Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-04
MISSION Or THE FROST.
REV. Dr. TALMAGES TABERNACLE SERMON
YESTERDAY.
Timely Discourse and a Beautiful Bible
Lesson FrOm the Eloqusa!
BrOoklya Divina

BROOKLYN, n. Y, December Be
fore the usual throngs that. for nearly
twenty-five years, have gathered in the
first, second and third BROOKLYN Taber-
nGcles successfully, DR.. Talmage this
forenoon this forenoon preached this
Gospel sermon, after commenting upon
an appropriate Scripture lesson and
giving ont the most inspiritlng hymns.
The subject was: THE Mission Of the
Frost Text; job 81; 10, 'By the
breath OF God frost is given"
Nothing is more embarrassing TO an
organise or pianist than 70 put his I'm
ger on key OF the instruments and
have 10 make no response. Though all
the other keys are in fun play, that one
silence destroys the music. So in the
great cathedral Of nature IN one part
fails TO praise the Lord the harmony is
halted aud lost. While fire aud hail,
snow and vapor, respond 20 the touch
Of Inspiration, If the frost made no ut
terance, the orchestral rendering would
be hopelessly damaged and the harmony
forever Incomplete. / am more glad
than can tell that the white key OF
the frost sounds forth as nightly as
any Of the other keys, aud when David
touches it ia the Psalms, il sounds forth
the words: "He scattereth the boar
frostlike ashes, aud when job touches
10 IN my text, it resOunds with the
words: by the breath 0fsGOd frost is
given"
ASeho one seems disposed TO discuss
the mission OF Frost, depending on Di-
vine help, j undertake 10. This is the
first Sabbath OF winter. The leaves
are down. The warmth has gone out
of the air. The birds have made their
winged march sOuthwafd. The land
scaps has been marred by the autumnal
equinox. The huSkers have rifed the
corn shocks. The night sky has shown
the usual metoric reStlessness Of No
vember. Three seasons of the year
are past and the fourth, aud last, has
entered. Another element now comes
TO 20 bless and adOrn and instruct the
world. It is the frost. The palaces Of
this king are far up in the Arctic. Their
walls are
GATHERING CANCELLATION.
Windsor Castles and Tulleriss and
Winter Palaces AID Kenilw0rths and
AlhambraS of ice. Temples with pen
dant chandeliers Of ice. Thrones of ice
berg on which eternal Silence reigns.
Theatres on whose stage eternal cold
dramatizss eternal winter. Pillars Of
ice. Arches of lee. Crowns of ice.
Chasiots Of fee. Sepu,chreS Of ice.
Mountains Of ice. DOminiOns Of ice.
Eternal frigidity, From those hard,
white, FURNISHED portals King Frost de-
a 90 -
over our temperate zone. You will soon
hear his heel on the skating pond. You
already feel bis breath In the night
wind. By most considered an enemy
coming here 20 benumb and hinder and
STAY, I shall show you that the frost is a
friend, with benediction divilely pro-
I nOunced, and charged and surchsrged
with lessons potent, beneiceUt aud ire
mendous The Bible seven times al
ludes to the frost, and we must not ig-
,,nOre 70. by the breath Of God frost is
given"
First. Irfeptk Of frost as a painter. He
> ia2giHS hNesirri on the leaves and con-
tinues it - the windOwpanes. With
palette covered with all manner of col
ors In his left hand aud pencil Of crystal
iu his right hand, be sits down before
hum blest bush in the latter part Of Sep
TENDER and begins the Sketching of the
leaves Now he puts upon the foliage a
faint pailOr, and then q touch OF brown,
aud then hue OF orange, and Ast a
fame Of fire. The beech and ash aud
oak are turned first into sunrises aud
then into sunsets OF yividneSs aGd
splendOr. AN the leaves are penciied
one by one, but sometimes a whole for
est ia the course OF few days shows
GREAT VELOCITY or WORK.
Weenix, the Dutch painter, could make
Ga a summer day three portraits Of life
size, but the frost i'm ten days can paint
ten mountains In life size. IL makes
the last days of an autumnal wood the
days of its chiefeSt glory. LuXembOurgs
10 the AdirOndackS, LOuvreS in the
Sierra Neyadas, Naticans In the White
Mountains. TIE work OF other paint
ers you must see ia the right light TO
fully appreciate, but the paintings of
the Tlost in all lights are enchanting,
and from the time when the curtain Of
the morning lifts 20 the time when the
curtain of the night drops. Michael
Angelo put upon one ceiling bis repre-
sentatiOn of the Last Judgment, but
the Frost represents universal COnila-
grafton upon three thousand miles OF
Outstrotched grandeur. Leonardo da
Vnci put upon q few feet of canvas our
Lords Last Supper" for all ages 20 ad-
mlre, but the Frost puts the cleaning
chalices Of the iw Deriai giories Of the
Last Supper of the dying year OF the
heighths and lengths and Oreadths of
the Alleghanies. When Titan first
gazed upon a sketch OF C0rreggiO be
was wrought up i0to such ecstasy that
be cried out: IF I we're not Titan /
would be C0rreggi3," and so great and
overpowering are the autumDal scenes
of our American forests that one force
OF nature might we'll eXclaim 20 an
other: IF I were not the sunlight l
would be the frost" RugendSs, the
German painter. Suffering from weak
ness 10 his right and, labOriOusly
learned TO paint with his eft hand, but
the Frost paiats with boIh hands, and
has in them more skill than all the
Rembrandts and RuOeDs and Vests
ard POussius and Albert DurerS aud
Paul VerOneses and Ciaudes gathered
ip one long art gallery. But the door
of tbat great museum OF autumnal coll
orlng is DOW closed for a tWelVe-mOnth,
aud another spectacle
JUST AS WONDERFUL,
IS about to open. put you on the alert,
and ask you 20 put your children on
the alert Tired Of working on the
leaves, the frost will soon turn TO the
window paneS. You will soon waken
on a cold morning and find that the