Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-12-28

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asters, fountains. statues, hounds on
the chase. roebucks piunginc into the
stream. battle scenes with dying and
dead, catafalquss of kings. triumphal
| PROFESSIONS, and as the morn ing sun
breaSs through you will see cities on
IRE and bombarlment with bursting
shell and illuminations as for some
/ great victory, co-onations, 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 it, studio it, absorbed
1t, set 1T M in your memory for perpet-
ual refreshment, aad 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
lie is able to do that by the finger Of
the frost fifty times in 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 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 hour, 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 inidelity 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
iect appreciation of glorious things
close by. 20, if | could only go and
see the factories of lace at Brussels
SAYS some one. Why. within twenty
feet of where you awaken some De-
cember morning, you win 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
you home, on the north side of vour
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 Qualification of the distant and
this belittling of the closely! THIS
crossing of oceans and paving a HIGH
admission in expenses to look at that
which is not half as well done as some
thing we can see 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 q physI-
clan. Standing at the gates Of New
York harbor autumn before last. the
frost drove back the cholera, saying:
"rhus far shalt thou come and no far
Their" From Memphis and New Or
leans and Jacksonville he smote the
fever plague till it reeled back and de-
parted. The frost is a 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 so
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 Clarles 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 the
Willard Parlers and Valentine Motts
who landed from bleak skies while our
fingers were benumbed 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 cata-
logue of your blessings. Thank God
for frost 1t is the best of all germi-
cides 1t is the only hope in bacteriol-
ogy. 1t is the medicament of CONT
nents 1t is the salvation of our tenn
perate zone. 1t 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
it | had while walking near here one
cool morning with my brother John
who spent the most of his life as a mis-
81 onary in China, and in that part of i
where there are no frosts. lie said
there was a tingling gladness in his
nerves Undesirable, and an almost in
.oxication of delight from the fact that
it was the first time for years he had
felt the sensation of frost. We com
plain of it. we scold it, we frown upon
i. when we ought to be stirred BY it o.
rratitude. and hoist it on a doxology.
But / must 90 further and speak o.
.he frost as ieweler. As the snow is