Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-12-07

The great art galleries of Venice and Ma
pies 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 ruhs
them out, making the place clear for dis
play Just as magnificent the next morning
No one but God could afford TO do that
1t would bankrupt everything but ininity
md omnipotence
GODS INFINITE MAGIC.
Standing here between the closed doors
Of the pictured woods and the opening
doors of the TRANSPORTED window glass, ]
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. ooh, If / could only so
and see the factories of lace at BRUSSELS
says some one. Why, within 90 feet of
where you awaken some December morn
ing YOU will see richer lace interviewer for
your window panes. by divine fingers. "Oh,
if could see the factories of silk Mt Lyons
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 silkcn threads about
your windows this way and that-em.
broiderios such as no one but God can work
Alas, for this glorficatou of the distant
aud this Heiittling of the close byl This
crossing Of oceans and paying high adj
mission in expenses TO look at that which
is rfot half as we'll done as something we
can see by crossing our own room, and
free of charged This praising of Raphacls
hundreds Of years gone, when the greater
Raphael. the frost, will soon be busy at
slc entrances to your own homel
Next | speak of the frost a~ a physician.
Standing ct 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 Jacl, sonvillc 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
fcbrle for typhoids, sulphonal for slecpless
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
north wind England has had her great
I physicians, but her greatest doctors have
been the Andrew Clarkcs and the Macken-
ziee 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.
| On, it il 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 frost, 1t * the best Of all
| germicides. 1t is the only hope in bacteriol-
| ogy. 1t is the mcdcameut of continents.
| II is the salvation of our temperate zone.
| il 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 | had while walking near
here one cool morning with my brother
John, who spent the most of his life as a
missionary in China, and in that part of it
where there are no frosts He said there
was tingling gladness in his nerves indie
scribable, and an almost intoxication of de
light from the fact that it was the first
frost. We complain of it, we scold it, We
frown upon it, when we ought TO be stirred
by it to gratitude and hoist it on doX
ology.
THE FROST OF HEAVEN.
But must 20 farther and speak of the
frost as a jewcler. As the snow is frozen
rain, so the frost is frozen dew. God trans
forms it from a liquid into II crystal. 1t i,
the dew gloriiied. in the thirty eighth chap
ter of that inspired drama, the book OF
job, God says to the inspired dramatist
with ecstatic Interrogation, The hoary
frost of heaven, who hath gendered it,
God there asks Job if he knows the parent
age of the frost. He inquiries about it,
pedigree. He suggests that job study uT
the frost's genealogical line. A minute be
fore God had asked about the parentaqe o.
a raindrop in words that years ago gave m,
a suggestive text for sermon, Hath tl,
rain a father" But now the Lord Al
mighty is catechising job about the frost
He practically says; DO you know its ia
thcr? Do you know its mother? In what
cradle OF the leaves did the wind rock it
The hcary frost of heaven, who hath gen
dered it,"
lie is a stupid Christian who thinks Sc
much of the printed and bound Bible tina
he negects the Old Testament of the
fields, nor reads the wisdom and kindness
and beauty Of God written in blossoms OF
the orchard, in sparkles on the lake, il
sta;s on the sky, in frost on the meadows
The greatest jeWeler Of all the earth is TIT
frost There is nothing more wonderful
in all crystallography Some morning il
December whole continent is found he
sprent with diamonds, the result of on
nights worl; by this jeweler.
DO you make the depreciatory remarl
that the frost is impermancnt and will las
only two or three hours What of that
We 90 into London tower and look at 1 h
crown jewels of England, but we are in
procession that the guards keep moving on
and five minutes or less are your only OF
portunity Of looking ut those crown jew
els, but at the Gro VI jewels bestarrtd O
the frost in parks and fields you may stan,
to look deliberately and for hours and Ii
one to tell You to move ON.
NATURE ; DlADEM OF BEAUTY.
, Oh, these regalias and diadcms of beaut