Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1893-12-07
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49, = s ii 81. ch lei glory glory.

Lucent Grgs in the Adirondack,
Louvres IL the Sierra Nevadas, Vati-
cans in the While mountains. The
work OF other painter you must see in
the right light to fully appreciate, but
the paintings OF the frest in all lights
are enchanting, and from the time
to the time when the curtain of the
night drops Michael Angelo put upon
one ceiling his representation Of the
Last Judgment, but the frost repre-
sents universal conhagration upon
5000 miles of stretcl.ed-out grandeur.
Leonardo da Vino, put upon few
feet of canvas cur Lords LAST Supper"
for all ages to admire, but the frost
puts the gleaminS chalicss of the inn
perial glories OF Ile Last Supper of the
dying year on the heights and lengths
and breadths of the Alleshanies. When
Titan first gazed upon a sketch of Cor
regio he was wrought up into such
ecstasy that he cried out: "If l were
not Titan would be Corregio." and
SO great and overpowering are the au-
tumnal scenes of our American forests
claim to another: "If / were not the
sunlight would be the frost" Ru-
gendas. the German painter. suffering
from weakness in his right hand, labo-
riously learned to paint with his left
hand, but the frost paints with both
hands, and has in them more skill than
all the Rembrandts and Rubens and
Vests and Poussins and Albert Durers
and Paul Veroneses and Claudes gath
cred in one long art gallery.
But the door of that great museum
of autumnal coloring is now closed for
twelve-month, and another spectacle,
just as wonderful. is about to open.
put YOU on the alert Tired of work
ing on the leaves, the frost will soon
turn to the window-panes You will
soon waken on a cold morning and
find that the windows of your home
have during the night been adorned
with curves, with coronets, with ex-
quisiteness. with pomp, with almost
supernatural spectacle. Then you will
appreciate what my text says, as it de-
clares, 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, daft
fodils, heliotropes, china asters, fount-
aims. statues. hounds on the chase, roe
bucks 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 Examinations
as for some great victory, coronations
and angels on the wing.
All night long, while you were sleep
ing, the frost was working, and you
ought not let the warmth obliterate
the scene until you have admired it,
studied it. set it up in your memory for
perpetual refreshment and realized the
force and magnitude and tensity of my
text: by the breath of God frost is
given" Oh. what a God we have.
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 other win.
dow 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 repro
duced. bnt God sets up in the Galleries
of the Frost psctures such as no human
art could produce, hundreds of thou
sands of them, only for four or five
hours and then rubs them out, making
the way clear for u display just US mag
nificent the next morning. No one but
a God could afford to do that 1t
would bankrupt everything but in
finity and omnipotence.
Standing here between the closed
doors Of the pictured woods and the
opening doors of the TRANSPORTED win
dow glass. ] want to cure my folly and
your folly of longing for glorious
things in the distance. while we neg
lect appreciation IF glorious things
close bv. ''Oh. if ] could only go and
see the factories of lace at BRUSSELS, "