The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-12-06

says, as IL declares, 'By the breath Of
God frost Is given" You will see on
the window pane, traced there by the
frost, whole gardens of beauty, ferns,
orchids, daffodils, heliotrope, china
asters, fountains, statues, hounds on
the chase, roebucks plunging into the
| stream, battle scenes with dying and
dead, catafalques of kings, triumphal
professions, and as the morning sun
breaks through you will see cities on
fire, and bombardment with bursting
shell, and nluminations as for some
great victory, coronations, and angels
on the wing. ALI night long, while
you were sleeping, the frost was work.
ing, and you ought not to let the
warmth obliterate the scene until you
have admired II, studie d 1t, absorbed
1t, set 1t up in your mem ory for perpet-
ual refreshment and realized the force
and magnitude and intensity Of my
text: "By the breath of God frost Is
given" o, what God we havel What
resources are implied by the fact that
He is able to do that by the finger Of
the frost fifty times in one winter and
on a hundred thousand window panes
for thousands Of winters. The great
art galleries Of Venice, and Naples, and
Dresden are carefully guarded, and
governments protect them, for, once
lost, they can never be reproduced, but
God sets up in the royal galleries Of
the frost pictures such as no human
art could ever produce, hundreds OF
thousands Of them, only for four or
five hours, and then rubs them out
making the place clear for display
just as magnificent the next morning.
No one but a God could afford to do
that 1t would bankrupt everything
but infldelity and omnipotence.
Standing here between the closed
doors of the pictured woods and the
opening doors Of the transfgured win.
dow glass, want to cure my folly and
your folly Of longing for glorious
things in the distance. while we neg
lect appreciation of glorious things
close by. 10, II could only go and
see the factories Of lace at Brussels" F"
says some one. Why, within twenty
feet of where you awaken some De-
cember morning, you will see richer
lace interviewer for your window
panes by Divine fingers. 80, II could
see the factories of silk at Lyons"
says some one. Why, without leaving
you homo, on the north side of your
own house on Christmas morning you
may see where the Lord has spun silk
en- threads about your windows this
way and that Embroideries 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 a high
admission in expenses to look at that
which is not half as we'll done as some.
! thing we can sec by crossing our own
room, and free of charge. This prais.
ing of Raphaels hundreds of years
gone, when the greatest Raphael, the
frost, will soon be busy at the entrance
to your own homes.
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 far.
ther." From Memphis and New Or
leans and Jacksonville he smote the
fever plague till 1t reeled back and de.
parted. The frost Is physician that
doctors cities, nations and continents.
He medicines the world. Quinine for
malaria, antifebrile for typhoids,
sulphonal for sleeplessness, antispas.
modic 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 sc
mighty as the frost. Scotland has had
great physicians, but her greatest doc.
tors have been the Abernethies and
the 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 An.
drew Clarkes and the Mackenzies
who appeared the first night the fields
Of England were rimed with white.
America has had its great physicians,
but her greatest doctors have been tn,
willard Parkers and Valentine Motts
who landed from bleak skies while our
fingers were benumbed and our ears
tingled with the cold. o, IL Is high
time that you add another line to your
liturgy. 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 II is the best of all germi'
cides. 1t is the only hope in bacteriol.
ogy. II Is the medicament Of CONT.
nents. 1t is the salvation of our tenn.
perate zone. II 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
Il had while walking near here one
cool morning with my brother John,
who spent the most OF his life as mis-
81 onary In China, and in that part Of II
where there are no frosta He said
there was tingling Rladness In his
nerves indescribab BILE, and an almost in.
toxication Of delight from the fact that
IL was the first time for years he had
felt the sensation Of frost. We com.
plain OF II, we scold 1t, we frown upon
Il, when we ought TO be stirred by II Ia
gratitude, and hoist 1t ON doxology,
But must go further and speak Of
the frost as jeweler. As the snow Is
frozen rain, so the frost is frozen dew.
God transforms 1t from liquid into a
crystal II Is the dew glorifed. In the