Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-04

magnitude and intensity OF my text:
"Bv the breath Of God frost is given"
| Oh, what a God we havel What re-
sources are implied by the fact that he
is able 20 do that by the finger OF the
frost fifty times ia one winter and on
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 produced, but
God sets uD in the Royal Galleries or
THE FROST PICTURES
such as no human art could ever pro-
duce, hundreds of thousands OF them
only for four or FIVE hours, and then
rubs them out, making the pl-ee clear
for a display Just as magnificent the
next morning. No one but God could
afford 10 do that. 1t would bankrupt
everything bnt infnitY and omnlpot-
ence.
Standing here between the closed
doors of the pictured woods aud the
opening doors OF the TRANSPORTED win
dow glass, | want to cure my folly ana
your folly OF longing for glorious things
i'm the distance, while we neglect appre-
citation Of glorious thing close by. 'On,
If l could only go and see the factories
OF lace at Brussels says some one.
Why, within twenty feet OF where you
awaken some December morning, you
will see richer lace interviewer for your
window Uanes by Divine fingers. 'Oh,
III l could see the factories or SILK at
LYONS" saws some one. w by, without
leaving your home, on the north side OF
your own house on Christmas morning
YOU NAV see where the Lord has spun
silken threads about your windows this
way and that. Embroideries such as
no one but God can work. Alas, for
this glorifcation Of the distant and this
belitting of the clOse-by! This cross
ing Of oceans and paying high admis-
sion in expenses 10 look at that which
is not half as we'll done as something
we can see by crossing our own room,
and free OF charge. This praising OF
Raphaels hundreds Of years gone, when
the greater Raphael, the Frost, viii
soon be busy at the entrances
TO YOUR own HOME.
Next I speak OF the Frost as phYsi-
clan. Standing st 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 Or
leans and Jacksonville he smOte the
yellow fever plague until 10 reeled back
and departed. The frost is a physician
that doctors cities, nations and contl-
nents. He medicines the world. Qul-
nine for malaria, antiie0rine for ty-
Dhoids. sulDhOnal for SleeplesSneSS,
anti-spasmodic for disturbed nerves,
but in all therapeutics there is no rem
edv ike the small pellets prepared by
the cold and no physician so sEuitul or
sn mighty as the frost. Scotland has
had great physicians, but her greatest
doctors have been the AbernethIes ana
AbercrOmbies that have come down
over the Highlands hOrsed on the nortn
W ind England has had her great phySl-
clans, but her greatest doctors nave
been the Andrew Clarkes and the Mac
kerzies who appeared the first night
the fields Of England were trimmed with
white. America has had its great physi-
clans, but her greatest doctors have
been the Willard Parkers and Valentine
NOtts who landed from the bleak skies
while our fingers were benumbed and
| Our ears tingled with the cold. %, II
| is high time that You add another line
/ To YOUR liturgy. 1t is high time that
Won make an sddendum 70 your pray
ers. IL is high time that you enlarge
the catalogue Of your blessings. Thank
God for frost IL is the best Of all
rermicides. Ii is the only hope In bac-
teriOlOgy. it Is the medicament OF con-
/ tinents. 10 is the salvation o. our tenn
perate zone. IL is the best tonic that
God ever gave the human race. Ii Is
the only strong srimuiaDt that has no
reaction. The best commentary l had
while walking near here one morning
with my brother John, who spent the
most of his life
AS A MISSIONARY IN CHINA,
and In that part o! it where there are
no frOsts. lie said there was a ting
ling gladnesS in his nerves indeScrl0-
able, aud an almost intOXicatiOn OF de-
light from the fact that il was the first
time for years he had felt the sensa-
ton of frost. We complain OF It, we
scold it, we frOwn upon, when we
ought TO be- stirred by il to gratitude,
aud hoist Il on a doXoOgY.
But 1 must 60 further and speak OF
the frost as a jeweler. As the snow Is
frozen rain, so the frost is frozen dew.
God transforms IL from liquid into a
crystal IL is the dew gloriied. In
the 3Sth chapter 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 enquiries about
/ it's pedigree. he suggests that JOB
study up the froSt's genealogical line.
/ A minute before God had asked about
| the parentage OF a rain-drop In words
I that years ago gave suggestive text
/ for sermon: Hath the rain faith
er2" But now the Lord is catechising
/ Job about tho frost. he practically
saws: DO YOU know its father? Do you
/ know It's mother? in what cradle OF the
/ leaves did the wind rock II? The
! hoary frost of heaven who hath gender
ed it2'" He is stupid Christian who
thinks so much Of the printed and
bound Bible that he negectS the Old
/ Testament of the fields, nor reads the
wisdom and kindness and beauty OF
God written in blossoms on the or
chard, in suarkles on the lake, in stars
on the sky, in frost on the meadows.
The greatest jeweler OF all the earth Is
the frost. There is nothing more won
deriul In all crystallOgrapny. Some
morning in December whole CONT
aent is found
BESPRENT WITH DIAMONDS,
the result OF one nights work By this