Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-12-07

and governments protect them, for. oncs
lot. they can never be reproduced, bat God
sets up in the royal galleries OF the frost
pictures such as no human art could ever
produce, hundreds Of thousands Of them.
pnly for four or five hours. aud then rubs
them out. making the place clear for q dis
play Just rs magnificent the next morning.
No one but God could afford 20 do that.
It would bankrupt everything but inhnity
and omnipotence.
GODS INFINITE MAGIC.
Standing here between the closed doors
of the pictured woods and the opening
doors Of the transhgured window glass, I
want TO cure my folly and your folly of
longing for glorious things in the distance,
while we neglect appreciation Of glorious
things near by. ''oh, II l could only go
and see the factories Of lace at Brusselsp
says some one. Why, within 20 feet OF
where you awaken some December morn
ing you will see richer lace interviewer for
your window panes. by divine fingers. "Oh.
II could see the factories of silk at Lyonsw
says some one. Why, without leaving your
home on the north side Of your own house
on Christmas morning you may see where
the Lord has spun silken threads about
your windows this way and that-em.
broideries such as no one but God can work.
Alas, for this glorification of the distant
and this belittling Of the close byl This
crossing Of oceans and paying high ad-
mission in expenses to look at that which
is not half as well done as something we
can see by crossing our own room. and
free of charged This praising of Raphaels
knw aIa ~
Raphael, the frost, will soon be busy at
the entrances to your own homel
Next speak of the frost as physician.
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 depart
ed. The frost is a physician that doctors
cities, nations and continents He medi-
cines the world. Quinine for malaria, anti
febrile for typhoids, sulphonal for sleepless-
ness, 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 doctors have been the Aberne-
thies and Abercrombies that have come
down over the highlands horsed on the
north wind. England has had her great
physicians, but her greatest doctors have
been the Andrew Clarkes and the Macken-
zies who appeared the first night the fields
of England were trimmed with white. Amer.
lea has had its great physicians, but her
greatest doctors have been the Willard
| Parkers and Valentine Motifs who landed
| from bleak skies while our fingers were be-
numbed and our ears tingled with the cold
| Oh, tits high time that you add another
line to your liturgyl 1t is high time that
you make an addendum to your prayers
1t is high time that you enlarge the cata
logue of your blessings.
Thank God for frostl 1t is the best of al
germicides. 1t is the only hope in bacteriol
ogy. 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 stimu
liant which has no reaction. The best com
mentary on it l had while walking neal
here one cool morning with my brother
John, who spent the most of his life as {
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where there are no frosts. He said thert
was tingling gladness in his nerves indie
scribable, and an almost intoXication of de
light from the fact that it was the frs
time for years he had felt the sensation O
frost. We complain of it, we scold it, W,
frown upon it. when we ought to be stirret
by it to gratitude and hoist it on dox
ology.
THE FROST OF HEAVEN.
But must go farther and speak of tn
frost as a ieweler As the snow is frozel
rain, so the frost is frozen dew. God trans
forms it from a liquid into crystal. 1t il
the dew glorified. In the thirty chap
ter of that inspired drama, the book o
Job, God says to the inspired dramatis
with ecstatic Interrogation, 1.-THE hoar,
frost of heaven, who hath gendered itP'
God there asks Job if he knows the parent
age of the frost He inquiries about it
pedigree. He suggests that Job study III
the frost's genealogical line. A minute be
fore God had asked about the parentage O
a raindrop in words that years ago gave m
suggestive text for a sermon, Hath tn
rain a father?" But now the Lord al
mighty is catechising Job about the frost
He practically says: do you know its ia
ther2 Do you know it's motherf In wha
cradle of the leaves did the wind rock it
The hoary frost of heaven, who hath gen
dered it?'"
He is stupid Christian who thinks S,
much of the printed and bound Bible tina
he neglects the Old Testament of tn
fields, nor reads the wisdom and kindnes
and beauty of God written in blossoms OF
the orchard, in sparkles ON the lake, il
stars on the sky, in frost on the meadows
The greatest jeweler of all the earth is th
frost. There is nothing more wonderful
in all crystallography. Some morning i
December whole continent is found be
sprent with diamonds, the result of on
nights work by this jeweler.
Do you make the depreciatory remarl
that the frost is impermanent and will las
only two or three hours? What of that
We go into London tower and look at tn
crown jewels of England, but we are in
procession that the guards keep moving or
and five minutes or less are your only OF
portunity of looking at those crown jew
els. but at the crown jewels bestarred c
the frost in parks and fields you may stan
to look deliberately and for hours, and II
one to tell you to move on.
NATURES DIADEM OF BEAUTY.
Oh, these regalias and diadems of beaut
flung out of heaven Kings and queens o
celebrative days have come riding throug
, the streets throwing handfuls of silver an
gold among the people, but the queen {
! the winter morning is the only queen ric
enough to throw pearls, and the king {
frost the only king rich enough to thro
opals and sapphires and diamonds. Home
describes anecklace ofamber given to Pene
ope, but the frost necklaces continen
The carcanet of precious stones given
Harmonic had pinions of orange jasper an
Ewhite moonstone and Indian agate, but
was misfortune to any one who owned {
inherited it, and its history, generation af
er generation, was history of disaster, br
the regalia of frost is the good fortune
every morning that owns it.
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