Milford chronicle., 1893-12-08
AT THE TABERNACLE
DR.. TALMAeE FINDS MATERIAL FOR
MANY LESSONS IN THE FROST.

The First Sabbath of winter-The Marvels
of Frost Imagery Testify of GOd-strik-
ing Illustrations In Job-FFost as an EN-
bIem of Adversely.
BROOKLYN. Dec. 3.-Before the usual
throngs that for nearly % years have gath
cred in the first, second and third Brooklyn
Tabernacles successfully, DR.. Talmage this
forenoon preached this gospel sermon, after
commenting upon an appropriate Scripture
lesson and giving out the most inspiriting
hymns. The subject was, "The Mission OF
the Frost" Text-Job xxxvii, 10 by the
the breath of God frost is given"
Nothing is more embarrassing to an or
ganist or pianist than to put his finger on a
key of the instrument and have 1t make no
response. Though all the other Keys are in
full play, that one silence destroys the mu-
sic. So in the great cathedral of nature, II
one part fails to praise the Lord the har-
mony is halted and lost. While IRE ana
hail. snow and vapor, respond to the touch
OF inspiration, If the frost made no utter
auce the orchestral rendering would be
hopelessly damaged and the harmony for
ever incomplete. am more glad than can
forth as nightly as any Of the other keys,
and when David touches it in the Psalms
Il sounds forth the words, HE scattereth
the hoar frost like ashes" and when Job
touches it in my text it resounds with the
words, "By the breath of God frostis given"
Asno one seems disposed to discuss the
mission of frost, depending on divine help
| undertake it, This is the first Sabbatho OF
winter. The leaves are down. The warmth
has gone out of the air. The birds have
made their winged march southwark. The
landscape has been scared by the antum-
nal eauinox. The huskers have riiled the
cornshocks. The night sky has shown the
usual meteoric restlessness Of November.
Three seasons Of the year are past, and the
fourth and last has entered. Another ele-
ment now comes in to bless and adorn and
instrucs the world. 1t is the frost. The
palaces Of this king are far up in the
arctic Their walls are glittering con-
gelation. Windsor castles and TuileEes
and winter palaces and Kenilworths and
Albambras of ice temples with pendant
chandeliers of ice, thrones OF iceberg on
which eternal silence reigns, theaters on
whose stage eternal cold dramatizes eter'
nal 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
! in the night wind. By most considered an
enemy coming here to benumb and hinder
and slay, shall show you that the frost is
a friend, with benediction diyinely pro,
nounced, and charged and suroharged with
lessons potent, benefoent and tremendous.
| The Bible seven times alludes to the frost,
and we must not ignore it. by the breath
Of God frost is given.
NATURES AARvELs IN ART.
First I think of frost as painter. He be
gins his work on the leaves and continues
it on the window panes. With palette Gov
cred 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 faint pallor, and
then a touch Of brown, and then hue ol
orange, and last flame of fire. The beech
and ash and oak are turned first into sun
rises and then into sunsets of vividness anc
splendor. All the leaves are penclled Que
bv one, but sometimes a whole forest in the
course of q few days shows great velocity
Of work,
f Weenix, the Dutch painter, could mak'
in a summer day three portraits OF ht'
size, but the frost in 10 days can paint II
mountains in life size. 1t makes the las
davs of an autumnal wood the days of it
chiefest glory-Luxembou in the Adiron
dacks, Louvres in the Sierra Nevadas, Vat
Z leans in the White mountains. The worl
of other painters you must see IN the rlgh
light to fully appreciate, but the paint
ings of the frost in all lights are enchant
ing from the time when the curtain OF tn
morning lifts to the time when the curtaii
, Of the night drops
J.: Michael Angelo put upon one ceiling nj
c representation Of the last judgment, bu
the frost represents universal conhagratiol
upon 5000 miles fstretched out grandeur
i. Leonardo da Vinci put upon a few fee
- of canvas our Lords last supper for al
: AGES to admire, but the frost puts tn
, cleaning chalices of the imperial glorie
b of the last supper of the dying year il
e tba heights and lengths and breadths q
d the Alleghanies, When Titian first gaze
J. upon a sketch of Correggio, he was wrough
;, mn into such ecstasy that he cried out, y
: / were not Titan, would be Correggio,
and so great and overpowering are th
autumnal scenes Of our American forest
that one force of nature might well e.
claim to another, IF were not the SUI
light, would be the frost"
Rugendas, the German painter, sutferin
from weakness in his right hand, laboriou
" learned to paint with his left hand, br
the frost paints with both hands, an
has in them more skill than all the Rem
brandts and Rubens and Vests and Pou
sins and Albert Durers and Paul Verones
and Claudes gathered in one long art ga
lerv. But the door of that great museul
of autumnal coloring Is now closed for
twelvemonth, and another spectacle Ju
\ as wonderful is now open. put you
j the alert and ask you to put your childr'
on the alert.
q Tired of working on the leaves, the fro
K will soon turn to the window panes. NG
+ will soon waken on a cold morning al
- find that the windows of your home ha
durinQ the night been adorned with curve
with coronets, with exquisiteness, WI
pomp. with almost supernatural spectac
Then you will appreciate what my te
). saws as it declares, "By the breath Of q,
frost is given.n You will see on the wi
w. dow pane, traced there by the FROST who
IN gardens of fbeauty-ferns, orchids, dattodi
~ heliotropes, china asters, fountains st'
ri ues, hounds on the chase, rOebucks plum
ing into the stream, battle scenes with d
ing and dead catafalques of kings, I
nmnbal nrocessiops-and as the mOrnil
Z- sun breaks through you will see cities
= fire, and bonn bardment with bursting she
iO' and illuminations as for some great VIC
rv. coronations and angels on the wing.
All night long while you were sleepl
the frost was working, and you ought I
let the warmth obliterate the scene un
YOU have admired it, studied it, absorb
It. set it up in your memory for perpetI
refreshment aud realized the force a
magnitude and intensity of my text :
the breath of God frost is given" &
= what a God we have What resources
9 implied by the fact that be is able to
=. that by the finger of the frost 80 times
one winter and on a hundred thousa