The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-04


my text: BY the breath of God trost IS
given" Oh, what a God we have. What
resources are implied by the fact that ne
is able to do that by the finger OF the frost
fifty times in one winter ana on iVo,ut
window names for thousands of rs uters.
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. 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 Tubs them tout, making
the place clear for a display just as mag
uificent the next morning. No one bur "A
God could afford TO do that. Ii would
bankrupt everything but infnity and
OmnipOtenCe.
Standing here between the closed doors
Of the pictured woods and the opening
doors Of the TRANSPORTED window glass,
want 10 cure my folly and your folly OF
longing for glorious things 10 the dis
lance. while we neglect apprecia-
ton of glorious things close by.
20, if l could only go and see the factories
OF lace at Brussels, &c says some one. Why,
within twenty feet of where you awaken
some December morning You will see
richer lace interviewer for Your window
panes by divine fingers. 20, if ! could
see the factories Of silk at 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 sllken
threads about your window this way and
that EmbrOideries. such as no one but
God can work Alas, for this gloritica-
ton of the distant and this beittling Of
the closely! This crossing of oceans and
paving high admission 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 charge. This
pralsing of Raphaels hundreds Of years
gone, when the greater Raphael, the
frost, will soon be busy at the entrances
TO your own home
Next l speak OF the frost as physician.
Standing at the gates of New York harbOr
autumn before last. the frost drove back
the cholera saving. Thus far shalt thou
come and no farther" From Memphis
and New Orleans and Jacksonville, he
smote the fever plague till il reeled back
and departed. The frost IS physician
that doctors cities, nations and CONT
nents. He medicines the world Quinine
for malaria, antifebrile for typhoids,
sulphonal for leeplessness. antispasmodic
for disturbed nerves, but in all thera-
peutiCs there is no remedy like the small
pellets prepared by the cold, and no ply
sician, so Skillful or SO mighty rs the
frost. Scotland has had great physicians,
but her greatest doctor has been the Alb
ernethies and Abercrombes 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 Clar6es and the
NIackenzieS who appeared the first night
the fields of England were trimmed
with white. America has had
its great physicians, but her great
oct have haau WI.
lard Parkers and Valentine Motifs who
landed from bleak skies while our fingers
were benumbcd and our ears tingled with
the cold. O, it 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 catalogue of your blessings Thank
God for frost! 1t is the best of all Ger
micides. 1t is the only hope of bacteriol-
ogy. 1t is the medicament of contents.
1t is the salvation Of our temperate zone
1t is the best tonic that God ever gave the
human race. IL is the only strong stimu-
liant which has no reaction. The best
commentary on it l 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 a tingling gladness in his
nerves Undesirable, and an almost in
toXicatiOn of delight from the fact that it
was the first time for years he had felt
the sensation of frost We complain of
it, we scold it, we frown upon it, when we
ought TO be stirred by it to gratitude, and
hoist il on a 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 it from a liquid into crystal
1t is the dew glOrifed. In the 3Sth 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 enquiries about its
pedigree. He suggests that Job study up
the frost's genealogical line minute
before God had asked about the parentage
of a rain-drOp in words that years ago
gave me a suggestive text for sermon:
Hath the rain fathcr?n But now the
Lord Almighty is CateChising job about
the frost. He practically says: "DoNou
know It's father, DO you know its mOther2
In what cradle of the leaves did the wind
rock it, The hoary frost of heaven, who
hath gendered " He a STUPID Chris
tIan who thinks so much of the printed and
bound Bible that he neglects the Old Tes-
lament of the fields, nor reads the wis
dom and kindness and beauty of God
NLlLbCAl III DlOSoOllS Oh llt OItllHfu, IN
sparkles on the lake, in stars in the sky,
III frost on the meadows. The greatest
leweler OF all the earth is the frost. There
IS nothing more wonderful in all crystal
Biography. Some morning in December a
whole continent is found besprent with
diamonds, the result of one nights work
by this leweler. Do YOU make the depre-
cIatory remark that the frost is imper-
nanent and will last only two or three
hours What of that We go into Lon
don Tower and look at the crown Jewels
of England, but we are in a procession
that the guards keep moving on, and five
minutes or less are your only opportunity
OF looking a those crown jewels. but at
the crown Jewels bestarred of the frost
IN parks and fields, you may stand to look
deliberately and for hours, and no one Ia
tell you to move on.
o, these regalias and diadems of beauty
flung out OF heaven! Kings and queens
on celebrative days have come riding
through the streets. throwing handfuls OF
silver and gold among the people, but the
Queen of the Winter Morning is the only
queen rich enough to throw pearls, and
the King of Frost the only king rich
rnough TO throw opals and sapphres and
diamonds. Homer describes a necklace
OF amber given TO Penelope, but the frost
necklaces continent The carcanet Of
precious stones given to Harmonic haC
piulons of orange jasper and white moon
stone and Indian agate, but il was mis-