse Though all the other KEYS are i'm
Jul play, that one silence DESTROYS the music.
80 In the great cathedral Of Nature, II ons
paft 1afis to praise the Lord the harmony is
matted and lost. While fire and hail. snow
and vapor, respond to the touch OF inspira.
tlon. II the frost made no utterancs the
9rsneelrnl rendering would be hopelessly
n,Mase9 n,a,a ana tho harmony forever incom-
me whte key OF the frost sounds forth ns
mt9ntiiy as my OF the other keys, and when
David touches IT in the Psalms 1t sounds
tonn t. TN, nne words, "He soattereth the hoar
frost Ike ashes" and when Job touches II in
my text It resounds with the words, ..By tho
breath OF God frost is given"
As NO one seoms disposed TO discuss tho
m,ssion OF irost depending on divine help
sEdn.a. mt ,t. This is the flrst Sabbath OF
winter. Tho leaves are down. The warmth
mas gone out OF the air. The birds have
mAde their winged march southwark. The
landscape has been SCARED by the autumnnl
eSo@oL Ihe hpskers have rifed the oorn-
snocks The night sky has shown the usual
meteoric restlessnese OF Noyember' Tbraa
seasons Of the year are past, and the fonrtb
and last has entered. Another element now
comes In to bless and adorn and instruct the
m;na Mor.a l.. Il . Is me frost Tho palace. Of this
are glittsrinS congelatfon. Windsor castles
and 1uiiertes and winter palaces and
keniIworths and Alhambras Of Ice.
temples with pendant chandeliers OF
ete.n,i nfonss sI,s,o. OF iceberg on which
whose stage eternal cold dramatizes eternal
winter, pillars OF Ice, arches Of icc. crowns
OIL ice, enar1ots OF ice, sepulchers of ice.
smo9ntalns s, OF Ice, domtnlons OF ioe-eternai
portals King Frost descends and waves his
stlvery scepter over our temperate zone
fou VIII soon hear his heel on the stntin1
pond. You already feel his breath In tho
coming hero to benumb and hinder mi
sIay, shall show You that the frost is n
friend, with benediction divinely nro.
nouneed, and charged and surchareed with
Lessons potent, beneficent and tremendous.
me Bible seven times nlludes to the frost
and we must not ignore 1t. ..By the breath
.! God frost Is given"
First think OF frost as a painter He he-
| gins his work on the leaves and Continues II
uI wi,h tne q, wlnaow panes. With palette covered
I
anu pencil OF crystal In his right hand. he
SITS down before the humblest bush In ths
Latter part OF September and begins tho
sSetcning OF the leaves. Now he puts upon
.he iohase iaint pallor. and then a touch Of
brown, and then a hue of orange. and isat
name oi hre The beech and ash and oak ara
turned flrst into sunrises and then into sun
s-ts Oh Vlvtdness and splendor AlIthe leaves
MLn Mhp penci,ed ono by one, but sometimes q
shows great velocity Of work.
neenx, tho Dutch painter, could make In
summer day three portraits OF life size. hut
me foat In len days can paint ten noun.
/ an al, ~ n! ne SIG: Il makes tho last days OF
bssrss me "a d1 q IT, Shietest
Lo1stes n f6s siefrrs sto>.ss yaacSs, ay.sassc.,a,
the While Mountainss Tho Work or ,,tbar
painters You must see in tho tight light to
iuliy appreciate, but tho paintings of tho
frost In all lights are enchanting rom ,h,.
time when the curtain Of tho morning ufts tn
the lime when the curtain of the MIGHT drons
aichae. Angelo put upon one ceiling his
tsptesontation ,aa, OF the last judgment, bur the
:rost represents universal conaagration
upon 5000 miles Of stretched out prfndenr
Leonardo da Vinci put upon a few fest of
canvas our Lords last supper for ali aoes 70
admire, but the frost puts the cleaning chal,
ICES OF tho imperial glories OF the Inst .nn-
per OF the dying year In tho Heights NIL
lengths and breadths of the AIIeehnnie,.
Mheh Titan first gazed upon a sketch Of
CorreSSlo, no was wroupht nm into 60.
ecstacy that he cried our mTi gar '"sn
Titan, would be Correvpio q" and sa ~. mo.
and overpowerlng arc the antnmn.I aaa,s.'' S,ea.
OF our tmericnn foros,s .hu .uinnai scenes
nature might we'll cxcIaim TO ano,bau ..ItI o1
were not the sunlight, I would bc tbo f-oa, !,
Rugendas, the German pa;n,er snmes1S
from weakness in his right hand i.horior,siS.
learned TO paint with his left bnnd bn, ,hSo
frosts paints with both hands nnJ r. 'no
them more skill than all the Rsmbrnpdts ,nI
Rubens and Vests and Poussns and anar.
Durers and Paul yeroneses nn.I cIamSas
gathered in one long art gallery Rn, ,h
door of that great museum of on,unnaI ~ .Io
oring Is now closed for a tw,lvemonth nnd
another spectacle iust az n,o1s' ana
opon. put You Oh tho nIert and nal Io,' mvm ~,
put your children on the nIert. wv W
Tired OF working on tho leaves tbe fros.
will soon turn to the window p,np. W.,
will soon waken on Il cold mornin,, md an
that the windows Of your home have d,r;,
tho night been adorned with curves VIII,
coronets, with exquisiteness. with norn,,
with almost supernatural spcctaoIr ffrhar,,,
you will appreciate what nv text snvs ,s !,
declares, "By tho breath OF God f,o., 70
given You will see on tho window ua,s
truced thero by tho froat wh,I pahe,
benuty-ferns. orchids. dafro5I,s heI;n,..o "
chinn asters, fountains. stntuea bnnn5
the chase, roebucks pluneinr into The eta. ""
battlo scenes with dying and dead cnt,
1Hlquee OF kings, triumphal processionsS S,nL
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