Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-12-04
HE DIVINE BREATH.
b DR.. TALMAeE BREACHES ON THE
MISSION OF THE FROST.

.rnon Appropriate to the Cold Wealth
r-The Frost as n Painter, a Jeweier
nd .n EvangeIist--The Lesson and the
peroration.
BROOKLYN, Dec. 3.-Before the usual
rongs that for nearly 25 years have
,hered in the first, second and third
booklyn Tabernacles successfully, DR..
Image this forenoon preached this
bspel sermon, after commenting upon
appropriate Scripture lesson and civ
q ont the most inspiriting hymns The
Infect was, "The Mission of the Frost. ="
qext-.Job xxxvii, 10. "By the breath Of
sod frost is given"
Nothing is more embarrassing to an
brganist or pianist than to put his finger
In II kew of the instrument and have it
make no response. Though all the other
keys are i'll full play, that one silence
aestroys the music. So in the great
cathedral Of nature, If one part fails to
braise the Lord the harmony is halted
and lost. While fire and hail, snow and
sapor, respond to the touch of inspira-
lion, if the frost made no utterance the
orchestral rendering would be hopeless
Nv damaged and the harmony Forever in
Complete am more glad than 1 can
hell that the white key Of the frost
Sounds forth as nightly "as any of the
other keys, and when David touches it
In the Psalms, it sounds forth the words,
He scattereth the hoar frost like ashes"
and when Job touches it in my text it
resounds with the words, by the breath
4of God frost is given"
AS no one seems disposed to discuss
the mission of frost, depending on divine
help | undertake it. This is the first
Sabbath of winter The leaves are down.
The warmth has gone out Of the air.
The birds have made their winged march
southwark. The landscape has been
SCARED by the autumnal equinox. The
huskers have rifled the cornshocks. The
night sky has shown the usual meteoric
restlessness of November. Three sea-
sons Of the year are past, and the fourth
and last has entered. Another element
how comes in to bless and adorn and in
struct the world. 1t is the frost. The
palaces of this king are far up in the
arctic. Their walls are glittering con-
gelation. Windsor castles and Tuiler-
les and winter palaces and Kenilworths
and Alhambras of ice, temples with
pendant, chandeliers of ice, thrones
Of iceberg on which eternal silence
reigns, theaters ON whose stage eternal
aAo,-,,oI xxyintar T1ilIqTa |
of ice, arches of ice, crowns OF ice,
chariots of ice, sepulchers of ice, noun
tains of ice, dominions of ice-eternal
frigiditvl From those hard, white,
FURNISHED portals King Frost descends
and waves his silvery scepter over our
temperate zone. You will soon hear his
heel on the skating pond. You already
feel his breath in the night wind. By
most considered an enemy coming here
to benumb and hinder and slay, l shall
show you that the frost is friend, with
benediction divinely pronounced, and
charged and surcharged with lessons
Ootent. benefcent and tremendous.
The Bible seven times alludes to the
frost, and we must not ignore it. by
the breath OF OOu lIOoI ID SA'NA'
First | think of frost as a painter. DE
beoins his work on the leaves and con-
times it on the window panes. With
nalette covered with all manner OF colors
IN his left hand and pencil of crystal in his
right hand, he sits down before the num-
blest bush in the latter part Of Septem-
ber and begins the sketching OF the
leaves. Now he puts upon the tolage d
faint pallor, and then touch OF %rown'
and then a hue Of orange, and last q
fame of fire. The beech and ash and OAK
are turned first into sunrises ana tneh
into sunsets of vividness and splendor'
All the leaves are penciled one by one
but sometimes a whole forest IN tne
course of a few days shows great Veioci'y
OF work. ,,.,.u
Weeuix the Dutch painter, could make
an a summer day three portraits OF hle
size. but the frost in 10 dayscan palnt ~
mountains in life size. 1t makes the ias'
days of an autumnal wood the DAYS o.
its chiefest glory-LuxembourgS IN NIN Sh'
Adirondacks. Louvres in the SIERRA No
vadas Vaticans in the White mountains
The work OF other painters you must se'
in the right light to fully appreciate, ou M
the paintings of the frost in all ligh's a.. a..
enchanting from the time when the cur ~,
tain of the morning lifts to the time "He'
the curtain of the night drops nj.
Michael Angelo put upon one ll. cellln
his representation of the last Juus inen
but the frost represents universal cor
faeration upon 5000 miles OF stretehe
ont grandeur. Leonardo .da NinGi pu
upon a few feet of canvas our Lofu , ias .S
supper for all ages to admire put ~ ~
frost puts the cleaning chalices Oh ~ ~,
imperial glories of the last supper o. ",..b ~
dying year on the heights ana ieHS'a WI
snd bTeadtbs Of tho Alleghanies' " Cue Ie
Titan first gazed upon sketch or Oh 20 :,
reggie. he was wrought up into such g :,
stssy that he cried out, III were ~
Titlsn, would be Corgegglo' anu
great and oVerpowerful are the aHInl l,ll
nal scenes Of our American forests ,ni' .n'
onS force of nature might well eAciaN ken.
20 another, IF were not the sunni s'''
would be the frost" ,eo
Rugendas, the German painlei, !
-, I~,,osa IN iia right manu. !