Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-12-04

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beauty--ferns, orchids, daffodils. hello
tropes, china asters, fountains, statues
hounds on the chase, roebucks plunginq
into the stream, battle scenes with DIV.
ing and dead, catafalques of kings. tri.
umphal processions-an as the morning
sun breaks through you will see cities
on fire, and bombardment with bursting
shell, and illuminations 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, alb
sorbed it, set it up in your memory for
perpetual refreshment, and realized the
force and magnitude and intensity of my
text, by the breath of God frost is
given" Oh, what God we have! What
resources are implied by the fact that he
is able to do that by the finger of the
frost 90 times in one winter and on a
hundred thousand window panes for
thousands of wintersl
The great art galleries of Venice and
Naples and Dresden are carefully guard
ed, and governments protect them, for,
once lost, they can never be reproduced,
but God sets upin the royal galleries Of
the frost pictures such as no human art
could ever produce, hundreds of thou
sands of them, only for four or FIVE
hours, and then rubs them out, making
the place clear for display just as mag
nifcent the next morning. No one but
God could afford to do that. 1t would
bankrupt everything but infnity and
omnipotence.
Standing here between the closed doors
of the pictured woods and the opening
doors of the transfgured window glass,
| want to cure my folly and your folly
of longing for glorious things in the dis
tance, while we neglect appreciation OF
glorious things close by. "Oh, if lcould
only go and see the factories of lace at
Brusselsp says some one. Why, within
90 feetof where you awaken some De
cember morning you will see richer lace
interviewer for your window panes by
divine fingers. "Oh, if | could see the
factories of silk at Lyons! says some one
Why, without leaving your own house
on Christmas morning you may 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 dis
tant and this belittling of the close by!
This crossing of oceans and paying 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 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 speak of the frost as physl-
clan. Standing at the gates OF New ORR
harbor autumn before last, the frost
drove back the cholera, saying, "Ihus
far shalt thou come and no farther.
From Memphis and New Orleans and
Jacksonville he smote the fever plague
till it reeled back and departed. Inc
frost is a physician that doctors cities,
nations and continents. He medicines
the world. Quinine for malaria antife'
brile for typhoids, sulphonal for sleep,
lessness, antispasmodic for disturbed
nerves, but in all therapeutics there II
no remedy like the malfpelletsprepared
by the cold, andno physician go sKiiilu
OF, SO mighty as the frost.
Scotland has had great physicians
Int her greatest doctors have been th'
Abernethies and Abercrombies ina
have come down over the highland
borsed on the north wind. England ma
had her great physicians, but her great
est doctors have been the AnureV
Clarkes and the Mackenzies who ap
neared the first night the fields OF Eng
land were trimmed with white. Amerlc'
has had its great physicians 6nt ne
greatest doctors have been the "lilai,
Parkers and Valentine Motifs who lahu
ad from bleak skies while our tnger
we're benumbed and our ears nhgie
with the cold. Oh. it is high uhe Una
Won add another line to your liturgy;
"a bioh time that you make an addel
dum to your prayers. 1t is hlgh um
that YOU enlarge the catalogue OF you
blessings. rno, ,os+ n
THANK God for frost! 1t is the best {.
all germicides. 1t is the only hope
bacteriology. It is the medicameH' :
oontinents II is the salvation OF ou
tovonarate zone. 1t is the best tonic t'''
Co. ever gave the human race II
tbe only strong stimulant when mas L
reaction. The best commentary Oh ~, -
, lad while walking near here one 90 90
: % ,aornina with my brother John' WI
. anent - the most of his life as a missionai n
: ~ China and in that part OF II wheI m
q there are no frosts. He said there ,1G VI
a tingling gladness in his nerves I've, 'nO
aovihable and an almost into1lcaIion
Sol;oht from the fact that II was y
Srst time for years he had felt the sens
!. ton Of frost. We complain =, 1'hen m ,
s""Id n we frown upon IT, "heh
" o"abt 10 be stirred by it TO gra'i'u
onS hoist it on a doxology' 1T.
: Rut must go farther and SPEAK ..s ~
= frost as a jeweler. As the snow WIS Is i'C4 q
n ;n lG1' 80 tie frost is frozen dew. u
ansforms Ian it from liquid into crysl J.
~ "a tbe dew glorifed. In the llii nm
+ ~ - ohonter of that inspired aIah